Becoming a Technical Leader Quotes

“problem-solving leaders have one thing in common: a faith that there's always a better way.”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach

“People don't become leaders because they never fail. They become leaders because of the way they respond to failure.”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach

“The best computer programmers never write a new program when they can use an old one for a new job.”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, Becoming a Technical Leader

“If you are a leader, the people are your work.”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach

“One of the hardest choices for technical stars who become leaders is losing touch with the latest in technology.”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach

“There are many technical workers who enjoy wandering so much that, like Alice in Wonderland, they don’t much care where they go, so long as they get somewhere.”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach

“Why is it that we reward programmers who work all night to remove the errors they put into their programs, or managers who make drastic organizational changes to resolve the crises their poor management has created? Why not reward the programmers who design so well that they don’t have dramatic errors, and managers whose organizations stay out of crisis mode? Organizing”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, Becoming a Technical Leader

“*No matter how strange it may look, most people are actually trying to be helpful.* That”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, Becoming a Technical Leader

“In the seed model, Leadership is the process of creating an environment in which people become empowered.”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, Becoming a Technical Leader

“problem-solving leaders have one thing in common: a faith that there’s always a better way”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach

“you don’t have to be a boss to be a leader”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach

“Unless and until all members of a team have a common understanding of the problem, attempts to solve the problem are just so much wasted energy.”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, Becoming a Technical Leader

“Linear models tend to define relationships in terms of roles rather than people: the boss rather than the person actually exerting influence. The organic model tends to define relationships in terms of one unique person to another unique person.”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach

“In this business, it takes all the running you can do just to stay in the same place. The”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, Becoming a Technical Leader

“Much of the ability to help other people arises from personal power, but it would be naive to assert that nothing else is required. In large organizations, there are many resources available to a leader—money to pay for training, support staff, office space, tools to make work more efficient, access to helpful people. Such resources are not evenly distributed, and one of the requirements for becoming a problem-solving leader is to acquire organizational power so as to obtain resources for other innovators. Most”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, Becoming a Technical Leader

“*Effective help can only start with mutual agreement on a clear definition of the problem.* Interestingly”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, Becoming a Technical Leader

“When people who are driven by a vision see something wrong, they might say to their teammates, “I feel bad because we’re not building the kind of system we can be proud of. What shall we do so we don’t feel this way?” On”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, Becoming a Technical Leader

“Within IBM at that time, growing a beard without getting fired was an indisputable mark of technical genius. In”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, Becoming a Technical Leader

“Books are no substitute for experience working with people, so now that you've read this book on leadership, go out and interact with people before you read any more.”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach

“In the popular image, a problem-solving leader is a solitary genius, but the true leader prefers to produce a success.”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach

“Effective leaders often have to act even when they don’t understand all possible factors”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach

“If your whole team consists of novice programmers, your expertise will give you considerable power; but if the other team members are also experts, they will attach less importance to your technical expertise. In that case, they’ll pay more attention to organizational power, like the power to acquire extra hardware, to extend the schedule, or to capture a more interesting assignment.”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach

“If you are a good leader, Who talks little, They will say, When your work is done, And your aim fulfilled, “We did it ourselves.” - Lao Tse”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, Becoming a Technical Leader

“Q. How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb? A. Only one, if the bulb really wants to change.”
― Gerald Weinberg, Becoming a Technical Leader

“I’m reminded of the story of the village idiot whose antique watch stopped running. He pried it open and found a dead cockroach inside. “No wonder it doesn’t work,” he said, “the manager is dead.”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, Becoming a Technical Leader

“lack drama. Why is it that we reward programmers who work all night to remove the errors they put into their programs, or managers who make drastic organizational changes to resolve the crises their poor management has created? Why not reward the programmers who design so well that they don’t have dramatic errors, and managers whose organizations stay out of crisis mode? Organizing”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, Becoming a Technical Leader

“If you are a leader, the people are your work. There is no other work worth doing.* One”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, Becoming a Technical Leader

“Victor Hugo once said that nothing in this world was so powerful as an idea whose time has come. In our time, the idea is technology, especially information processing technology. The programmer partakes of this technology power”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach

“admiring remarks of my team as I track down the latest obscure but in the Project Mercury Monitor System.”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, Becoming a Technical Leader