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Podcast: The Startup Ideas Podcast (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Step-by-Step Plan to Go From $3M to $10M+
Pub date: 2025-02-10

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In this episode, Ayman Al-Abdullah, former CEO of AppSumo, shares his framework for scaling businesses from seven to nine figures. The conversation focuses on the importance of customer retention, strategic hiring, and proper incentive structures. Ayman shares insights from his experience scaling AppSumo from $3M to $84M in revenue, emphasizing the transition from founder to CEO mindset.

Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction and background
02:47 - Discussion of the Nine Steps framework
08:13 - Team building and executive compensation
10:35 - The Reality of Startup Valuations
14:36 - The importance of setting a strong foundation
15:59 - Focus on Retention Before Growth
22:26 - Evaluating Opportunities and Thinking Big
29:47 - Examples of Successful Founders that Ayman admires
31:35 - The Importance of Focus in Business
33:26 - Build Skyscrapers, Not Strip-malls
36:01 - The importance of being the best in the market
37:54 - Where to double down in your business
40:22 - Testing and Investing in Business Strategies
42:05 - Identifying Bottlenecks in Your Business
44:39 - Finding Your Zone of Genius

Key Points:
‱ The "Nine Steps to Nine Figures" framework divides business growth into three phases: startup, scale-up, and grow-up
‱ Focus on retention and customer loyalty before aggressive growth
‱ Use the "Test Then Invest" framework with 80% resources on core business and 20% on experiments
‱ Structure executive compensation with a 50-50 split between top-line and bottom-line metrics

1) The "Nine Steps to Nine Figures" Framework:

Breaks down into 3 phases:
‱ Startup (Product Market Fit)
‱ Scale-up (Company Creation)
‱ Grow-up (Legacy Protection)

Most founders get this wrong from day 1...

2) RETENTION over GROWTH

"Building a business without focusing on retention is like building a skyscraper on sand"

Every 3% increase in net revenue retention = DOUBLES company valuation

Stop chasing growth before you nail retention!

3) The 80/20 Marketing Rule:

‱ 80% of resources on proven channels
‱ 20% on experimental channels

Real example: AppSumo tested switching from credits to cash payments for referrals → Became 8-figure revenue channel

4) The Shield vs Sword Framework for Decision Making:

Rate every opportunity 1-5 on:
‱ Impact (Sword)
‱ Effort (Shield)

Only pursue 8+/10 total score opportunities
Ignore the rest - they're distractions

5) On Building Your Executive Team:

Two core functions:
‱ Sales (CRO)
‱ Delivery (COO)

Pro tip: Hire first in YOUR zone of genius
Why? You'll know what excellence looks like

6) The Triple, Triple, Double, Double Path to $100M:

Year 1: $3M → $9M
Year 2: $9M → $27M
Year 3: $27M → $54M
Year 4: $54M → $108M

This is how you hit 9-figures in 5 years

7) REVOLUTIONARY Compensation Framework:

Forget traditional equity!
Instead:
‱ Set total comp package
‱ Let employees choose cash vs equity split
‱ Makes equity REAL by forcing skin in the game

8) CEO Evolution:

"The founder is the hardest working person
The CEO should be the laziest"

Your job: Think 3-5 quarters ahead while your team executes

Key Takeaway:
Focus on retention first
Build processes before hiring
Think in 5-year blocks
Execute with intention

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"Product market fit is when it feels like you're wearing a meat suit in a dog park - you just have more leads than you know what to do with." - Ayman
"Every 3% increase in net revenue retention doubles a company's valuation." - Ayman

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Podcast: Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Teaching the next-gen engineer with Dr Carlotta Berry
Pub date: 2025-01-30

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Podcast: Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: SE Radio 646: Matthew Skelton on Team Topologies
Pub date: 2024-12-11

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Matthew Skelton joins host Giovanni Asproni to talk about team topologies—an approach to organizing teams for fast flow of value. The episode starts with a description of the underlying principles before exploring the approach in more detail. From there, they discuss when to consider implementing the approach; keys to a successful implementation; and some common mistakes to avoid. Brought to you by IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Software magazine.

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Podcast: Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: SE Radio 653: Asanka Abeysinghe on Cell-Based Architecture
Pub date: 2025-01-30

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Asanka Abeysinghe, CTO at WSO2, joins host Giovanni Asproni to discuss cell-based architecture -- a style that's intended to combine application, deployment, and team architecture to help organizations respond quickly to changes in the business environment, customer requirements, or enterprise strategy. Cell-based architecture is aimed at creating scalable, modular, composable systems with effective governance mechanisms. The conversation starts by introducing the context and some vocabulary before exploring details about the main elements of the architecture and how they fit together. Finally, Asanka offers some advice on how to implement a cell-based architecture in practice.

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Podcast: Software Process and Measurement Cast (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Shift: From Product To People, A Conversation with Oliver-Krueger and Dougherty, SPaMCAST 847
Pub date: 2025-01-19

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SPaMCAST 847 features a wide-ranging discussion with Pete Oliver-Krueger and Michael Dougherty. We discuss their new book, Shift: From Product To People. Shift is a business novel of organizational change. You will find this an important view into change and transformation. We also hit science fiction and psychology. I even dissed George RR Martin. Two notes. This is the last cast of year 18. We begin year 19 next week. Also a quick content warning – there is laughter in this podcast. If you don’t like listening to people have fun while they discuss a serious topic listen anyway. Check it out on Oikosofy: Buy from Amazon:

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Podcast: Agile Uprising Podcast (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Shift: From Product to People - A Conversation on Agile Evolution
Pub date: 2024-11-17

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In this Uprising Podcast episode hosted by Andy Cleff, Michael "Mad Dog" Dougherty and Pete "OK" Oliver-Krueger discuss their new book "Shift from Product to People" - a novel exploring the third wave of agile adoption. Through rich character development inspired by real people and the Enneagram personality system, they illustrate how organizations struggle even after implementing agile practices and DevOps. Mike and Pete reveal why focusing on frameworks and processes alone isn't enough, sharing their vision of people-first transformation. They discuss the evolution from individual team agility (Wave 1) through scaled frameworks (Wave 2) to their proposed third wave - returning focus to people while solving real organizational problems. Drawing from their extensive consulting experience, Mad Dog and OK explore how the consulting industry's obsession with frameworks has sometimes overshadowed the human element that makes agile truly effective. They also preview their next two books that will complete the trilogy, including "Shift from Products to Problems." Key Topics: The three waves of agile adoption Why organizations fail despite "doing all the right things" Using the Enneagram for authentic character development The future of agile in a post-framework world Balancing people focus with business outcomes Links Book/Kindle Contact Info Websites Previous Episodes Jan 24, 2021: Jan 16, 2022: Jan 30 2022: Related Podcasts: ) (2018) (2021) (2021) Closing Tunes: Your Brains by is licensed under a . About the Agile Uprising If you enjoyed this episode, please give us a review, a rating, or leave comments on iTunes, Stitcher or your podcasting platform of choice. It really helps others find us. If you’d like to join the discussion and share your stories, please jump into the fray at our We at the Agile Uprising are committed to being totally free. However, if you’d like to contribute and help us defray hosting and production costs we do have a . Who knows, you might even get some surprises in the mail! AU Merch:

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Podcast: Agile Uprising Podcast (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Bad Sh!t Managers Do: Moving From Management to Leadership with Dr. Steve Martin
Pub date: 2025-01-05

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Join host Andy Cleff and his guest Dr. Steve Martin, author of "" for an honest and often humorous exploration of the journey from management to true leadership. Drawing on his diverse background - from Disney cast member to Fortune 100 consultant - Steve shares practical insights on how to impact behavior, build trust, and empower teams. Whether you're a new manager or a seasoned leader, you'll discover why managing isn't just about what you do, but how you shape the environment around you. Plus, find out what marathon running can teach us about sustainable leadership practices. #Leadership #OrganizationalChange #TeamDynamics #Management #trust #PsychologicalSafety #Empowerment #Accountability Links Contact Info LinkedIn: Website: (docstevemartin.com) Book link: (Print/Kindle) Related shows: (2024) (2017) (2024) (2024)

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Podcast: Agile Uprising Podcast (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Beyond Agile Theater w Gene Gendel: Product Centricity
Pub date: 2025-01-19

