Auteur/autrice : Éric
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[Lecture] Key Takeaways for the Mentor
Extraits de The Manager’s Path Senior engineers can develop bad habits, and one of the worst is the tendency to lecture and debate with anyone who does not understand them or who disagrees with what they are saying. To work successfully with a newcomer or a more junior teammate, you must be able to listen…
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[Lecture] Tips for the Manager of a Mentor
Extraits de The Manager’s Path As a manager you help your team succeed by creating clear, focused, measurable goals. C’est répété un peu partout, explicitement ou implicitement, mais je pense que j’aurais bien eu besoin de cette lourde répétition il y a quelques années donc autant la reproduire dans mes citations. Developing patience and empathy…
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[Lecture] Good Manager, Bad Manager: The Alpha Geek
Extraits de The Manager’s Path Je n’aime pas trop ce sous-chapitre qui tend à créer une caricature du pire sans au final donner des pistes constructives à part « attention ». Deux points tout de même : She believes herself to be the best, and responds only to messages that support that view. The alpha geek tries to…
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[Lecture] Technical or Career Mentoring
Extraits de The Manager’s Path Many companies run formal mentoring programs where they match people up across teams, and while these programs can sometimes enhance networks, they are often an ambiguous obligation for both the mentor and the mentee. J’avoue que c’est aussi ce que je fais, avec des résultats inégaux. La citation me fait…
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[Lecture] Mentoring a New Hire
Extraits de The Manager’s Path I didn’t know how to ask for help, and I was afraid that I would be seen as a fool if I did. Le message que je transmets aux nouveaux c’est « Pose toutes les questions maintenant, même celles qui te paraissent honteuses, parce que plus tu tardes plus tu auras…
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[Lecture] The Manager’s Path
Je commente ma lecture du livre The Manager’s Path de Camille Fournier sous-chapitre par sous-chapitre. Il y a un flux RSS sur la page du tag, et une catégorie plus générale sur le management. Pour faciliter le suivi, je vais tenir à jour le sommaire ici : Management 101 What to Expect from a Manager One-to-One…
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[Lecture] Calibrate your response
Extraits de The Manager’s Path It may be once a week. It may be once a day. It may be less frequently than once a week, but I would recommend trying to check in once a week regardless, and spending any extra time as an additional interview/sell cycle for the company. L’auteure parle ici de…
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[Lecture] Clearly communicate
Extraits de The Manager’s Path With that said, what if the intern does spend too much time asking you for help, without ever looking for help himself? Well, that gives you an opportunity to work on another management skill: communicating what needs to happen. Encore un point que j’ai mis longtemps à apprendre et que…
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[Lecture] Listen Carefully
Extraits de The Manager’s Path Listening is the first and most basic skill of managing people. Listening is a precursor to empathy, which is one of the core skills of a quality manager. Je dis à mes managers qu’ils sont d’abord là pour écouter. J’ai une vision du manager comme facilitateur et on ne peut…
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Les personnes ne sont pas plus agressives sur les réseaux sociaux. Ils rendent juste visibles ceux qui le sont.
We found that people are not more hostile online than offline; that hostile individuals do not preferentially select into online (vs. offline) political discussions Online Trolls Actually Just Assholes All the Time, Study Finds, Gizmodo, 2021 et New research suggests that the internet is not responsible for making people become more aggressive when engaging in…