People Management
- Radical Candor
- Managing High and Low performers at the same time
- Team Performance Model: Forming Storming Norming Performing
- Forget Technical Debt — Here’s How to Build Technical Wealth
- 10 things you should never put in your inmails
- The Pivotal Stories Every Startup Leader Should Be Able to Tell
- Becoming the Boss
- Resilience Is About How You Recharge, Not How You Endure
- Medium’s engineering interview process
- The One Cost Engineers and Product Managers Don’t Consider
- Here’s Google’s Secret to Hiring the Best People
- F*** You, I Quit — Hiring Is Broken
- The best coding interview I ever took
- Want to Be an Outstanding Leader? Keep a Journal.
- Technical interview performance is kind of arbitrary. Here’s the data.
- What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team
- Facebook’s HR chief conducted a company-wide study to find its best managers — and 7 behaviors stood out
- The Magic of Doing One Thing at a Time
- Should Companies Get Rid of Performance Reviews?
- How to Spot and Magnify the Powers of Your Engineering Superheroes
- The Keys to Scaling Yourself as a Technology Leader
- Meetings that don’t suck
- The Art of the Awkward 1:1
- 101 Questions to Ask in One on Ones
- Hire a Top Performer Every Time with These Interview Questions
- The biggest lie in HR: “People quit managers
- Want to hire faster? Write about “learning,” not “brilliance”
- Shocker: Tech’s widening gender gap is all about the bro-ification of Silicon Valley
- What’s More Distracting Than A Noisy Co-Worker? Turns Out, Not Much
- This is what work-life balance looks like at a company with 100% retention of moms
- If there’s a tech skills shortage, why are so many computer graduates unemployed?
- Research: We Drop People Who Give Us Critical Feedback
- Netflix CEO reveals how much vacation he takes, and it’s a lot more than most people take off
- How Loss Aversion and Conformity Threaten Organizational Change
- 10 Candidate Questions That’ll Make You Squirm (But Earn)
- The Future of Tech Recruitment: Sourcing, Hiring and Retaining Top Talent
- Engineering Growth Framework
- Why time management is ruining our lives
- Regardless of seniority, every good manager will
- W.A.I.S.T. The art of opening your ears and listening has never been so powerful
- How to Improve, Not Kill the Annual Performance Review
- Things I have learnt as the software engineering lead of a multinational
- How Lever Got To 50–50 Women and Men
- Force-feeding your hiring managers diversity is a bad idea
- Why Diversity Programs Fail
- Leadership Comes From Everywhere
- How These Seven Tech Leaders Are Tackling Diversity in 2017
- Diversity Doesn’t Stick Without Inclusion
- Culture is the Behavior You Reward and Punish
- First Round Management Articles
- First Round Review’s 6 Must Reads to Run Fast, Efficient Meetings
- How I share information with my team
- Emotional Intelligence Needs a Rewrite
- Joel on Software: Tech Lead reading list
- Should engineering managers write code? Wrong question
- Manager Energy Drain - This is a good article sharing ideas to avoid burnout as a manager
- We Need to Talk About Servant Leadership - An interesting article on leadership
- How to Run Inclusive Meetings - Helpful tips to run more inclusive meetings at your company
- Clean Up Corrosive Interpersonal Dynamics on Your Team with This System - A good article on how to help foster a good culture for your team
- The latest trend for tech interviews: Days of unpaid homework - A good perspective on take-home exercises for interviews
- Managers Can’t Be Great Coaches All by Themselves - A good article outlining ways to grow as a manager and as a team coaches
- Say the Hard Thing - The article provides some good insights into how to deliver direct feedback, but also how to receive feedback
- Reaching Peak Meeting Efficiency - Some helpful tips on improving your meeting efficiency
- Research: To Be a Good Leader, Start By Being a Good Follower - Some good points to be more relatable with your team
- Why You Should Stop Caring What Other People Think - Why it’s important to not get caught up about what others think
- How to Give Feedback to People Who Cry, Yell, or Get Defensive - A good article on helpful tips for giving feedback