I heard about this new book, Notes to a Software Team Leader, on a podcast on my way to work this morning. Below is the "Manifesto" of the book; upon reading it I feel the book has potential to have insightful and helpful content - I think it aligns with Nexus's values in unique and surprising ways.

• We believe the role of a team leader is to grow the people in their team
• • We believe in adjusting the leadership style to the current needs of the team, over a single style of leadership
  • We believe in challenging ourselves and our teams to always get better, so:
  • • We embrace taking risks for our team over staying safe
    • We embrace fear and discomfort as learning new skills
    • We embrace experimentation as a daily practice
    • • With people
      • With tools
      • With processes
      • With the environment
  • We believe team leaders lead people, not machines, so:
  • • We embrace spending more time with our team than in meetings
    • We embrace learning people skills and techniques

This is a unique "book" - at least, it's being written in a unique way. It's not done yet, and if you feel you have something important to say about software team leadership, you can submit a contribution to the book.