Managing Humans

What You'll Learn

PART I The Management Quiver.- Chapter 1 Don't Be a Prick.- Chapter 2 Managers Are Not Evil.- Chapter 3 Stables and Volatiles.- Chapter 4 The Rands Test.- Chapter 5 How to Run a Meeting.- Chapter 6 The Twinge.- Chapter 7 The Update, the Vent, and the Disaster.- Chapter 8 The Monday Freakout.- Chapter 9 Lost in Translation.- Chapter 10 Agenda Detection.- Chapter 11 Dissecting the Mandate.- Chapter 12 Information Starvation.- Chapter 13 Subtlety, Subterfuge, and Silence.- Chapter 14 Managementese.- Chapter 15 You're Not Listening.- Chapter 16 Fred Hates the Off-Site.- Chapter 17 A Different Kind of DNA.- Chapter 18 An Engineering Mindset.- Chapter 19 Tear It Down.- Chapter 20 Titles are Toxic.- Chapter 21 Saying No.- PART II The Process is the Product.- Chapter 22 1.0.- Chapter 23 The Process Myth.- Chapter 24 How to Start.- Chapter 25 Taking Time to Think.- Chapter 26 The Value of the Soak.- Chapter 27 Capturing Context.- Chapter 28 Trickle Theory.- Chapter 29 When the Sky Falls.- Chapter 30 Hacking Is Important.- Chapter 31 Entropy Crushers.- PART III Versions of You.- Chapter 32 Bored People Quit.- Chapter 33 Bellwethers.- Chapter 34 The Ninety-Day Interview.- Chapter 35 Managing Nerds.- Chapter 36 NADD.- Chapter 37 A Nerd in a Cave.- Chapter 38 Meeting Creatures.- Chapter 39 Incrementalists and Completionists.- Chapter 40 Organics and Mechanics.- Chapter 41 Inwards, Outwards, and Holistics.- Chapter 42 The Wolf.- Chapter 43 Free Electrons.- Chapter 44 The Old Guard.- Chapter 45 Rules for the Reorg.- Chapter 46 An Unexpected Connection.- Chapter 47 Avoiding the Fez.- Chapter 48 A Glimpse and a Hook.- Chapter 49 Nailing the Phone Screen.- Chapter 50 Your Resignation Checklist.- Chapter 51 Shields Down.- Chapter 52 Chaotic Beautiful Snowflakes.- Glossary