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In this Agile Uprising pod, Andy Cleff welcomes back Gene Gendel to dive deep into what true product orientation means beyond surface-level changes. Gene unpacks common misconceptions about product-centric organizations and explores the 'productization saga' - where companies relabel components without meaningful structural change. The conversation examines how work breakdown, team structure, and budgeting practices impact genuine product focus, offering practical insights for organizations seeking authentic transformation. Contact Info LinkedIn: Twitter: Website: Meetup Community (main): YouTube Channel: Related shows: (2023) (2021) (2019) (2021) About the Agile Uprising If you enjoyed this episode, please give us a review, a rating, or leave comments on iTunes, Stitcher or your podcasting platform of choice. It really helps others find us. Much thanks to the artist from who provided us our outro music free-of-charge! If you like what you heard, to find more music you might enjoy! If you’d like to join the discussion and share your stories, please jump into the fray at our We at the Agile Uprising are committed to being totally free. However, if you’d like to contribute and help us defray hosting and production costs we do have a . Who knows, you might even get some surprises in the mail! Related Visuals

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Podcast: The Tim Ferriss Show (LS 81 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: #792: Seth Godin on Playing the Right Game and Strategy as a Superpower
Pub date: 2025-01-29

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Seth Godin is the author of 21 internationally bestselling books, translated into more than 35 languages, including Linchpin, Tribes, The Dip, andPurple Cow. His latest book is This Is Strategy.

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Podcast: Future Ready Leadership With Jacob Morgan (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Sparks: Think Like a Futurist: Making a Future-Ready Organization Through Scenario Thinking and AI
Pub date: 2025-01-10

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Are you shaping the future or letting it shape you? In today’s Leadership Spark, we explore how leaders can think in scenarios to prepare for multiple outcomes and avoid being caught off guard. We also dive into the power of AI tools like ChatGPT, which are transforming how leaders train employees, boost productivity, and solve problems. But with great power comes responsibility—balancing AI’s potential with human judgment is key to building the future of work.

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Podcast: Future Ready Leadership With Jacob Morgan (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Sparks: Flexibility in the Workplace: The Importance of Consistency and Conviction in an Evolving Organization
Pub date: 2025-01-17

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Workplace flexibility isn’t new, but its importance is growing. More than just remote or hybrid setups, it’s about giving employees options in career paths, benefits, and how they work best. In today’s Leadership Spark, we explore why leaders must stay true to their company’s culture and values, especially in uncertain times. Flip-flopping on big decisions leads to mistrust, but clear communication and conviction create alignment and loyalty. Learn how successful companies navigated the return to office with confidence and how to lead in uncertainty by knowing what matters most to your organization and standing by it, even as the workplace continues to evolve.

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Podcast: Future Ready Leadership With Jacob Morgan (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Three Leadership Skills to Thrive in the Future of Work
Pub date: 2025-02-03

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The secret to better leadership in the future of work isn't knowing everything, but mastering the right things. This episode brings together three leadership visionaries—Diego Barreto, CEO of iFood; Jeff Kindler, former CEO of Pfizer; and Frederic Laloux, author of Reinventing Organizations—to share the tools you need to lead smarter in the new world of work. You'll learn why mastering one skill at a time, encouraging constructive disagreement, and embracing self-management are the keys to navigating uncertainty, driving better decisions, and building agile teams.

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Episode: Sparks: Are Today’s Leaders Too Afraid? How to Lead With Confidence, Courage, and Respect
Pub date: 2025-02-07

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Are today’s leaders too afraid to lead? In today's Leadership Spark, we explore the challenges of leadership today, from balancing psychological safety with accountability to being honest about workplace expectations. We discuss how over-coddling employees and focusing too much on feelings can backfire, and why it’s important for leaders to set clear standards while fostering respect and responsibility.

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Podcast: The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: #205 Rob Fraser: The Power of Focus
Pub date: 2024-10-15

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Rob Fraser unveils the untold story of OUTWAY—from hawking socks on street corners to building an eight-figure empire. Surviving near-catastrophic business crises, he leveraged lessons from his professional sports career to navigate the business world. Discover the counterintuitive mental models that transformed a world-class athlete into a business maverick, turning the humble sock into a ten-million-dollar revolution.

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Podcast: Schmidt List - Inspiring Leaders (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Agile Evolution
Pub date: 2024-10-08

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In this enlightening episode of the Schmidt List, host Kurt Schmidt is joined by Anne Steiner, a strategic advisor at NerdNoir, to delve into the evolving landscape of product development and innovation in the post-pandemic world.

As a master networker, Kurt opens up about the dynamic energy he derives from community interactions, setting the stage for a rich conversation on the importance of in-person engagements, even as remote work becomes the norm.

Anne Steiner emphasizes the timeless value of learning from others' mistakes, enriched by her industry experiences. Kurt and Anne advocate for a culture where mistakes are celebrated as essential steps toward innovation. The discussion transitions into the current state of agile methodologies, noting their decreased prominence and the maturation of processes in industries like finance and pharma.

They explore the critical role of technology and the evolution of product management as a competitive edge, highlighting the lack of standardization and the broad scope of responsibilities faced by product managers today. Steiner and Schmidt stress the need for team-based goals to ensure alignment across various organizational roles and discuss the complexities of maintaining efficient operations in high-level organizational structures.
Anne shares insights on the pandemic's impacts on product development workflows, from increased reliance on AI and no-code solutions to the shift toward virtual meeting cultures. She critiques the overreliance on processes and tools at the expense of delivering true market value.

The episode also touches on the stress of asynchronous communication and the necessity of intuitive leadership in remote settings. Personal anecdotes and practical advice underscore the importance of in-person connections, customer engagement, and diverse perspectives in driving innovation and success.

Kurt and Anne conclude by offering valuable resources for founders and product managers. They discuss the benefits of networking, startup incubators, and continuous learning through experiential methods over traditional media. Whether you are a seasoned product manager or an aspiring entrepreneur, this episode provides knowledge and inspiration to enhance your product development journey.

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Podcast: Kodsnack
Episode: Kodsnack 622 - LÄngdistansmjukvaruutveckling
Pub date: 2024-12-31

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Fredrik snackar om lÄngdistansmjukvaruutveckling - att bygga saker över lÀngre tid pÄ ett bra sÀtt, och hur och varför han tÀnker vÀldigt mycket pÄ löpning i sammanhanget.

Det blir rutiner, löpning, agil utveckling, tidsuppskattning, deadlines, och varför sprint Àr ett vÀrdelöst ord nÀr man snackar mjukvaruutveckling.

Avsnittet Àr pÄ sÀtt och vis en deluxeförlÀngd regissörsversion av Fredriks lucka i Asdfs julkalender.

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Podcast: Dev Interrupted (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Hunting for a Flywheel | Refactoring’s Luca Rossi
Pub date: 2025-02-04

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To open the show Ben and Andrew dissect the latest headlines, from DeepSeek's challenge to ChatGPT to the growing importance of AI cybersecurity. They explain why everyone suddenly searched 'Jevons Paradox' last week and discuss strategic AI investments from IBM and financial giant Goldman Sachs. These investments underscore the growing importance of strong engineering leadership in the age of AI.

Then Luca Rossi of Refactoring joins the show to discuss his latest research. Drawing from a comprehensive survey of engineering professionals, Luca breaks down the key traits and practices of successful engineering teams, revealing surprising correlations between team happiness, shipping frequency, and recognition by non-technical leadership.

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Podcast: Product Thinking (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 192: Brian Fugere’s Blueprint for Merging Teams and Technologies
Pub date: 2024-10-09

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Host Melissa Perri enjoys a far-reaching conversation with Brian Fugere in this episode of the Product Thinking Podcast. Brian is the Chief Product Officer at Symplr, with extensive experience in transforming businesses through AI-powered automation and robotics. They discuss the impact of AI and automation on supply chain innovation, the balance between operational efficiency and creativity in product leadership, and how to scale product teams effectively. Brian also shares insights into aligning teams with business outcomes, fostering innovation while managing risk, and navigating the challenges of working with cutting-edge technology.

