I believe email-based status reports are the clearest and best signs of managerial incompetence and laziness.
If we're 15 minutes into a lifeless, redundant, status-based 1:1 and I don't have anything sitting in my back pocket, I'm going to turn it into a per… - Rands
If we're 15 minutes into a lifeless, redundant, status-based 1:1 and I don't have anything sitting in my back pocket, I'm going to turn it into a per…
- Rands
Managers tell you where you are, leaders tell you where you're going. - Rands
Managers tell you where you are, leaders tell you where you're going.
Innovation is not born out out of a committee; innovation is a fight. It’s messy, people die, but when the battle is over, something unimaginably sig… - Rands
Innovation is not born out out of a committee; innovation is a fight. It’s messy, people die, but when the battle is over, something unimaginably sig…
Your work speaks for you. - Rands
Your work speaks for you.
I am a firm believer that you need a well-defined leadership role to deal with unexpected and non-linear side effects of people working together. You… - Rands
I am a firm believer that you need a well-defined leadership role to deal with unexpected and non-linear side effects of people working together. You…
One of your many jobs as manager is information conduit, and the rules are deceptively simple: for each piece of information you see, you must correc… - Rands
One of your many jobs as manager is information conduit, and the rules are deceptively simple: for each piece of information you see, you must correc…
Snark from nerds is a leading indicator that I'm wasting their time and when I find it, I ask questions until I understand the inefficiency so I can … - Rands
Snark from nerds is a leading indicator that I'm wasting their time and when I find it, I ask questions until I understand the inefficiency so I can …
A milestone is less date and more definition. - Rands
A milestone is less date and more definition.
Start with something messy, get to the point, get an editor, and make it good. - Rands
Start with something messy, get to the point, get an editor, and make it good.
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