(2015 - 2/11) Leadership. By the Numbers.

CALIBRATE 2015 (2/11) - http://www.calibratesf.com/

Leadership. By the Numbers. -- Michael Lopp

http://engineering.sharethrough.com/blog/2015/11/02/leadership-by-the-numbers/

If you're a brand new leader, these are the basics. This is the blocking and tackling of leadership, the themes and activities will form the foundation of your leadership career.

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1. 1280 x 720 Leaders. By the Numbers Calibrate 2015 78 quotes & text 38 URLs & citations 24 credits Futura ==
2. Leadership. By the Numbers. Lopp (@rands) – Calibrate 2015
4. Michael Lopp The Software Developer’s Career Handbook Being Geek
6. Saying “No” is a finite resource.
7. Busy is a bug, not a feature.
8. Be unfailingly kind.
9. Is this at all useful?
10. What is the most important thing you should do as a leader of humans?
11. Your job is to inspire the team.
12. The Vegetable Talk Lopp (@rands) – Calibrate 2015
13. Influence w/out management authority Delegate something you care about Hire a human Fire a human Put a human on a performance plan Successfully delivery horrifically bad news Successfully receiving horrifically bad news Lay someone off Be deposed Ship a thing Ask for help from an enemy Promote someone Sit there calmly when a human loses their mind Lead leaders Fail spectacularly
14. Focus on the Vegetables.
15. This talk has range
16. For the new leader
17. For the seasoned leader
18. Welcome (or Welcome back) to Leadership
19. You All of them
20. You All of them
21. #1) Your job is information gathering, abstraction, filtering, and delivery.
22. 1:1s
23. #2) You are underestimating the long term cost of not saying the hard thing.
25. The obvious cost • The work that isn’t getting done • Team morale • Your sanity
27. The non-obvious cost • Your credibility • The impact on folks you don’t know • Their sanity
28. Everyone is replaceable.
29. #3) You probably hire people like you.
30. Diversity is a no brainer.
32. Be a diversity ally.
33. #4) You set tone and cadence – all the time.
34. Start and finish meetings on time.
35. #5) You are horrifically bad at something.
36. Delegate
37. #6) You are in a hurry.
38. You can’t make a complete assessment of a person for at least three months.
39. You become incapable of seeing what is broken after three months.
40. Constantly reacting usually means you don’t have a plan and/or aren’t strategic.
41. Write down your plan.
42. There will be days where it feels everything is broken.
43. You All of them I quit. He’s political. I’m bored.
44. Three Vegetables
45. Hold regular 1:1s. Delegate your B work. Build a strategy.
46. Define your principles. Apply those principles with consistent judgement.
49. Be unfailingly kind.
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51. Q&A