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16Sep 201827 Mar 2019

Software Engineering Leadership

Software Engineer leadership is where you lead/manage a number of software engineers, directly or via another manager(s). Your title could…

19Mar 20182 Dec 2018

Leadership by Example

This blog post is a continuation from a previous one called Leading Leaders “We must be the change we wish…

21Jan 201819 Mar 2019

Leading leaders

Maybe you are a Director, a Head of X or a Vice President, and you now own a department or…

Summer Improv Intensive 2 @ Annoyance Theatre

1 Jun 20192 Jun 2019

Annoyance Theatre, based in Chicago, USA, does Summer Intensive classes in Improv that last a full work week, Monday to Friday, 10am to 4.45pm. Last year I did the first…

Numenera Character Sheets

These were designed for second edition of the Numenera Roleplaying game. I designed these to be functionally sheets as you grow from Tier 1 to Tier 5. Page 1 -…

Science Fiction

Top Science Fiction Books

24 Nov 201821 Dec 2018

These are some my favorite science fiction books, most are the start of a series or trilogy. These are not in order: Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1) by Alastair Reynolds…

Software Engineering Leadership

16 Sep 201827 Mar 2019

Software Engineer leadership is where you lead/manage a number of software engineers, directly or via another manager(s). Your title could be Engineering lead, Software Engineer manager, R&D Manager, Director of…

That you build Trust/psychological safety – Leadership by Example

9 Jul 201828 Feb 2019

Avoid surprises, build creditability, build reliability, show authenticity and share credit “When trust is extended, it breeds responsibility in return. Emulation and peer pressure regulates the system better than hierarchy ever could.”—…

That you are Coachable – Leadership by Example

9 Jul 20182 Dec 2018

Good at listening, open to change, able to change, able to let go and good at reflection My best skill was that I was coachable. I was a sponge and…

Change Management…

That you make decisions – Leadership by Example

9 Jul 20182 Dec 2018

“Problems cannot be solved by thinking within the framework in which they were created.” — Albert Einstein Let facts drive your decision making, not opinions. As humans we have an…

That you respect diversity – Leadership by Example

9 Jul 20182 Dec 2018

Diversity brings greater innovation, uniqueness challenges culture to evolve, we share and learn Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations Vulcan Philosophy from Star Trek I am not sure why, but I…

That you learn and grow – Leadership by Example

9 Jul 20182 Dec 2018

Evolving you, evolving leaders and evolving the team, evolving the strategy, feedback “When you can truly understand how others experience your behavior, without defending or judging, you then have the ability…

Stability (Protecting your Mental Health) – Leadership by Example

9 Jul 201820 Mar 2019

Understand how you react under stress, moving beyond, buy time, process, leave When overwhelmed or under stress most of us rely on more "basic" approaches to problems, which is not…