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When Is Job Hopping a Bad Thing?
I’ve got a couple of job openings in my team right now and I’ve been reading a lot of resumes. Most resumes these days are carefully-crafted. They’re edited and re-written, reviewed by friends and...
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Happy Not to Be a Manager
A very dear friend of mine sent a message the other day after reading one of my posts, remembering with gratitude the hiring manager who didn’t choose him for a management position many years ago....
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Read This: “Bring Back the Organization Man”
Last week I discovered an excellent article by Peter Cappelli from the HBR Blog Network: http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/03/bring_back_the_organization_ma.html?awid=5825209905911292232-3271 This is great...
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Work-Life Balance, Revisted
Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, was quoted in a recent interview: “So there’s no such thing as work-life balance. There’s work, and there’s life, and there’s no balance.” She was specifically...
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Professionals and Workers
I’ve been going through some old files now that I have some (unwelcome) time on my hands, and I found a Powerpoint presentation from 1997. I had just taken a new position, managing a software test team...
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The Work Team That Fights Over Who Gets Credit
Apparently there are companies that have structured their salary administration systems to emphasize and reward overall team performance instead of individual performance. I admire the effort....
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The Skills (Most) Engineers Don’t Learn in College
My friend and former colleague Happy Holden recently sent me his list of 25 “soft skills” that engineers don’t learn in college, but that every engineering manager needs to acquire to succeed....
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The Value of Not Knowing What You’re Doing
Occasionally someone will ask me about managing or working with younger people. I’m not sure if they’re wondering how I will relate to people under a certain age, or if I have some stereotypical bias...
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What Happened to HR?
In 1996 I started a new job at Hewlett-Packard’s facility in Vancouver, Washington. The site at that time was supported by a large HR organization that had about 10-15 full-time staff. In 2001 I...
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Hiring, Firing and Net Value
In one of my recent positions my manager suggested that I “get rid of” an person in my team who wasn’t meeting expectations, at least in the opinion of my manager. I assumed he meant that I should fire...
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