Best Management Books?
Getting a crack at managing a team soon. I have read a few books like Radical Candor, The Managers Path, and a few other small ones. Does anyone have advice/any books for other management techniques/what key things I should be doing on a daily/weekly/monthly basis? This will be a hybrid management role for pure development work. Thanks in advance! TC 165 (East Coast)
Figure out how to love your people. Don’t be a jerk and see them as the people they are. 1on1s weekly, monthly tasks are just tactics. People can tell when your real or just playing them. Read self-deception.
Just to give more context. I went from IC to over 400 people in <2 years. I turned into a total tool. Forgot what it means to serve. Got a swift ass kicking and it was the best thing that ever happened to me. You have to love your people as much as you expect them to perform. Let them know it and hold them accountable. Don’t be fake. Find out who they are outside of work as well.
Thanks for the advice. I already have rapport with my colleagues and I am a highly viewed IC/dev as it is now, so not worried about the relationship building or teaching part. I was looking more for what do the best managers do best in terms of like a framework or something. 1-1s, team building, demos, etc. What cadence should all these things be and all other random things I’m not even thinking about right now.
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My ex-manager used to swear by Radical Candor book. So I read it. It's utter shit. Reminds me why I left my ex-manager. This book is an excuse for managers to be asshole and say whatever they want. Radical Candor definition according to book is "you can give critical feedback if you care about person". But author justifies firing people. How the heck you can fire someone if you care about them? The book goes on and on about building relationship and "caring for people". There are 2 pages dedicated to the topic of "caring people" and it has some weird shit. But the author only cares about her perspective of caring instead of ever mentioning about asking from employees what they really want. That's some fucked up shit.
Who moved my cheese