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LeadingInTech #3: Resilience
Photo by Suzanne D. Williams on Unsplash Hi there! Welcome to the third edition of the LeadingIn.Tech newsletter. On this edition I want to share some thoughts on leadership in times of accelerated changes. As January 2021 is coming to an end I'm not going give you a list of "the best of" or "the worst of" something like that.
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The State of AI Adoption in Engineering Teams 📊 | refactoring.fm | |
Going direct - by James Stanier - The Engineering Manager | English | theengineeringmanager.substack.com |
The Art of Asking Smarter Questions | English | archive.ph |
Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon by Colin Bryar | Goodreads | English | www.goodreads.com |
Responsibility, Accountability, Ownership: Definitions, Distinctions, and How They Add Up to a Healthy Team — Signal Key | English | www.signalkey.com |
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings | Goodreads | English | www.goodreads.com |
TDD: Purposes and Practices | English | www.industriallogic.com |
1:1 Meeting | English | robansuini.gumroad.com |
 | English | robansuini.gumroad.com |
Book Club | English | robansuini.gumroad.com |
What Leaders Really Do | English | hbr.org |
The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth by Amy C. Edmondson | English | www.goodreads.com |
Kind Engineering: How To Engineer Kindness | English | kind.engineering |
PM & EM: Rules of Engagement | Twilio Segment Blog | English | segment.com |
Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value by Teresa Torres | Goodreads | English | www.goodreads.com |
Five whys - AWS Well-Architected Framework | English | wa.aws.amazon.com |
What is a 5 Whys? Step-by-Step Guide to Running a 5 Whys Exercise | English | buffer.com |
The Five Whys Technique | English | www.adb.org |
How to Ask Great Questions | English | hbr.org |
A Deep Dive into Developer Experience Surveys — Laura Tacho | English | lauratacho.com |
Anti-Flow – Rands in Repose | English | randsinrepose.com |
The Beautiful Mess | John Cutler | Substack | English | cutlefish.substack.com |
The Leadership Newsletter | Michael Lopp | Substack | English | rands.substack.com |
The leadingIn.tech newsletter | Roberto Ansuini | Substack | English | the.leadingintech.email |
Geek Incentives | Kent Beck | Substack | English | geekincentives.substack.com |
Level Up | Revue | levelup.patkua.com | |
Refactoring | Luca Rossi | Substack | English | refactoring.fm |
The Pragmatic Engineer | Gergely Orosz | Substack | English | newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com |
Always be leaving by Ángel Cereijo | English | amcereijo.medium.com |
Google - Site Reliability Engineering | English | sre.google |
Developing Leadership - The Podcast for Engineering Leaders | English | www.developingleadership.co |
Why our engineering leaders focus on product over process | English | medium.com |
Don't make yourself redundant - The Engineering Manager | English | www.theengineeringmanager.com |
Engineering Levels at Honeycomb: Avoiding the Scope Trap - Honeycomb | www.honeycomb.io | |
15 rules for communicating at GitHub | Ben Balter | English | ben.balter.com |
Makers vs Managers: The Battle Over Remote Work - Ambition & Balance | English | blog.doist.com |
This 90-Day Plan Turns Engineers into Remarkable Managers | First Round Review | English | review.firstround.com |
Gossip, Rumors, and Lies – Rands in Repose | English | randsinrepose.com |
Say the Hard Thing – Rands in Repose | English | randsinrepose.com |
Everything Breaks – Rands in Repose | English | randsinrepose.com |
The Org Chart Test – Rands in Repose | English | randsinrepose.com |
How to Recruit – Rands in Repose | English | randsinrepose.com |
The Blue Tape List – Rands in Repose | English | randsinrepose.com |
The Situation – Rands in Repose | English | randsinrepose.com |
The One About Small Things, Done Well – Rands in Repose | English | randsinrepose.com |
The Art of Leadership, by Michael Lopp – Eric Nehrlich, Unrepentant Generalist | English | www.nehrlich.com |
Q&A on the Book The Art of Leadership | English | www.infoq.com |
Act Last, Read the Room, and Taste the Soup – Rands in Repose | English | randsinrepose.com |
When is it ok to face-mute on Zoom? | Zapier | English | zapier.com |
Remote Work Should Be (Mostly) Asynchronous | English | hbr.org |
Are You Aware of Your Biases? | English | hbr.org |
¿Por qué es difícil la estrategia? - by Simón Muñoz | Spanish | www.estrategiadeproducto.com |
