{"id":30,"date":"2008-11-27T11:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-27T09:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lifshitz.net\/my-ninety-days"},"modified":"2014-11-17T16:09:05","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T14:09:05","slug":"my-ninety-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifshitz.net\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"My ninety days"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just stumbled upon this blog entry<\/a> and the first thought that came to my mind was ‘I wish I would have read it 90 days ago’..<\/p>\n

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I started working for a new place just about 3 months ago as a software group leader. I kind of knew I’m going to make mistakes and, not surprisingly, I did. The toolbox of an engineering manager, as I see it, is the sum of all his experiences in the past (both technically and personally), and although a lesson learned from a personal experience is invaluable, the ‘tuition fee’ in these cases can be very high. So learning from other people’s experience is usually a much cheaper alternative – but you have to learn to watch, listen and actually learn.<\/p>\n

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Read that blog entry..<\/p>\n

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I thought I’d contribute one of my personal observations:<\/p>\n

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* When you’re joining a new team (especially as a manager), you’re not the only one trying to find his place and show his worth. Many of the team members will ‘overcompensate’ in the first period for various reasons – either they see this change as an opportunity or a threat. Take this into consideration, and take the first impression with a grain of salt. Revisit your impressions after you’ve settled in, and at least from my experience, there are surprises (for the better and worse).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just stumbled upon this blog entry and the first thought that came to my mind was ‘I wish I would have read it 90 days ago’.. I started working for a new place just about 3 months ago as a software group leader. I kind of knew I’m going to make mistakes and, not… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifshitz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30"}],"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=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifshitz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifshitz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifshitz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifshitz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}