Leadership
Guide your team to an uncommon outcome.
Leadership
When I worked at Yahoo!, our team needed another engineering manager. We didn’t run a hiring process, or even do interviews. Instead, our Director brought on a colleague he’d worked with before. That new manager soon decided he needed a tech lead on his team. We didn’t run a hiring process, do interviews, or consider candidates on the existing... See more
The Engineering executive’s role in hiring.
So if your career offers you the choice of being a starving saint or a wealthy sinner, consider being a middle-class mensch instead. You may not be helping the absolute neediest people, and you may not be able to afford a yacht, but there are lots of folks out there who would really like some help getting their visas renewed, and they’d be very... See more
Adam Mastroianni • Underrated ways to change the world, vol. II
Chesterton’s Fence, an economic principle that cautions against dismantling a (proverbial) “fence” before understanding why it was built in the first place.
Are Albums Obsolete in the Streaming Era? A Statistical Analysis
The most prepared person in the room usually says the least.
The Rules
A leader’s most important responsibility is identifying the biggest challenges to forward progress and devising a coherent approach to overcoming them.
Richard Rumelt • Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters
Managers of managers, therefore, should ask management and leadership questions. For example, "What should you do to your organization to assure that due dates are met?" or "How well do your people understand the quality standards and what are you doing to assure they meet then?" These questions elicit quite a different response and help the
... See moreStephen Drotter • The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership-Powered Company (Jossey-Bass Leadership Series Book 254)
When your primary goal is to be liked, you can’t take risks. You can’t disagree. You can’t push boundaries. You become a prisoner of other people’s expectations.