The Geek Leader's Handbook by Maria Mcmanus

The Geek Leader's Handbook by Maria Mcmanus

Mastering the Art of Technical Leadership As a dedicated leader, you've probably read everything you could on leadership. Many books have been written about it. But you're a technical leader, so it's guaranteed that much of what you've read is incomplete at best, and quite possibly inappropriate. Sure, you can learn a lot by studying ancient generals, sales gurus, or even Steve Jobs, but you've got to remember that Attila the Hun never deployed SAP. The Geek Leader's Handbook recognizes and respects the unique challenges that geek leaders face. It provides both practical advice and a framework rooted in the understanding that:

• Geeks are different.
• Geeks would rather lead technology than people, but only people can be led.
• Geeks have a hard time working with non-geeks, but those who learn to do it well become great geek leaders.

The Geek Leader's Handbook gives you practical, immediately applicable advice tailored to the day-to-day challenges of technical leadership. You don't need yet another laundry list of things you should do. To really grow as a leader, you need a solid framework to understand why these approaches make sense and to empower you to adapt them to your environment. The book also takes an unflinching look at what makes geeks different from other folk. To uncover those differences, co-authors Paul Glen and Maria McManus, collaborated as geek and non-geek. By synthesizing both perspectives, they reveal surprising and liberating insights that will help geeks become great leaders.

Paul Glen has devoted his career to clarifying the murky world of human emotion for people who gravitate toward concrete thinking. His book, Leading Geeks: How to Manage and Lead People Who Deliver Technology won several awards, including being named by the Financial Times Germany as the year's best book on leadership published worldwide. And for nearly a decade his management columns for Computerworld have been translated and syndicated around the world.

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ISBN 13	9780971246829
ISBN 10	0971246823
Title	The Geek Leader's Handbook
Author	Maria Mcmanus
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Leading Geeks Press
Year published	2014-04-21
Number of pages	366
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