An Ethical Profession: An Unsubtitled Sequel to Elegant Puzzle
When folks asks if I’ll write another book after An Elegant Puzzle, I sometimes joke that if I wrote another management book it would be An Ethical Profession, and I could refer to them as AEP1 and AEP2. There are just so many management situations that push you to look at them through an ethical perspective.
A few of the situations that I’ve personally been in:
- Senior technical leader ordering you to pull a candidate’s offer after they’d already given notice at their previous job due to an awkward conversation.
- Asking someone to leave less than a month after they start due to conflict with their team.
- A previous coworker interviewing, and taking their own life two days after receiving their rejection notice.
- Hiring folks who will be highly impactful for next year, knowing they’re unlikely to keep pace as role grows.
Some of the content I’ve written that I think might fit into this book (and which isn’t already published in Staff Engineer or Elegant Puzzle):
- https://lethain.com/forty-year-career/
- https://lethain.com/first-ninety-days-cto-vpe/
- https://lethain.com/my-career-story/
- https://lethain.com/magnitudes-of-exploration/
- https://lethain.com/limiting-wip/
- https://lethain.com/metrics-for-the-unmeasurable/
- https://lethain.com/learn-when-you-reflect/
- https://lethain.com/acquihire-tips/
- https://lethain.com/good-process-is-evolved/
- https://lethain.com/showing-value/
- https://lethain.com/minding-our-stories/
- https://lethain.com/how-to-start-distributed-engineering-office/
- https://lethain.com/executive-assistants/
- https://lethain.com/eng-brand/
If I ever make progress on Infrastructure Engineering Book, some of this content could conceivably go there, but who knows.