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Podcast: Product Thinking (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 199: The True Cost of AI: Beyond the Hype and Into Reality with Jessica Hall
Pub date: 2024-11-27

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Just Eat Takeaway’s Jessica Hall joins Melissa Perri in this episode of the Product Thinking podcast. Chief Product Officer at the food delivery giant, Jessica links up with Melissa to discuss the intricacies of managing a diverse product portfolio across global markets, sharing insights from her journey in navigating the challenges of integrating multiple brands, post-merger and establishing a unified customer experience. She’s not all positive about AI adoption though, and is honest about both the potential and the pitfalls, including the often-overlooked costs and the importance of building a sustainable ecosystem around new technologies. Tune in to discover how strategic thinking and a customer-first approach can lead to innovative, responsible AI implementations that truly resonate with users.

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Podcast: Product Thinking (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 200: Building a Minimal Lovable Product with Tomer London
Pub date: 2024-12-04

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Gusto's Tomer London joins Melissa Perri in this episode of the Product Thinking podcast. As the co-founder and Chief Product Officer, Tomer shares his insights on building a lovable product experience in the fast-paced world of payroll and HR solutions. He discusses how Gusto stays committed to exceptional user experience amidst a growing and complex product portfolio. Tomer delves into the three key pillars of creating great user experiences – functionality, intuitiveness, and delight – and shares an engaging example of how celebrating payday can enhance emotional connections with customers. Tune in to learn how a focus on user-centric design and strategic thinking can drive meaningful innovation in product management.

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Podcast: Product Thinking (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 205: Revolutionizing Workforce Agility Through AI with Karthik Suri
Pub date: 2025-01-13

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Join Melissa Perri in this insightful episode of the Product Thinking Podcast as she chats with Karthik Suri, Chief Product Officer at Cornerstone OnDemand. Recognized for his expertise in leveraging AI for workforce development, Karthik shares innovative strategies on bridging skill gaps and creating personalized career pathways through generative AI and data intelligence. They explore the transformative potential of AI in talent development, emphasizing the need for a blend of technical and human-centric skills to thrive in today’s dynamic work environment.

Discover how AI is reshaping talent management and why human skills are increasingly in demand, surpassing digital skills threefold. Karthik highlights the significance of adaptable enterprise software that aligns with the evolving needs of workforces.

Curious about how to prepare your organization for the future with AI-driven insights? Tune in to explore the intersection of AI, skills development, and workforce readiness.

You’ll hear us talk about:

  • 23:52 - Harnessing AI for Skill Detection and Career Growth

Karthik explains how generative AI can assess skills through various data sources, creating holistic profiles for employees. This approach helps organizations identify and develop the necessary skills for career progression.

  • 29:09 - Building a Unified Product Strategy

Karthik shares insights on the importance of a unified user experience and a platform mindset for product strategy. He discusses how integrating design systems and data structures across products enhances customer outcomes.

  • 42:57 - Ethical AI in Performance and Skills Evaluation

The conversation delves into the ethical considerations of using AI for performance reviews, highlighting the importance of accountability, explainability, and bias mitigation.

Episode Resources:

Karthik Suri on LinkedIn

Cornerston OnDemand

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Podcast: Product Thinking (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 206: Building and Scaling Zero to One Products with Uday Marepalli
Pub date: 2025-01-15

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In this episode of the Product Thinking Podcast, I am joined by Uday Marepalli, Director of Product Management at Upwork, who brings his expertise from leading AI-driven initiatives to our conversation. Uday shares his insights on building zero to one products within large organizations, emphasizing the importance of understanding customer needs and leveraging AI in product development.

This episode dives into the challenges and strategies for innovating in a way that aligns with both customer expectations and technological capabilities. Want to learn how to effectively launch and scale products in complex environments? Tune in to gain practical insights from Uday's extensive experience in product management.

You'll hear us talk about:

  • 06:24 - The Thrills and Challenges of Zero to One Products

Uday delves into the unique excitement and difficulty of creating something from nothing, stressing the importance of balancing speed with thoughtful validation of hypotheses

  • 14:37 - Handling Conflicting Information and Making Strategic Pivots

Uday discusses how to manage new, sometimes contradictory, information by aligning it with the overarching vision and deciding whether to iterate or pivot.

  • 38:54 - Building AI Zero to One Products

Uday explores the peculiar challenges of AI products, including data collection and ensuring trust and explainability in AI-driven decisions.

Episode Resources:

Uday Marepalli on LinkedIn

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Podcast: Lederhjerne
Episode: Lederen skal rumme medarbejderens fÞlelser - det er hÄrdere, end de fleste forstÄr
Pub date: 2025-01-22

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Som leder skal du ofte rumme medarbejdernes behov, fÞlelser og reaktioner. Du skal vÊre Äben overfor kritik, bevare roen og vÊre empatisk, selv nÄr det hele brÊnder pÄ, og medarbejderne lÞber i forskellige retninger. Denne del af ledelsesrollen mangler tid og anerkendelse, siger de to erhvervspsykologer, Vibeke Lunding-Gregersen og Louise Dinesen.

VĂŠrter: Louise Dinesen og Vibeke Lunding-Gregersen

Musik: Christian SchĂždts-SĂžrensen

Klip: Mads Ladekarl

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Episode: Magt er kun til lÄns - sÄdan skal du hÄndtere magttab
Pub date: 2025-02-05

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At frygte statustab er helt naturligt - men det er muligt at forberede sig pÄ risikoen ved at miste magt. I dette afsnit af Lederhjerne dykker erhvervspsykologerne Louise Dinesen og Vibeke Lunding-Gregersen ned i, hvordan magttab kan pÄvirke bÄde dit professionelle og personlige liv og giver rÄd til, hvordan du kan ruste dig pÄ et fald fra magtens tinder.

VĂŠrter: Louise Dinesen & Vibeke Lunding-Gregersen

Musik: Christian SchĂždts-SĂžrensen

Klip: Omar Ghali

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Podcast: Coaching Real Leaders (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How To Make the Most of Your Work Day (from Working It)
Pub date: 2024-08-12

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Have you ever wondered why different people work better at different times of the day? Maybe you love to do your most challenging work first thing in the morning or perhaps you’re at your best in the middle of the night. We all experience peaks and troughs over the course of a working day, but knowing how to manage them can make us more productive – and happier.

This episode is a special introduction to Working It, an award-winning podcast from the Financial Times, hosted by Isabel Berwick.

Working It offers expert analysis and key takeaways to help leaders and managers make sense of the big news stories and trends shaping the world of work.

In this episode, bestselling author Daniel Pink explains why we work best at specific times of the day, how to talk about those differences with your manager or your team, and how we can harness these differences to do our best work.

You can listen to Working It at https://www.ft.com/working-it or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Podcast: Coaching Real Leaders (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How Do I Position Myself to Influence Senior Leadership?
Pub date: 2024-12-16

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He’s a leader who took a role at an organization where he can expand his area of expertise and make more of a strategic impact. But he’s getting mixed signals from leadership on how to grow the company, and he’s wondering how to stay effective in influencing the senior team without burning out in the process. Host Muriel Wilkins coaches him through how to clear the path ahead.

Further reading:

  • Strengthen Your Ability to Influence People
  • What It Takes to Build Influence at Work from podcast HBR On Leadership
  • Does Your Organization Have the Energy to Transform?
  • What the Best Leadership Teams Do Right

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Podcast: De Agile RĂždder - en podcast om effektivitet, samarbejde og ledelse
Episode: 47: Ud med hierarkierne - ind med de selvledende teams!
Pub date: 2024-10-22

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Virksomheden Technolution stod over for et problem: De havde ambitioner om at vokse. Det lyder mÄske som et luksusproblem, men udfordringen var, at de gerne ville holde fast i en flad organisation, vÊkst-ambitionerne til trods. PÄ trods af dét, sad ledelsen nu og talte om at indfÞre endnu et ledelseslag.

Jesper Cassþe Andersen arbejder med ‘People & Organisation’ i Technolution. Han fortéller os historien om, hvordan de i sidste ende valgte at gþre noget helt andet, nemlig at indfþre selvledende teams, inspireret af bogen ‘Humanocracy’.

Det starter med et sommerhus og en YouTube-video, og det fortsĂŠtter med, at vi udfritter Jesper om, hvordan de kom i gang med at indfĂžre de selvledende teams. Vi slutter med status i dag, hvor honeymoon-fasen er ovre og konkrete problemer skal lĂžses.

