Link Roundup for 22 January 2011

I spent time today catching up on my Instapaper backlog. That means I’ve got plenty of grist for the link roundup mill.

Given that I’m a new manager and that I’m the kind of person that I am, I’ve been thinking recently about what makes great bosses great. Here are some answers:

• Bob Sutton lays out twelve things good bosses believe.
• Bill Taylor explains another thing good bosses believe, that nobody wins unless everybody wins.
• With this in mind, Naomi Karten gives us the tools to resolve disputes so that everybody wins.
• Esther Derby tells us that good bosses also know that resources don’t write software, people do.¹
• David Sirota, Louis A. Mischkind, and Michael Irwin Meltzer remind us that it’s important for bosses to understand why your employees are losing motivation (and what to do about it).
• And Esther Derby returns to clarify the importance of software managers knowing a language… that enables communication.

¹ This is one of my pet peeves. Slowly, I’m fighting the battle against “resources” at work.