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Title: Leading Geeks: How to Manage and Lead the People Who Deliver Technology by Paul Glen, David H. Maister, Warren G. Bennis ISBN: 0-7879-6148-5 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (10 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Still a general leadership book!
Comment: I had great expectation toward this book when I bought it, but was greatly disappointed after reading. All the insights in this book could be found in many leadership books written for general management. I didn't see any real beef needed to manage those so called "geeks". Every company has both ordinary people and geeks, and this is where the real problem comes. A complex environment makes theory hard to apply.
Rating: 4
Summary: Useful tips on leading, poor sections on management
Comment: There's excellent advice and concrete suggestions for a lot of the important things about leadership, particularly for those at the top of the hierarchy. Everything from the concrete pieces such of the work environment like the office space to the fuzzy pieces like the vision, mission, and keeping the team working well together are dead-on.
The management sections (chapters 10 and 11) delve deeper into management and organizational practices but aren't effective. IT describes methodologies at a high level ("waterfall" is usually bad, "RAD" is usually good), but goes into enough detail that you start to get lost in the descriptions of them and miss out on what is trying to be conveyed about what makes a good or bad methodology for a team. A similar thing happens when "project roles" are mentioned. There's also a pretty nasty technical error -- it describes the Microsoft Solutions Framework, then states that it's used internally at Microsoft. If so, I've never seen it, and it's not identical to our best practices.
Still, don't let that get you down. The first nine chapters make this well worth reading.
Rating: 5
Summary: Right on!
Comment: I bought this for my brother-in-law who considers himself a computer geek. He said the book described him perfectly and thought it would be helpful for anyone having to lead this type of person. I thought he'd enjoy it because his job requires he have technical expertise as well as managerial skills. NPR's positive review of the book gave me the idea of buying it for him.
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Title: First Among Equals: How to Manage a Group of Professionals by Patrick J. McKenna, David H. Maister ISBN: 0743225511 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 09 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick M. Lencioni ISBN: 0787960756 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 19 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Manage I.T.: A Step by Step Guide to Help New and Aspiring IT Managers Make the Right Career Choices and Gain the Skills Necessary by Joe Santana, Jim Donovan ISBN: 0965053490 Publisher: Lahaska Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Geeks and Geezers by Warren G. Bennis, Robert J. Thomas ISBN: 1578515823 Publisher: Harvard Business School Press Pub. Date: 08 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Peopleware : Productive Projects and Teams, 2nd Ed. by Tom Demarco, Timothy Lister, Timothy R. Lister ISBN: 0932633439 Publisher: Dorset House Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $33.95 |
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