r/management
39k members
r/management is a subreddit with 39k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and ideas, and the community frequently discusses leadership, lean, management, agile, and problem solving.
Focused on modern management topics: lean thinking, Deming, innovation, customer focus, six sigma, continual improvement, agile software development and related topics focused on viewing the organization as a system, evidence based management and respect for people.
Popular Themes in r/management
#1
Advice Requests
: "When your coworker does great work, tell their manager"
21 posts
#2
Ideas
: "Why Leaders Need to Go and See Front-line Work"
11 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "Managing difficult software engineers"
9 posts
#4
Opportunities
: "Why Kind Workplaces Are More Successful"
9 posts
#5
News
: "Why Great Engineering Organizations Thrive on "Normal" Engineers"
5 posts
#6
Solution Requests
: "Good. Fast. Cheap. - A tool to decide the attributes you want for your next software project"
2 posts
Popular Topics in r/management
#1
Leadership
: "The story about rice that made me understand great Leadership"
51 posts
#2
Lean
: "The Deming Cycle, Lean and agile"
50 posts
#3
Management
: "The Management Skill Nobody Talks About"
49 posts
#4
Agile
: "Using Personal Kanban to Start Agile Transformation"
21 posts
#5
Problem Solving
: "5 Levels Of Problem Solving: A Framework For (First-Time) Managers"
16 posts
#6
Culture
14 posts
#7
Improvement
: "The most interesting things I’ve learned about Improvement"
13 posts
#8
Change
: "Management Agility: Make Change Easy to Learn From, to Change Faster"
13 posts
#9
Software
11 posts
#10
Systems Thinking
: "Habits of a Systems Thinker"
10 posts
Member Growth in r/management
Yearly
+2k members(6.5%)
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Last updated: August 30, 2026