How NOT to lead geeks

Excellent post by Alex Kjerulf about
the best way to handle your technology team. Geed advice for anyone responsible for
managing a team of developers, or another technical group. In a nutshell, the things not
to do
are:

  • Downplay training
  • Give no recognition
  • Plan too much overtime
  • Use management-speak
  • Try to be smarter than the geeks
  • Act inconsitent
  • Ignore the geeks
  • Make decisions without consulting them
  • Don’t give them tools
  • Forget that geeks are creative workers

Read the whole post here: Positive
Sharing ? How NOT to lead geeks

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published.

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.