Becoming a Better Writer as a Software Engineer - The Pragmatic Engineer | English | blog.pragmaticengineer.com |
Interview with David Cancel, CEO of Drift | Supermanagers Podcast | English | fellow.app |
The Art of Leadership - Interview with Michael Lopp | Supermanagers | English | fellow.app |
The Art of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well by Michael Lopp | English | www.goodreads.com |
How to become 37.78 times better at anything | Atomic Habits summary (by James Clear) | English | www.youtube.com |
The Future of Performance Reviews | English | hbr.org |
Writing Culture at Amazon | English | rahulramchandani.com |
Google Tried to Prove Managers Don't Matter. Instead, It Discovered 10 Traits of the Very Best Ones | Inc.com | English | www.inc.com |
How Hybrid Remote Work Improves Diversity And Inclusion | English | www.forbes.com |
Creating an inclusive team culture in times of change | LeadDev | English | leaddev.com |
Building and Scaling a Distributed and Inclusive Team – Mathias Meyer | The Lead Developer UK - YouTube | English | www.youtube.com |
Designing an inclusive workplace in a new normal | LeadDev | English | leaddev.com |
5 Habits for Crafting the Perfect Remote Work Day | English | blog.doist.com |
We Work Remotely | 5 Inclusive Workplace Practices For Your Remote Team | English | weworkremotely.com |
Don’t Let Hybrid Work Set Back Your DEI Efforts | English | hbr.org |
Not all engineering leaders are engineering managers | LeadDev | English | leaddev.com |
Hiring (and Retaining) a Diverse Engineering Team | English | newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com |
Top 10 causes of employee turnover in 2021 (& how to stop it) - Officevibe | English | officevibe.com |
https://remotefirst.fm | English | remotefirst.fm |
LappleApple/awesome-leading-and-managing: Awesome List of resources on leading people and being a manager. Geared toward tech, but potentially useful to anyone. | English | github.com |
How to run a better retro | English | www.linkedin.com |
Why it’s difficult to build teams in high growth organisations | by Jason Yip | English | jchyip.medium.com |
What does my engineering manager do all day? | by Joon Park | English | parkjoon.medium.com |
Scaling Your Team and Product: Leadership Stories from Product Hunt | English | codingsans.com |
How deadline-driven behavior sends your Scrum Teams spinning out of control | by Todd Lankford | English | medium.com |
The GitLab Test — 12 Steps to Better Remote | English | about.gitlab.com |
Experimentation principles. Empower employees to rapidly test… | by Nis Frome | English | medium.com |
How to Achieve Sustainable Remote Work | The New Yorker | English | www.newyorker.com |
Rewarding Talent | Index Ventures | English | www.indexventures.com |
How to Hire Entrepreneurial Engineers and Why You Need Them | English | codingsans.com |
The 10 Qualities to Look for When Hiring Software Engineers | English | www.linkedin.com |
Love People, Use Things: Because the Opposite Never Works | English | www.goodreads.com |
Working Backwards | English | www.allthingsdistributed.com |
Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon | English | www.goodreads.com |
¿De verdad hay escasez de developers o los empleadores no saben contratar? | Spanish | blog.talentoit.org |
One CEO's vision for a remote, asynchronous future of work | English | www.protocol.com |
Stop Fearing Critical Feedback — Fear Not Getting It Instead | English | blog.doist.com |
The 25 Micro-Habits of High-Impact Managers | English | review.firstround.com |
Technology Saves the World - Future | English | future.a16z.com |
Managing meetings without succumbing to Zoom fatigue | English | leaddev.com |
The Engineering Leader’s Guide to Crafting a Personal Brand that Stands Out From the Crowd | English | review.firstround.com |
An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding | by Camille Fournier | English | skamille.medium.com |
TBM 20/52: A Product Super-Skill (Balancing Divergence and Convergence) | English | cutlefish.substack.com |
Creating and sustaining motivation in engineering teams | LeadDev | English | leaddev.com |
How to be Remote-First When You Still Have an Office | English | blog.doist.com |
Debugging engineering teams: Groundhog Day | LeadDev | English | leaddev.com |
How you're causing low employee morale at your company | English | getlighthouse.com |
Hiring a VP of Engineering? Use This Framework from Shopify’s VPE to Get it Right | First Round Review | English | review.firstround.com |
Write Like an Amazonian | English | www.factoftheday1.com |
La evolución del recruitment tecnológico en España | Talento IT Blog | Spanish | blog.talentoit.org |
