4 Reasons Why Managers Fail & How To Avoid Them
Hosted by Jason Yoong and Marsden Kline
Thu, Apr 24, 2025
7:00 PM UTC (30 minutes)
Virtual (Zoom)
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Thu, Apr 24, 2025
7:00 PM UTC (30 minutes)
Virtual (Zoom)
Free to join
88 students
Go deeper with a course
Featured in Lenny’s List

What you'll learn
#1: Lack of self-awareness
#2: Lack of two-way empathy
#3: Unproductive relationships with employees
#4: Absence of goal alignment
(new) AI misalignment
Why this topic matters
You'll learn from
Jason Yoong
COO of Level Up (ex-Amazon)
Jason has run multiple $1B+ businesses across eCommerce, marketplaces, advertising, and media. He's led 40+ person organizations, owned department P&L, managed $400M+ marketing budgets for Fortune 100 entertainment (movies and TV) and consumer electronics clients, and served as an Advisory Board Member.
After leading and building at publicly traded companies Amazon, Dentsu Aegis, and Universal McCann (IPG), Jason joined the founding team of a venture-backed software startup and raised $8M seed.
Jason is now building Level Up: Your source for executive insights, high performance habits, and specific career growth actions with Ethan Evans (retired Amazon Vice President). He also serves on the Harvard Business Review advisory council and as a mentor at First Round Capital and Techstars.
>> Stuck at Senior Manager - How to Break Through to Executive next cohort starts April 26.
Marsden Kline
Co-founder MGMT Accelerator (ex-Goldman Sachs & Google)
Marsden co-founded the MGMT Accelerator with Dave. After decades of daydreaming about what owning their own company would look like, the answer was teaching something we naturally enjoy. Marsden studied engineering at UVa but always volunteered to present (instead of code). Her love for people and problem-solving has led to a range of experiences: from Goldman Sachs to sales at Google to real estate at Compass. The common thread? A commitment to understanding the people at the table to more efficiently solve for yes.
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