Task-doing vs. Responsibility Taking - A Subtle Distinction
The Subtle Distinction Between Task-doing and Responsibility Taking
I have been reading a book on parenthood recently (yes, tech guys also read such books :-)) and there has been a discussion about responsibility. Even when fathers devote their time to spending time with children and doing some tasks related to children and family, they may still not take responsibility for it. So you can take your children to the doctor when they are sick, bring them to school or kindergarten every day, go with them to a playground… and still not take responsibility.
Read MoreTechnical Leader Worries: I Have Too Many Things to Do
Technical Leader Worries: I Have Too Many Things to Do
Those wonderful days when the only thing you did was writing code are gone. Now you are a leader. You are doing everything: attending or conducting meetings, removing impediments, mediating between team members and the rest of the organization, reading or writing some kind of reports (and you deceive yourself that spending two hours in Excel counts as programming because of some smartly used formulas) and so on. You are in a hurry all the time, and it never ends.
Read MoreThe Key to Time Management
There are several topics that constantly come to my mind and, with each new discovery, I reach a new level of understanding. One such topic is “time management.”
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