For my lightning talk at Cambridge Agile Exchange last night I tried to persuade the audience that, even in today's agile world of self-organising teams and coaches, value can still be found in the traditional management literature.
I talked about three books which unashamedly acknowledge that everything revolves around people:
- Managing Humans by Michael Lopp
- Behind Closed Doors by Johanna Rothman and Esther Derby
- Managing Yourself and Others by Gerald M. Weinberg
That's right.
Everything. People.
Literally. Everything. Is. People.
In ten minutes I couldn't do more than pull out a handful of key messages and these are the ones I chose:
- Do be congruent.
- Do be open.
- Don't be a prick.
They seemed to like it. Particularly the last one. Here's the slides:
I also wrote notes on the other talks.
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