false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182714864m/1317946.jpg 1317946 1 <p><i>Managing Humans</i> is a selection of the best essays from <strong>Michael Lopp</strong>'s web site, Rands In Repose. Drawing on Lopp's management experiences at Apple, Netscape, Symantec, and Borland, this book is full of stories based on companies in the Silicon Valley where people have been known to yell at each other. It is a place full of dysfunctional bright people who are in an incredible hurry to find the next big thing so they can strike it rich and then do it all over again. Among these people are managers, a strange breed of people who through a mystical organizational ritual have been given power over your future and your bank account. Whether you're an aspiring manager, a current manager, or just wondering what the heck a manager does all day, there is a story in this book that will speak to you. You will learn: <ul><li>What to do when people start yelling at each other</ul> <ul><li>How to perform a diving save when the best engineer insists on resigning</ul> <ul><li>How to say "No" to the person who signs your paycheck</ul> <p>Among fans of Michael Lopp is the incomparable <strong>Joel Spolsky, cofounder and CEO of Fog Creek Software</strong>: <blockquote><p>"What you're holding in your hands in by far the most brilliant book about managing software teams you're ever going to find".</p></blockquote></p> <p>This book is designed for managers and would-be managers staring at the role of a manager wondering why they would ever leave the safe world of bits and bites for the messy world of managing humans. The book covers handling conflict, managing wildly differing personality types, infusing innovation into insane product schedules, and figuring out how to build a lasting and useful engineering culture.</p> 1307262 12 6 2007 Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager total:102|5:27|4:43|3:25|2:7|1:0| 102 396 204 27 2 2 false false Wed Feb 27 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed May 14 02:17:24 -0700 2008 Wed May 14 02:20:26 -0700 2008 www.randsinrepose.com). The blog is excellent, the book less so, probably because it's mostly a collection of his blog posts, which tend to work less well in book format. There is some attempt at organization but it feels very jumbled, oddly enoug...more...]]> 2 1 true false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 02 15:17:01 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 22 18:16:19 -0800 2007
There were a few places where I laughed out loud, and a few where I exclaimed, "That's so true!"

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If you think of this as a set of short essays on managing t...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue May 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 06 11:32:52 -0700 2009 Wed May 06 11:33:55 -0700 2009 I don't know how relevant it is outside of our strange little profession but it's quite fun.]]> 5 0 false false Sat May 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 23:11:45 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 23:15:31 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Dec 22 11:16:34 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 11:17:48 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 19 14:21:01 -0700 2008 Sun May 17 15:20:38 -0700 2009 ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 04 11:08:32 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 11:09:20 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Jan 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 10 07:12:53 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 07:14:03 -0700 2009 1 4 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 20 16:36:14 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 26 14:55:43 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Sep 06 10:11:43 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 06 10:13:57 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 02 14:02:12 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 02 14:03:42 -0700 2007 more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Sep 19 14:37:00 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 19 14:39:54 -0700 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1317946