Development and Integrity Management by Eli Lopian

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Debugging Communication Errors

I couldn’t sleep all night, thinking that on the last company meeting, when one of my employees complained that he can’t finish his tasks because of personal issues that he has with other employees,  I basically told him and the rest of the team to help each other and be a team, I […]

10 February 2010 | .NET Tests, Debugging, Community, Management for Geeks, Time Management, Unit Tests | 2 Comments

Deciding without enough information

One of my biggest problems as a manager, is that I love information. Give me loads and loads of data and I am a happy man. This means that it is very hard for me to decide. I always look for more information.
I found out about this after reading The five temptations of a CEO, […]

18 March 2009 | Management for Geeks, Time Management | 2 Comments

Time Management – Getting the Metrics

A good CEO should focus primarily on those things that move the company forward

I talked about time management and knowing where to spend your time. A few Typemockers have tried this and ran into a few issues.
Question: How do you get the metrics while using the Daily Goal Tracker.

The daily goal tracker has 7 […]

15 March 2009 | Management for Geeks, Time Management | No Comments

Perfectionism is Fatal

During a discussion in the company someone bought up Perfectionism. I like this definition: Perfectionism may be the ultimate self-defeating behavior.
It is our job as a manager to create excellence in our team, but this might lead to perfectionism. Lets see the difference between the two.

Perfectionism
Excellence

Can not make a mistake
Must Do

 
Must Make mistakes

 
Must Fix […]

11 March 2009 | Management for Geeks, Time Management | 2 Comments

Management for Geeks: Know where you spend your time

In a previous post I talked about managing myself which I believe must be done before you manage others, if only for the sake of leadership
One of the task that I put on my weekly goals, was to find out where I was spending my time. So I wrote next to each […]

24 February 2009 | Management for Geeks, Time Management | No Comments

Management for Geeks: Managing myself

Typemock has been growing steadily since the company started and our customer base is growing.
At one point I found myself overwhelmed with the amount of tasks that I have to do. I have done some Time Management courses in the past so I searched the bookshelf for the old training books, I dusted them and […]

23 February 2009 | Management for Geeks, Time Management | 4 Comments