{"id":1377,"date":"2010-11-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2010\/11\/03\/1316\/"},"modified":"2010-11-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T23:00:00","slug":"1316","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2010\/11\/03\/1316\/","title":{"rendered":"(Not) Managing Software Developers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Yegge back in 2006 \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/steve-yegge.blogspot.com\/2006\/05\/not-managing-software-developers.html\">(Not) Managing Software Developers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;I think the best managers don&#8217;t want to manage: they want to lead. In fact most leaders probably don&#8217;t think about it much, at least at first, because they&#8217;re too busy leading: rushing headlong towards a goal and leading everyone around them in that direction, whether they&#8217;re on the team or not. Leadership stems from having a clear vision, strong convictions, and enough drive and talent to get your ideas and goals across to a diverse group of people who can help you achieve them. If you have all that, you&#8217;re close. Then you just need empathy so you don&#8217;t work everyone to death. If you&#8217;re a great leader, you can put the whip away; everyone will give you everything they&#8217;ve got.&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Yegge back in 2006 \u2013 (Not) Managing Software Developers: &#8222;I think the best managers don&#8217;t want to manage: they want to lead. In fact most leaders probably don&#8217;t think about it much, at least at first, because they&#8217;re too busy leading: rushing headlong towards a goal and leading everyone around them in that direction, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}