{"id":16,"date":"2014-01-26T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-26T09:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lifshitz.net\/engineering-managers-should-code-31-of-their-time"},"modified":"2014-11-17T16:09:02","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T14:09:02","slug":"engineering-managers-should-code-31-of-their-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifshitz.net\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"Engineering Managers Should Code 31% of Their Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span>It all started when I (and people on my team) read this post: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drdobbs.com\/architecture-and-design\/engineering-managers-should-code-30-of-t\/240165174\"><span>http:\/\/www.drdobbs.com\/architecture-and-design\/engineering-managers-should-code-30-of-t\/240165174<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Well\u2026<\/div>\n<div>I think the saying shouldn\u2019t be \u201cManagers should code <i>X%<\/i> of their time\u201d. That\u2019s just a tabloid\/provocative headline, and it\u2019s about getting a higher CTR (I took it one step further, ha!)\u2026<\/div>\n<div>This is about what you base your <b>leadership<\/b> on.<\/div>\n<div>Leadership can come from a lot of places:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>You can be the most charismatic guy in the room.<\/li>\n<li>You may have superior technical skills.<\/li>\n<li>You can have awesome interpersonal skills and the ability to find what drives any other person.<\/li>\n<li>You may have all the right answers and be great in prioritizing tasks.<\/li>\n<li>Or very big balls\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>In many cases, leadership is about a combination of the above (not limited to it, obviously).<\/div>\n<div>What I strongly believe in, is that you can\u2019t be a great leader and an excellent manager if there\u2019s not a minimal amount of each ingredient.<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>If you don\u2019t have any charisma &#8211; you\u2019re a handicapped leader.<\/li>\n<li>If you have no clue regarding the technology your team is using &#8211; you\u2019re a handicapped manager.<\/li>\n<li>If you lack interpersonal skills &#8211; you\u2019re handicapped.<\/li>\n<li>If you can\u2019t say what\u2019s right and what\u2019s next &#8211; handicapped.<\/li>\n<li>No guts? Handicapped\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Choose your strengths, make them stronger\u2026 but don\u2019t ignore your weaknesses! No one wants to follow a handicapped leader (and with no followers, who will you lead?)<\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"201401191427.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lifshitz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/12028713095_2116e9d0dd-300x217.jpg\" height=\"348\" width=\"480\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It all started when I (and people on my team) read this post: http:\/\/www.drdobbs.com\/architecture-and-design\/engineering-managers-should-code-30-of-t\/240165174 Well\u2026 I think the saying shouldn\u2019t be \u201cManagers should code X% of their time\u201d. That\u2019s just a tabloid\/provocative headline, and it\u2019s about getting a higher CTR (I took it one step further, ha!)\u2026 This is about what you base your leadership&hellip;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifshitz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifshitz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifshitz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifshitz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifshitz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifshitz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifshitz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifshitz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifshitz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifshitz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}