Mentoring

• “Simply informing people “This is a better way” doesn’t cut it. You can’t lecture, you can’t tell, you can’t enforce conformance. You need to help others find their own way to learn. Helping them find that way goes beyond simply giving them the book, they need to be motivated, people who are told aren’t motivated, people who are ordered aren’t motivated; motivating people requires leadership.

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• “Hope lies not in code, not in machines but in people. If we believe that Modern C++ is best - and I truly, rationally, believe it is - then I have no choice other than to develop the people around me - and that belief is rational too.”

• Allan Kelly “The Developer's New Work” Overload 65