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How co-managers navigate unclear authority when both are learning leadership

My department head and I are both new to management and we're supposed to be figuring this out together but we keep stepping on each other's authority with our shared reports and neither of us wants to admit we don't really know what we're doing.

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You and a fellow new manager keep clashing over who's in charge, and neither wants to admit you're both winging it.

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