Leadership:
- Google ReWork on what makes a great manager
- Google: Guides Practices, research, and tools from Google to improve your people processes.
- How Microsoft Uses a Growth Mindset to Develop Leaders (Carol Dweck, Kathleen Hogan)
- You can’t be a great leader without doing this (Brad Smith)
- Spotify Technology Career Steps (Kevin Goldsmith)
- 3 Questions to More Insightful Team Management (Ferhan Elvanoglu)
- 8 Habits Of Highly Effective Google Managers
- Hiring Secrets of Richard Branson, Apple’s Angela Ahrendts & Other Top Managers
- Global Recruiting Trends 2018 – 4 Ideas Transforming How You Hire.
- Precision Questions and Precision Answers.
- 3 Questions to More Insightful Team Management
- Stanford Learning Lab Learning Careers Project: A Self-Coaching Focus
- Spotify Technology Career Steps
- You can’t be a great leader without doing this
- Project Management: A sure way to kill your software product
- Crucial Conversations
- Six habits that keep coming up in the best leaders
- Ten Habits of Incompetent Managers
- The ultimate definition of Human Capital
- Organizational Culture and Leadership Institute
- Center for Talent Innovation
Industry
- Eric Ries: Startup Lessons Learned
- Tipping Point – How little things can make a big difference. (Malcolm Gladwell)
- Code Simplicity: Effective Engineering Productivity
- Project management: A surefire way to kill your software product
- Precision Questions and Answers
- 5 Fundamentals to a Successful Microservice Design
- Let a 1,000 Flowers Bloom. Then Rip 999 of them out by the Roots
- How To Use Radical Candor To Drive Great Results
- Managing for High Performance and Retention An HR Toolkit for Supporting the Line Manager
- Decoding Diversity: Financial and Economic Returns of Diversity in Tech
- On Being A Senior Engineer
- The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data’s unifying abstraction
- Rand’s Blog
- Etsy’s Code as Craft Blog
- Incident Response at Heroku
- Incident Command for IT
- Frank Talk About Site Outages
- Blameless PostMortems and a Just Culture
- Let a 1,000 flowers bloom, then Rip 999 of them out by the roots
- Effective Learning Strategies for Programmers
- Research Report – The Athena Factor: Reversing the Brain Drain in Science, Engineering, and Technology
- Athena Factor 2.0 Accelerating Female Talent in Science, Engineering & Technology
Education and Growth
- Growth Mindset Visual (CD)
- The surprising thing Google learned about its employees — and what it means for today’s students
- National award-winning Palo Alto teacher takes unusual approach
- Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Oprah Winfrey All Use the 5-Hour Rule
- How to not be defensive when receiving feedback
- Why impostor syndrome is good for you
- Behavioural economics. Behavioural and data science
- Startups and Shit
Experimenting
- Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments: Five Puzzling Outcomes Explained (Ron Kohavi, Alex Deng, Brian Frasca, Roger Longbotham, Toby Walker, YaXu)
- Puzzling outcomes in A/B testing (Greg Linden)
- Microsoft EXP – Experimentation Platform (RonnyKohavi)
- What types of things does Netflix A/B test aside from member sign-up?
- From Zero to a Million Users – Dropbox and Xobnilessons learned (Adam Smith)
- Data-Driven Startups
Coaching, Mentoring Consulting, Counseling, Teaching
- Coaching & Mentoring Network – Everything you ever wanted to know about coaching and mentoring
- Coaches Training Institute – What is Co-Active
- USDA – Differences Between Coaching, Counseling, Managing, Mentoring, Consulting and Training
- Pam Solberg-Tapper – Coaching, Counseling, Mentoring and Consulting – What’s the Difference?
- Jennifer Coffey – Difference between Counseling, Consulting, Coaching and Mentoring
- Stanford Business School – Executive Coaching
- Ed Rankin – Transformative Learning and Executive Coaching in the Workplace
- Ann Betz – BEabove Leadership – Combining Coaching and Mentoring
- Scientific American: Mind of the Meditator
Active and Empathic Listening
- The Personality Trait That Makes People Feel Comfortable Around You
- Using Empathic Listening to Collaborate
- The Way You Make Me Feel:
Evidence for Individual Differences in Affective Presence - The Big 6: An Active Listening Skill Set
- Forbes – 10 Steps To Effective Listening
- HBR – Listening Is an Overlooked Leadership Tool
- Positive Psychology – Active Listening: The Art of Empathetic Conversation
- Psychology Today – A Simple and Powerful Technique for Better Listening
- Psychology Today – Mindful Listening
- FastCompany – 5 Ways To Improve Your Listening Skills
- Medium – ‘Active Listening’: the Key to Strong Workplace Relationships, Productivity, and Personal Empowerment
- Learn About Active Listening Skills With Examples
- How to Practice Active Listening
- Psych Central – Become a Better Listener: Active Listening
- Inc – 10 Ways to Immediately Improve Your Listening (and Networking) Skills
- Wikipedia – Active Listening
Powerful Questions
- CTI (The Coaches Training Institute)
- Forbes: 16 Powerful Questions Coaches Ask Their Clients To Help Achieve Their Goals
- School of Coaching Mastery: 101 Incredible Coaching Questions
- SACAP – The 10 Most Powerful Questions a Coach Can Ask
- SAI – 5 Powerful Coaching Questions to Ask Your Clients Based on Your Coaching Niche
- SAI – 4 Coaching Questions to Ask Your Clients to Begin With
- The Art of Powerful Questions
- Active Listening and Effective Questioning
- What makes a Powerful Question?