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A Note From the Editor
Welcome to the GeekLeaders.com Community
I hope that you find here the beginnings of a community from which you can learn a great deal about technical leadership and to which you can contribute in equal measure.
As you can see in the banner, our goal is to advance the understanding and practice of technical leadership. This is not a topic that lends itself to provable singular solutions. It is complex and multi-faceted. We will learn best by reflecting on and sharing our experiences.
Once you complete the free registration and login, your menu bar will
include links for contributing blogs, articles, weblinks and forum
commentary. I hope that after you spend some time reading, you will want to participate in the ongoing conversations and to start a few of your own.
Please review this first implementation of the site, imagine how it might best become both a resource and community for you ... and then help us make it so. Please feel free to leave candid, constructive feedback in the Shoutback section or contact me directly.
Best,
Paul Glen, Founder and Editor
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Career -
Personal Development
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Written by Susan Dorward
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A friend recently
told me that she is pregnant. I
immediately passed on to her the best advice that I was ever given about having
a baby, which was given to me years ago by a colleague and friend who said it
was the best baby advice she got.
"Get lots of sleep now, and once the baby comes remember to sleep
when the baby sleeps. You will need the
rest."
It occurred to me
that this is the perfect litmus test when giving advice: what advice did I personally find the most valuable,
which I want to pass on to others when they find themselves in similar
situations? After giving my friend
"the best baby advice," I wondered, what is the best professional
advice ever given to me for being an effective manager and leader? Furthermore, what do other managers consider
to be the best advice that they ever got?
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Competencies -
Interpersonal Competencies
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Written by Thejendra BS
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It is not even 10:00 am on Monday morning and it is already time to rush into one of those dreadful weekly status report meetings, a ritual that started sometime in your previous birth. You know no one will have anything substantial to report, a few trumpeters will hype up their trivial tasks, someone will hijack the whole meeting, a few egos will get bruised, and the meetings will go on till eternity or until your bladders burst. And those cups of coffee, tea and biscuits are fast taking you many steps closer to indigestion and ulcers.
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Competencies -
Interpersonal Competencies
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Written by Jim and Michele McCarthy
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From our four part series, "The Foundations of Mediocrity"
The bread and butter of all the foundations of mediocrity, the one that most of us really commit our mindlessness to, is the schedule. Scheduling your project, that can absorb almost all of your craziness. And with a single fell swoop, at that! It can paralyze your thinking, blunt your imagination, break your creativity and reduce your procreativity to zero. The schedule is a potent nullifier. It is the queen of all mediocrity fountains.
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Competencies -
Interpersonal Competencies
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Written by Bob Sutton
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I've talked a lot here about methods for enduring abusive bosses and co-workers. Some of these tips come from your comments and e-mails, some from the No Asshole Rule, and some from academic research. But I have only presented these tips in bits and pieces, so I thought it would be useful to list some of the most effective methods in one place.
Before I get to the rest of the tips, one is in a class by itself:
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Career -
Personal Development
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Written by Paul Glen
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Does the keyboard still call to you? Do you dream of a simpler life? We all do at times. Here's how to deal with those pangs.
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Blogs -
Blogs
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Written by Paul Williams
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Ask a random group of employees in your organization to name
their least favorite thing about work life and chances are that the dreaded "P"
word, or "politics", will be the answer. Ask the same question to a group
of IT employees and the chance that politics will be the answer probably goes up
quite a bit. So we shun it as an "evil" thing and thus miss out on what
could be a useful tool for us. This is a mistake. Politics (the
word and the function) has an undeservedly bad reputation.
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Humor -
Humor
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Written by Thejendra BS
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Did you know that astrology is now an approved course in many universities worldwide? So it is now possible to get degree holders in astrology similar to other courses like MBA, MS, PhD, etc. Now businessmen will be able to hire astrologers in their organizations, and this is no laughing matter for rationalists. This is because astrology is more accurate than business predictions and forecasts. The probability of a traditional business prediction, market analysis or profit forecast coming true is only about 15% to 20%, whereas an astrological prediction can be as accurate as 70% to 100% and can be predicted years and even decades in advance. So just have a look at how a candidate with an astrological background can be of use in any organization.
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