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Why We Carry Watermelons
The document discusses various leadership styles, emphasizing the importance of task-oriented leaders who may overestimate their accomplishments. It stresses that leadership should prioritize the development of people over task completion and highlights that writing code is fundamentally a social activity. The text concludes by acknowledging contributions from various authors and references relevant literature.
Why We Carry Watermelons
- 1. WHY WE CARRYWATERMELONS ?
- 2. GREEN OUTSIDE, REDINSIDE
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- 4. If the jobisn't highly technical, the leader need not be competent, but can lead by fear LESSONS FROM A TASK ORIENTED STYLE
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- 10. Task-oriented leaders tendto overestimate their own accomplishments. LESSONS FROM A TASK ORIENTED STYLE
- 11. When the workis complex, no leader can be absolutely sure that plans won't gang aft agley LESSONS FROM A TASK ORIENTED STYLE
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- 13. Very little workwe do is really so important that it justifies sacrificing the future possibilities of the people doing the work If you are a leader, the people are your work. There is no other work worth doing LESSONS FROM A TASK ORIENTED STYLE
- 14. Writing code isa social activity, you write code not for machines but for other people. Software == People LESSONS FROM A PEOPLE ORIENTED STYLE
- 15. TEAM Volleyball example: • youwill never hear “Tua” • you always will hear “Mia”
- 16. • GERALD M.WEINBERG BECOMING A TECHNICAL TEAM LEADER : AN ORGANIC PROBLEM-SOLVING APPROACH • BARRY O'REILLY WHY WE CARRY WATERMELONS? • BRUCE F. WEBSTER THE WETWARE CRISIS: THE THERMOCLINE OF TRUTH REFERENCES
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