I'm a people optimist. When it comes to building and managing a team, this optimism manifests itself in trusting people on the team to do ultimately do the right thing. It may take them a while to meander their way over there, but my job is to provide encouragement, support, and coaching along...
A couple weeks back, as I was reading another big-mailing-list email about how we’re instituting a new set of processes to meet a set of implied standards, I saw that the author reassuringly stated...
A couple years back, when I was first getting into management and learning from some of the best managers I’ve ever had the privilege of working with, I concluded that the Tech Lead/Manager...
I just spent 40 minutes listening to a trio of software engineers speculate on the motivations of an executive jumping from Apple to Tesla. And while the ATP podcast spends an inordinate amount of time obsessively focused on Apple — its products and people — I was more annoyed by how none of the hosts, not having...
Steven Sinofsky — former Microsoft Windows executive, now a16z board partner — wrote a really in-depth article about organizing teams within companies: Functional versus Unit Organizations For the uninitiated, functional organization is grouping people by discipline: marketers...
Recently, I was talking with a colleague at work who was about to leave the company, and they were asking me for any tips to take with them to their new job. In my head, the cliche that “people leave managers, not companies” reverberated, and wanted to relay the importance of looking for good management...