LINKS:

  • Studie-selfie med Jesper
  • Jesper pĂ„ LinkedIn
  • Technolution
  • Bogen ‘Humanocracy’ af Gary Hamel
  • Vertica, hvor ham Mikkel var fra, og hvor virksomheden er ‘indlĂŠrt selvlededende’
  • Mette Aagaards bog ‘Medledelsen - NĂ„r teamet er chef’
  • Episode 43 om neurodiversitet, hvor Katrine Hald Kjeldsen forvirrede Rasmus og Line
  • Lines blog-indlĂŠg om at vĂŠre neurodivergent: Neurodivergent pĂ„ arbejde: 7 gode rĂ„d til at skabe plads til alle – til fordel for alle
  • Og LinkedIn-posten, hvor Line springer ud med sine nye diagnoser (spoiler: folk var meget, meget sĂžde ❀)
  • Lines nyhedsbrev, Processer & Mennesker
  • deagilerĂždder.dk
  • RĂždderne pĂ„ LinkedIn
  • Rasmus pĂ„ LinkedIn - og pĂ„ rasmusgothgen.dk
  • Line pĂ„ LinkedIn - og pĂ„ lineh.dk

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Episode: 49: GĂžr det smĂ„t og banalt - Morten MĂŒnster instruerer i bĂŠredygtige forandringer
Pub date: 2024-12-03

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I vil gerne optimere arbejdspladsen? Blive mere effektive, have bedre samarbejde, levere mere vÊrdi til slutbrugeren - den slags, ja? SÄ skal I glemme alt om at stÄ pÄ Þlkassen og holde taler om nye og revolutionerende forandringer. I skal holde det smÄt, I skal holde det banalt - og I skal prÞve jer frem.

Vi har inviteret Morten MĂŒnster i studiet til en snak om, hvordan man skaber bĂŠredygtige forandringer. Morten har skrevet flere bĂžger om adfĂŠrd og forandring. Vi taler med ham om, hvorfor vi skal glemme alt om metoder og transformationer og i stedet fokusere pĂ„ konkret adfĂŠrd. For i sidste ende handler det om, at mennesker skal gĂžre noget andet.

Til sidst vover vi ogsÄ pelsen og beder Morten om at komme med sit bud pÄ, hvad der skal stÄ i et dekret for, hvordan man implementerer forandringer. Vi anbefaler hermed, at alle fÞlger dekretet.

LINKS:

  • Studie-selfie med Morten
  • Mortens website med bĂ„de bĂžger og podcast
  • Julekampagnen, hvor du kan fĂ„ rabat pĂ„ underholdning med RĂždderne
  • Mentalt helbred pĂ„ arbejdet: Paula Petcus podcast, Founder’s Mental Health, hvor Line var gĂŠst
  • De 7 mest almindelige problemer i processer og samarbejde - ifĂžlge Line
  • Susanne Ekman om mismatchet mellem krav og forventninger i episode 45
  • deagilerĂždder.dk
  • RĂždderne pĂ„ LinkedIn
  • Rasmus pĂ„ LinkedIn - og pĂ„ rasmusgothgen.dk
  • Line pĂ„ LinkedIn - og pĂ„ lineh.dk

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Podcast: Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | Career (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: 10 growth tactics that never work | Elena Verna (Amplitude, Miro, Dropbox, SurveyMonkey)
Pub date: 2025-01-19

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Elena Verna is one of Silicon Valley’s most sought-after growth advisors and operators. She previously led growth at companies like Amplitude, Miro, Dropbox, and SurveyMonkey and is currently doing full-time advising for high-growth tech companies. In our conversation, Elena and I discuss:

‱ 10 growth tactics that never work

‱ Her 3 favorite growth frameworks

‱ How to increase your career optionality

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Where to find Elena Verna:

‱ Newsletter: https://www.elenaverna.com/

‱ X: https://x.com/elenaverna

‱ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elenaverna

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‱ Newsletter: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com

‱ X: https://twitter.com/lennysan

‱ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennyrachitsky/

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In this episode, we cover:

(00:00) Welcome back, Elena!

(06:02) Common mistakes growth teams make

(08:31) #1: Hiring for growth roles too soon

(15:09) #2: Hiring a head of growth to fix your problems

(19:20) #3: Doing a rebrand to drive growth

(25:11) #4: Obsessing over your competition

(34:00) #5: Believing that your problems are unique

(42:32) #6: Prioritizing other growth channels above earned channels

(50:55) #7: Failing to evolve your growth model

(01:01:06) #8: Not hiring advisors

(01:05:55) #9: Over-experimenting

(01:10:44) #10: Color optimizations, third-party signups, one-email wonders, and removing friction

(01:15:00) Elena’s favorite growth frameworks

(01:18:50) Contrarian corner: full-time jobs

(01:26:05) Lightning round and final thoughts

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Referenced:

‱ Elena Verna on how B2B growth is changing, product-led growth, product-led sales, why you should go freemium not trial, what features to make free, and much more: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/elena-verna-on-why-every-company

‱ The ultimate guide to product-led sales | Elena Verna: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/the-ultimate-guide-to-product-led

‱ Six rules of hiring for growth: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/hiring-growth

‱ Figma: https://www.figma.com/

‱ Miro: https://www.figma.com/

‱ Notion: https://www.figma.com/

‱ Carol Wong on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carol-wong-14133927/

‱ Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/

‱ The Law of Shitty Clickthroughs: https://andrewchen.com/the-law-of-shitty-clickthroughs/

‱ Miroverse: https://miro.com/miroverse/

‱ GitHub: https://github.com/

‱ My 9 Favorite Growth Frameworks: https://www.elenaverna.com/p/my-9-favorite-growth-frameworks

‱ Growth Loops are the New Funnels: https://www.reforge.com/blog/growth-loops

‱ Racecar Growth Framework: https://www.reforge.com/blog/racecar-growth-framework

‱ The Adjacent User: https://andrewchen.com/the-adjacent-user-theory/

‱ Unorthodox frameworks for growing your product, career, and impact | Bangaly Kaba (YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Instacart): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/frameworks-for-growing-your-career-bangaly-kaba

‱ Why I’m Unquitting Full-Time Roles: https://www.elenaverna.com/p/why-im-unquitting-full-time-roles

‱ Noah Smith’s newsletter: https://www.noahpinion.blog/

‱ Beef on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81447461

‱ Veep on Max: https://www.max.com/shows/veep/37cb4217-c710-4166-8e9f-352a61f2cd3a

‱ The Last of Us on Max: https://www.max.com/shows/last-of-us/93ba22b1-833e-47ba-ae94-8ee7b9eefa9a

‱ Heated boots: https://www.amazon.com/heated-boots/s?k=heated+boots

‱ Airpods Max: https://www.apple.com/airpods-max/

‱ Memes by Elena: https://www.elenaverna.com/p/ten-funniest-growth-memes

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Recommended books:

‱ Project Hail Mary: https://www.amazon.com/Project-Hail-Mary-Andy-Weir/dp/0593135229/

‱ The Martian: https://www.amazon.com/Martian-Andy-Weir/dp/0553418025

‱ We Are Legion (Bobiverse #1): https://www.amazon.com/We-Are-Legion-Bob-Bobiverse/dp/1680680587

‱ Fire Upon the Deep: https://www.amazon.com/Fire-Upon-Deep-Zones-Thought/dp/0812515285

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Podcast: Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | Career (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: OpenAI researcher on why soft skills are the future of work | Karina Nguyen (Research at OpenAI, ex-Anthropic)
Pub date: 2025-02-09

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Karina Nguyen leads research at OpenAI, where she’s been pivotal in developing groundbreaking products like Canvas, Tasks, and the o1 language model. Before OpenAI, Karina was at Anthropic, where she led post-training and evaluation work for Claude 3 models, created a document upload feature with 100,000 context windows, and contributed to numerous other innovations. With experience as an engineer at the New York Times and as a designer at Dropbox and Square, Karina has a rare firsthand perspective on the cutting edge of AI and large language models. In our conversation, we discuss:

‱ How OpenAI builds product

‱ What people misunderstand about AI model training

‱ Differences between how OpenAI and Anthropic operate

‱ The role of synthetic data in model development

‱ How to build trust between users and AI models

‱ Why she moved from engineering to research

‱ Much more

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Where to find Karina Nguyen:

