Some longer reads and good podcasts about leading and structuring teams. And mostly amusing random links. Leadership The 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 ...
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. Leadership TBM 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 ...
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 ...
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 The main thing that changed this year is what I now lovingly refer to as The Zoo. ...