A New Book on my Boss’ Desk

10 Responses to “A New Book on my Boss’ Desk”

1. Andrew Smith Says:
   January 23rd, 2008 at 6:57 pm

   You’re in trouble now!

2. Stewart Greenhill Says:
   January 23rd, 2008 at 6:57 pm

   LOL! Those crazy way­ward geeks… Why does the title sug­gest “herd­ing cats”?

3. Nick Hodge Says:
   January 23rd, 2008 at 6:58 pm

   boss is cool. just wait­ing for the com­ments

4. Nick Hodge Says:
   January 23rd, 2008 at 7:01 pm

   @Stewart

   Herd­ing cats pred­ates LOLCATs

   … http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herding_cats_%28phrase%29

5. Stewart Greenhill Says:
   January 23rd, 2008 at 7:09 pm

   @Nick

   I guess you noticed the ref­er­ence to “pro­gram­mers” and “engin­eers” in the wiki­pe­dia entry. Looks like we’ve got a bad rep…

6. Stephen Collins Says:
   January 24th, 2008 at 7:27 am

   Actu­ally, it’s a remark­ably good book. Well writ­ten, rel­ev­ant and sig­ni­fic­ant sig­nal to noise. I actu­ally own a copy and fre­quently recom­mend it to both mangers of geeks and geeks them­selves. Build two-way under­stand­ing, I say!

7. Anna Liu's Weblog : Newest Additions on my Book shelf Says:
   February 5th, 2008 at 1:50 pm

   […] Nick has already picked up one recent addi­tion — this is a great present from Greg. Half way through it already, it looks like I need to buy the team free food a bit more often ser­i­ously though, I love chapter 5 — I find the list of com­pet­en­cies there to be a great check­list for my own career devel­op­ment as a Geek (rather than as a manager)! […]

8. Newest Additions on my Book shelf - Noticias externas Says:
   February 5th, 2008 at 2:02 pm

   […] Nick has already picked up one recent addi­tion — this is a great present from Greg. Half way through it already, it looks like I need to buy the team free food a bit more often ser­i­ously though, I love chapter 5 — I find the list of com­pet­en­cies there to be a great check­list for my own career devel­op­ment as a Geek (rather than as a manager)! […]

9. MSDN Blog Postings » Newest Additions on my Book shelf Says:
   February 5th, 2008 at 2:27 pm

   […] Nick has already picked up one recent addi­tion — this is a great present from Greg. Half way through it already, it looks like I need to buy the team free food a bit more often ser­i­ously though, I love chapter 5 — I find the list of com­pet­en­cies there to be a great check­list for my own career devel­op­ment as a Geek (rather than as a manager)! […]

10. martin english Says:
    April 22nd, 2008 at 3:44 pm

    Why does the title sug­gest “herd­ing cats”?

    I always think of jug­gling mon­keys, espe­cially con­sid­er­ing the other thing mon­keys are fam­ous for !!

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