Posts tagged with Management
All-Encompassing Management
A while back, I happened upon a Twitter thread about incompetent management that I found, initially anyway, quite insightful. First-time founders, CEOs, and even employees should understand the playbook of the Incompetent Leader (IL). The IL is savvy &…
Review: Delivering Happiness
Delivering Happiness, written by Tony Hsieh[1], was on my Kindle backlog for a number of years. When he shockingly and suddenly passed away late last year, the outpouring of grief reminded me that, despite these recent years away from…
The Management High Road
Oooof. Tech Twitter lit up last week on the drama surrounding Basecamp and their announcement of new company policies, centering around a ban on societal and political discussions on official company forums. For those unfamiliar, Basecamp—the company—makes the…
What Got You Here Won't Get You There
As it usually happens, what my friend @jackdanger tweets out quickly turns into food for thought, and eventually blog fodder: I’ve noticed that as companies get bigger, small-company managerial norms → big-company exec exceptionalism. Sometimes bigco execs have…
Review: What Got You Here Won't Get You There
What Got You Here Won't Get You There feels like a book written for a past era. The author is an executive coach—an actual one, who regularly takes on Fortune 500 C-level executives as clients, as…
Review: An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management
One nice benefit of not having any job lined up is that there is more time, outside of household chores and virtual schooling, to read and listen to podcasts, catching up with my backlog of to-be-consumed media. It&…
