Management Take the Time to Explain (Michael Marçal) One of the last steps in a doctoral program is the defense. This is where you, the doctoral candidate, after years of research, are presenting the results of your work
Management How to Encourage Employees to Assume Best Intent (Inc) (…) Assume best intent simply means that you opt to give people the benefit of the doubt, rather than assuming that they are out to get you. If someone sends a
Management Takeaways from coaching CEOs, founders and VCs (Leo Widrich) (…) When I ask people what the most difficult thing is about being a founder, CEO, VC or otherwise high-achieving individual, some answers are this: hiring, fund-raising, sales, building the team,
Management The Set-Up-To-Fail Syndrome (Manzoni, Barsoux, HBR 1998) When an employee fails — or even just performs poorly — managers typically do not blame themselves. The employee doesn’t understand the work, a manager might contend. Or the employee isn’
Management Doing a Job — The management philosophy of Adm. Hyman G. Rickover (1982, GovLeaders) Admiral Hyman Rickover (1900-1986), the “Father of the Nuclear Navy,” was one of the most successful — and controversial — public managers of the 20th Century. His accomplishments are the stuff of
Management Building Online Communities (Pieter Hintjens) In his book "The Wisdom of Crowds," James Surowiecki wrote, "under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably intelligent, and are often smarter than the smartest people in them." He noted
Management 40 Favorite Interview Questions from Some of the Sharpest Folks We Know (First Round) When you’re scaling quickly, moving at warp speed, and sitting on several hiring panels, interviewing can seem like a task you just need to get through. But it’s
Management Engineering Management: The Pendulum Or The Ladder (Charity Majors) Last night I was out with a dear friend who has been an engineering manager for a year now, and by two drinks in I was rattling off a long
Management Lessons in negotiation from Stalin at Yalta (Abe Winter) (...) Stalin was a bad dude but Roosevelt arrived with an open mind; the American-British relationship was strained by lend-lease, the tremendous cost of the war to both parties, and each
Management The open source model can play an important role in innovation, but know its limitations. Ten years ago, on May 22, 1997, a little-known software programmer from Pennsylvania named Eric Raymond presented a paper at a technology conference in Würzburg, Germany. Titled “The Cathedral and
Management The Two Types of Respect Leaders Must Show There is a free and abundant resource most leaders aren’t giving employees enough of: respect. The author explains the two types of workplace respect (owed and earned), how to
Management Why Entrepreneurs Start Companies Rather Than Join Them (Steve Blank) If you asked me why I gravitated to startups rather than work in a large company I would have answered at various times: “I want to be my own boss.
Management Do What You Love and Starve? (Marty Nemko, 2006) If you are a star—very bright, talented, motivated, and personable and you have a passion, even if it’s in a competitive field, sure, go for it.This article