THE BRIEFING
READING LIST
Advice on effective leadership has been around for millennia, but good tech leadership? That’ s an area that’ s still in its infancy and is the subject of new debate in the tech world seemingly every month. In this list, we recommend four online blogs for tech-curious executives looking to enhance their digital leadership.
PRAGMATIC ENGINEER GERGELY OROSZ Gergely Orosz’ s Pragmatic Engineer is considered an essential guide for executives looking to advance their knowledge of data-driven analysis, practical management and tech culture.
CTO CRAFT Exploring the journeys of tech executives, CTO Craft looks at industry culture, operational framework design and effective team leadership.
IRRATIONAL EXUBERANCE WILL LARSON Will Larson’ s Irrational Exuberance offers engineering-executive essays and real case studies on organisational design.
RANDS IN REPOSE MICHAEL LOPP A blog about the humans behind effective management, team psychology and how to handle organisational dynamics in software development.
BRINGING THE HEAT … TO EUROPE
AFTER A SUMMER of fluctuating temperatures around the world, Europe was reminded of its status as a region unfamiliar with air conditioning in homes. While 90 % of US homes have air conditioning, only around 20 % of homes in Europe do. As climate change continues to disrupt weather patterns, many energy leaders in the continent are considering new strategies to make this technology more readily available.