My Management Philosophy
Leadership Approach
I believe in servant leadership - my role is to remove obstacles, provide context, and enable the team to collaborate and grow. I work hard to hire well,
and then I trust the the team to do their best work.
When the team succeeeds I will make sure this is visible to our leadership. The team gets credit for our victories and I accept responsibility for my failures.
I will be as transparent with the team as I am able to be.
I'm committed to actively supporting your success; When you need help, I will do my best to support you without micromanaging.
I will thank you for the work you do, and apoligize when I mess up.
Core Principle:
- We can deliver excellent service and products without taking ourselves too seriously. It's okay to find joy and humor in our work.
- I work to build systems & traditions to support the team.
- The agile process lets us run experiments to improve those systems.
- Feedback is essential to this process, so please proactively share your thoughts and ideas.
My Requests
What I Value
- Respect: Everyone we work with deserves your respect at all times
- Collaboration: Everyone delivers better work with feedback from a diverse group of peers
- Transparency: Open communication about challenges, concerns, and ideas is important in all directions
- Ownership: Take responsibility for your work and its impact
- Mentorship: As you learn and grow, lift your peers up with you
- Quality: Write maintainable, tested, and well-documented code
- Simplicity over "cleverness": Deliver work that is easy to understand and evolve over time
Feedback
I'm genuinely interested in improving myself as a leader and human. I can only do this with the perspective of everyone on the team.
It can be uncomfortable to give constructive feedback to a leader, but I promise I will consider your feedback thoughtfully and with an open mind,
especially when my initial reaction is to disagree.
New Employee Guide
First Weeks
- System Setup: We've done our best to make this as simple as we can within the broader organization, and ask that you help us make it even simpler by calling out issues you encounter along the way
- 30/60/90 Day Plan: You and I will be working together to plan out these goals based on the teams current needs and your need to connect & deliver
- Growth Plan: We will meet and I will ask detailed questionsso that I can understand how you want to grow professionally. We will revisit this regularly.
Working
- Life/Work Balance Work is an important part, but only a part of what I hope is your rich and fulfilling life.
I trust you as a professional to undersand the current work & demands on the team; you have complete freedom to manage your time and priorities.
Just keep the team informed.
Feedback
I'm only one person with a limited view into your performance.
If I have concerns, I will discuss them with you with a sense of curiosity and exploration before reaching conclusions.
I have built systems to ensure that I recieve comprehensive feedback from your peers before formal evaluations,
and will expect your active participation in providing feedback for your peers in return.