Some good long reads today: The classic “Give Away Your Legos”, how to slowly kill your org, Why Spotify Squads are a Failure and Bicycle Graveyards. A few podcasts, the one about agile is definitely worth it. Leadership ‘Give Away Your Legos’ and Other Commandments for Scaling Startups - classic article 190 Brilliant Examples of Company Values - so many values, so similar. The ones from Build-A-Bear a fun. ...
A few good articles about how to be a bad leader. And some depressing environmental news. Play Stray to cheer you up! Leadership Hierarchy of Metrics - this is a nice happy land of metrics and probably not happening in the real world A Checklist Manifetsy - an Etsy checklist for new features and about checklists in general ...
Small wooden sailing boat Lots of good news and videos in Urbanism this week. I also enjoyed the podcast with Marshall Goldsmith. Leadership When there’s a Re-org [TikTok] - not funny! Screw SCRUM: Guide to Building a Truly Agile Organization [Podcast] - don’t actually screw scrum TBM 30/52: Why Don’t We Have a Strategy? - “The problem is that there are disincentives to thinking strategically.” A Customer-Focused Approach to Tooling - platform teams should treat their output as products with a focus on developers as customers ...
Two weeks of links. Sorry. I have been thinking and catching up with my leadership reading, especially around the first team concept. The flatground skateboard video is worth a watch, and the Ziggy Stardust podcast is great too. Leadership First Team Mindset - The concept from the book “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team” I have been looking into this again over the recent weeks, here is a collection of resources. I have a better idea about what this means as a director compared to a CTO now. ...
Acid House flyer with smiley illustration For some reason I have no urbanism topics or podcasts! Dave Kellogg brings an interesting perspective on leadership levels. It is an old article but still valid. He seems to be going against the stream in general. Worth a follow! Leadership Career Development: What It Really Means to be a Manager, Director, or VP - interesting perspective I agree on What we learned in studying the most effective founders - mostly as expected, but this is interesting: “While most people would expect self-confidence to grow with time, our data suggests the most effective founders are not nearly as confident as the least effective founders are.” ...