Leadership

This week was weird. Something happened to my RSS reader. Anyway … still some good stuff — the interview with Kelsey Hightower, and the piece on how Meta is messing up its culture. Quote of the Week Remember, Peter Drucker said that if people spend more than 25 percent of their time in meetings, it is a sign of malorganization. I would put it another way: the real sign of malorganization is when people spend more than 25 percent of their time in ad hoc mission-oriented meetings. High Output Management Andrew S. Grove Leadership Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization? - sign of maturity :-) ...

Again a few good podcasts, I especially liked the one about The Pre-Training Wall and the Mythical Man Month. Quote of the Week Rule of thumb: When the debate is no longer productive, it’s time to make a decision. Managing Humans Michael Lopp Leadership The Ask - what is this meeting actually about? ...

Two weeks of links again! Three podcast recommendations from me, if you got the time: Dadaism, Cow Resistance, and Desert Island with Si King. The post by Rands about being overwhelmed as a leader is also great. Quote of the Week Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. Mostly Harmless Douglas Adams Leadership Barely Treading Water - I can relate very much. “Say No” is a good start. ...

A bit of a mixed bag today. Good reads are the Agents and the Era of Overproduction and AI reshaping values at Enode blog posts. Podcast-wise, give Driverless World and the Pedro Sánchez episode a listen. Quote of the Week “It’s like the free puppy,” I continue. “It’s not the upfront capital that kills you, it’s the operations and maintenance on the back end.” The Phoenix Project Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford Leadership TBM 418: Campfires, Trails, and Quests - collection of how AI affects teams. ...

I caught up with my YouTube, two good videos from NotJustBikes about cars and oil being bad. I really liked all the links in leadership this week, all highly recommended. Quote of the Week Safe to fail — Organisations need to make it safe to execute a rollback without penalty to the developer. We’ve seen some organisations introduce failure KPIs that demand that all employees (from the CEO down) demonstrate failure at least once per year in order to receive their bonus. The argument is that if they do not demonstrate failure, they are either hiding or not taking enough risks. #Noprojects Evan Leybourn and Shane Hastie Leadership The Vasa - “Understanding why the Vasa sank also gets to something important about how organisations fail.” ...