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What kind of things did you do to self educate, given you lacked formal training or guidance?
by wjossey 9y ago
What kind of things did you do to self educate, given you lacked formal training or guidance?
- greenyoda 9y agoI read lots of books about management, I tried to emulate what managers who I thought were competent were doing, and I made lots of mistakes and tried to learn from them. There were some mistakes that I was never able to recover from, like being too friendly with the people who reported to me - that makes you really dread the prospect of having to lay someone off, makes it hard to give difficult feedback, etc. Eventually, after being a manager for several years, I decided to go back to being a developer, and now I'm much happier.