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 ...
I am a bit disillusioned with our response to the climate crisis and the pandemic. So I am focusing on other things like management, nostalgia and urbanism! Management Agility ≠ Speed - common misunderstanding well explained My experience with Re-organising a team - some good tips to keep in mind for the next time Please dogfood your software interview homework - this are some awful examples. Who would work on a test for a whole day? ...