Engineering Management for the Rest of Us
It can also be hard to hear that our personal self-image doesn’t align with what others are experiencing of us.
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Doing work to understand values as a team can help members see one another as people, and understand where they are coming from. The act of sharing values can also have a side effect…
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Leadership is challenging: where your work used to be about you and what value you brought to a team, your work is now about enabling everyone around you. This entails interruption-driven work so that your team can be flow-driven.
Sarah Drasner • Engineering Management for the Rest of Us
People are not pure functions; they have all sorts of interesting side effects. For those just entering management, thinking through values can help provide some clarity.
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If you pay attention, you can see how a person’s values dictate their behavior and ethics. Your values can be formed at a young age, and they can be a…
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When you’re misaligned, burnout is inevitable. Working on a team with values that largely align with your own is nice, because you can really dig into the makeup of the culture on your team. Clarity is what we’re aiming for here. Clarity is key.
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My friend Ashley Willis once said: “The fact that you’re worried that you’re not a good manager is a key part of being a good manager.” What she means by that is, you should take this job seriously. “Bad” managers are often flippant about the role and the consequences of it. Caring is vital to doing this job well.
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Values provide context to a person’s mental state, needs, and motivations. In practice, understanding the values of your team members becomes a useful tool to evaluate and drive your own empathy. You may have different values, so unless you actively seek to understand another person’s point of view, it’s possible to be bound by your own context and
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Individual values can be related to ethics and what we think is moral. Cultural values can also reflect context that’s greater than an individual, and…
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We can also think about our own values in terms of how we react to other people. If you find someone interesting or, conversely, you don’t like how someone communicates, perhaps consider how that is related to what you value?