Summer's over, Burning Man is done, the kids are back at school: links and commentary for the new sea
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September 3 · Issue #110 · View online
Links, notes and opinions for leaders in the tech industry.
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Summer’s over, Burning Man is done, the kids are back at school: links and commentary for the new season. Happy Fall everyone! As always, feel free to forward to leaders, managers and others who may find this useful. Received a forwarded copy? Sign up here!
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Advice for a New Executive | Lara Hogan
This is pretty great. Practical advice for a new VP Engineering. Includes this perfect gem: “Partner absurdly closely with product and make sure you understand priorities and the head of product understands tradeoffs”.
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The Principles of Quantum Team Management | First Round Review
A pretty nice use of Quantum mechanics as an analogy for setting up management structures. Yes, people are not mechanical entities: “Setting up your team the way you would set up a machine can give you a ton of leverage — as long as you realize how complicated and unpredictable the people in that machine can be”
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Three Questions for Better Project Kickoffs – Ideas by Crema – Medium
Thorough and useful: a deep examination of how to kick off a project well.
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Advisor, Coach, Teacher or Mentor. Who Do You Want to Be?
Very nice set of clear distinctions in the roles. They are different, and confusing them can lead to not helping when, as a manager, you want to help.
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"The Lean Startup" Is an Unproductive Legend — Quartz at Work
Interesting. Not sure I go along with the examples quoted (I’d have to guess that Juicero didn’t do MVPs), but it’s useful to have our religions challenged from time to time.
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5 Ways to Finally Stop Procrastinating | Psychology Today
Some basic, but still helpful ways of digging yourself out of the rut.
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Why Learning Is A New Procrastination – The Coffeelicious – Medium
Yes, gathering information, tools and approaches is very easy these days, and can lead to total paralysis. “However, the problem is that you do everything except taking action”. Quite.
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The Story of Why I Left Riot Games | Barry Hawkins
This is a hard, but necessary read about a company culture gone badly wrong. Being “edgy” is not an excuse to behave badly.
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Leading With Dignity
Try and ignore the formatting and the giant ad for a book at the top. This is very well worth a read. “Dignity is something we are born with—our inherent value and worth. We don’t have to do anything to have dignity. Every human being deserves to be treated with dignity, no matter what they do. Respect, on the other hand, has to be earned.”
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How to Manage the Startup Founder to CEO Transition: From Doer to Leader Tickets, Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 7:00 PM | Eventbrite
The transition from Founder to CEO is a special case of the move from “getting shit done any way any how” to leading people successfully. I will be talking about the issues I have seen in coaching Founders (and working with Founders as an exec before that), and what works in navigating the transition successfully. Useful for Founders, CEOs and execs that work for them. All welcome!
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“Anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.”
David Whyte
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