How to Manage Intellectuals. Me, Nerds, and Geeks

Dedicated to project managers (and those who dream of becoming a boss).
Writing tons of code is challenging, but managing people is even harder! So you absolutely need this book to learn how to do both.
Can fun stories and serious lessons... be combined? Michael Lopp (also known in select circles as Rands) has succeeded at that. You will encounter fictional stories about fictional people with incredibly useful (albeit fictional) experiences. This is how Rands shares his diverse, sometimes strange experiences gained over years of working in large IT corporations: Apple, Pinterest, Palantir, Netscape, Symantec, and others. 
Are you a project manager? Or do you want to understand what your damn boss does all day? Rands will teach you how to survive in the Toxic World of Inflated Turkeys and thrive among the general insanity of dysfunctionally bright individuals. In this strange community of manic intellectuals, there are even stranger creatures - managers who have gained power over the plans, thoughts, and bank accounts of many people through a mystical organizational ritual.

This book is unlike any manuscript on management or leadership. Michael Lopp hides nothing; he simply tells everything as it is (perhaps not all the stories should have been made public :) ). But only this way will you understand how to survive with a boss like that, how to manage geeks and nerds, and how to finally bring that damn project to a happy ending!

«This is a management book full of insights, ideas, and opinions on how to lead people. All the information presented here is based on my personal experiences interacting with real people (whom I still communicate with). I would really like to say that my leadership experience has always been positive, but it hasn’t. Several times I completely lost my cool, and in front of witnesses. And it was these witnesses who helped me regain my composure, thereby providing material for yet another page of this book.»
Michael Lopp