Leadership - Software is Easy, People are Hard

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The CTO's Golden Derrière: The misguided perception of rockstar tech leads.

Over the last couple of decades, the explosion of tech companies led to their leaders being idolized as people with superhuman capabilities; Gods of industry, savant business leaders with visionary missions to change the world. However, they're simply not much better than you or me. People love to use the

Build your own personal leadership manifesto.

Want to understand what defines you as a leader, use this step by step process to define your own leadership manifesto.

Are your values a motivational poster or a battle standard.

Are your company values a boring motivational poster stuck on the wall, or a battle standard that you lead your team under?

Are you building straight, white, male, middle-class products for straight, white, male, middle-class people?

Quit worrying about what your git branch is called and hire for diversity already.

Stepping Down as a Dictator: Giving Great Teams Permission to Make Awesome Decisions.

At Klarna, we hire amazing people. This statement isn’t hyperbole. I’ve not met one person in the year that I’ve been at Klarna who didn’t impress me in some way.

10x Team Killers. A Single Point of Failure.

10x developers are a risk I'm not willing to take. They are not a sustainable rock to build your team on.

When I grow up, I want to be just like you!

Do you consider yourself to be a role model? Well, believe it or not, you are. Whatever stage of your career you are at, there is someone somewhere looking up to you and thinking, ‘I want to be just like them.’