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Best TED Talks for Engineering Managers and Leaders

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As an engineering manager, there is a lot to learn and master from leadership to coaching. TED Talks are a great resource for learning.

Here I’ve curated the top 12 TED talks for engineering managers and leaders. Most of the descriptions are taken from the videos. All links are to YouTube.

Top 5 Most Referenced and Watched videos useful for Engineering Leaders
“The puzzle of motivation” by Dan Pink
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Published on Aug 25,

Best Podcasts for Engineering Managers and Leaders

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“A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

As an engineering manager, there is a lot to learn and master from people management to planning and execution. Podcasts are a great resource for learning. You can listen to them on the go, on the commute, etc. Have you discovered the power of podcasts yet?

Upcoming Conferences and Events for Engineering Managers

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Calibrate 2018
September 21, 2018 – San Francisco

https://www.calibratesf.com/

Calibrate is a conference for new engineering managers hosted by seasoned engineering managers. Founded in 2015, Calibrate is now in its fourth year, having run three events in September 2015, 2016 and 2017.

REdeploy
Aug 16 & 17, 2018 – San Francisco

https://re-deploy.io/

REdeploy: a conference exploring the concept of Resilience Engineering, also known as RE,

Upcoming Events for Engineering Managers in the SF Bay Area

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Elevate, July 13th

ELEVATE is a day-long event for engineering leaders who are looking to learn about how to overcome the most pressing challenges of engineering management.

Taking over New Engineering Teams/Orgs, July 18th

Latest meetup from San Francisco Engineering Leadership Community (SFELC).

https://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Engineering-Leadership-Community/events/252236436/

Code Climate Summit, July 18th

Code Climate Summit is a one-day conference for leaders of engineering organizations who want to better themselves,

Popular Interview Questions for Engineering Managers

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I recently completed a loop of interviews for a software engineering manager position. Below is a collection of 50+ mostly behavioral questions I was asked by panels at a variety of companies in the SF Bay Area. No one asked all these. I didn’t write notes in the interviews so these are taken from memory.

I was also asked a variety of technical questions in my field e.g. most often system design but also sometimes algorithms,

Leadership Lessons from the United States Navy Applicable to Engineering Leadership

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PHILIPPINE SEA (April 12, 2018) The guided-missile destroyer USS Dewey (DDG 105) receives fuel from the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1) during a fueling-at-sea (FAS). (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Taylor King/Released)

I am interested in military leadership and the stories of military leaders. I served in the US Navy for several years and met some amazing leaders there.

Is being a military leader the same as a civilian engineering leader?

I asked 21 engineering leaders to recommend just 1 book to managers and here is what they said…

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Amazon.com returns over 1,000,000 results for “management books.” Which are the best ones? Here are the books that that first 21 engineering leaders on managersclub.com recommended in answer to the question, “If you could recommend one book to engineering managers, what would it be and why?”

Before we get to the complete list, the following four books were recommended by more than 1 guest.

  1. “High Output Management”

Newsletters and Email Lists for Engineering Managers

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List of Newsletters and Email Lists focussed on engineering management.

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