My favorite must-read books to become a better leader

I have been in a variety of technical leadership positions over the past decade before transitioning into people management in 2019. During my journey I’ve attended numerous formal leadership trainings, read dozens of books, and frequently studied online resources (The Enterprisers Project and Harvard Business Review are my favorites by the way). There is so […]

Correct Estimates? A personal perspective

Motivation A while ago I paused an exchange on twitter. I have been in a strong disagreement with what was stated from Alex. To avoid being bullish on a short reply, it took some time to reply in due respect and also purposefully.  Nevertheless, I need to agree to some extend: There might be cases […]

Five tips for successfully dealing with challenging periods in your career

In my article “Five lessons learned on leadership in an Open Organization” I described my personal journey of moving into my first people management role at Red Hat. I also shared some of my best practices around leadership and approaches towards making a team successful in an Open Organization. Back then, I could not believe […]

Five lessons learned on leadership in an Open Organization

I have been working in the IT business for over 16 years now and during that time I had the pleasure getting to know rather different companies. In the beginning I was part of a small 12 employee internet agency named Kingmedia, just before jumping into the enterprise world with IBM (which had about 300.000 […]