Management
Professional Change: The First 90 Days
Your career will go through many changes. How you approach the first few months of each change (a promotion, a new role, a new set of responsibilities) will disproportionately affect your trajectory.
Management
Book review and thoughts on management as a discipline. It's a big investment of time and something that you never fully solve. It is also one of the most rewarding ways of giving back.
Management
Book Review: Turn This Ship Around
David Marquet shares his lessons from transformational leadership aboard a nuclear submarine.
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Management: Ownership
The attitude of extreme ownership, espoused by Jocko Willinck is a powerful mindset in management. It's one of the keys to leading and supporting a high performing team.
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Negotiation: Never Split the Difference
In life you will need to spend some of your time negotiating. It's a skill that pays in the long run. Never Split The Difference is a great starting point.
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Coaching: Trillion Dollar Coach
Coaching is one of the most important parts of being a great manager. Invest your time in. Trillion Dollar Coach is a fantastic book outlining how one of the best ever did it.
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Feedback and Hard Conversations
Mastering feedback is critical for any manager or leader. Constructive feedback often comes in the form of a hard conversation. Here are some tips to help you.
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Book Review: An Elegant Puzzle
Will Larson's An Elegant Puzzle gives us a lot of great advice on how to be an effective engineering manager. Pragmatism is a theme, as are small team sizes.
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Avoiding Micromanagement
No one sets out to be a micromanager. Yet we see it all the time. Here's why and what you can do to counteract it.
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Book Review: Thinking in Systems
Donella Meadows introduces the concept of systems thinking. It is a useful tool to understanding the world.
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The Culture Map
Erin Meyer's The Culture Map gives a way of understanding where cross-cultural collaboration may run into challenges. What is your 'water' and how does it hold you back?
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Rigorous Benchmarking -- Book Review: Lessons from the Titans
Book review of Lessons from the Titans. One of the great insights here is about the importance of rigorous benchmarking and why the best companies do it so well.
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Book Review: Scaling People
Claire Hughes Johnson of Stripe and Google gives us a deeply detailed guide to management.