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Leadership & Management
What Great Listeners Actually Do
Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman of Zenger Folkman explain how being a great listener involves a lot more than remaining quiet while others speak.
The Conjoined Triangles of Senior-Level Development
Brandon Hays of frontside.io describes the inconsistent definitions of "Senior Developer" and how his team used 3 areas of measurement to solve their own struggle with it.
A Brief Guide to Better One-on-Ones
Gregory Ciotti of Help Scout explains how communication requires constant maintenance. It will slowly erode without care and attention.
Using Technical Debt as a Time Machine
Brian York of Bliss discusses how no company ever gets to 0% technical debt. It’s just not possible, nor is it worth your time trying to get to perfection.
Katherine Kirk: Why Team Happiness can be the Worst Thing to Aim For
Agile coach Katherine Kirk's keynote talk at Lean Agile Scotland 2015. If you’ve ever tried to bring happiness into a team, enterprise or division, you know just how hard it is to ‘happi-fy’ everyone, and how it can sometimes become almost impossible when dealing with challenging, ever-changing environments and difficult individuals with political agendas.
1 Simple Change to Make Your One-on-One Meetings Instantly More Productive
Michael Affronti from Fuse talks about adding fitness to your team processes.
Unintuitive Things I’ve Learned about Management
Julie Zhuo of Facebook discusses how a better manager gets better results. You can’t always measure this in weeks, months, or even sometimes years, but it eventually emerges clear as daylight.
Only Slightly Off-Topic
The Art of the Out-of-Office Reply
Emily Gould expounds on out-of-office replies. Ah, the feeling of excitement and gratification that someone has replied to your email so quickly, followed milliseconds later by the deflating realization that what you have actually received is an out-of-the-office automatic reply.
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