{"id":10331,"date":"2006-08-15T06:49:48","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T03:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/15\/managers-main-skill-empathy\/"},"modified":"2006-08-15T06:49:48","modified_gmt":"2006-08-15T03:49:48","slug":"managers-main-skill-empathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/15\/managers-main-skill-empathy\/","title":{"rendered":"Manager’s main skill – empathy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you enjoyed those articles<\/a>, here’s another one for you from Stevey’s Blog Rants<\/a>. It’s caled (Not) Managing Software Developers<\/a><\/p>\n

However, I’ll offer you one almost magical tip that can help you smooth over nearly any mistake, a tip that can get you through just about any bad situation. I’ll tell you the tip right now, with no fanfare or ado. This hint is the most important one I’ll offer you today. It’s the secret ingredient to Great Manager Sauce. Unfortunately, it’s not easy to learn. You either already understand it, down in your bones, or you have years of head-scratching ahead of you. The tip is just one word: Empathy. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s a nice and easy read, with a whole bunch of useful quotes. And a lot of people linked to this post and followed it up – you can read their responses<\/a> too.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

If you enjoyed those articles, here’s another one for you from Stevey’s Blog Rants. It’s caled (Not) Managing Software Developers However, I’ll offer you one almost magical tip that can help you smooth over nearly any mistake, a tip that can get you through just about any bad situation. I’ll tell you the tip right … Continue reading Manager’s main skill – empathy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-10331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10342,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/15\/vim-tip-quickly-insert-current-filename\/","url_meta":{"origin":10331,"position":0},"title":"Vim tip: quickly insert current filename","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"August 15, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I don't need this functionality very often, but when I do, it's nice to have a quick and easy way to do it. 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