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1 " As much as we might adore everyone on our team and want to keep them together, having a strong team means that sometimes people’s best path for success lies outside of it. It’s our job as managers to help them toward it. It’s a sign of success when people from our teams go to other teams and take on more responsibility there. "
― Camille Fournier , 97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts
2 " Within 30 days of a new person joining my team, we take at least an hour to go through a document that contains the questions we look at here in a moment, helping me understand what makes them tick and setting expectations about their growth path over the next year. "
3 " Grandma’s Ham Albert Einstein summed it up pretty well when he said, “The important thing is not to stop questioning.” Jane asked her mother, “Why do you cut the ends off the ham before baking it?” Her mother answered, “Because that’s how your grandma taught me to do it. Ask Grandma.” When Jane asked her Grandma, she replied, “My roasting pan was small, so I had to cut the ends off the ham to fit it in the pan. "
4 " They see specialization as the opportunity to work on the most difficult and most impactful technical problems. (By contrast, a dedicated generalist is probably more motivated by working on the hardest business problems.) "