Atlassian Announces Its Shift To Distributed-First Policy | Hacker Noon | English | hackernoon.com |
The Role of Tech Leads and Engineering Managers 👑 - Refactoring | English | refactoring.fm |
Transparent Salaries | Buffer | English | buffer.com |
Staying Connected – Resilience at Work | Microsoft | English | www.microsoft.com |
The Role of a Manager Has to Change in 5 Key Ways | English | hbr.org |
#85 Juegos infinitos: primeras frases, Mario y Fray Perico y su borrico - Jaime Rodríguez de Santiago | English | www.jaimerodriguezdesantiago.com |
Managing up - HBR | English | hbr.org |
What Everyone Should Know About Managing Up | English | hbr.org |
The science of managing up | Slack | English | slack.com |
A Tactical Guide to Managing Up: 30 Tips from the Smartest People We Know | First Round Review | English | review.firstround.com |
Is managing up a bad thing? | Lara Hogan | English | larahogan.me |
7 Steps to Manage Up Effectively at Work | Fellow.app | English | fellow.app |
Why Managing Up Is A Skill Set You Need | English | www.forbes.com |
Managing up is something all managers need to master | Officevibe | English | officevibe.com |
3 problems with managing up | English | www.fastcompany.com |
Find Your Why: How to Draft a Why Statement | English | www.deanbokhari.com |
Re:Focus: Write A Vision Statement That Works | English | sinekpartners.typepad.com |
Designing Without Whiteboards: The Remote Guide to Product Design | twist.com | |
The Art of Async: The Remote Guide to Team Communication | English | twist.com |
Leading Distributed: The Remote Guide to Management | English | twist.com |
After Hiring: The Remote Guide to Onboarding | English | twist.com |
Scaling Your Remote Team: The Remote Guide to Hiring | English | twist.com |
The Infinite Game: How to Lead in the 21st Century - YouTube | English | www.youtube.com |
Dealing with the problems of scaleups | stanete.com | |
Reengineering the Recruitment Process | English | hbr.org |
Writing Tips for Remote Workers (And Everyone Else) | blog.doist.com | |
The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek | Simon Sinek | English | simonsinek.com |
SoftwareLeadWeekly: A free weekly email for curious humans who want to build better teams and companies. | English | softwareleadweekly.com |
Smart and Gets Things Done: Joel Spolsky's Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Talent by Joel Spolsky | English | www.goodreads.com |
Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track by Will Larson | English | www.goodreads.com |
Scaling Teams: Strategies for Building Successful Teams and Organizations by David Loftesness | English | www.goodreads.com |
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management by Will Larson | English | www.goodreads.com |
The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek | English | www.goodreads.com |
Three crucial skills that leaders must develop to become executives - The Skip | English | theskip.substack.com |
Polishing Product Management Skills | English | www.patkua.com |
Leading your engineering team with ‘experiments’ not ‘processes’ | English | leaddev.com |
Focusing on wellness at work | English | virgin.com |
A Message from Co-Founder and CEO Brian Chesky | English | news.airbnb.com |
Resilient Management, An Excerpt – A List Apart | English | alistapart.com |
Resilient Management by Lara Hogan | English | www.goodreads.com |
Tips for engineering managers learning to lead remotely | GitLab | English | about.gitlab.com |
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Goodreads | www.goodreads.com | |
How Airbnb Pivoted | Simon Sinek & Brian Chesky - YouTube | English | www.youtube.com |
How Airbnb Is Dealing With the COVID-19 Pandemic: New Online Experiences | English | www.pcma.org |
How Businesses Have Successfully Pivoted During the Pandemic | English | hbr.org |
3 Important Lessons From Airbnb's Pandemic Pivot | Inc.com | English | www.inc.com |
Common Performance Review Biases: How to Spot and Counter Them - The Pragmatic Engineer | English | blog.pragmaticengineer.com |
Why this manager put workers in charge of their own raises, career development, and reviews | English | www.fastcompany.com |
How to master 1:1 meetings - online course | lp.nailted.com | |
2020 remote working learnings. My summary of learnings about Remote… | by Txesk Planells Ceró | Dec, 2020 | Medium | English | txesk.medium.com |
We're Never Going Back - Not Boring by Packy McCormick | English | notboring.substack.com |
Conway’s Law: Critical for Efficient Team Design in Tech - IT Revolution | English | itrevolution.com |
