Quotes::General Flashcards
(13 cards)
“Everything fails all the time.”
Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com,
hyrum’s law
Any observable behavior will be depended on
The U.S. Department of Agriculture understood this when, in 2011, it moved from the food pyramid to the plate model to communicate healthy eating guidelines – after all, we don’t eat off of pyramids; we eat off of plates.
better picture result better effects
Above all, resist the urge to manage
Steve Vinter, engineering manager at google, from book “google software eingineering”
Managers can wind up acting like parents, consequently employees react like children.
Traditional (assembly line) managers worry about how to get things done, whereas great managers worry about what things get done (and trust their team to figure out how to do it)
Google Engineering book chapter 5 author
Failure is an option
safe environment
it is ok to fail…as long as you fail fast
Engineers hate being micromanaged on the technical side but love being closely managed on the career side
(Dan Pink Ted Talk)
https://hbr.org/2013/12/how-google-sold-its-engineers-on-management?registration=success
(Trust)
Employees with high-scoring bosses consistently reported greater satisfaction in multiple areas, including innovation, work-life balance, and career development
eNPS
“Sometimes you get to be the tooth fairy, other times you have to be the dentist.”
Google Engineering book chapter 5 author’ manager
radical candor
Google’s Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team has a motto: “Hope is not a strategy.”
“let’s hope this deployment is successful”….why will it not be? can you have prevented the failures?
If you cannot measure it you cannot improve it
Peter Drucker
Steve Jobs once said: “A people hire other A people; B people hire C people.”
budge issue?
hire ppl better or replacement of you?
Giving hard feedback is…well, hard
Don’t sugar coat criticism or mistakes
Don’t resort to compliment sandwich..the essential criticism will be lost among compliments
Google Engineering book chapter 5
