Recently, someone asked me: “Hey, which books would you, as a software engineering manager, recommend to read?”. It’s a tough question, given the plethora of fantastic reads there. However, it inspired me to compile a list of the 10 books that influenced me as a manager (yeah, a novel idea for a post😅). To …
There are a lot of companies developing products. Many of them started as small “garage” startups, with all the creativity, inexhaustible energy and high delivery pace. Others, that are big enterprises, have already forgotten how it was “to be a small startup”. Anyway, after some time (after the growth) most of these companies struggle with …
Very often the main reason of a “fail” in leadership activities (and actually any other) is just being inexperienced. But what if it is not the case? What if you have solid experience, are equipped with proven management approaches, have tons of ideas, and anyway fail after joining a new company, transforming an existing organization, …
There are a lot of stories written about ”Feedback”, and most of them are focused on “How to give”. Although, I believe that everybody should start with learning how to receive feedback. Why? At least because most people weren’t bosses at their first job, and highly likely received feedback multiple times before actually giving one …
Preface How often do you watch another video on YouTube, take a rest, choose another “very urgent” thing instead of getting down to important/new/routine/unknown/complicated tasks? I don’t know any person who hasn’t suffered from such a vicious habit at least sometimes. I’m no exception, too.For instance, it took about 5 years between the first time …