General Managements
Meetings
Time Management
Time spent on task: https://insights.gostudent.org/en/the-pomodoro-technique#Is-the-Pomodoro-Technique-effective
Nerdsniping Randall explained in a speech at Google five days before this comic was released that he was nerd sniped, in a way, by that problem in this test (see problem 10 on page 2), and got quite irritated when he ultimately found that it was actually a modern physics research problem, requiring very advanced math, far more complicated than the other puzzles. Putting such a problem in an aptitude test can be a way of testing if someone might realize when they cannot solve a problem and remember to move along to the other problems. If they fail to do this, they will never reach the easier problems that come later, and will fail due to their inability to realize when they will come up short. This is also important knowledge to have about yourself. Seen in this context, it is not necessarily a bad idea to have such an impossible problem in an aptitude test, as it is disadvantageous to have someone who is easily nerd sniped working for you.
Moth to a flame: Watch for your own brain being attracted to things on its own and believing problems are solveable, or items are agents etc
Our brains love patterns, and problems, and finding them and solving them. We should not get stuck on unsolvable problems.
Expectation Management
- Getting Clear on Expectations at Work
- Reduce Workplace Stress by Setting Clear Expectations
- Expectations and Stress
Human management
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How Many Is Too Much? Exploring Costs of Coordination During Outages
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Healthy work environments slash costs of workplace injuries and illnesses
- Employees, A Problem to Control or Solution to Harness?
- How to Run 1:1s as an Engineering Manager