Leadership
Guide your team to an uncommon outcome.
Leadership
"Good engineering management" is a fad
lethain.com
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.
Different Resolutions
Moving from an orchestration-heavy to leadership-heavy management role.
lethain.com
A leader helps a group of people achieve an uncommon outcome that they couldn’t achieve on their own.
Don N.
Efficient and productive - often used interchangeably, but mean different things.
Efficient - doing the same with less.
Productive - doing more with the same.
From Don / Dan
Peter Cundhill on finding the right fit for talent:
“You can teach a donkey to climb a tree but it’s easier to hire a squirrel.”
“You can teach a donkey to climb a tree but it’s easier to hire a squirrel.”
Farnam Street • New Beginnings
How to Use Power
commoncog.com
My work identifies four fundamental organizational forms: the personal organization, like an entrepreneurial start-up; the programmed organization, like McDonald’s with its standardized processes; the professional organization, like a hospital, which relies on the expertise of its professionals; and the project organization, like a film company or... See more