Hacker News with Generative AI: Management

Brainwash an Executive Today (mataroa.blog)
A few years ago, I had an annual one-on-one with the Chief Technology Officer of an employer with more than ten thousand staff.
Management, Leadership, Humor, Technology
40 points by Tomte 4 days ago | 2 comments
Valve Handbook for New Employees (2012) [pdf] (akamaihd.net)
Valve, Gaming, Business, Management, Human Resources
4 points by Rygian 5 days ago | 0 comments
Cascading OKRs: We can do Better (jessitron.com)
OKRs (Objectives & Key Results) are a framework for validating alignment through the organization. As a company, as a department, as a team: what are we focused on this quarter? What are we trying to make true?
Business, Management, OKRs
32 points by zdw 5 days ago | 10 comments
Bottleneck Dirty Webs (staysaasy.com)
Delegation, specialization, and federation are critical to scaling companies. But scaling doesn’t mean stepping back from everything. Especially for unsavory, cross-functional, time intensive tasks, leaders should position themselves as bottlenecks - owners that feel pressure when the work grows too much, forcing them to find ways to push back on the growth in time and effort.
Management, Scaling, Leadership, Startups
4 points by Garbage 6 days ago | 0 comments
Ask HN: How to approach first days on a new job as a senior PM? (ycombinator.com)
Inspired by this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42656184<p>I'm starting a new job in a few days as a senior PM at a ~1000 person company, but I've never been a PM before. My career path has been: PhD -> Engineer -> Founder.
Management, Career Advice, Startups, Software Development
61 points by LifeIsBio 7 days ago | 48 comments
Ask HN: How to approach first days on a new job as a senior engineer? (ycombinator.com)
I'm switching companies, onboarding a team in a senior position. I would like to approach my entrance in a more deliberate manner than I did on the past.
Software Engineering, Career Advice, Onboarding, Management
115 points by rolothrow 8 days ago | 64 comments
Ask HN: Who is accountable for cloud costs in your org? (ycombinator.com)
Ask HN: Who is accountable for cloud costs in your org?
Cloud Computing, Finance, Management, Business
9 points by devashish86 9 days ago | 19 comments
Why are corporations cutting managers? (arnoldkling.substack.com)
Business, Management, Economy
78 points by mooreds 12 days ago | 58 comments
Conscious unbossing (robertwalters.co.uk)
Over half of Gen-Z professionals don’t want to take on a middle management role in their career.
Management, Generation Z, Career
113 points by gpi 14 days ago | 121 comments
The Art and Science of Mess Management (1981) [pdf] (systemswisdom.com)
Art, Science, Organization, Management, PDFs
61 points by yamrzou 15 days ago | 8 comments
The Peter Principle still resonates (cbc.ca)
Published in 1969, The Peter Principle skewered corporate culture decades before Dilbert and The Office became pop culture hits. While it was written as satire, researchers have looked into the treatise to see what can be done to prevent workers from rising to their level of incompetence.
Business, Culture, Management, Satire, Psychology
81 points by empressplay 16 days ago | 75 comments
Ask HN: Moving from an IC Role to Vice President at a young age, any advice? (ycombinator.com)
Long story short, I currently work at a big tech firm (synonymous with a rainforest) on a fast growing cloud product as a solutions architect.
Career Advice, Management, Tech Industry, Leadership
5 points by sfredd 16 days ago | 12 comments
McKinsey, technocratic management, and structural inequality (theatlantic.com)
Technocratic management, no matter how brilliant, cannot unwind structural inequalities.
Management, Inequality, Business, Social Issues
40 points by lifeisstillgood 20 days ago | 13 comments
Complain and Propose (2014) (tidyfirst.substack.com)
"Jean-Louis wants to see you in his office." My boss Eagle Burns' bald head disappeared from the door to my office. Something about his tone suggested that righteous indignation, which I had been nursing for several days, was not the right attitude to pack for my trip. I started getting scared.
Work Culture, Short Stories, Management
90 points by zdw 21 days ago | 31 comments
Time for a code-yellow?: A blunt instrument that works (nilam.ca)
I promised myself never again. Never again would I call a code-yellow. Code-yellows suck, drain team morale, and they leave a lingering distaste amongst all those involved. Yet, during my 8-years at Instacart, they were our most effective and consistent weapon in ensuring we made meaningful progress on our hairiest problems.
Management, Code Reviews, Team Dynamics, Software Development
64 points by BerislavLopac 33 days ago | 114 comments
Parkinson's Law: It’s real, so use it (theengineeringmanager.substack.com)
Parkinson's Law states that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion."
Productivity, Time Management, Management
255 points by thunderbong 37 days ago | 171 comments
The slow death of the hands-on engineering manager (zaidesanton.substack.com)
95% of engineering managers wish to write more code, but feel they just can’t. Today I’m going to share 2 ideas you can implement with only a few hours a week, that will be a huge help for your dev team.
