Dates covered: June 4-10, 2018 (week 23 of 52)
Business
- Companies Can Address Talent Shortages by Partnering with Educators (via Harvard Business Review)
- Managing 21st-Century Political Risk (via Harvard Business Review)
Career
- How Successful CEOs Manage Their Middle Act (via Harvard Business Review)
- Leveling up: why developers need to be able to identify technologies with staying power (and how to do it) (via The Software Mentor)
- Talent Management and the Dual-Career Couple (via Harvard Business Review)
- Become a More Productive Learner (single topic for months, use frameworks, synthesize, cycle between fasting/feasting) (via Harvard Business Review)
- Why Work Friendships Go Awry, and How to Prevent It (via Harvard Business Review)
- The Critical Career Path Conversation (via Software Lead Weekly)
Communication
Culture
- In Praise of Extreme Moderation (via Harvard Business Review)
- How to Keep Your Best Programmers (via The Software Mentor)
- Research: When Managers Are Overworked, They Treat Employees Less Fairly (via Harvard Business Review)
- 96% of U.S. Professionals Say They Need Flexibility, but Only 47% Have It (via Harvard Business Review)
- 5 Practical Ways to Engage a Geographically Distributed Workforce (via Harvard Business Review)
- The U.S. Isn’t Just Getting Older. It’s Getting More Segregated by Age. (via Harvard Business Review)
Leadership
- Why New Leaders Should Be Wary of Quick Wins (via Harvard Business Review)
- How Johnson & Johnson and American Express Are Developing Young Leaders (via Harvard Business Review)
- How to Be a Manager (via Software Lead Weekly)
- Management Books in Review (via Software Lead Weekly)
Process
- Response Unicorn Isn’t Responsive (When Your Team Doesn’t Get “Agile” or “Lean”) (via The Software Mentor)
- The Importance of Deep Work & the 30-hour Method for Learning a New Skill (via The Software Mentor)
- 5 Common Complaints About Meetings and What to Do About Them (some people dominate, not lead effectively, status update, distracted by devices, nothing done between meetings) (via Harvard Business Review)
- How to Make Sure Good Ideas Don’t Get Lost in the Shuffle (via Harvard Business Review)
- The More Senior Your Job Title, the More You Need to Keep a Journal (via Harvard Business Review)
Psychology
Software development
- Goodbye, Object Oriented Programming (via The Software Mentor)
- What is Microservices Architecture?
- Monolith vs microservices: which architecture is right for your team?