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 enjoyed the in depth look into Pablo Escobar’s hippos. Amazing what kind of wide ranging effect this has on the country. The whole Log4j incident was also fun to follow. Management How To Start A Book Club At Work - beginners guide Hiring (and Retaining) a Diverse Engineering Team - lots of insights from different leaders and companies Why it’s difficult to build teams in high growth organisations - because of changes ...
Short one this week. I did catch up with my podcasts, but not many made it to the list. I found the article series on architecture and devops interesting reads. Management Operator’s Manual #2: What Does It Mean To Let Others Lead? - with Ali Schultz & Jerry Colonna [Podcast] - “The simplest way to trust is to let go of perfection. If you can allow the team to make mistakes then it’s a lot easier to trust.” ...