
Managing Humans
Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
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Narrated by:
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TJ Johnson
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By:
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Michael Lopp
Listen to hilarious stories with serious lessons that Michael Lopp extracts from his varied and sometimes bizarre experiences as a manager at Apple, Pinterest, Palantir, Netscape, Symantec, Slack, and Borland. Many of the stories first appeared in primitive form in Lopp’s perennially popular blog, Rands in Repose. The third edition of Managing Humans contains a whole new season of episodes from the ongoing saga of Lopp's adventures in Silicon Valley, together with classic episodes remastered for high fidelity and freshness.
Whether you're an aspiring manager, a current manager, or just wondering what the heck a manager does all day, there is a story in this book that will speak to you - and help you survive and prosper amid the general craziness of dysfunctional bright people caught up in the chase of riches and power. Scattered in repose among these manic misfits are managers, an even stranger breed of people who, through a mystical organizational ritual, have been given power over the futures and the bank accounts of many others.
Lopp's straight-from-the-hip style is unlike that of any other writer on management and leadership. He pulls no punches and tells stories he probably shouldn't. But they are magically instructive and yield Lopp’s trenchant insights on leadership that cut to the heart of the matter - whether it's dealing with your boss, handling a slacker, hiring top guns, or seeing a knotty project through to completion.
Writing code is easy. Managing humans is not. You need a book to help you do it, and this is it.
You'll learn to: lead engineers, handle conflict, hire well, motivate employees, manage your boss, discover how to say no, understand different engineering personalities, build effective teams, run a meeting well, and scale teams.
Who This Book Is For
Managers and would-be managers staring at the role of a manager wondering why they would ever leave the safe world of bits and bytes for the messy world of managing humans. The book covers handling conflict, managing wildly differing personality types, infusing innovation into insane product schedules, and figuring out how to build a lasting and useful engineering culture.
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Witty and useful in everyday application
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Basic stuff with a little too much of look at me
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One Opinion
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I’ve heard worse, I’ll give you that, but no excuse for this level of incompetent in paid product.
Robotic reading?
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Practical hands on info delivered humorously
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In this book, the author focuses on his own personal experience as an engineering manager. He has some interesting ideas around what a manager does, how to do it and pitfalls to watch out for.
A nice supplement to all the technical project management books you have been reading
Great take on management
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Anecdotal AF
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Let's do it again!
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Can relate it to my current career decision
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Every Engineer in the Software Engineering space needs to have this book on their shelf
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