When we are building a team, we have different people with different perspectives coming together under a common goal. As a leader, you want your team to form a common understanding instead of just following rules to keep these perspectives alive. I never was a friend of rules. Looking back…

“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” — Mark Twain Being a young leader can present its own set of challenges, especially when leading a team of older, more experienced individuals. You might be intimidated to step up and take charge when…

If you’ve been brought up in the software development industry in the past 10 years, you will have heard of the famous quote by Martin Fowler: There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. Naming things As a developer you have the responsibility to come up…

There is no bigger approval as a leader, than your employees coming to you for help and mentorship. I am not talking about a weekly or monthly scheduled talk, where you ask, if they need any help or support. I am referring to them openly contacting you, asking for your…

What good can we do as managers and team leads? The transition from individual contributor to leader can be a challenging one. As a former decision maker of the team, people were already depending on me and my work. Now suddenly I switch into a leadership position. I still was…

When I transitioned into my current leadership role, I jumped into a luxurious position: I was not alone. I shared the role with two more people who had more experience than me. So, I was able to learn from them and never really had a feeling of being lost. They…

I got to work. I had to form a decision on the future carreer of one of my employees. As I do not want to just put them into some role they do not like, I left the goal very open, just stating, in the end, we both have a…

Who does not hate these “last day before vacation” feelings. Your inbox just will not clear out, your calendar keeps getting filled and people suddenly have very urgent last-minute requests. Just 10 more minutes and then I hope the world will not end while I am gone. The worst thing…

Today I want to share something I experienced not only since I became a leader, but something which I got more aware of: Passive onboarding and documentation, or— as the title states — What we could learn from television series. Onboarding is an important topic. With it, a company is…