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Cray 1 I am catching up with my reading and listening. Nothing about the war in Europe. It is to fresh and too frustrating. I don't even want to think about it. LeadershipTBM 8/52: The Data-Informed Product Cycle - "We (hopefully) start with a Strategy" You Won't Have All the Answers: Why Being Intellectually Honest and Disassociating from Ideas Makes You a Better Leader (with Remi Guyot, Chief Product Officer at BlaBlaCar) [Podcast] - how to get into management and how to enable people ...

 Aigüestortes National Park 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. LeadershipThe Kool-Aid Factory - super useful and pretty site with play books about building teams and companies ...

Jacques-Yves Cousteau's Calypso I am a bit disillusioned with our response to the climate crisis and the pandemic. So I am focusing on other things like management, nostalgia and urbanism! ManagementAgility ≠ Speed - common misunderstanding well explained My experience with Re-organising a team - some good tips to keep in mind for the next time ...

Scrabble tilesSome long reads this week. The one about longtermism and "Great Attrition" are very interesting. Management Ratings as Incentives - I once worked at a place doing the 1-5 ratings, with additional rules that acted as weird incentives. I liked the idea, but it failed in reality. Experimenting with Focus Weeks and Mob Programming - I still haven't tried mob programming, but then I never got into pair programming either ...

Lego Compact Cassette Catching up and dreaming of a four day work week. ManagementThe Sabotage List - nice idea to collect the stuff you are probably not going to do for reasons Always do Extra - if you have slack, do extra, not more of the same How to Understand the Power Structure [Comic] - funny :-) ...