Comments on: Management for Geeks – Secret Ingredients

By: Development and Integrity Management by Eli Lopian » The 5 Critical Qualities of an Entrepreneur

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:19:52 +0000

[...] Integrity You must know by now that I am an integrity freak [...]

By: Eli Lopian

Eli Lopian — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:06:23 +0000

I am quiet strict about this. If the whole group has integrity and that employee is the bad apple and doesn’t deliver. The cost of not terminating that employee is greater, both for the employee who must be frustrated about not living up to his word and to you and the business that can’t get things done.

By: Annie

Annie — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:40:58 +0000

“But you have to be careful, when you become better at this, you will lose your tolerance for other peoples behavior.
I think that this is true, I don’t really have tolerance for people who say that they will do things and just disappear, I will have to be really careful about recognizing and handling these situations.
This is a good topic for another post.”

I’m reading this because I’m dealing with a key employee who has very low integrity, as you use the word. And you’re saying terminate them. That has real business costs.

Where do you draw the line?

By: Development and Integrity Management by Eli Lopian » Things they don’t tell you about management – part I

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:39:39 +0000

[...] But the developer was frustrated, and kept on complaining – complaining is really bad, its an energy killer, completely opposite to our Integrity management and our Agile/Lean company culture. [...]

By: Development and Integrity Management by Eli Lopian » Where is you CFO (Chief Fear Officer)

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:44:19 +0000

[...] I would have a manager of growth instead of a manager of fear. This manager should understand that we have to face our fears to grow, we have to leave our comfort zone. The manager of growth has a simple job description: Help management and other leave there comfort zone, using integrity to focus on controllable actions (and not on goals). [...]

By: Development and Integrity Management by Eli Lopian » Pushing and pulling

Development and Integrity Management by Eli Lopian » Pushing and pulling — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:36:09 +0000

[...] Now that the company is in integrity it is easier to fail fast and to fix our broken processes. As Johanna Rothman says Graceful Degradation is Not What We Want; Quick Failure is Better [...]

By: Development and Integrity Management by Eli Lopian » Does you code have integrity?

Thu, 07 May 2009 08:38:32 +0000

[...] I have been talking about integrity management, but the word integrity actually comes from the technical condition of being whole. That is why in star trak we hear that the Enterprise’s hull integrity is failing. The ship is not complete. When a car leaves the manufacturing company, it gets stamped 100% integrity, meaning that it is complete. [...]

By: Development and Integrity Management by Eli Lopian » Matrix Communication not Matrix Management

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:09:24 +0000

[...] Here is how it can work with integrity management: [...]

By: Eli Lopian

Eli Lopian — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:00:11 +0000

John, you are probrably correct.

By: John

John — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:32:10 +0000

As I read this, Integrity is not just something that you HAVE.

It is a place that you are IN.