Corson-Heisner Live/Work HouseFocus 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. LeadershipChange 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 ...
Plastikman - Kompilation 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. LeadershipTBM 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 ...
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 ...
I used to really hate meetings. As a developer they seem to just get into the way of doing real work. You sit in a room with other people who are probably thinking the same thing and you are itching to get back to your desk and do "real work". But at some point you specialise, teams grow and you need some way to sync up. Suddenly you realise that meetings are where some decisions are made and you want to join as many as possible. Because a lot of them are horrible it is natural to want to improve them over time. I am going to describe a bit how I like my meetings and why. Some of my thinking has changed with being fully remote during the coronavirus crisis, but most of it applies to in person and remote meetings. An ideal meeting has a facilitator, the minimal length of time, the right attendees, non-attendees not fearing to miss out, everybody being focused and prepared. A good meeting can be more inclusive for all participants, by allowing everybody to arrive prepared and participate in a meaningful way. ...