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TECH PEOPLE LEADERSHIP NEWSLETTER

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Every week or so I collect a set of articles that have caught my eye about leadership and management in the tech industry.

 

The articles cover a wide range - everything from the basics of running meetings, to the subtleties of managing remote teams, to the underpinnings of giving feedback and difficult conversations.

 

Articles I circulate in the newsletter are collected below in the archive.  Feel free to browse, and free to sign up!

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THE ARCHIVE

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Communication
Culture
Creativity
Feedback
Diversity
Decisions
Growth
Hiring
Interruption
Leadership
Management
One on Ones
People
Power
Praise
Remote Teams
Software
Startup
Teams

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Rainbows and Unicorns – Rands in Repose

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A beautiful post from Rands (VP Eng, Stripe) on the power of compliments, riffing off the gaming industry’s use of well-timed, enthusiastic, and clearly earned compliments as a motivator.

Average Manager vs. Great Manager – The Year of the Looking Glass – Medium

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Ten sketches from Julie Zhou, published in 2015, but still funny, relevant, insightful.  Print ‘em out, put 'e, on the wall.

10 Senior Leadership Lessons I Wish I Learned Sooner

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A super nice set of lessons learned growing from first line manager.

These Are Google's Tools for Effective Management — Quartz

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The Management Bible According to Google.  Lots of terrific tools here.

How I Share Information With My Team

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Simple, useful tips about setting up a weekly communication.  Practical.

The Steve Harvey Effect: How To Be Ruthless With Your Time Without Being Ruthless With Your Team

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A nice set of practical rules to communicate to your team where your boundaries are around time.  When you can be interrupted, when not, and how.  Start here.

How to Think (More on Open Space and Deep Work) (Ed Batista)

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Super-great post from Ed (and, I think, the most clicked of the year).  A practical, and clearly thought-out approach to getting, and using, your thinking time.

Importance vs. Urgency (Ed Batista)

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Companion post to the above.

Tech Leader? Stop Being Overwhelmed — Get Your Thinking Time Back

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My post on a similar approach to Ed’s - a little more directive, maybe shorter :-)

Slow Down. You Need It

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“Workaholism doesn’t care about you.


It doesn’t care about your health, your family, your friends, your wellbeing. It only cares about itself”

Don’t Yolo Hard Conversations – Rands in Repose

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“There are endless ways to screw this up. This is why it’s a merit badge. Once you learn how to successfully deliver hard news, you will never forget. The experience is hard-earned”   Vital stuff.

The Right Way to Hold People Accountable

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Good, clear notes from HBS: sets out the basics of structuring accountability.

How to Scale: Do Less, Lead More (Ed Batista)

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Helpfully enumerates all the ways a boss can get in the way, and how to avoid them.  Insightful.  Direct.

Questions for Our First 1:1 | Lara Hogan

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Terrific post from Lara Hogan (VP Eng Etsy until recently) on how to approach a one on one for the first time.  Depth and insight here (and her comments are useful for any one on one, not just the first one).

Ultimate List of 1:1 Questions for Managers - Google Sheets

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Exactly that: a super helpful set of questions to ask to deepen your one on ones.

When Something Amazing Happens in Your 1:1s – Maker to Manager – Medium

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Super-nice reflection from Marcus about the “magic” that can happen when you start allowing an emotional connection in your one on ones.

How to Have an Honest One-On-One With an Employee – Signal v. Noise

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“Every time I have a one-on-one, I have a single mission: to understand how the other person is feeling”.   Excellent, and practical, stuff.

Reflecting on One Very, Very Strange Year at Uber — Susan Fowler

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Courageous, tough, epic.

12 More Tech Sexism, Harassment Stories Like Susan Fowler’s of Uber | Observer

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Some of the (now massive) repurcusions to the original post.

Lessons Learned From Watching A Future Billionaire Look Stupid

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Included this because a) it got attention but also b) it’s close to my heart, as always. Part of succeeding is being able to live in “Beginners Mind”.  Part of living in Beginners Mind is allowing yourself to look, well, stupid…  If you’re not looking stupid from time to time, you’re not growing.

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