Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis on Nostr: I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you read this comment of ...
I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you read this comment of
npub19qm2trjs3p32nwqwry4ufxl4fk9q4utkq53ywueg0yk8cvggra5s79sn8k (npub19qm…sn8k) 's and you're freaking out, thinking "but I have no idea how!" you don't got to figure it all out for yourself or pull it out of your ass. There are books, classes, whole degree programs! There's YouTube videos, and mentors, and consultants.
Tom DeMarco once wrote an essay about the experience of being promoted from individual contributor into management with no preparation for leadership, which he titled after one person's evocative description of what that experience had been like for him: "Standing Naked in the Snow".
You don't have to stand naked in the snow. Management, leadership, stewardship: these are topics of study and instruction. There's and abundance of resources out there in the world that can help you.
But you have to go seek them out. They're not going to stalk you like a lion stalking a gazelle.
npub19qm2trjs3p32nwqwry4ufxl4fk9q4utkq53ywueg0yk8cvggra5s79sn8k (npub19qm…sn8k) 's and you're freaking out, thinking "but I have no idea how!" you don't got to figure it all out for yourself or pull it out of your ass. There are books, classes, whole degree programs! There's YouTube videos, and mentors, and consultants.
Tom DeMarco once wrote an essay about the experience of being promoted from individual contributor into management with no preparation for leadership, which he titled after one person's evocative description of what that experience had been like for him: "Standing Naked in the Snow".
You don't have to stand naked in the snow. Management, leadership, stewardship: these are topics of study and instruction. There's and abundance of resources out there in the world that can help you.
But you have to go seek them out. They're not going to stalk you like a lion stalking a gazelle.