Ask HN: Going from Developer to Manager. What should I know or learn?

Re:Ask HN: Going from Developer to Manager. What should I kn... by aerophilic on Friday January 04, 2019 @09:27PM (#18829504)

There is a quote I once heard “Good teams are usually great for the same reasons, bad teams are almost always bad for different reasons”. This is the much the same for people. Generally speaking, the best people you have worked with are very similar in terms of what they provided that made you really happy to be with them. Example “good” traits:

- honestly - dependability - integrity - intelligence - humility - excellence - generosity - proactivity

Toxicity happens when people exhibit the opposite of any of those. A favorite example is folks who constantly bad mouth other people on the team. Well, if you work with that person, you just know they are complaining about you behind your back as well.

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Re:Ask HN: Going from Developer to Manager. What should I kn... by MichaelMoser123 on Saturday January 05, 2019 @12:02AM (#18830006)

I think that quote comes from Tolstoy when he was writing about families in Anna Karenina. " All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way"

I am not sure he was right here, different people may have different ideas of happiness.

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