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Understand how you should manage software engineers in vital and stressful roles

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Part I.- 1: Don't Be A Prick.- 2: Managers Are Evil.- 3: Stables and Volatiles.- 4: The Rands Test.- 5: How to Run a Meeting.- 6: The Twinge.- 7: The Update, the Vent, and the Disaster.- 8: Lost in Translation.- 9: Agenda Detection.- 10: Management via Worry and Crisis.- 11: Dissecting the Mandate.- 12: Information Starvation.- 13: Subtlety, Subterfuge, and Silence.- 14: Your Mid-Year Leadership Check-in.- 15: Managementese.- 16: You're Not Listening.- 17: The Hotel Giraffe.- 18: Fred Hates the Off-Site.- 19: A Different Kind of DNA.- 20: An Engineering Mindset.- 21: Tear It Down.- 22: Titles Are Toxic.- 23: Saying No.- Part II.- 24: 1.0.- 25: The Process Myth.- 26: How to Start.- 27: Taking Time to Think.- 28: Meetings are Not For You.- 29: The Value of the Soak.- 30: Capturing Context.- 31: Trickle Theory.- 32: When the Sky Falls.- 33: Hacking is Important.- 34: WFH.- 35: Entropy Crushers.- 36: Your Culture is Rotting.- 37: The Metronome.- Part III.- 38: Bored People Quit.- 39: Bellwethers.- 40: The Ninety-Day Interview.- 41: Managing Nerds.- 42: Incrementalists and Completionists.- 43: NADD.- 44: A Nerd in a Cave.- 45: Meeting Creatures.- 46: Organics and Mechanics.- 47: Inwards, Outwards, and Holistics.- 48: The Wolf.- 49: Free Electrons.- 50: The Old Guard.- 51: Rules for the Reorg.- 52: An Unexpected Connection.- 53: You are Going on a Quest.- 54: A Glimpse and a Hook.- 55: Nailing the Phone Screen.- 56: Your Resignation Checklist.- 57: Shields Down.- 58: Chaotic, Beautiful Snowflakes.- 59: Epilogue: Fear is a Liar.- Glossary.