Bringing Your Whole Self to Work
Wow, This Is So Much More Tiring than Programming…
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Those who manage others: have you ever had one of those days where you feel like work has completely sapped you of all of your emotional energy? Don’t worry, it’s not just you.
Being a manager exposes you to a rich spectrum of challenges at work. Of course, you still have the technical matters that come along with working at a technology company, and those are difficult enough at the best of times. Yet now you have to care personally about the well-being of those on your team. When times are good and your team is performing well and enjoying their work, it’s hard to imagine your role being more fulfilling. When times are bad, however, well… they’re really bad.
So let’s paint a picture of the bad times. In addition to being accountable for the delivery of a large, complex project that is overrunning, you know that Bob is really unhappy because he didn’t get a good pay rise in his end-of-year review. However, increases were totally out of your hands this time around — the…
