Links tagged with “management”
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employee is taking free snacks, Parks and Rec vs. The Office, and more — Ask a Manager
For question 5, about whether Leslie Knope or Michael Scott would be the worse boss.
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The Ultimate Guide to Remote Work | Zapier
I haven’t read this but it sounds useful, given how often I hear people ask about how to cope with remote working/workers. (via @RandomEtc)
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Stefan Collini reviews ‘The Tyranny of Metrics’ by Jerry Z. Muller and ‘The Metric Tide’ by James Wilsdon et al · LRB 8 November 2018
On the unintended consequences of performance metrics. (Subscribers only.)
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Three Years in San Francisco » Mike Industries
Some good thoughts on building teams, management, product managers, diversity, etc.
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First, Let’s Get Rid of All the Bosses | The New Republic
On Zappos’ weird non-organisational organisation. Sounds like a nightmare. (via @tomtaylor a while back)
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h5bp/Front-end-Developer-Interview-Questions · GitHub
With a bunch more links at the end.
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The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing (version 3.0) - Joel on Software
Specifically, interviewing programmers.
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44 engineering management lessons
A good list of things to do and not to do when managing engineers (although there’s lots that’s transferable). (via @kellan)
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The Old Guard – Rands in Repose
On the pattern of a group of people staring something and, as it expands, new people join and try to understand and codify the accumulated knowledge that is used by the original group through instinct alone. And the conflict that results. (via Tom Taylor)
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Microaggression and Management — about work — Medium
Some of the common things managers might do that reinforce inequality and hierarchy. (Not that I’ve experienced much of this, thankfully.)
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How Chipotle transformed itself by upending its approach to management – Quartz
I don’t know why I love articles about the management of restaurants, and restaurant chains, so much.
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Managers are awesome / managers are cool when they’re part of your team
Although I’m up for new kinds of management/company structure, the GitHub/Valve thing of having an extremely flat organisation does make me wary. Not least for the kinds of people who only blossom when given support and shelter by those whose position it is to do that.
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Simple Team Performance Management - iDoneThis
Seems a nice idea: “Reply to an evening email reminder with what you did that day. The next day, get a digest with what everyone on the team got done.” I like email as an interface to things. (via @dotcode)
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You Can’t Innovate Like Apple — Pragmatic Marketing
About how Apple designs products, but particularly for the bit about designing 10 very finished designs, and the brainstorm/production meetings. (via @paulpod)
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Scaling startups
Chad Dickerson on how to grow while maintaining a startup culture. Hire well, IRC, deploy very frequently, experiment, love engineers, external transparency, embrace failure. (via Waxy)
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Netflix - Reference Guide on our Freedom & Responsibility Culture
Interesting readable presentation about Netflix’s culture. Although I haven’t worked in a company for years, I’m fascinated by this kind of thing. (via Kottke)
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Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule
Seems so obvious now it’s been put into words. If I have a meeting in a morning or afternoon I know that half of the day will be a right-off for all other useful work. (via Daring Fireball)
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Scottberkun.com » #50 - Advice for new managers: pt. 1
A good couple of essays on being a manager. I find this stuff fascinating, although I’m not a manager.
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Non-Hierarchical Management (Aaron Swartz’s Raw Thought)
(via Dotcode)