‱ X: https://x.com/karinanguyen_

‱ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karinanguyen28

‱ Website: https://karinanguyen.com/

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‱ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennyrachitsky/

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In this episode, we cover:

(00:00) Introduction to Karina Nguyen

(04:42) Challenges in model training

(08:21) Synthetic data and its importance

(12:38) Creating Canvas

(18:33) Day-to-day operations at OpenAI

(20:28) Writing evaluations

(23:22) Prototyping and product development

(26:57) Building Canvas and Tasks

(33:34) Understanding the job of a researcher

(35:36) The future of AI and its impact on work and education

(42:15) Soft skills in the age of AI

(47:50) AI’s role in creativity and strategy development

(53:34) Comparing Anthropic and OpenAI

(57:11) Innovations and future visions

(01:07:13) The potential of AI agents

(01:11:36) Final thoughts and career advice

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Referenced:

‱ What’s in your stack: The state of tech tools in 2025: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/whats-in-your-stack-the-state-of

‱ Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/

‱ OpenAI: https://openai.com/

‱ What is synthetic data—and how can it help you competitively?: https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/what-synthetic-data-and-how-can-it-help-you-competitively

‱ GPQA: https://datatunnel.io/glossary/gpqa/

‱ Canvas: https://openai.com/index/introducing-canvas/

‱ Barret Zoph on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/barret-zoph-65990543/

‱ Mira Murati on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mira-murati-4b39a066/

‱ JSON Schema: https://json-schema.org/

‱ Anthropic—100K Context Windows: https://www.anthropic.com/news/100k-context-windows

‱ Claude 3 Haiku: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-haiku

‱ A.I. Chatbots Defeated Doctors at Diagnosing Illness: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/health/chatgpt-ai-doctors-diagnosis.html

‱ Cursor: https://www.cursor.com/

‱ How AI will impact product management: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-ai-will-impact-product-management

‱ Lee Byron on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lee-byron/

‱ GraphQL: https://graphql.org/

‱ Claude in Slack: https://www.anthropic.com/claude-in-slack

‱ Sam Altman on X: https://x.com/sama

‱ Jakub Pachocki on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakub-pachocki/

‱ Lennybot: https://www.lennybot.com/

‱ ElevenLabs: https://elevenlabs.io/

‱ Westworld on Prime Video: https://www.amazon.com/Westworld-Season-1/dp/B01N05UD06

‱ A conversation with OpenAI’s CPO Kevin Weil, Anthropic’s CPO Mike Krieger, and Sarah Guo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxkvVZua28k

‱ Tuple: https://tuple.app/

‱ How Shopify builds a high-intensity culture | Farhan Thawar (VP and Head of Eng): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-shopify-builds-a-high-intensity-culture-farhan-thawar

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Podcast: Drunk Agile (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 100 -Some Backlogs Are More Equal Than Others
Pub date: 2025-02-03

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All backlogs are equal, but some backlogs are more equal than others.

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Podcast: Tech Lead Journal (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: #202 - The Rise of AI in Shaping the Future of Work - André Neubauer
Pub date: 2025-01-20

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“Looking at the development pace of this area, it’s just a question of when generative AI will take over larger parts of software engineering. It’s a leadership responsibility to ensure your organization is ready for AI and you are taking the right path.”

AI is changing EVERYTHING – including the way we build software. Are you READY for it?

In this episode, we dive deep into the impact of AI on the future of work, particularly in the software development space. Join me and André Neubauer as we explore:

  • The evolution of AI: From early code generation to today’s advanced Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs).

  • The rise of Agentic AI: How AI agents are collaborating to automate complex tasks and reshape software development workflows.

  • The impact on organizations: How companies can leverage AI to boost productivity, foster innovation, and navigate the challenges of this new era.

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(00:10:30) What Drives the AI Advancements

(00:18:54) The Levels of AI Advancement

(00:25:01) AI in Software Engineering

(00:26:53) Concerns on Tech Debt and Issues

(00:31:11) Impact of AI to Organizations

(00:34:34) Smaller and Leaner Teams

(00:37:15) The Rise of Solopreneurship

(00:41:32) Getting People Onboard to AI

(00:44:40) Leadership Measures for Adopting AI

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Pub date: 2025-01-08

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Host Connor Leyland explores career transitions from engineering to leadership with an esteemed panel of experts. Mårk Verebélyi, Senior Engineering Manager at BrandWatch, shares his experience leading tech teams. Athinodoros Sgouromallis, Lead Developer at GAN Integrity, offers insights into balancing technical expertise and leadership. Liudmila Pozdniakova, Engineering Manager, discusses team dynamics and project management. Daniel Lazarovici, Tech and Product Manager at Legacy, highlights strategies for aligning product vision with technical execution. Gain actionable insights into leadership in the tech world.

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Episode: Evo DK #234 - Balancing Business Goals With Employee Well-Being
Pub date: 2025-01-17

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Host Sian Vance explores the intersection of business success and employee well-being with an esteemed panel of leaders. Merete Bang, Manager at Novo Nordisk, shares insights into fostering innovation while supporting teams. David Andreasen Lyngh, People & Culture Lead at Intellishore, discusses building a thriving workplace culture. Jan Dalsten, Unit Manager at The National Archives, highlights data science’s role in strategic planning. Nikolaj Borg-Hass, Head of Engineering at Go Wish, delves into sustainable leadership practices. Gain actionable insights for creating balanced, thriving organizations.

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Episode: Evo DK #237 - Enabling A Data-Driven Organisation
Pub date: 2025-01-21

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Alex Robinson hosts a compelling discussion on building data-driven organizations with Kristian Wind-Bergstrom, Global Data Product Manager at Pandora; Mohammed Mahuvawala, Head of Business Intelligence at Maersk; and Janus Morthorst, Head of Insights, Analytics, and Engineering at Nordea. Discover how these leaders are leveraging data to drive insights, inform business strategies, and foster innovation. From managing global data products to engineering insights, this episode offers valuable perspectives on turning data into a powerful organizational asset.

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Pub date: 2025-01-21

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Join Alex Robinson as he delves into the intersection of technology and business with Mikkel Gardosoe, Head of Group Business Architecture & Change Management at DSV; Jeppe Tue Ishoy, ERP Manager and Solution Architect at Liewood; Martin HĂžjgaard-Hansen, Executive IT Management Consultant at Nordea Asset Management; and Magnus Christensen, Head of Global Pricing Analytics at Novonesis. Explore how these leaders are driving digital transformation, optimizing IT strategies, and leveraging technology to bridge the gap between technical innovation and business success.

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Episode: 176. From Stereotypes to Synergy: Communicating Across Generations
Pub date: 2024-12-31

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Age diversity and cross-generational synergy can transform an organization.

Most of us know age diversity matters in the workplace. But according to UCLA’s Bob McCann, we're thinking about it all wrong: it's not just about having different generations present — it's about creating meaningful connections between them.

As director of UCLA's Leadership Communication Program and founder of the McCann Group, McCann has spent years researching intergenerational workplace dynamics. With four to six generations now working side by side, he says there’s never been a better time to create synergies between the old and the young.

"There's a tremendous opportunity for meeting and interacting with people who are different than you, for increasing a variety of potential outcomes in business in a positive way, if we can maximize our intergenerational engagement," he says. His research reveals that while many organizations focus on gender and ethnic diversity, age diversity often gets overlooked in DEI initiatives — despite its crucial role in workplace success.

In this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, McCann joins Matt Abrahams to discuss how organizations can move beyond superficial age diversity to create meaningful cross-generational connections. From reverse mentoring programs to shadow boards, they explore practical ways leaders can harness the power of generational difference to drive innovation and collaboration.

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  • Bob McCann
  • Ep.67 What Is Normal? How Culture Affects Communication Styles
  • Ep.21 Words Matter: How to Make Your Communication Inclusive

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  • (00:00) - Introduction
  • (02:15) - Why Generational Interactions Matter
  • (03:08) - What is a Generation?
  • (04:17) - Combating Workplace Ageism
  • (05:35) - Breaking Stereotypes
  • (08:10) - Better Intergenerational Interactions
  • (10:55) - Technology and Training Across Generations
  • (12:40) - The Three Final Questions
  • (18:28) - Conclusion

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Episode: 177. Don’t Resolve, Evolve: Top 10 Lessons For 2025
Pub date: 2025-01-07

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Ten essential communication strategies designed to elevate your skills.

