97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know by Camille Fournier

Author:Camille Fournier
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Published: 2019-11-25T16:00:00+00:00

Coming to Terms with Your Skills

One of the most difficult things to do in professional life is performing an honest self-assessment; not for the organization during appraisal time, but for yourself to assess whether what you’re doing makes you happy. A good leader motivates people, looks for ways to unblock them, mentors them, and guides them through problems, and also recognizes when they are not the right person for the job. Accepting this as a reality will give you and your organization the opportunity to deal with it properly and set an example for future managers who go down the same path.

Culture and management go hand in hand in any organization. How an organization defines its culture and cultivates its managers and seniors is what will define whether these individuals in turn will create an environment in which employees will be able to thrive and be creative, or an environment in which following the status quo and bullying/being bullied become the norm. In either case, it is important to remember the adage, “People leave bosses, not companies.” Also true is, “People stick to bosses, not companies.”

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