addon to the article that was supposed to be there but i briefly misplaced my notes
i wont make you go look for it in the aritcle so here it is on its own as well
I want to talk about one more thing that hopefully also helps you. Relationships. It's one of the least discussed aspects of all forms of leadership but specifically here I mean your relationships with your fellow GMs. Now at first glance it might not seem that important. These are your competition after all. But with the way our league runs and how interwoven so many aspects are, you need good working relationships. So here's my wisdom on the topic. You need to have 3 separate relationships with every other GM. I know that sounds weird but bear with me. There's the management relationship. This is how you interact when it comes to league based situations. Rules, punishments, overall league decisions and situations. You could very well not be on the same page in these aspects. Then there's the trading relationship. It's important to have a good foundation IMO and I'll cut right to the heart of how to make that work. You're not on Shark Tank. Don't act like you are. Trying to maximize every possible teeny tiny little drop of blood out of your trading partners is a great way to make them not your trading partners. This may require ignoring your war room at times because every war room's response to every trade offer in the history of time has been "can we get that pick but one round better?". Be a good trading citizen. And sometimes ignore when your advisors tell you that you're not getting max immediate value. On top of that, trading should always be focused on getting what you need rather than winning anyway. The real winning trades are where everyone ends up happy. The third relationship is personal. The behind the scenes not directly related to team running type relationship. I have very good personal relationships with basically all the GMs that my team essentially rivals with. And I'm very happy about that. I famously often cite an example of SLM and myself when we were in HO together. In HO we frequently fought over our differing personal philosophies about things. We literally had actual situations, plural, where we'd be slinging hard (and I mean HARD..we both argue hard) at each other in HO chat, cracking jokes together in GM chat, and casually chatting in general chat, all at literally the same time. Because we maintained those different relationships relative to the context they were in. There's a summarized version of this that basically goes..leave the argument where the argument is. Compartmentalize.
Okay..that's the last of the basics. Maybe much later I'll go into more of my philosophies on building and trading after my proteges have a chance to use it themselves first.
i wont make you go look for it in the aritcle so here it is on its own as well
I want to talk about one more thing that hopefully also helps you. Relationships. It's one of the least discussed aspects of all forms of leadership but specifically here I mean your relationships with your fellow GMs. Now at first glance it might not seem that important. These are your competition after all. But with the way our league runs and how interwoven so many aspects are, you need good working relationships. So here's my wisdom on the topic. You need to have 3 separate relationships with every other GM. I know that sounds weird but bear with me. There's the management relationship. This is how you interact when it comes to league based situations. Rules, punishments, overall league decisions and situations. You could very well not be on the same page in these aspects. Then there's the trading relationship. It's important to have a good foundation IMO and I'll cut right to the heart of how to make that work. You're not on Shark Tank. Don't act like you are. Trying to maximize every possible teeny tiny little drop of blood out of your trading partners is a great way to make them not your trading partners. This may require ignoring your war room at times because every war room's response to every trade offer in the history of time has been "can we get that pick but one round better?". Be a good trading citizen. And sometimes ignore when your advisors tell you that you're not getting max immediate value. On top of that, trading should always be focused on getting what you need rather than winning anyway. The real winning trades are where everyone ends up happy. The third relationship is personal. The behind the scenes not directly related to team running type relationship. I have very good personal relationships with basically all the GMs that my team essentially rivals with. And I'm very happy about that. I famously often cite an example of SLM and myself when we were in HO together. In HO we frequently fought over our differing personal philosophies about things. We literally had actual situations, plural, where we'd be slinging hard (and I mean HARD..we both argue hard) at each other in HO chat, cracking jokes together in GM chat, and casually chatting in general chat, all at literally the same time. Because we maintained those different relationships relative to the context they were in. There's a summarized version of this that basically goes..leave the argument where the argument is. Compartmentalize.
Okay..that's the last of the basics. Maybe much later I'll go into more of my philosophies on building and trading after my proteges have a chance to use it themselves first.