Leading Knowledge Workers (Revised version of my ebook)

Created by Chris Shayan
Jun 22, 2014
1 min read

The Shawshank Redemption is one of my favorite movies. Thanks to Andy Ng for introducing it to me few years back. It has a scene on the rooftop which represents clearly a true definition of a leader.

The leader of the scene, he puts his life in danger just to provide beer for his colleagues (not cell mates), the leader didn't even drink, just sat down and enjoyed seeing his colleagues are relaxing like a free men.

I got inspired by this scene. Especially I believed there is a serious need to change the leadership style of IT knowledge workers. I had a team back then, I started to practice bunch of things to ensure I can lead my team like the hero of Shawshank. It was quite good then I published an ebook which is like 40 pages.


Then I moved to VietnamWorks, where I continued to lead a team of very smart knowledge workers. My colleagues are experts in these areas:

  • Product Management
  • Content Specialist
  • IT evangelist
  • Data Architects and Data Administrators
  • Cloud Architect
  • Very Senior Developers
  • User Experience gurus
  • CRM and ERP experts
  • and IT enablers

I used the same patterns and I improved them. Now I revised the booklet and you can find it in here.

Please let me know what do you think.