An ~idiot's~ engineer's guide to managing humans

[robotdan]

An idiot's engineer's guide to managing humans

Managing people is way harder than it looks.

Some of us will reach senior technical positions such as VP or Engineering or CTO w/ out any experience managing humans.

I would be interested to receive advice on making this transition, growing this skillset and understanding how others have added this skillset without failing miserably in the process.

Particular topics or ideas:

• Managing expectations across a spectrum of experiences and skillsets
• Setting realistic expectations based upon an employees capability
• Thoughts on Price's Law in a small company and hiring the first 10 engineers.

  The square root of the number of people in a domain do 50% of the work.