2024 has been an incredible year for learning and growth, and as we head into 2025, there’s no better time to reflect on the skills and strategies that can shape our communication and careers. In this special episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, Matt Abrahams takes us through ten standout lessons from the past year. These aren’t just ideas to remember — they’re practices to evolve with. From Priya Parker’s insights on generous authority to Huggy Rao’s call to cut through jargon monoxide, each concept highlights how small shifts in mindset and behavior can lead to big transformations. With actionable advice and real-world examples, this episode is packed with inspiration to help you Think Fast, Talk Smart, and communicate better in the year ahead.

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  • Ep.174 Fix Meetings: Transform Gatherings Into Meaningful Moments
  • Ep.164 Using "Pre-suasion" to Influence Others
  • Ep.158 Hope for Cynics: Building Trusting Relationships through Communication
  • Ep.156 Creative Communication: How Our Design Choices Illustrate Our Values
  • Ep.148 Conviction and Compassion: How to Have Hard Conversations
  • Ep.142 Power and Persuasion: Live Insights from Stanford Experts
  • Ep.137 When Words Aren’t Enough: How to Excel at Nonverbal Communication
  • Ep.138 Speak Your Truth: Why Authenticity Leads to Better Communication
  • Ep.134 How to Chat with Bots: The Secrets to Getting the Information You Need from AI
  • Ep.131 Friction Fixing: How to Use Obstacles to Your Advantage
  • Ep.120 A Few of Matt’s Favorite Things: 10 Communication Takeaways from 2023's TFTS Episodes

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  • (00:00) - Introduction
  • (02:16) - Priya Parker: Gatherings And Generous Authority
  • (04:22) - Robert Cialdini: Pre-Suasion
  • (06:08) - Jamil Zaki: Trust Loudly
  • (07:21) - Scott Dorley: Design Your Environment
  • (09:47) - Irv Grousbeck: Brevity Conveys Conviction
  • (11:16) - Michele Gelfand: Mind Your Metaphors
  • (12:46) - Dana Carney: Take Space With Words
  • (14:16) - Julia Minson: Use Hear When In Conflict
  • (16:52) - Jeremy Utley And Kian Gohar: How To Chat With Bots
  • (18:31) - Huggy Rao: Avoid Jargon Monoxide
  • (20:37) - Conclusion

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Episode: 178. Navigating Chaos and Uncertainty: The Power of Transparency and Empathy
Pub date: 2025-01-14

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Clear communication during times of uncertainty.

Whether leading people through a 15-minute meeting or a years-long pandemic, communication requires compassion. For Dr. Anthony Fauci, that means being clear about who we’re speaking to and concise in what we say.

As one of the world's leading experts in infectious diseases and public health, Fauci has been America's most trusted voice during the COVID-19 pandemic and other health crises. Whether addressing groups of fellow scientists and specialists or everyday people, his communication approach is the same. "Know your audience," he says. "Decide what your message is and make it crisp [and] clear."

In addition to being clear about the known facts, Fauci advocates for equal transparency about the unknowns. "Be totally transparent into what you know and what you don't know," he says. "Transparency, honesty and a little bit of humility — let the audience know that you don't know everything."

In this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, Fauci joins Matt Abrahams to discuss how leaders can communicate more effectively by staying focused on what matters most. From managing uncertainty to handling contentious interactions, they explore how clarity and transparency build trust and drive results.

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  • (00:00) - Introduction
  • (02:16) - Communication in Crisis
  • (03:22) - Strategies for Building Trust
  • (04:42) - Adapting Messages for Different Audiences
  • (06:47) - Techniques for Effective Communication
  • (08:14) - Managing High-Stakes Communication
  • (10:02) - Addressing Misinformation
  • (11:15) - Impromptu Speaking Skills
  • (14:27) - Managing Conflict in Communication
  • (15:33) - The Final Three Questions
  • (19:24) - Conclusion

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Episode: 179. Finding Positive in Negative Emotions: Communication, Happiness & Wellbeing
Pub date: 2025-01-21

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A double definition of happiness — and how to cultivate both parts.

The new year gives us an opportunity to reflect on who we are and who we want to be. As we set resolutions and prepare for evolutions, this special four-part series on communication, happiness, and well-being explores practical ways to enhance our lives through better communication, deeper connections, and more meaningful choices.

There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to happiness, but according to Laurie Santos, everyone needs the two key components of contentment and fulfillment — or as she puts it, being happy in your life and happy with your life.

“Being happy in your life [means] your life is filled with joy,” explains Santos, a Yale psychology professor and host of The Happiness Lab podcast. This felt sense of happiness — enjoying where we are, what we do, and who we’re with — is essential, but it’s not the only piece of the puzzle. Being happy with your life, she says, is the belief that “your life is going well. Being happy with your life gets closer to things like fulfillment and purpose.”

In this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, Santos joins Matt Abrahams to explore how to cultivate both sides of her happiness equation, from building deeper connections with others to transforming the ways we communicate with ourselves.

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  • The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos | Podcast

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  • (00:00) - Introduction
  • (02:08) - Defining Happiness
  • (03:21) - The Role of Negative Emotions
  • (04:54) - Balancing Negative and Positive Emotions
  • (05:45) - Positive Communication
  • (07:18) - Improving Self-Talk
  • (09:50) - Deepening Conversations
  • (11:04) - Navigating Difficult Conversations
  • (12:39) - The Power of Gratitude
  • (15:15) - Technology and Wellbeing
  • (18:33) - The Final Three Questions
  • (22:35) - Conclusion

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Episode: 180. Unlocking Your Future Self: Communication, Happiness & Wellbeing
Pub date: 2025-01-23

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Why creating happiness in the future starts today.

The new year gives us an opportunity to reflect on who we are and who we want to be. As we set resolutions and prepare for evolutions, this special four-part series on communication, happiness, and well-being explores practical ways to enhance our lives through better communication, deeper connections, and more meaningful choices.

In pursuing happiness and well-being, we often focus on the present moment. But according to Hal Hershfield, one of the best ways to help ourselves today is to have a conversation with ourselves in the future.

"When I say future self, I really mean any version of us that exists at some later point in time," explains Hershfield, a UCLA professor and author of Your Future Self: How to Make Tomorrow Better Today. By thinking of our future selves as different people — ones we should care about — we can make better choices in the present. "If we can tap into the feelings of our future selves, then we can do more that benefits them, which may make our lives easier now and later."
In this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, Hershfield and host Matt Abrahams explore how communication between our present and future selves can help us set goals, make decisions, and overcome pitfalls like procrastination, enabling us to take meaningful action now so we can thrive today and tomorrow.

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  • Hal’s Book: Your Future Self: How to Make Tomorrow Better Today

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  • (00:00) - Introduction
  • (02:12) - What Is a Future Self?
  • (03:37) - Mistakes in Time Travel Thinking
  • (04:45) - Overcoming Procrastination
  • (07:16) - Connecting to Our Future Selves
  • (10:35) - Disappointment and Adjusting Goals
  • (12:14) - Goal Setting and Motivation
  • (15:02) - Public Accountability for Motivation
  • (16:04) - The Final Three Questions
  • (20:35) - Conclusion

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Episode: 181. Why Happiness is a Direction, Not a Destination: Communication, Happiness & Wellbeing
Pub date: 2025-01-28

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Why connection is the key to a life well lived.

The new year gives us an opportunity to reflect on who we are and who we want to be. As we set resolutions and prepare for evolutions, this special four-part series on communication, happiness, and well-being explores practical ways to enhance our lives through better communication, deeper connections, and more meaningful choices.

When it comes to happiness, Arthur Brooks says it’s not about reaching a destination — it's about heading in the right direction. And according to him, that direction is fundamentally about relationships.

"Loving more people... more and more love... if you pursue that, you will defy the trends and get happier,” says Brooks, a social scientist, Harvard Business School professor, and author of several books including Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier, cowritten with Oprah Winfrey. According to him, a happy life is made of enjoyment, satisfaction, and meaning, which we cultivate through connection with others. "Faith, family, friends, and work, that's your basic happiness 401k plan,” he says.

In this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, Brooks and host Matt Abrahams explore the fundamental role of relationships in creating a happy life, and how effective communication helps us build and maintain these essential connections.

