Friday Links 22-9

Blue Lobster Some longer reads and good podcasts about leading and structuring teams. And mostly amusing random links. LeadershipThe SPACE of Developer Productivity - framework for thinking about developer productivity Refactor → Organisation - story of the reorganisation of BBC's website team When There’s Doubt, There’s No Doubt: How to Protect Culture and Eliminate Hiring Biases (with Nick Dimitrov, Founder of Bar Raiser) [Podcast] - good strategies for hiring ...

March 18, 2022 · 2 min · Christof Damian

Friday Links 22-6

Cray 1 I am catching up with my reading and listening. Nothing about the war in Europe. It is to fresh and too frustrating. I don't even want to think about it. LeadershipTBM 8/52: The Data-Informed Product Cycle - "We (hopefully) start with a Strategy" You Won't Have All the Answers: Why Being Intellectually Honest and Disassociating from Ideas Makes You a Better Leader (with Remi Guyot, Chief Product Officer at BlaBlaCar) [Podcast] - how to get into management and how to enable people ...

February 25, 2022 · 5 min · Christof Damian

Friday Links 22-3

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 ...

January 28, 2022 · 3 min · Christof Damian

Friday Links 22-2

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 ...

January 21, 2022 · 3 min · Christof Damian

2021 - Year of the Dogs

I am pretty sure I said something along the lines of "2021 has to be better than 2020" a year ago. It certainly was different than 2020. And for 2022 I am going to predict it will be different again. I am not going to try even harder. Zoo ...

January 11, 2022 · 5 min · Christof Damian