Good Tech Lead, Bad Tech Lead — Startups, Wanderlust, and Life Hacking — Medium
A brief guide to tech leadership at Foursquare, inspired by Ben Horowitz’s Good Product Manager, Bad Product Manager.
Teamwork
Good tech leads act as a member of the team, and consider themselves successful when the team is successful. They take their share of unsexy grungy work and clear roadblocks so their team can operate at 100%. They work to broaden the technical capabilities of their team, making sure knowledge of critical systems is not concentrated in one or two minds.
Bad tech leads take the high-profile tasks for themselves and are motivated by being able to take credit for doing the work. They optimize locally, keeping team members working on projects that benefit the team at the expense of the engineering organization at large.
Read full article from Good Tech Lead, Bad Tech Lead — Startups, Wanderlust, and Life Hacking — Medium
No comments:
Post a Comment