I recently read a pretty kickass article by Mercer on Kayako’s blog, How to Invite and Acknowledge Feedback as a Manager. Feedback is critical to your performance as a lead Over the past year and a half, I’ve tried to…
Mark Hedlund dropped some thoughts on Twitter that I’ve seen re-shared quite a bit. It’s titled Management in Ten Tweets and contains a lot of awesome, actionable pieces for leaders. Reiterating the first tweet, “Management is hard. Doing it well…
There are two ways to approach a team. First, you can assume everyone is out to do as little as possible. The relationship is built on low trust. They’re going to do the bare minimum to make everything all work…
Back in the routine of video Friday. This time around, we have Dan Ariely giving a TED talk on what motivates knowledge workers. When we think about labor, we usually think about motivation and payment as the same thing, but the reality…
I’ve been really digging the information that Lighthouse has been putting out on their blog and the discussions they’ve started on their Twitter account. Recently, they posted this piece on having effective 1-1 meetings with your manager. Regular 1-1’s are…
“I have up and down weeks. This week, I feel like I’m doing pretty shitty.” I recently had a 1-1 call with another lead from Automattic. We routinely pair up with other leads for several weeks at a time to…
Bill Walsh is the former head coach of the San Francisco 49ers and a Pro Football Hall of Fame member. When he took over the 49ers, they were without a doubt one of the worst teams in the NFL. In…
It’s hard to sound or be humble when saying, “I’ve got some constructive feedback for you.” This sounds like you’re saying that you know a truth that the other person doesn’t know, and you’re going to tell them this truth.…