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The Art of Asking Smarter Questions

Responsibility, Accountability, Ownership: Definitions, Distinctions, and How They Add Up to a Healthy Team — Signal Key

TDD: Purposes and Practices

What Leaders Really Do

Kind Engineering: How To Engineer Kindness

PM & EM: Rules of Engagement | Twilio Segment Blog

Five whys - AWS Well-Architected Framework

What is a 5 Whys? Step-by-Step Guide to Running a 5 Whys Exercise

The Five Whys Technique

How to Ask Great Questions

A Deep Dive into Developer Experience Surveys — Laura Tacho

Anti-Flow – Rands in Repose

Always be leaving by Ángel Cereijo

Why our engineering leaders focus on product over process

Don't make yourself redundant - The Engineering Manager

Engineering Levels at Honeycomb: Avoiding the Scope Trap - Honeycomb

15 rules for communicating at GitHub | Ben Balter

This 90-Day Plan Turns Engineers into Remarkable Managers | First Round Review

Gossip, Rumors, and Lies – Rands in Repose

Say the Hard Thing – Rands in Repose

Everything Breaks – Rands in Repose

The Org Chart Test – Rands in Repose

How to Recruit – Rands in Repose

The Blue Tape List – Rands in Repose

Refactor Organisation - to build the technology right | BBC Product & Technology

Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon by Colin Bryar | Goodreads

No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings | Goodreads

The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth by Amy C. Edmondson

Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value by Teresa Torres | Goodreads

The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries | Goodreads

Google - Site Reliability Engineering

The Art of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well by Michael Lopp

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear

Rewarding Talent | Index Ventures

Love People, Use Things: Because the Opposite Never Works

Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon

Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions by Gayle Laakmann McDowell

The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek | Simon Sinek

Books On Recruitment To Read - Emma Salamanca

Smart and Gets Things Done: Joel Spolsky's Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Talent by Joel Spolsky

Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track by Will Larson

The Tech Resume Inside Out by Gergely Orosz

Scaling Teams: Strategies for Building Successful Teams and Organizations by David Loftesness

Who: The A Method for Hiring by Geoff Smart

An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management by Will Larson

The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek

Resilient Management by Lara Hogan

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Goodreads

Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager by James Stanier

El Manual del Manager

LeadingIn.tech on Twitter

Laura Tacho 🌮 (@rhein_wein) / Twitter

Meri Williams (@Geek_Manager)

Jason Warner (@jasoncwarner) / Twitter

Jehad Affoneh

Jaime Rodríguez de Santiago (@jaime_rdes)

Ruyman Castro Cabeza (@ruyman_cc)

David (@highwayman)

Tabita Luis (@TabitaLuis) / Twitter

Ernesto Arroyo 🇺🇳🇪🇺🇪🇸🏁🏴‍☠️ (@earroyoron)

marina @ bliss (@Currofile) / Twitter

Emma (@SalamancaPeral)

Lara Hogan (@lara_hogan)

Lena Reinhard (@lrnrd)

Justyna_Adamczyk (@Justyna_Adam)

James Stanier (@jstanier)

The Manager's Manual (@themanagersbook)

Keyvan Akbary (@keyvanakbary) / Twitter

Oren Ellenbogen (@orenellenbogen) / Twitter

Philip Paetz (@chapati23) / Twitter

Simon Sinek (@simonsinek) / Twitter

Angel Cereijo (@amcereijo)

Jessie Frazelle (@jessfraz) / Twitter

Sid Sijbrandij (@sytses)

Matt Mullenweg (@photomatt)

Technical Writing  |  Google Developers

How to master 1:1 meetings - online course

How to Manage a Remote Team | Coursera

Developing Leadership - The Podcast for Engineering Leaders

The One About Small Things, Done Well – Rands in Repose

Interview with David Cancel, CEO of Drift | Supermanagers Podcast

The Art of Leadership - Interview with Michael Lopp | Supermanagers

https://remotefirst.fm

Scaling Your Team and Product: Leadership Stories from Product Hunt

How to Hire Entrepreneurial Engineers and Why You Need Them

One CEO's vision for a remote, asynchronous future of work

#85 Juegos infinitos: primeras frases, Mario y Fray Perico y su borrico - Jaime Rodríguez de Santiago

Interview with Cate Huston: Engineering Director at DuckDuckGo

Supermanagers Podcast by Fellow.app

Aaron Blohowiak from Netflix on Mistakes and Discoveries While Cultivating Ownership

94. Engineering Management - Podcasts | Heroku

NoSoloTech - Podcast: "Engineering management"

Are you learning new things?

And what else? (A.W.E. Question)

How can I help? (Lazy Question)

What do you want? (Foundation Question)

What’s the real challenge here for you? (Focus Question)

What was most useful for you? (Learning Question)

If you’re saying yes to this, what are you saying no to? (Strategic Question)

What’s on your mind? (The Kick Start Question)

What additional training or education would you like?

What skills would you like to develop right now?

From 1-10, how do you feel on Sunday evening, thinking about Monday morning coming up?

Do you feel over-worked, under-worked, or just the right workload?

Are there any aspects of our culture/process you think need to change?

What worries you? What’s on your mind?

What could I do as a manager to make your work easier?

How can I better support you?

What aspect of your job you would like more help or coaching?

What are your top priorities this week? + What can I do to help?

How's your project going?

What are your long-term professional goals?

One-on-one question generator

Fellow.app - Great Meetings Start Here: Collaborative Agendas, Action Items and more...

How to become 37.78 times better at anything | Atomic Habits summary (by James Clear)

Building and Scaling a Distributed and Inclusive Team – Mathias Meyer | The Lead Developer UK - YouTube

How to run a better retro

How to estimate as as an engineering leader | LeadDev

Creating and sustaining motivation in engineering teams | LeadDev

The Infinite Game: How to Lead in the 21st Century - YouTube

How Airbnb Pivoted | Simon Sinek & Brian Chesky - YouTube

On Managing Technical Teams as a First-Time Manager: CTO, Engineering, Management | Y Combinator

5 Things: How to Rock Remote Work | svenpet.com

On Remote Work - YouTube

A Message from Co-Founder and CEO Brian Chesky

Management 101 - The Engineering Manager

Introduction | Engineering Ladders

Engineering Growth Framework – Medium

LappleApple/awesome-leading-and-managing: Awesome List of resources on leading people and being a manager. Geared toward tech, but potentially useful to anyone.

Staying Connected – Resilience at Work | Microsoft

GitHub - kuchin/awesome-cto: A curated and opinionated list of resources for Chief Technology Officers, with the emphasis on startups

The Manager's Handbook

Retrospective - Three Little Pigs

The Beautiful Mess | John Cutler | Substack

The Leadership Newsletter | Michael Lopp | Substack

The leadingIn.tech newsletter | Roberto Ansuini | Substack

Geek Incentives | Kent Beck | Substack

Level Up | Revue

Refactoring | Luca Rossi | Substack

The Pragmatic Engineer | Gergely Orosz | Substack

The Engineering Manager | James Stanier | Substack

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