Focus on urbanism today, as more people are realising that cities are made for people and not cars. I also really enjoyed the interview with Peter Anderton and his ideas about leadership principles. Leadership Change Yourself, Change Your Team: The Underrated Leadership Principles All Good Managers Follow (with Peter Anderton, Director of Internal Alignment) [Podcast] - I like his two rules for leadership ...

Back to a reasonable number of links! I enjoyed the scaling teams podcast, which I found very pragmatic. For fun checkout the Wikipedia game and size of countries tool in the random section. Leadership TBM 3/52: That’s Not What They Are Hearing - communication is hard, being honest at work is hard, but we have to figure it out Saying “no” - one of the most important skill for everyone ...

New Year’s Resolution: limit the number of links in these posts. Catching up with everything since before Christmas. So much good stuff from BBC podcasts and The Guardian this time around. Leadership The Kool-Aid Factory - super useful and pretty site with play books about building teams and companies Embracing Change and Mimicking Chaos: Why Leaders Need to Cringe Fast and Early (with Hamza Kahn) [Podcast] - another great episode ...

I am pretty sure I said something along the lines of “2021 has to be better than 2020” a year ago. It certainly was different than 2020. And for 2022 I am going to predict it will be different again. I am not going to try even harder. Zoo The main thing that changed this year is what I now lovingly refer to as The Zoo. ...

As with many things 2021 didn’t quite go to plan with my reading. There were too many distractions in the first half of the year, but I got some reading time in the second half. The lack of holidays, flying and commuting didn’t really help overall. As always this is a mix of light fiction and books related to work, which this year mostly means management. ...