My manager owns context, I own the recommendation

Ami Vora:

What I need from senior leaders around me isn’t to understand all the exact same info I learned. Instead, I need them to offer complementary info that will help our team make a stronger decision, like:

1. More context about what’s happening around the company or the industry
2. Decision-making frameworks I might not be thinking about
3. Pattern-matching based on other decisions they’ve seen
4. Identifying other options or logical gaps I’m too close to see
5. Sometimes, just giving me a vote of confidence that my thinking makes sense and they believe in me

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how can I frame my recommendations so my manager can engage with them and challenge my assumptions, and then I can learn from how they think? Sometimes this means outlining my decision criteria clearly so my manager can disagree with specific ones and I can understand the principles they’re using. Sometimes it means sharing intentionally provocative “hot takes” about things we could do differently so I can hear context I might be missing