#Leadership
45 notas · última:
Organizational Agility
The post argues that Agile should not be confined to IT. It says true agility comes from fast feedback, shared values across the organization, clear vision, trust, and self-managing teams with the authority to act.
6 reasons why the senior leadership doesn't take you seriously
The article says first-line managers need finesse, steadiness, clarity, accurate language, and better feedback habits to be taken seriously by senior leadership.
What’s Your Superpower? Understanding Its Strengths, Shadow Sides & How to Use It in the Workplace
The article explains superpowers at work as individual strengths that help teams, warns that each strength has a shadow side, and argues that team building should combine different abilities and perspectives.
How to effectively lead leaders in game development
Charity Joy outlines how to lead managers by using curiosity, clear communication, coaching, facilitation, trust, and consistency to support leaders and keep teams aligned.
4 Tips for Navigating Ambiguity
IDEO U says teams handle ambiguity better with high trust, shared naming of unknowns, curiosity about alternatives, and small experiments instead of fixed plans.
I Worked More and Achieved Less. How To Get Your Team Engaged (Don't Make My Mistake)
The author says taking all the work on yourself made the team less engaged. People are more committed when they invest effort, and ownership grows when they help build the group from the start.
The product manager role is a mistake
The article argues that putting career product managers in charge of software product decisions often replaces vision with process, politics, and mediocrity, while better results come from teams of strong specialists.
How to Stay Calm Under Pressure?
The article proposes BAA — Breath, Assess, and Act — for high-pressure moments. It says fear can lead to blabbering, premature promises, or rash fixes, so you should pause, clarify what you know, and respond directly.
Don’t be a Spineless Leader: 3 Tips to Lead Better
The post says weak leadership comes from pleasing everyone, deciding too fast, and avoiding disagreement. It recommends asking questions, stating disagreement clearly, and aligning teams, managers, and partners.
13 Undesirable Behaviors in Software Engineers: Are You Guilty?
The post argues that software engineers are judged as much by behavior as by technical skill, and lists habits that hurt collaboration, trust, and team morale.
Leadership Principles - Part 1
The piece frames leadership as a craft and explains three military leadership principles: self-awareness and self-improvement, technical proficiency, and knowing people well enough to support their welfare.
The Crucial Difference Between Nice and Kind Leadership
The post argues that nice leadership avoids conflict and protects comfort, while kind leadership tells the truth, makes hard calls, and supports long-term growth.
5 Ways Incompetent Leaders Dis-Empower Good People
The page argues that control-oriented leaders drain good people, while skillful leaders expand power by including others, giving choice, and focusing on meaningful work and candid feedback.
How to Create a Learning Culture: 9 Leadership Strategies for Defining Workplace Success
A page outlines nine leadership patterns for building a learning culture: celebrate learning moments, support experimentation, make time for learning, and use OKRs, vulnerability, MVPs, audits, pain, and intent to reinforce growth.
Knowledge Work Is Dying—Here’s What Comes Next
The piece argues that AI will commoditize knowledge work and raise the value of wisdom work built on emotional clarity, discernment, and connection, especially in leadership and teamwork.
Becoming an Engineering Manager Can Make You Better At Life And Relationships
The author argues that engineering management can be valuable for reasons beyond career advancement, because it develops self-control, awareness, feedback, boundaries, and other skills useful in life and relationships.
Praise in Public, Criticize in Private
The text criticizes an investor who publicly exposed an entrepreneur and argues that, in any position, the most appropriate stance is to be humble and modest, or else remain silent.
What makes a great Product Manager
The text adapts a Quora answer to say that a good product manager owns the product, persuades, understands the technical side, keeps the team positive, shares credit, includes others, and speaks with courage.
Will 'founder mode' take the product management world by storm?
Surveys the product management community's split reaction to Paul Graham's 'founder mode' post, and proposes matching the mode to a company's stage rather than picking a side.
Soft Skills for Managers
The page argues that managers need initiative, emotional control, and dispassionate empathy, and that sociability or likeability is a poor proxy for real management ability.
Don’t Create Chaos | Stay SaaSy
The post argues that effective leadership reduces confusion: good leaders leave rooms with more certainty, clearer goals, and firmer decisions, using agendas, written confirmation, and over-communication to keep work aligned.
Great leaders are in the details
Argues that stepping back from execution abdicates a leader's core job; engaged, detail-level presence built on curiosity beats delegation from a distance.
Defensive Driving For Your Career - Stay SaaSy
The post says career progress depends on making your work visible, correcting false claims, avoiding jealous managers, and keeping enough leverage to negotiate pay and title.
Accountable vs Responsible
Distinguishes accountability from responsibility through RACI, military, and legal framings, then argues most organizations don't need the split unless there are real legal consequences at stake.
Why You Need Soft Skills as a Tech Lead
Anemari Fiser argues most technical-sounding problems Tech Leads face are actually people problems, using two real cases to make the point, and lists 7 soft skills to develop.
Avoiding the "Therapist" Trap as a Tech Lead
Anemari Fiser argues Tech Leads who default to solving every team problem burn out and become the sole point of failure; she proposes boundaries, self-check, and guiding instead of fixing.
Soft Skills books for developers
Addy Osmani distills takeaways from 40+ books on productivity, leadership, and psychology into per-title notes for developers, from Deep Work to The Manager's Path.
35 Tech Lead Interview Questions (With Sample Answers)
Indeed's tech lead interview list splits 35 questions into three groups and walks through five sample answers, two of which name a concrete technique (SMART goals, cost research before adopting new tools).
Just Systems in Engineering Management
A just system ensures people who follow established processes are rewarded equitably, removing the need to game or self-promote.
Andy Grove's Arithmetic for Team Sizing
Simple arithmetic beats research-backed perfection: half a day per direct report means no more than ten — sometimes basic observation is all you need.
Dealing with Single Incidents Exceptions
Don't treat a single incident as representative reality — look at the distribution like a flame graph, and design processes that handle exceptions fairly.
Critical Systems Thinking by Michael C. Jackson
Critical systems thinking integrates competing strands into a coherent framework that enhances — not replaces — a leader's existing experience, filling gaps traditional MBA toolkits miss.
Notes to myself
A list of 65 reminders about systems, customer choice, leadership, trust, discomfort, and long-term work, framed as practical beliefs for making better decisions and building durable results.
Lessons learned from becoming CTO of a small startup
The post describes the shift from engineering to CTO work in a small company, focusing on trust, delegation, communication, stress, decision-making, and accepting mistakes as part of management.
Software Engineering - The Soft Parts
Addy Osmani reflects on 10 years at Google Chrome and argues that engineering growth depends on fundamentals, communication, judgment, mentoring, trust, and managing time, scope, and technical debt.
Don't solve problems if you want to be a great manager
The article argues that managers should not solve employees’ problems for them. Their job is to ask questions, help people think for themselves, and build the team’s problem-solving capacity.
You don’t have my permission
The page argues that people should come with intent rather than ask for permission, because intent puts responsibility on the person acting and reduces dependence on one decision-maker.
3 Secrets to Giving Corrective Feedback with Ease and Confidence
The post says corrective feedback helps average performers improve and top performers excel. It recommends giving many positives, waiting for a good moment, and stating the issue quickly and clearly.
10 books every new manager should read
The page recommends ten books for first-time managers, mixing business reads with novels and psychology to help with motivation, strengths, and cognitive bias.
10 Behaviors of Genuinely Successful People
The piece says real success shows up in behavior: running real companies, loving the work, using common sense, staying humble, and avoiding self-promotion, hype, and salesmanship.