Dates covered: May 28-June 3, 2018 (week 22 of 52)
Business
- Layoffs That Don’t Break Your Company (via Harvard Business Review)
- Why Marketing Analytics Hasn’t Lived Up to Its Promise (via Harvard Business Review)
Career
- Just How Bad Is Business Travel for Your Health? Here’s the Data. (via Harvard Business Review)
- What technical recruiters want from engineering candidates (via Software Lead Weekly)
Communication
- 5 Ways to Project Confidence in Front of an Audience (dress 25% better, slow down, replace long words with short ones, rehearse under stress, use an open posture) (via Harvard Business Review)
- Effective Phone Skills (via Pluralsight)
- The Right Way to Respond to Negative Feedback (don’t rush to react, get more data, find a harbinger, don’t be a lonely martyr, change isn’t the only option) (via Harvard Business Review)
Culture
Leadership
- How do I regain managerial control of my “self-organizing” team? (via The Software Mentor)
- What Rebels Want from Their Boss (via Software Lead Weekly)
- On Managing Your Friends (via Software Lead Weekly)
Process
- How to Get the Most Out of a Day Off (weekend trips, time for personal to-dos, spend time with friends, work remote) (via Harvard Business Review)
- What It’s Like to Be a Fake Extrovert: Part 1 (via Peter Welch)
- 7 Tips to Successfully Micromanage Programmers (via The Software Mentor)
- You’re Doing Scrum Wrong, and Here’s How to Fix It (via The Software Mentor)
- How to Actually Start the Task You’ve Been Avoiding (via Harvard Business Review)
- New Technologies Won’t Reduce Scarcity, but Here’s Something That Might (via Harvard Business Review)
Software development
- DPRA lunch-and-learn on code smells (via Houston Miller)