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Kathy Sierra

What Kathy Sierra thinks about management

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Programming instructor and game developer; co-creator of O’Reilly’s Head First book series and author of Badass: Making Users Awesome (2015). Wrote the Creating Passionate Users blog from 2004 to 2007 and the Serious Pony blog from 2013 to 2014.

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3 dated positions, 2005, in their own words. Our reading of what Kathy Sierra has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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  1. Our readingMicromanagement does not scale.

    Their wordsWhile it's oh so tempting to just step in and DO IT, micromanagement doesn't scale.

    ↗Creating Passionate Usersweb.archive.org 1st of 3 in this piece

  3. Our readingMicromanagement can lead to employees becoming unmotivated or acting like 'zombies'.

    Their wordsBut it's a downward spiral-- Micromanagement creates zombies. Of course micromanagers don't actually create zombies--they simply inspire (or force) zombieism on the job.

    ↗Creating Passionate Usersweb.archive.org 2nd of 3 in this piece

  5. Our readingCompanies should not make the management track the only career path.

    Their wordsThe companies I love to hate are those that allow only a single career path--the "management track".

    ↗Creating Passionate Usersweb.archive.org 3rd of 3 in this piece