Marton Trencseni - Sun 22 September 2024 • Tagged with people, management
I detail my structured approach to managing one-on-one meetings within a 40-person data team, emphasizing people management principles like radical transparency, tailored meeting cadences, and strategies to navigate common managerial challenges to foster a supportive and productive work environment.
Marton Trencseni - Sun 21 January 2024 • Tagged with okr, goaling, performance, people, management
I wrote this document for my team members — Data Scientists and Data Engineers — to help them do a better on their annual performance reviews.
Marton Trencseni - Thu 15 December 2022 • Tagged with book, management, engineering
I reflect on the core points of Fred Brooks' seminal book, The Mythical Man-Month, that I often recall and apply in my daily work.
Marton Trencseni - Fri 22 July 2022 • Tagged with book, management, culture
The Culture Map by Erin Meyer is a system of 8 scales which can be used to determine how cultures vary along a spectrum. The scales can be used to analyse one culture relative to another and decode how culture influences your international collaborations. I find the considerations in the book helpful irrespective of cultural background; the 8 scales can be applied to individuals as well, irrespective of where they are from.
Marton Trencseni - Sun 10 July 2022 • Tagged with amazon, book, management, writing
Amazon established a set of principles and mechanisms, enabling the company to grow from a single founder to several hundred thousand employees while remaining stubbornly true to its mission of obsessing over customers to create long-term shareholder value.
Marton Trencseni - Fri 08 July 2022 • Tagged with hbr, book, management, writing
If your writing is sloppy and artless people will think you are the same. They won’t care about your message, they won’t do business with you. It’s not true that only ideas matter. Good writing gets ideas noticed.
Marton Trencseni - Sat 06 March 2021 • Tagged with business, experimentation, book, amazon, management
These are the best parts from the book "Invent and Wander: the Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos". The book is a collection of the annual Amazon shareholder letters that Jeff Bezos has been sending out since 1997, and speeches he has given over time.