Weekly Digest #100

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Practical Motivation And Engineering Management — A Tale Of 2 Frameworks

One of the first challenges fresh engineering managers face is to figure out what makes their engineers tick.

Mistakes:

• Assume people are similar
• Think others want the same things we want
• Assuming all these things are static and constant in people

Aspects of setting motivation:

Belonging

• Community: A feeling of friendship and closeness with a group, or being part of a tight community of any size
• Community well-being: People are cared for; The whole group feels happy and healthy
• Connection: Feeling kinship and mutual understanding with another person

Improvement

• Progress: Your daily work creates progress towards an important goal for the company, your team, or your career/life.
• Improving the lives of others: You see how your work helps improve things for others
• Personal growth: Learning/seeing fast growth in yourself in skills that matter to you

Choice

• Choice: Having flexibility, the chance to have more control over key…