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  • Arthur’s Book: Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier

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Chapters:

  • (00:00) - Introduction
  • (02:27) - Defining Happiness
  • (03:58) - The Macronutrients of Happiness
  • (05:00) - Challenges in Pursuing Happiness
  • (06:27) - Breaking Down Meaning in Life
  • (08:11) - Happiness Across Life Stages
  • (11:16) - Modern Happiness Challenges
  • (14:29) - Mindfulness and Being Present
  • (19:08) - The Final Three Questions
  • (22:54) - Conclusion

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Episode: 182. Stop Chasing Time and Start Owning It: Communication, Happiness & Wellbeing
Pub date: 2025-01-30

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Clarify your purpose — and stop wasting time.

The new year gives us an opportunity to reflect on who we are and who we want to be. As we set resolutions and prepare for evolutions, this special four-part series on communication, happiness, and well-being explores practical ways to enhance our lives through better communication, deeper connections, and more meaningful choices.

As Cassie Holmes knows, how we spend our time has a big impact on our happiness and well-being. For her, that means focusing on the things not just immediately in front of us, but those that most closely align with our purpose.

"When I say purpose, what I mean is what really drives you," explains Holmes, a professor at UCLA Anderson School of Management and author of Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most. Living a happier and more fulfilled life, she says, rests on using purpose to drive our decisions. “Once you clarify for yourself: what is your purpose? What is your why? Then you can use that as a filter [for] where you should be spending your time.”

In this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, Holmes and host Matt Abrahams explore practical strategies for being more purposeful with our time. From email management to relationship building, Holmes shares research-backed approaches for achieving greater happiness through intentional choices.

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  • Cassie’s Book: Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most

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  • (00:00) - Introduction
  • (03:31) - Defining Purpose
  • (05:54) - Time Management Strategies
  • (08:26) - Time Tracking for Insight
  • (12:49) - Consolidating Tasks
  • (14:41) - Presence and Happiness
  • (16:44) - The Final Three Questions
  • (21:17) - Conclusion

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Episode: 184. Fit or Quit? Find the Job That is Right For You—Catalyze Your Career
Pub date: 2025-02-06

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Stay prepared, build your network, and take control of your career.

Most of us know that career growth is important—but according to Catherine Fisher, we're thinking about it all wrong. It’s not just about landing a job or climbing the ladder; it’s about staying adaptable, building strong connections, and being proactive about opportunities before you need them.
As LinkedIn’s Vice President of Global Consumer Communications, Fisher has spent years helping professionals navigate an evolving job market. She says the biggest mistake people make is waiting until they’re unhappy or unemployed to think about their next move. “Your network is like a garden,” she explains. “You have to tend to it constantly if you want it to thrive.”
In this episode of Think Fast Talk Smart, Fisher joins Matt Abrahams to share practical, actionable strategies for staying ahead. From recognizing when it’s time for a change to job crafting and personal branding, they explore how small but intentional moves can shape a career that aligns with your strengths and ambitions. Whether you're feeling stuck or simply want to future-proof your career, this conversation will give you the tools to stay in control and ready for what’s next.

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  • (00:00) - Introduction
  • (01:10) - Signs for a Career Pivot
  • (02:22) - Staying Proactive in Your Career
  • (04:00) - Adopting a Growth Mindset
  • (05:26) - Maintaining Career Motivation
  • (08:07) - Using Job Descriptions for Growth
  • (10:36) - Choosing the Right Skills
  • (12:37) - Building a Strong Personal Brand
  • (14:31) - Crafting Your Ideal Job
  • (16:50) - Best Career Advice Received
  • (17:50) - Career Lessons & Regrets
  • (19:33) - Conclusion

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Episode: 185. Say Less, Mean More: Craft Compelling Communication
Pub date: 2025-02-11

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How to captivate an audience and make your message stick.

Pitches and presentations don’t fall flat because speakers aren’t prepared. For Guy Kawasaki, it’s because speakers miss the point. “If all you're trying to do is inform, you're not going to pull it off. You have to entertain your audience.”

A renowned author, speaker, and entrepreneur, Kawasaki knows that the point of great storytelling isn’t about information, it’s about emotion. “Too many speakers think, ‘I need to inform my audience. I need to get my story across,’” he says. But throughout his career, formerly as Chief Evangelist at Apple and now co-founder of Canva, he’s shown how successful communication is about captivating audiences, not conveying facts. “If you entertain people, you have a chance of informing them.”

In this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, Kawasaki joins Matt Abrahams to explore practical strategies for building decks, structuring presentations, and tips for keeping audiences engaged. From investor pitches to keynote presentations, these strategies help create effective storytelling — in business and beyond.

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  • Guy Kawasaki
  • Guy’s Book: Think Remarkable
  • Ep.82 It’s Not About You: Why Effective Communicators Put Others First
  • Ep.47 Quick Thinks: How to Use Storytelling to Be a Better Founder

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Podcast: CXOTalk: Leadership, AI, and the Digital Economy (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: AI, Deep Learning, and the Future of Work | #860
Pub date: 2024-12-12

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Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming business, technology, and society. On this episode of CXO Talk, Dr. Terrence Sejnowski, a renowned computational neuroscientist, deep learning pioneer, and author of "ChatGPT and the Future of AI," discusses the implications of this technological revolution. He explores how AI is evolving, drawing parallels with the human brain, and explains why a robust data strategy is crucial for successful AI implementation. Dr. Sejnowski holds the Francis Crick Chair at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and is a Distinguished Professor at UC San Diego.

Dr. Sejnowski explains the importance of lifelong learning for employees and emphasizes AI's role in augmenting, not replacing, human capabilities. He also addresses critical topics such as explainability in AI decision-making, ethical considerations, and the potential impact of AI on the future of work. This discussion offers practical guidance for business and technology leaders navigating the complexities of AI integration and its implications for their organizations.

Episode Participants

Terrence J. Sejnowski is Francis Crick Chair at The Salk Institute for Biological Studies and Distinguished Professor at the University of California at San Diego. He has published over 500 scientific papers and 12 books, including ChatGPT and The Future of AI: The Deep Language Learning Revolution. He was instrumental in shaping the BRAIN Initiative that was announced by the White House in 2013, and he received the prestigious Gruber Prize in Neuroscience in 2022 and the Brain Prize in 2024. Sejnowski was also a pioneer in developing learning algorithms for neural networks in the 1980s, inventing the Boltzmann machine with Geoffrey Hinton; this was the first learning algorithm for multilayer neural networks and laid the foundation for deep learning. He is the President of the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Foundation, which organizes the largest AI conference, and he is a leader in the recent convergence between neuroscience and AI.

Michael Krigsman is a globally recognized analyst, strategic advisor, and industry commentator known for his deep expertise in digital transformation, innovation, and leadership. He has presented at industry events worldwide and written extensively on the reasons for IT failures. His work has been referenced in the media over 1,000 times and in more than 50 books and journal articles; his commentary on technology trends and business strategy reaches a global audience.

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Podcast: REWORK (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Managing vs. Mentoring
Pub date: 2025-02-12

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There are no full-time managers at 37signals, but that doesn't mean the company is void of mentorship. In this episode of The REWORK Podcast, host Kimberly Rhodes chats with Principal Programmer Jeffrey Hardy as he breaks down the company’s focus on peer-to-peer mentorship. They discuss hiring practices that allow for less management and what mentorship looks like amongst the team.

Key Takeaways:

  • 00:42 – Meet Jeffrey Hardy, Principal Programmer
  • 02:09 – The evolution of 37signals' management structure
  • 05:19 – Replacing managers with mentors
  • 10:53 – How hiring impacts the ability to operate without managers
  • 13:35 – The power of seeking entrepreneurial experience
  • 15:10 – A day in the life of a mentor
  • 17:40 – Tips for being a better mentor

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  • The REWORK podcast
  • The Rework Podcast on YouTube
  • The 37signals Dev Blog
  • 37signals on YouTube
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Podcast: Hardcore Soft Skills Podcast (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: How to Own Your Career: Andy Storch
Pub date: 2024-12-23

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This is the last episode of this season and it you are listening as this episode is released we are approaching the end of the year. This is a time when we evaluate where are we, where do we want to go, so this episode will give you a lot of value. My guest is Andy Storch (https://www.linkedin.com/in/andystorch/ ) and he is the author of a book called Own Your Career, Own Your Life. You will learn today about how to start paving the way to get to a career you love.

