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Color | Red |
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Release date | April 2002 |
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Here are a few that I've found useful relating to teamwork, management, and/or general career shit:
You will pick up the knowledge fairly quickly, but the wisdom part comes slowly.
Read some books:
Start humble, stay humble, be quick to listen and slow to speak, and don't make changes on Friday!
because everyone thinks their team problems are unique and really they're all just stale memes.
if you read this you'll be able to perfectly line up all the shitheads in your department with the book characters
You know those business leadership guides on behavior and such? Like for example having nice leader/tough Second in Command (or vice versa)? They actually work quite well to resolving issues before they even begin. Most of them you can get out of the 5 dysfunctions of a team.
The anime club I ran at my community college avoided a ton of drama for a quite a while even after I left because I tried to solve problems or issues before they even occurred. Unfortunately I do hear it's now a drama llama mostly because they undid all the rules and procedures I put in place years ago. Thinking and planning ahead as much as possible helps immensely. I also suggest having mechanisms/rules in place to stop one singular person from controlling the entire anime club and that includes the president/leader.
> How to discuss and compromise on decisions in a team
So, this is going to be super non-specific to TTRPGs/design work, but I cannot recommend reading The Five Dysfunctions of a Team enough.
A TLDR for one of the major points of the book:
Reasonable adults don't always need to get their way but they do need to feel as if their concerns and beliefs have been listened to, considered, and addressed. This requires both trust and a team commitment to actually getting into productive conflict over contentious ideas or solutions. Without these, you're always going to have a hard time with decisions and getting the team to commit properly to them.
There is, unfortunately, no magic way to get to this point. You have to work together and build these relationships and behaviors. If you know a silver bullet, I'm all ears.
If you're the type of person who hates books about management babble, then you're just like me. Having said that, I did get a lot out of this one book. It's a great book for helping with team building, and it covers OP's exact topic as one of the major points.
https://www.amazon.com/Five-Dysfunctions-Team-Leadership-Fable/dp/0787960756
How to be part of a team and lead a team.
There's one book to read - The Five Dysfunctions of a Team.
I read this book, and it opened up my eyes. Working as part of a team is THE most valuable thing I've learned.
This is my favorite book on team building. http://www.amazon.com/The-Five-Dysfunctions-Team-Leadership/dp/0787960756
It contains some great lessons about how to address these issues, as they are generally indicative of deeper problems w/in the organization, rather than just with the meetings themselves.
The Foundation Bible of starting an MSP: Managed Services in a Month by Karl Palachuk Amazon Link
I'll also throw a vote in for Traction as a general business book.
And my personal people/team management bible that I bring into every company I work with: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Amazon Link
https://amzn.to/2Ku6Xbi - The Ideal Team Player
https://amzn.to/31zGqPs - The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
https://amzn.to/2Ku8UEE - Extreme Ownership
https://amzn.to/2YXLkE3 - Dichotomy of Leadership
I'll say my books aren't expressly feminine. They're more about dynamics, relationships, motivations, which have helped to prevent me from going wild with aggressive masculine approaches despite my surroundings and peers. Thank goodness I found these so early :)
I loved Captivating, which is about women from a Christian perspective and it's counterpart called Wild at Heart, which is about men. Neither of them were too overwhelmingly Christian, IMO.
Another book with Christian influences, The Servant is a book about leadership theory that's been very helpful to me stepping into a more nurturing and deferring approach.
Five Dysfunctions of a Team is my very favorite book ever, and it discusses the reasons teams (be it a couple, sports team, friend group, or work group) fail and how to prevent that. Very helpful in learning why vulnerability, an important feminine trait, is so important.
I'm 31 and just started my own company. When I turned 16, I had a profound epiphany about what I wanted to do "when I grew up". That epiphany was I wanted to own my own business. The why, came from the experiences I had since I was 14.
I worked as a delivery guy for two guys who owned a bounce house company. At 15, I was employee 1 at an advertising company. I started in the mailroom stuffing envelopes and I continued to work for that company through college and even a few months after graduating college. I didn't stay in the mailroom though. As I taught myself programming and a little design, I was growing within the company, as they themselves grew in revenue and size. I was getting a front row seat to what it was like to be an entrepreneur and I loved every minute of it; the long hours, the struggles, the doing whatever it takes, carving your own path, etc.
Even though I knew being an entrepreneur was part of my path in life, it has taken me 16 yrs to make that a reality. I have no regrets as I've been able to gain knowledge and experience the entire time. Everything you experience in life can help you in some way on your path to becoming an entrepreneur.
Remember, you can do a lot of good by being an employee too. You have not failed if you don't start a company.
Suggested Reading
There are many books on how to be a good leader, and not that many on how to go from a good to a great leader. I know 4 really good books in the latter category:
Listen to the people who work for you. For every one person under you it takes a few hours a week to manage as a rule of thumb. When I say manage, I talk about leadership, developing them, understanding them, understanding how they want to grow and stretch.
I highly recommend reading the following book too about teams. It's a great book and in my experience holds true with small teams and large global teams.
http://www.amazon.com/Five-Dysfunctions-Team-Leadership-Fable/dp/0787960756
Scrum masters can come from any background. Having PM knowledge is helpful but not required. A scrum master is a guide and coach for the team. They are responsible for ensuring the team is following the rules of scrum, facilitating their meetings, and overall helping the team on the path to high performance.
Understanding the rules of scrum and the agile principles are more important. In your first SM role you will likely be following the scrum guide as closely as possible but the importance will be in understanding why the practices exist. What is important in the daily scrum? Why do we ask the 3 questions? What is the real goal in that meeting? etc... Eventually guiding and facilitating becomes more about the principles, outcomes, and goals than the rules of scrum but that comes with time.
Pay attention to the people on the team. I suggest looking into some personality or team-working books as a scrum master should be in tune enough to understand the work being done (technical and business purposes) and how the people work together. Conflicts amongst team members can be a difficult impediment to remove.
https://www.amazon.com/Drive-Surprising-Truth-About-Motivates/dp/1594484805
https://www.amazon.com/Scrum-Mastery-Good-Great-Servant-Leadership/dp/0957587406
https://www.amazon.com/Lean-Software-Development-Agile-Toolkit/dp/0321150783/
https://www.amazon.com/Implementing-Lean-Software-Development-Concept/dp/0321437381/
https://www.amazon.com/Coaching-Agile-Teams-ScrumMasters-Addison-Wesley/dp/0321637704
https://www.amazon.com/Five-Dysfunctions-Team-Leadership-Fable/dp/0787960756/
https://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Project-DevOps-Helping-Business/dp/0988262509/
https://www.amazon.com/Agile-Lean-Program-Management-Collaboration/dp/1943487073/
https://www.amazon.com/Tribal-Leadership-Leveraging-Thriving-Organization/dp/0061251321/
This book has helped us a lot to think about the team, management and studio dynamics. I would recommend it - it doesn't matter that it isn't game industry specific, nor how big your team is.
https://www.amazon.com/Five-Dysfunctions-Team-Leadership-Fable/dp/0787960756
Please go and buy and read all of these this week, for the sake of you and your team:-
https://www.amazon.com/Managers-Path-Leaders-Navigating-Growth/dp/1491973897
https://www.amazon.ca/Managing-Humans-Humorous-Software-Engineering/dp/1430243147
https://www.amazon.ca/Debugging-Teams-Productivity-through-Collaboration/dp/1491932058
https://www.amazon.ca/Five-Dysfunctions-Team-Leadership-Fable/dp/0787960756