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Ask HN: What traits you need to be a team leader?
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#31. You have to have your people's back, this is the most important thing... be there for them 24/7, insulate them from problems and management stupidity and always fight for them.
2. lead by example, never ask them to do something you won't do yourself.
3. Communicate, I have booked on afternoon a week from 14:00pm till 16:00 and more to just talk with my team and discuss everything from work, to weather, sports, to bitch and moan against the company, etc...
4. Get together as much as you can on a real "team building exercise" - the whole team in another city for at least 2 days with a great party and lots of eating and drinking on company dime...
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#41. You have to have your people's back, this is the most important thing... be there for them 24/7, insulate them from problems and management stupidity and always fight for them. 2. lead by example, never ask them to do something you won't do yourself. 3. Communicate, I have booked on afternoon a week from 14:00pm till 16:00 and more to just talk with my team and discuss everything from work, to weather, sports, to…
Second this. There needs to be a clear benefit to following someone, and not just because he is a boss put there.
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#51. You have to have your people's back, this is the most important thing... be there for them 24/7, insulate them from problems and management stupidity and always fight for them. 2. lead by example, never ask them to do something you won't do yourself. 3. Communicate, I have booked on afternoon a week from 14:00pm till 16:00 and more to just talk with my team and discuss everything from work, to weather, sports, to…
> 4. Get together as much as you can on a real "team building exercise" - the whole team in another city for at least 2 days with a great party and lots of eating and drinking on company dime...
I deeply despise this trend.
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#6https://theamericanscholar.org/solitude-and-leadership/
Thank you. This is great.
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#71. You have to have your people's back, this is the most important thing... be there for them 24/7, insulate them from problems and management stupidity and always fight for them. 2. lead by example, never ask them to do something you won't do yourself. 3. Communicate, I have booked on afternoon a week from 14:00pm till 16:00 and more to just talk with my team and discuss everything from work, to weather, sports, to…
> 4. Get together as much as you can on a real "team building exercise" - the whole team in another city for at least 2 days with a great party and lots of eating and drinking on company dime... I deeply despise this trend.
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Re: Ask HN: What traits you need to be a team leader?
#8Camille Fournier's The Manager's Path: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920056843.do
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#91. Figure out the right thing to do. Be brutally honest to yourself as the biggest source of falsehood is what you want to believe.
2. Do the right thing.
3. Do it fast.
Great books on this: Ben Horowitz's "The Hard Thing About Hard Things", Andy Grove's "Only The Paranoid Survive", Jocko Wilink & Leif Babin's "Extreme Ownership".
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#101. You have to have your people's back, this is the most important thing... be there for them 24/7, insulate them from problems and management stupidity and always fight for them. 2. lead by example, never ask them to do something you won't do yourself. 3. Communicate, I have booked on afternoon a week from 14:00pm till 16:00 and more to just talk with my team and discuss everything from work, to weather, sports, to…
> 4. Get together as much as you can on a real "team building exercise" - the whole team in another city for at least 2 days with a great party and lots of eating and drinking on company dime... I deeply despise this trend.
I find that a lot of really bad leaders do this a lot for some reason. The best organizations are often targeting something epic, which builds camaraderie in itself.