illuminated

A friend of mine is about to be promoted to a very senior management position, with multiple layers of management between her and engineers.

She's asked for some reading recommendation on managing managers in a technology company (communication, setting goals/KPIs, meaningful feedback, coaching/mentorship, etc.).

"The Manager's Path" although being one of the best books I've read, is mostly focused on having the engineers being fairly near to you in the organization chart.

Do you have some good reading recommendation for building a good set of skills in senior management positions?

So, does anyone have first-hand experience in receiving small/micro-funding for side projects, but outside of US?

I've found several organizations that provide this kind of funding [0], but most of them are in US. These organizations are covering either projects by people in US or, if the execution is outside the US, the funded projects are mostly community based initiatives.

So, is there such an organization that provides similar, small scale funds (few hundreds of USD monthly) for covering infrastructure costs (like server and similar) during development of software projects? Have you used something similar in the past, or now, and what is your experience of both the application process and later?

The most similar thing I have found to what I'm looking for is the micro-grant fund for side projects by Tyk [1], but they're not opening the applications soon.

[0]: https://github.com/sakofchit/fund-my-project [1]: https://tyk.io/fund/