Dates covered: July 2-8, 2018 (week 27 of 52)
Business
- Finding the Perfect Pace for Product Launches (via Harvard Business Review)
- The Factors Behind China’s Growing Strength in Innovation (via Harvard Business Review)
- The CEO of Levi Strauss on Leading an Iconic Brand Back to Growth (via Harvard Business Review)
- Research: Glowing Reviews Aren’t Always the Most Persuasive (via Harvard Business Review)
Career
- How not to be a mediocre developer! (via The Software Mentor)
- I failed my effing coding Interview!? (via The Software Mentor)
- How (and why) Should Managers Code? (via Software Lead Weekly)
Communication
- Visual Communication: Creating Engaging and Effective Technical Diagrams
- How to Improve Your Business English (via Harvard Business Review)
Culture
Leadership
- 3 Transitions Even the Best Leaders Struggle With (via Harvard Business Review)
- 3 Common Hiring Mistakes New Managers Should Avoid (cloning yourself, someone to do the boring stuff, to just bring a skill you don’t have) (via Harvard Business Review)
- How to Manage an Employee Who’s Having a Personal Crisis (via Harvard Business Review)
Process
- How Agile Teams Can Help Turnarounds Succeed (via Harvard Business Review)
- Learn to Get Better at Transitions (via Harvard Business Review)
- Maintaining confidence while scaling an Engineering team (via Software Lead Weekly)
- The Value of Probabilistic Thinking: Spies, Crime, and Lightning Strikes (via Software Lead Weekly)
- Go Slow to Go Fast — Part 1: You (via Software Lead Weekly)
- Go Slow to Go Fast — Part 2: Team
- My Lessons from Interviewing 400+ Engineers Over Three Startups (via Software Lead Weekly)
Software development
- Software Architecture: the 5 Patterns You Need to Know (via The Software Mentor)
- So I’ve been making web stuff for a quarter of a century now (via The Software Mentor)