Regardless of seniority, every good manager will:

Order pizza.

Give feedback.

Listen.

Take out the recycle/trash. Not a metaphor.

Need to find additional things to delegate.

Try to support their direct reports to eventually become better than them.

Consider constructive feedback regardless of who delivers it.

Do what they say.

Have regular, un-cancelable 1:1s.

Protect their team, push for greatness, and prepare for the future.

Get their hands dirty when called for.

Focus on helping their team to be wildly successful.

Put people first.

Give a shit.

Relentlessly hustle for their team.

Tell the truth.

Care.

Feel deeply and profoundly awful for disappointing someone on their team.

Make mistakes and learn from them.

Remove fear.

Be the bullshit umbrella and not the bullshit funnel.

Remember (and maybe learn from) the time when they weren’t a manager.

Work harder than their employees.

Educate.

Provide consistent and predictable structure.

Back up their team when they say “no” to something.

Not be a prick.

Model the culture and spirit they want to develop in their workplace.

Translate corporate bullshit into normal-speak.

Empower their staff members.

Move things out of their way, including yourself.

Regularly feel self-doubt.

Be an advocate.

Be an ally.

Amplify the good in people.

Fight the grapevine confusion.

Be the first to metamorph to the chrysalis phase.

Define reality and say thank you.

(Sourced via the fine humans on Twitter.)