How to manage intellectuals. I, Nerda and Giki

Dedicated to the project managers (and those who want to become the boss) Writing tons of code is difficult, and managing people is even more difficult! So you just need this book to learn how to do both. Is it possible to combine funny stories and serious lessons? Michael Loppu (also known in narrow circles as Rands) succeeded. You will find invented stories about invented people with incredibly useful (albeit invented) experience. That is how Rands shares its diverse, sometimes strange experience gained over the years of work in large IT corporations: Apple, Pinterest, Palantir, Netscape, Symantec, etc. Are you a project manager? Or do you want to understand what your damn boss does all day? Rands will teach you how to survive in the toxic world of inflated turkeys and flourish among the general madness of dysfunctionally bright people. In this strange community of manic wise men there are even more strange creatures - managers who, through a mystical organizational ritual, have received power over plans, thoughts and bank accounts of many people. This book is not like any manuscript on management or leadership. Michael Lopp does not hide anything, he just tells everything as it is (perhaps not all stories should be publicized) But the only way you will understand how you will survive with such a boss as leading with geeks and nerds and how to bring to the Happy End “that fucking project”! “This is a management book full of insights, ideas and opinions about how people should lead. All information given here is based on my personal experience of interaction with real people (with whom I still communicate) I would really like to say that my leadership experience has always been positive, but this is not so. Several times I really torn the roof, and with witnesses. And it was these witnesses that helped me to pull myself together and thereby gave the material for another page of this book. ” Michael Lop “I am very grateful to Steve Jobs, who did not fire me when he had such an opportunity.” Michael Lop