mishnit.github.io

Contents

• Abilities, Qualities and Values
• Building Products and Startups, and OKRs
• Conflict Prevention and Conflict Resolution
• Culture
• Diversity and Gender
• Firing
• Giving Feedback, Praise, and Advice
• Hiring and Interviewing Candidates
• For Developers: Software Craftspersonship, Teamwork, Technical Debt
• Influence, Delegation, and Decision-Making
• Leader List
• Leadership Forums
• Leadership Media
• Leadership Philosophies and Styles
• Leading Leaders
• Meetings and Time Management
• Motivation and “Retention”
• Onboarding
• One-on-Ones
• People Ops, Performance Reviews, and Goal-setting
• Postmortems and Retrospectives

• Transitioning to Management

• “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” — Sir Isaac Newton
  
• “If I have not seen as far, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.” — lots of people, including Leigh Caplan
  
• “A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when their work‘s done, her aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.” — Lao Tzu*
• “People need to stop using the phrase ‘natural-born leader.’ No one is a natural born leader.” — Kate Heddleston

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Who is this for?

• Individual contributors (ICs) looking to move into a management role but not sure if it’s right for them
• ICs who want to stay ICs but want to have more influence in their orgs
• ICs who recently moved into a management role
• Managers looking to level-up a particular skill
• Managers transitioning to meta-management (managing managers)