Management Bit and Tip 0×8
Day-to-day hands-on experience only is limiting (bit). Read books, articles and blogs to deepen your understanding and broaden your knowledge and then apply to your day-to-day work (tip).
Sounds obvious but so far I have seen that engineers and managers en masse don’t read or only read on per-problem or per-task basis. It is a known fact that in order to really understand our subject matter we need to read about other experiences as well, be it science, engineering or management. Even reading one book or article about a particular topic is not enough, it is better to read several of them to avoid biases and see different viewpoints. From my personal experience, I got much deeper understanding of C++ merely by reading the vast amount of books. Although I applied hands-on C++ knowledge to the variety of projects, the real life experience was very limiting even when I happened to write and maintain parts of C++ compiler. For management roles it is even more important to read because managers cannot afford to learn from day-to-day feedback only. It might be too costly. In the future I’ll put some links and reviews for management books I found worth reading.
- Dmitry Vostokov @ ManagementBits.com -
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