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. ...
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.” ...
I have a new job. You can expect more about hiring and communication here in the coming weeks. My weird hobby topics will continue. Leadership Leading your engineering team through an unexpected product pivot - Code as Craft is back and it is good. I really liked this one. Pivots are tricky, the ground shifts below you. Octoverse Spotlight 2021: The Good Day Project—Personal analytics to make your work days better - nothing really news, but using surveys and data to figure out developer happiness ...
This week I loved the article about the Single Threaded Owner. Or if you want something to listen to: The Sistine Chapel discussed at In Our Time. Leadership Your migration probably isn’t failing due to insufficient staffing. - there are so many things to go wrong that I question the wisdom of doing them at all. Dan Coyle can fix your culture [Podcast] - I quite like the book, this is good too ...