Creating Connections. The subtle leadership skill that makes… | by Scott Mabry | Nov, 2020 | Medium | English | scottamabry.medium.com |
How we doubled the representation of women in Engineering at Clio | by Ainsley Robertson | Clio Labs | English | labs.clio.com |
Leveraging a Manager Weekly Newsletter for Team Communication | SoundCloud Backstage Blog | developers.soundcloud.com | |
Giving feedback remotely - Know Your Team | Blog | English | knowyourteam.com |
How to build team morale remotely - Know Your Team | Blog | English | knowyourteam.com |
Does your organization need a developer evangelist? - Stack Overflow Blog | English | stackoverflow.blog |
Interview with Cate Huston: Engineering Director at DuckDuckGo | English | fellow.app |
Supermanagers Podcast by Fellow.app | fellow.app | |
How 2020 has shaped you as an engineering leader | LeadDev | English | leaddev.com |
Management Debt - Andreessen Horowitz | English | a16z.com |
Compassionate Leadership Is Necessary — but Not Sufficient | English | hbr.org |
Aaron Blohowiak from Netflix on Mistakes and Discoveries While Cultivating Ownership | www.infoq.com | |
Common Performance Review Biases: How to Spot and Counter Them - The Pragmatic Engineer | English | blog.pragmaticengineer.com |
12 “Manager READMEs” from Silicon Valley’s Top Tech Companies | Hacker Noon | English | hackernoon.com |
The Manager's Handbook | themanagershandbook.com | |
Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager by James Stanier | www.goodreads.com | |
A step-by-step guide to becoming a better engineering manager | English | thenextweb.com |
How to Become a Great Engineering Manager - DevOps.com | devops.com | |
El rol del Tech Lead - Blog Talento IT | Spanish | blog.talentoit.org |
5 Engineering Manager Archetypes | www.patkua.com | |
El Manual del Manager | SpanishEnglish | www.goodreads.com |
94. Engineering Management - Podcasts | Heroku | www.heroku.com | |
NoSoloTech - Podcast: "Engineering management" | Spanish | twitter.com |
Being an Engineering Manager | medium.com | |
“Software Roles and Titles” by Eric Elliott | link.medium.com | |
On Managing Technical Teams as a First-Time Manager: CTO, Engineering, Management | Y Combinator | www.ycombinator.com | |
This Email From Elon Musk to Tesla Employees Describes What Great Communication Looks Like | Inc.com | www.inc.com | |
Our Work-from-Anywhere Future | hbr.org | |
Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek | Goodreads | English | www.goodreads.com |
The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever by Michael Bungay Stanier | English | www.goodreads.com |
Are you learning new things? | ||
How can I help? (Lazy Question) | ||
What was most useful for you? (Learning Question) | ||
What do you want? (Foundation Question) | ||
And what else? (A.W.E. Question) | ||
What’s on your mind? (The Kick Start Question) | ||
How to Manage a Remote Team | Coursera | English | www.coursera.org |
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek | Goodreads | www.goodreads.com | |
5 Things: How to Rock Remote Work | svenpet.com | svenpet.com | |
On Remote Work - YouTube | www.youtube.com | |
Trabajar en tiempos remotos - Ángel Cereijo - Medium | medium.com | |
Distributed Work Playbooks | services.google.com | |
Sprint Retrospectives: Solutions to 4 Common Problems | www.mountaingoatsoftware.com | |
The Definition of a Tech Lead - patkua.com | www.patkua.com | |
How to build social connections on a remote team - Signal v. Noise | m.signalvnoise.com | |
Group Chat, Group Stress | Basecamp | basecamp.com | |
Guide to Internal Communication, the Basecamp Way | basecamp.com | |
Empathy-Driven Development: How Engineers Can Tap into This Critical Skill | First Round Review | firstround.com | |
The Pyramid of Remote Team Communication Tools | doist.com | |
Why We're Betting Against Real-Time Team Messaging Apps Like Slack | doist.com | |
Asynchronous Communication: What It Is & Why You Should Care About It | doist.com | |
Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders by L. David Marquet | Goodreads | www.goodreads.com | |
The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels by Michael D. Watkins | www.goodreads.com | |
How to Become a Great Engineering Manager - DevOps.com | devops.com | |
Good Writing as an Essential Leadership Skill | English | aboutleaders.com |
Want Better 1:1s? Start With These 100 Questions — LEADR | www.leadr.com | |
My Approach to 1-on-1s — Marco Rogers | marcorogers.com | |
The Only One On One Meeting Checklist You Will Ever Need | www.15five.com | |
Fellow.app - Great Meetings Start Here: Collaborative Agendas, Action Items and more... | fellow.app |