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After fighting the urge to share this for over 24 hours, I am giving in. It’s just too good to keep to myself… A couple days ago, I shared a link to an article from one of the Harvard Business Review blogs. The post, I Don’t Understand What Anyone is Saying Anymore, hit close to [...]
I continue working my way through Atlas Shrugged. And, I’m surprisingly more engaged than I thought I would be. While the theme of general selfishness gets old ( I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live [...]
For over ten years, my title has included the words manager or director. And, I find management and leadership very fulfilling. I love leading teams. But, three months ago, I left my software engineering management position for a software engineering position. So, why change? There are a lot of reasons and the set of conditions [...]
I just finished Bob Sutton’s book Good Boss, Bad Boss. The book effectively summarizes many of the behaviors and thought patterns of good managers. But, the book reiterates a common theme that made me think- Most people are not very introspective. And, those who try, think much too highly of themselves. For example, if you [...]
A colleague forwarded a link to this article last week, Why Crunch Mode Doesn’t Work. It presents a fact-based analysis of how sustained long-term productivity depends on reasonable hours. The fact that we’ve understood this workplace dynamic for over a hundred years, across a variety of industries sheds some light on human nature and its impact [...]