Reading List: Week 2, February 2022
Also published in https://www.briandys.com/reading-list-week-2-february-2022/
We conform because we believe that others’ interpretation of an ambiguous situation is more accurate than ours and will help us choose an appropriate course of action.
Smart people respect simple language not because simple words are easy, but because expressing interesting ideas in small words takes a lot of work.
Safety in numbers, or reliance on the authority of others, can give us the courage to commit to a decision that we might otherwise struggle with.
When you manage a team, you want to have a clear view of everyone’s skills. Not only to be able to fairly evaluate your collaborators, but also to be able to support their up skilling.
Corporations discovered that you couldn’t pressure high-performing individual contributors in engineering or scientific roles to keep climbing a people management ladder if they didn’t want to.
It’s Time to Fight for a Dual Product Management Career Path
