Author Archives: Yuri Geronimus

This course is very very deep and very simple, about modern C++, and besides C++ about its ecosystem. It is the best single learning C++ source that I saw (except learncpp.com for beginners). One-file PDF is here or is below in the attachments. It is from Technical University of Munich (TUM)

Once a top manager told me the phrase “Tell me who your enemy is, and I’ll tell you who you are.” To better understand a person’s level, it’s better to look at who they are fighting with rather than who they are friends with: It’s significantly easier to see who a person is fighting withContinue reading “Tell me who your enemy is, and I’ll tell you who you are”

This is one of the most important tests in my professional and personal life. When I need to make a decision to do or not to do something, I ask myself, “Are you an idiot?” The answer to this question leads to the right decision. Sometimes, I train my closest subordinates in this way (afterContinue reading “It’s very important not to be an idiot”

Once I read the book “Getting to Yes”, and the most important thing I took from it is that you should always say “Yes”, or more precisely, “Yes, if”. In my practice, I try never to say “no” at all. I always try to come up with a “Yes, if such and such”. This way,Continue reading “Don’t say “no”. Always say “yes, if”.”

“Capability” (оргвозможность) = “orgunit” (оргзвено) + practice + “order that allows the orgunit to carry out the practice at its discretion or in response to certain events” Practice = discipline (knowledge from textbooks – “methodology of sawing logs”) + technology (“saw”, “IT system where we learned how to saw logs”) P.S. Nothing happens without anContinue reading “What is “capability” in Enterprise architecture?”

One should honestly try to see their potential opportunities and organizational possibilities, and then choose a strategy in the middle. Otherwise, organizational possibilities, i.e. people, will resist “problems/opportunities”. It’s impossible to pursue opportunities without considering organizational possibilities. After all, you are managers, not shareholders who can simply provide money and create completely new organizational possibilitiesContinue reading “How to develop a good strategy”

Translation: personal brand marketing marketing for your department improves team manageability “Like the bat signal in the sky – if it’s on, Batman’s coming soon” – see why I wrote it here Related to leadership, see here In Russian “Как знак бэтмена в ночи – если он горит, значит бэтмен скоро придет” – почему написалContinue reading “Why do your own blog?”

We often communicate with a top manager who tells me that I am too structured and that I don’t pay enough attention to people’s emotions. He says that people like me, who analyze everything through their brain, are very rare. The top manager believes that people should be managed through images and metaphors, such asContinue reading “In management, it is very important to “ignite people’s hearts with words”.”