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http://blogs.hbr.org/hill-lineback/2012/04/good-managers-lead-through-a-t.html

Good Managers Lead Through a Team - Linda Hill & Kent Lineback - Harvard Business Review

12:22 PM Tuesday April 3, 2012 | Comments (1) We consider the ability to manage a team so important that, in a recent book , we made it one of the "3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader:" Manage Your Team — the first imperative — is about creating a real team and managing through it.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/apples-supplychain-secret-hoard-lasers-11032011.html

Apple's Supply-Chain Secret? Hoard Lasers - Businessweek

About five years ago, Apple ( AAPL ) design guru Jony Ive decided he wanted a new feature for the next MacBook: a small dot of green light above the screen, shining through the computer’s aluminum casing to indicate when its camera was on. The problem? It’s physically impossible to shine light through metal.

Apple's segmentation strategy, and the folly of conventional wisdom - O'Reilly Radar

http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/09/apple-segmentation-strategy-an.html

There is a myth, more of a meme actually, about the 'inevitability' of commoditization.

Share 407 From late 2006 to early 2009, I was privileged to hold a variety of management positions in Facebook Engineering, ranging from manager of various teams to director of engineering.

Engineering Management

http://slacy.com/blog/2011/03/what-larry-page-really-needs-to-do-to-return-google-to-its-startup-roots/

What Larry Page really needs to do to return Google to its startup roots | Slacy’s Blog

I worked at Google from 2005-2010, and saw the company go through many changes, and a huge increase in staff.

How To Scale a Development Team

http://adam.heroku.com/past/2011/4/28/scaling_a_development_team/

As hackers, we’re familiar with the need to scale web servers, databases, and other software systems.

Google’s 8-Point Plan to Help Managers Improve - NYTimes.com

So, as only a data-mining giant like Google can do, it began analyzing performance reviews, feedback surveys and nominations for top-manager awards.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/business/13hire.html?_r=2&ref=business&pagewanted=all

Superstar Leadership: Workplace Culture Damage Control | Career Management and Workplace Culture Blog | TalentCulture.com

I’ve written lately about various aspects of workplace culture – People are always the number one consideration in my opinion.

http://www.talentculture.com/culture/superstar-leadership-workplace-culture-damage-control/

[Update: in response to some of the comments here and on HN, I thought it might be worth updating with a note on my personal experience with Agile, which appears at the bottom of the post.]