Software Engineering, Management, Productivity, Work-Life Balance
100 points by Liriel 39 days ago | 63 comments
How Networks of Competence Are Crushing Hierarchies of Authority (forbes.com)
Around 2016, Amazon created a team to build an app for all its drivers that would integrate all of the information about delivery schedules, weather, traffic, routes, and the eventual delivery sites.
Management, Business, Technology, Leadership, Networks
20 points by RyeCombinator 39 days ago | 5 comments
Mistakes as a new manager (terriblesoftware.org)
Moving from an Individual Contributor (IC) to a manager is a significant career step. This is especially true in the ever-evolving tech industry. This change brings new challenges and opportunities to learn.
Management, Career Development, Tech Industry
347 points by Sharpie4679 42 days ago | 148 comments
Ask HN: How to pitch an idea without the risk of idea theft (ycombinator.com)
The conversation might go like this: - (the idea) manager: we have/had a project with 80% overlap, this is nothing new.<p>The manager goes ahead and add it to the backlog and no credit is given. Easy peasy.<p>(the second part may not happen publicly or immediately, rather, the project would seem to be dismissed or postponed)
Startups, Intellectual Property, Idea Generation, Management
26 points by wseqyrku 49 days ago | 9 comments
CEO fired 90% of staff for missing a morning meeting. He stands by the choice (yahoo.com)
Rage quitting is one thing. But one CEO has introduced a new spin on the concept: rage firing.
Business, Leadership, Employment, Management
18 points by theogravity 52 days ago | 25 comments
How to give a senior leader feedback without getting fired (weskao.com)
How can you help a senior leader see they’re making life harder for themselves and their team?
Management, Leadership, Feedback, Workplace Dynamics
407 points by RobinHirst11 55 days ago | 327 comments
The Composition Problem: Why Great Hires Can Make Bad Teams (mechanismdesign.org)
Hiring great people is hard. But even harder -- and far less understood -- is the art of great team composition.
Team Building, Hiring, Management
21 points by paulwarren 57 days ago | 2 comments
Generative AI Is Still Just a Prediction Machine (hbr.org)
Artificial intelligence tools can now write, code, draw, summarize, and brainstorm. The proliferation of generative AI tools poses serious questions for managers, such as: What tasks can be done by AI, what will humans still need to do, and what are the sustainable sources of competitive advantage as AI continues to improve? To understand the strategic implications of these new capabilities, managers need a framework for when AI will be helpful and when it might fail.
Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Business, Management, Strategy
3 points by naves 58 days ago | 0 comments
Managing High Performers (substack.com)
A guide to scaling product & engineering teams from $0 to past $100M ARR
Management, Product Development, Engineering, Startups, Growth
55 points by thisismytest 61 days ago | 103 comments
Ask HN: Do you feel burnout from being less hands on as you become more senior? (ycombinator.com)
I work in a 50-60 person SaaS company and I'm taking on a head of engineering role. At this level, my whole day is spent writing out plans and proposals, responding to communications, checking on projects, connecting resources, etc. On rare occasions, if I have time, I might actually build something small.
Burnout, Career Development, Management, Software Engineering, SaaS
77 points by throwaway2478 67 days ago | 42 comments
A counter-intuitive guide to better leadership (sudarkoff.com)
Intuition is a skittish animal. Like a forest creature, it works best from the shadows—the more directly you try to observe and analyze it, the more elusive it becomes.
Leadership, Management, Intuition, Psychology
111 points by mooreds 71 days ago | 52 comments
How to delegate effectively as your responsibility grows (hitsubscribe.com)
I’m gearing up, like some kind of power washer, to spray new productized services into our operations group so they can SOP those services at scale.  And because I’m doing that, this seemed like a good moment to draw on my experience, both in leadership roles and as a management consultant, and lay out a blueprint for internal delegation.
Management, Leadership, Delegation, Operations
187 points by galfarragem 72 days ago | 52 comments
How to become a more effective engineer (pragmaticengineer.com)
Hi – this is Gergely with the monthly, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer. In every issue, I cover challenges at Big Tech and startups through the lens of engineering managers and senior engineers. To get weekly emails like this in your inbox, subscribe here:
Software Engineering, Career Development, Management
28 points by rbanffy 73 days ago | 6 comments
What layoffs teach us about technical leadership (chelseatroy.com)
In March I published a piece called How do we evaluate people for their technical leadership? It demonstrates (I hope) why production line metrics shouldn’t be copied and pasted onto knowledge work. Then, in a cunning move I ripped from email marketers, I reach the titular question at the very end of the piece and promise to come back to it.1 For several months, I don’t.
Technical Leadership, Layoffs, Management, Knowledge Work
3 points by dillonshook 75 days ago | 0 comments