Manager Mondays with Fexingo: People Management, Team Leadership, and First-Time Managers

Why do so many star individual contributors crash when promoted to management? Lucas and Luna drill into the 'Peter Principle' with a specific case: a top software engineer at a mid-sized fintech who was promoted to team lead and saw her team's velocity drop 40% in six months. They unpack the two root causes — skill mismatch and the lack of transition support — and offer a practical framework for...

In this episode of Manager Mondays, Lucas and Luna explore the real cost of avoiding difficult conversations with your team. Lucas shares a specific case from his reporting: a marketing director at a mid-size SaaS company who waited seven months to address a senior designer's performance issues, only to have three other team members quit in the meantime. He breaks down the numbers — the productivi...

In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the real, measurable cost of micromanagement—not just morale damage, but actual productivity loss. Drawing on a 2024 study from the University of Birmingham that tracked 500 teams over three years, they break down how micromanagement reduces team output by 22% and increases turnover risk by 34%. Lucas shares a specific case from a mid-sized tech firm where a...

In the premiere episode of Manager Mondays, Lucas and Luna kick off the show by examining one specific management practice that saved a 120-person engineering team at a mid-size SaaS company from a catastrophic culture breakdown. They trace how a simple five-minute daily standup question—'What blocked you yesterday?'—uncovered a $2.8 million annual productivity leak and led to a 34% reduction in e...