Leadership

There's been a recent power shift at work and I'm now in charge of a team of two developers. When I took over we had a meeting, just the three of us, and I stretched my leadership capabilities by giving them a bit of a pep talk on what the future held, for us as developers, within the company.

In a stunning vindication of my faultless leadership abilities the person I thought least likely to listen to me handed in his notice yesterday! I know that's not generally considered to be a win in the management world but he did exactly as I told him.

I know people are going to ask, so this is roughly how the pep talk went: 'As developers we don't really have a future in the company and we're not going to get anything even remotely interesting to do in the foreseeable future. I would suggest we all start looking for new jobs and if there's anything you feel you're weak at let me know and I'll create an internal project to help you develop those missing skills.'

Heh. Now I just need to take my own advice...