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The Core Priorities of a People Manager
People managementTeam organizationOrganizational ImpactAt a high level this breaks down into helping individuals achieve success, helping teams work together to deliver projects, and coordinating with other groups so that the projects have value to the organization. Having managed and coached managers in the engineering space I am going to break down each one of these core priorities into the activities that I have witnessed to be successful.People ManagementManagers must create an environmen...
The Core Priorities of a People Manager
People managementTeam organizationOrganizational ImpactAt a high level this breaks down into helping individuals achieve success, helping teams work together to deliver projects, and coordinating with other groups so that the projects have value to the organization. Having managed and coached managers in the engineering space I am going to break down each one of these core priorities into the activities that I have witnessed to be successful.People ManagementManagers must create an environmen...
The 3 Responsibilities of an Executive
• Safeguard the culture • Communicate the vision • Bring the money Safeguarding the culture is done through example. As an executive people follow your lead more than your words. If you say no work is expected from the team over the weekend but continue to send the team emails over the weekend, your words will be forgotten in leu of your actions. Communicating the vision is the most critical and most boring of all roles. It requires a vision for the future to be made digestible, and memorable...
The 3 Responsibilities of an Executive
• Safeguard the culture • Communicate the vision • Bring the money Safeguarding the culture is done through example. As an executive people follow your lead more than your words. If you say no work is expected from the team over the weekend but continue to send the team emails over the weekend, your words will be forgotten in leu of your actions. Communicating the vision is the most critical and most boring of all roles. It requires a vision for the future to be made digestible, and memorable...
Trustful Relationships at Work
I have made some observations on the nature of trust, while working in blockchain and identity for the past few years. It turns out that how we relate to trust and who we decide to trust is quite complex despite being relatively automatic. Depending on the environment we approach trust differently. For example: In a reputation based environment we may use EigenTrust ie: do the people close to me trust X. Or in a familial relationship we may use love based models. Today I am focused on a diffe...
Trustful Relationships at Work
I have made some observations on the nature of trust, while working in blockchain and identity for the past few years. It turns out that how we relate to trust and who we decide to trust is quite complex despite being relatively automatic. Depending on the environment we approach trust differently. For example: In a reputation based environment we may use EigenTrust ie: do the people close to me trust X. Or in a familial relationship we may use love based models. Today I am focused on a diffe...
