“Managing a team of any size — from a handful of people to a whole company — is a continual balance between trying to empower people to achieve what they want (interesting projects, plentiful opportunities, a plethora of pay increases… Read More »Recommended Read: The Disappointment Frontier
When I was younger, more naïve, and less experienced, I thought that we could solve a lot of problems in politics by letting countries have different, even drastic, political systems, such as fascism and communism, and just allowing people to… Read More »Freedom to move
“When a company starts playing weird games with how it reports user activity, something is going very, very wrong. In general, when a company starts trying to obfuscate the true numbers about its revenue, growth, or profit, it’s a bad… Read More »Recommended Read: We’re Watching Facebook Die
“Generation X (and even more so generation Y) are cultures of immediate gratification. I’ve worked with a staggering number of engineers that expect the “career path” to take them to the highest ranks of the engineering group inside 5 years… Read More »Recommended Read: On Being A Senior Engineer
If you think about it, most missions in video games are really boring. Go somewhere. Pick something up. Talk to someone. Kill 10 lions. Solve a small puzzle. But video games are fun, mostly because of two things – interesting… Read More »The importance of mission statements and goals
People do not like to write. They like to act. Do stuff. Fix things. Especially engineers. Is there an issue? Start working on solution. Is it fixed? Start working on the next issue. This is good and well in an… Read More »Write it down
People judge you by how they find a place or a work after you leave it. The bad thing is, that they will do it, even if you are not the one responsible for the mess. Are you the last… Read More »You are judged by how you leave things
It is hard to demand something from someone if you do not do it yourself. It is even mentioned in the Bible. “Preaching Water But Drinking Wine”. Do you want your employees to fill out work logs? Also do it… Read More »Leading by example
People who like to get things done do not like if they cannot make decisions. You are with a client and he wants something. You know it is doable, and you want to say yes. So you do. Later on,… Read More »“This is above my pay grade”
Nice summary of how to interact with your manager as a manager https://podcastaddict.com/manager-tools/episode/173846312