Welcome to the first official edition of the newsletter where we grow our leadership skills together! We’ll pick a cool name, fun logo, all that good stuff eventually, but if I try to perfect all of that we’d never start, and starting is the most important part. So with that, on to the content!
Thanks for the article! It was a very interesting read, it gave me a lot to think about. I've always considered myself a people manager, but now I'm thinking I'm a people focused technical manager. I delegate anything I can to the team, but no problem to step in where necessary.
I’ve been using “2 minutes” rule for years, and only recently realized that this rule is useful not only at work, but also in everyday life (housekeeping, relationships, etc). Putting clothes in the washing machine and turning it on, throwing out the trash, immediately putting dishes directly in the dishwasher, quick call to your relatives and other actions take only 2 minutes or less. At the same time, it makes environment around you better and more orderly and empties your head of unnecessary information.
And back to work again, this technique is not only prevent growth of your TODO list, it also helps to work in more orderly, calm and unstressed environment (by analogy with how pleasant it is to be at home if all the things are done). Almost automatically!
Thanks Dimitri! And I completely agree! Anytime I have a task I don't want to do I can say "I don't want to do this right now, but what if I do it for 2 minutes?" It's hard say no to that haha.
Interesting curation :)
Congrats on the first issue!
If you enjoyed Nicola's article, I highly recommend this one by Alex!
https://blog.alexewerlof.com/p/when-staff-engineer-is-an-anti-pattern
Thanks for the article! It was a very interesting read, it gave me a lot to think about. I've always considered myself a people manager, but now I'm thinking I'm a people focused technical manager. I delegate anything I can to the team, but no problem to step in where necessary.
You are welcome! I especially enjoyed the questions that help you understand if you've gone too far from the technical side.
Congrats with the first step 🎊
I’ve been using “2 minutes” rule for years, and only recently realized that this rule is useful not only at work, but also in everyday life (housekeeping, relationships, etc). Putting clothes in the washing machine and turning it on, throwing out the trash, immediately putting dishes directly in the dishwasher, quick call to your relatives and other actions take only 2 minutes or less. At the same time, it makes environment around you better and more orderly and empties your head of unnecessary information.
And back to work again, this technique is not only prevent growth of your TODO list, it also helps to work in more orderly, calm and unstressed environment (by analogy with how pleasant it is to be at home if all the things are done). Almost automatically!
Thanks Dimitri! And I completely agree! Anytime I have a task I don't want to do I can say "I don't want to do this right now, but what if I do it for 2 minutes?" It's hard say no to that haha.
Thanks for sharing the Personal Branding article, I have just started working on it!
I'm glad you liked it!