Managing humans : more biting and humorous tales of a software engineering manager /
In this fourth edition of the bestselling business book Managing Humans , author Michael Lopp continues to draw leadership advice from some of the most important software companies of our modern age. Educational stories from companies across Silicon Valley such as Apple, Slack, Pinterest, Palantir,...
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New York, NY :
Apress,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Part I
- 1: Don't Be A Prick
- 2: Managers Are Evil
- 3: Stables and Volatiles
- 4: The Rands Test
- 5: How to Run a Meeting
- 6: The Twinge
- 7: The Update, the Vent, and the Disaster
- 8: Lost in Translation
- 9: Agenda Detection
- 10: Management via Worry and Crisis
- 11: Dissecting the Mandate
- 12: Information Starvation
- 13: Subtlety, Subterfuge, and Silence
- 14: Your Mid-Year Leadership Check-in
- 15: Managementese
- 16: You're Not Listening
- 17: The Hotel Giraffe
- 18: Fred Hates the Off-Site
- 19: A Different Kind of DNA
- 20: An Engineering Mindset
- 21: Tear It Down
- 22: Titles Are Toxic
- 23: Saying No
- Part II
- 24: 1.0
- 25: The Process Myth
- 26: How to Start
- 27: Taking Time to Think
- 28: Meetings are Not For You
- 29: The Value of the Soak
- 30: Capturing Context
- 31: Trickle Theory
- 32: When the Sky Falls
- 33: Hacking is Important
- 34: WFH
- 35: Entropy Crushers
- 36: Your Culture is Rotting
- 37: The Metronome
- Part III
- 38: Bored People Quit
- 39: Bellwethers
- 40: The Ninety-Day Interview
- 41: Managing Nerds
- 42: Incrementalists and Completionists
- 43: NADD
- 44: A Nerd in a Cave
- 45: Meeting Creatures
- 46: Organics and Mechanics
- 47: Inwards, Outwards, and Holistics
- 48: The Wolf
- 49: Free Electrons
- 50: The Old Guard
- 51: Rules for the Reorg
- 52: An Unexpected Connection
- 53: You are Going on a Quest
- 54: A Glimpse and a Hook
- 55: Nailing the Phone Screen
- 56: Your Resignation Checklist
- 57: Shields Down
- 58: Chaotic, Beautiful Snowflakes
- 59: Epilogue: Fear is a Liar
- Glossary