- Own Your Tech Career
- Copyright
- contents
- front matter
- Introduction
- 1 Own your career
- 2 Build and maintain your brand
- 3 Network
- 4 Be part of a technology community
- 5 Keep your tech skills fresh and relevant
- 6 Show up as a professional
- 7 Manage your time
- 8 Handle remote work
- 9 Be a team player
- 10 Be a team leader
- 10.1 The decision to lead
- 10.2 Leadership vs. management
- 10.3 The leader’s path
- 10.4 Getting into their context
- 10.5 Leading positively
- 10.6 Mistakes leaders make
- 10.7 Leadership beyond leading
- 10.8 Before moving into leadership
- 10.8.1 Don’t get promoted to your level of incompetence
- 10.8.2 Learn leadership
- 10.8.3 Measure your own success
- 10.9 Further reading
- 10.10 Action items
- 11 Solve problems
- 12 Conquer written communications
- 12.1 Communicating is telling a story
- 12.1.1 The rules of storytelling
- 12.1.2 Applying storytelling to business communication
- 12.1.3 What about mundane, everyday communication?
- 12.2 Facing our fear of communicating
- 12.2.1 Analyze the causes of your fear
- 12.2.2 Address the causes of your fear
- 12.2.3 Conquer fear in written communications
- 12.3 Applying structure to your storytelling
- 12.4 Practice, practice, practice
- 12.5 Common written defeaters
- 12.5.1 Avoid passive voice
- 12.5.2 Prune that flowery garden
- 12.6 Action items
- 13 Conquer verbal communications
- 14 Resolve conflicts
- 15 Be a data-driven, critical thinker
- 16 Understand how businesses work
- 16.1 Businesses are people too
- 16.1.1 Businesses and their relationships
- 16.1.2 Customers and employees
- 16.1.3 One-sided relationships
- 16.1.4 Dealing with changes in the relationship
- 16.2 How businesses really make money
- 16.3 What does your business sell?
- 16.3.1 Example 1: Terri’s International Bulbs
- 16.3.2 Example 2: Martin’s Theme Parks
- 16.3.3 Example 3: Pat’s Fruity Clothing
- 16.3.4 Know the details of the business
- 16.4 Understanding risk and reward
- 16.5 Further reading
- 16.6 Action items
- 17 Be a better decision-maker
- 17.1 Deciding who decides: Decision-making frameworks
- 17.2 Deciding what to do: OKRs, rocks, and pebbles
- 17.2.1 Rocks and pebbles
- 17.2.2 OKRs
- 17.2.3 Priorities, priorities
- 17.3 Deciding what to drop: Opportunity cost
- 17.4 Deciding what’s enough: Good, better, best
- 17.5 Deciding what to believe: Being data-driven
- 17.6 Deciding together: How to negotiate
- 17.7 Further reading
- 17.8 Action items
- 18 Help others
- 18.1 Why help?
- 18.2 Yes, you can
- 18.2.1 The toxic relationships that keep us from teaching
- 18.2.2 You are definitely worthy of teaching
- 18.3 How humans learn
- 18.4 The value of repetition
- 18.5 Getting in and doing it
- 18.6 Why analogies work . . . and how they can fail
- 18.7 Do it like Socrates
- 18.8 The importance of sequencing
- 18.9 Rest time is crucial
- 18.10 Further reading
- 18.11 Action items
- 19 Be prepared for anything
- 20 Business math and terminology for technologists
- 21 Tools for the modern job hunt
- 21.1 Job hunt tasks to do now
- 21.2 Review your brand
- 21.2.1 Your professional brand and the job hunt
- 21.2.2 Reviewing your public footprint
- 21.2.3 How would others describe your brand?
- 21.3 Update your résumé
- 21.3.1 Résumé rules
- 21.3.2 Starting your résumé
- 21.3.3 Every résumé is unique
- 21.3.4 Analyze the job posting
- 21.3.5 Writing your résumé
- 21.3.6 Formatting your résumé
- 21.3.7 Should you hire a résumé writer?
- 21.4 Nailing the interview
- 21.5 Understanding compensation packages
- 21.5.1 Compensation package elements
- 21.5.2 Negotiating your compensation package
- 21.6 Further reading
- 21.7 Action items
- index
