The evolution of my leadership ideas

My friend Desi wrote a Solitaire game for the Amiga 1000.

It was 15,041 lines of ANSI C… all in the main() function.

He didn’t create any other functions but had a crap-ton of GOTOs.

Turnover: “It’s not me, it’s you”

Programming Leadership

Episode 28

​Turnover is a huge problem in our industry. There are many reasons people choose to leave their jobs and in this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus dissects the…

Conflict: Uncomfortable, Yet Necessary with Jennifer Jones-Patulli

Programming Leadership

Episode 29

​Is conflict always a bad thing? In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Jennifer…

Seven quick rants

PRE-S: I’ve got some free time in my consulting schedule. If you want help thinking through a sticky problem, tackling a change, or finding new options to move forward — I’m your guy. Just hit REPLY and let’s make magic happen.

Give transparency in small doses

When you’re honest about your struggles, it will connect you with some people.

But it will surprise and confuse others.

To them, your honesty might be seen as a lack of confidence, lack of skills, or lack of motivation —…

My Mission

Episode 30

Have you ever wondered why am I doing this? In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus discusses his vision for the future and how we can work together to change it. Are you with me?

The mission

For the past five years, I’ve been working to help managers improve their work.

Yet, there’s one question I continually hear:” Why?”

After all, I’m one guy in rural Klamath Falls, Oregon. A town where the biggest parade is at the Potato Festival. (It’s…

Three parts to the mission

Last week a lot of you told me you were on board with the ideas about a future where all programmers had a great boss, on a safe team, in a productive environment.

This week I’ve been wordsmithing a vision and mission and wanted to share a working draft…