Many first-time leaders see their teams devolve into chaos and their effectiveness reduced by unnecessary friction.

Because of their lack of experience, they resort to large, sweeping changes in their attempts to improve the effectiveness of their organizations and fulfill their vision.\

These herculean efforts fail over and over, while the real solution sits ignored in front of them: communicate better.

GraphQL lets you query your data and get exactly what you want. Nothing more, nothing less.

Watch this 4-part series of short videos to learn more about this hot technology! 

In one of my previous posts, we looked at the career stage of being an intermediate developer.

One of the pieces of advice I gave was to find a mentor.

Today, I want to look at the flip-side of that topic: how to be a mentor!

OK, this post won’t tell you how to magically make each day 38 hours long (we’re still working on that). But by assessing our tasks in terms of their significance, we can free up more time tomorrow, says leadership coach Rory Vaden.

This year we decided to conduct a hackathon at the Bangalore Engineering office. We started with the idea of doing something around diversity and inclusion. We adopted the International Women's Day theme - #BalanceforBetter, as it resonated with Red Hat's Diversity & Inclusion program. The only rule we applied was that we wanted the participating teams to have at least one woman on their team.