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Podcast: Hardcore Soft Skills Podcast (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Skills Coaching: Why Should I Work on my Soft Skills?
Pub date: 2025-01-21

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You may have seen multiple articles describing how important are "soft" skills for the future of work. If you are looking for a job or thinking about the next steps on your career you'd want to listen to this episode so you know what to prepare for.

For coaching opportunities for you and your team, go to https://www.hardcoresoftskillspodcast.com/p/coaching/

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Podcast: Hardcore Soft Skills Podcast (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Yadi Caro in the Developing the Leader Within show (Part 1)
Pub date: 2025-01-28

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This episode is part 1 of a conversation with Enrique Acosta Gonzalez, military veteran, author and host of the Developing the Leader Within podcast.

You can see the full episode here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVfCg0HX-NA&t=143s

We talked about well leadership, how to collaborate in teams, communicating effectively and if can we really manage time.

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Podcast: Hardcore Soft Skills Podcast (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Yadi Caro in the Developing the Leader Within show (Part 2)
Pub date: 2025-01-30

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This episode is part 2 of a conversation with Enrique Acosta Gonzalez, military veteran, author and host of the Developing the Leader Within podcast.

You can see the full episode here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVfCg0HX-NA&t=143s

Today we focus on emotional intelliugence: how to build it, what are some practices we can implement now, and how we can build work ethic within oiur teams.

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Podcast: Hardcore Soft Skills Podcast (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Live Episode: Empathy is a Technical Skill with Andrea Goulet
Pub date: 2025-02-04

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In this episode recorded via LinkedIn Live, Empathy in Tech founder Andrea Goulet discusses why empathy is essential in tech and how to build it in organizations.

For coaching opportunities for you and your team, go to https://www.hardcoresoftskillspodcast.com/p/coaching/

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Podcast: Hardcore Soft Skills Podcast (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Skills Coaching: 5 Cs Approach to Join a New Team
Pub date: 2025-02-06

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If you are entering a new team or managing a new team, it can be quite intimidating especially if you are the new person. In this episode, you will learn about the 5Cs framework: Connect, Communicate, Collaborate, Create and Correct.

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Podcast: Hardcore Soft Skills Podcast (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Skills Coaching: How to Assess Your Skills
Pub date: 2025-02-11

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Do you know the value you bring to your team? Or perhaps you feel you can offer more and you have not being able to express the why effectively. Today you will learn some techniques to do a self assessment so you can recognize the strength of your skills.

Sign up here to receive your selef-assessment.

Listen to the Attributes episode here. https://www.hardcoresoftskillspodcast.com/how-to-find-optimal-performance-rich-diviney/

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Podcast: The Mob Mentality Show (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Poisonous Price of an Unsustainable Pace: Lessons from Software and Sports
Pub date: 2025-01-14

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In this episode of the Mob Mentality Show, we dive into Sustainable Pace, a core principle of the Agile Manifesto ("Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely"). From software development to youth sports, we explore the massively destructive effects of an unsustainable pace and highlight the transformative benefits of a culture grounded in sustainable practices.

đŸ”„ Key Topics Covered1. The Massively Destructive Results of Unsustainable Pace

  • How the relentless work rate leads to burnout, dropouts, injuries, and errors.
  • Insights from academic and medical studies showing the devastating effects of unsustainable workloads.
  • Real-world connections to coding bug rates, over-specialization, and emotional exhaustion.
  • Tim Urban's TED Talk ("Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator") and its ties to the procrastination monkey, panic monster, and unsustainable pace.
  • Why misalignment between expectations and reality (e.g., unrealistic deadlines) breeds toxicity.
  • Radical Candor's "obnoxious aggression" and it can join forces with unsustainable pace to form a diabolical duo.

  • The Positive Results of a Sustainable Pace

  • Building high-quality, continuous delivery without chaos or burnout.

  • The connection between psychological safety, inclusivity, and long-term success in both teams and individuals.
  • Benefits of diverse experiences, low stress, and personal peace from a sustainable pace.
  • Practical strategies to avoid contributing to toxic work or play environments.
  • Stories from youth sports coaching and tech leadership that illustrate how sustainable pace leads to lasting excellence.

  • Actionable Insights for a Better Future

  • How to shift from a culture of "run fast, burn out" to one of balance, productivity, and joy.

  • The systemic changes needed to foster sustainable pace in tech teams and youth sports organizations.
  • Why adopting sustainable practices isn't just about survival—it's about thriving.

đŸŽ™ïž Why Listen?Whether you're a tech leader, Agile practitioner, parent, or coach, this episode is packed with actionable advice and thought-provoking discussions. Learn how sustainable pace can unlock continuous learning, higher quality results, and a more fulfilling life.

✅ Subscribe to Stay UpdatedDon't miss other enlightening discussions! Subscribe to the Mob Mentality Show on your favorite podcast platform or YouTube channel: https://www.mobmentalityshow.com

📱 Join the ConversationWhat’s your experience with unsustainable pace? How have you built or experienced sustainable practices in your work, team, or community? Drop your thoughts in the comments below and let’s talk!

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Podcast: The Mob Mentality Show (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Multi-Mobbing with Extreme Ownership: Should Ensemble Decisions Wait for Outside Approval?
Pub date: 2025-01-21

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In this thought-provoking episode of the Mob Mentality Show, we dive into the world of extreme ownership within a multi-mobbing environment. What happens when a mob/team wants to make a decision, like extracting a method, refactoring to a new pattern, or reorganizing code boundaries? Should that decision wait for approval from outside teams? Or does extreme ownership mean trusting the mob to act autonomously for maximum flow efficiency?

Topics Discussed:* Autonomy vs. Consensus: Should mobs prioritize quick decision-making or seek input from external teams? * Multi-Mob Context: Exploring the dynamics of multiple mobs interacting and how to handle shared ownership of repositories and projects. * Inverse Conway Maneuver: Can designing your organization’s team structures to match the architecture you want your systems to have prevent this problem? * Lean Thinking and Efficiency: How waiting for approvals from external owners can create lean wastes. * Boundary Flexibility: Should code and team boundaries be rigid or adaptable to changing circumstances? * The Monolith vs. Microservices Debate: Is the real issue a technical architecture debate or is the root problem found elsewhere?

Scenarios and Examples:* A hypothetical comparison of shared ownership in MS Word vs. MS Excel. * The impact of Joe Justice’s Law on decision-making and team interactions. * The challenge of managing too many communication nodes in multi-team environments.

Key Questions Discussed:* Is it more valuable to reduce the number of teams interacting with a repo? * Should boundaries of ownership evolve with time? * How can we balance flow efficiency with healthy collaboration across teams? * How does "Nothing in Tech Matters Except XP" impact this discussion?

Subscribe and Stay Connected:Don’t miss this insightful episode as we unravel these questions and more! Discover how the principles of extreme ownership and mob programming can transform team dynamics and decision-making processes in software development.

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Podcast: No Nonsense Leadership (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: NN 0116 - Humanocracy with Michele Zanini
Pub date: 2025-02-07

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In this episode, we talk to Mikkel Zanini about humanocracy. Mikkel emphasizes the limitations of traditional bureaucratic organizations and explains the concept of humanocracy, which focuses on maximizing human potential rather than efficiency and control. We explore the principles of ownership, meritocracy, internal markets, experimentation, community, openness and balance that underpin humanocracy. And we discuss examples of successful applications at Haier and Roche that show how these principles can foster innovation, engagement, profitability, and growth.

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Podcast: The Startup Podcast (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Types of Capital - The Hidden Risks of Bootstrapping That Could Sink You w/Scotty Allen (Edu)
Pub date: 2025-01-27

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Are you dreaming of launching the next unicorn startup? Before you quit your day job and pour your life savings into that brilliant idea, you might want to listen to this episode.

In this episode, Yaniv Bernstein is joined by Scotty Allen, startup advisor and founder of The Product Bus, to dive deep into the realities of startup funding, the risks of bootstrapping, and the importance of knowing which "game" you're playing as a founder.

In this episode, you will:

Understand the risks and challenges of bootstrapping vs seeking funding Learn why validation is crucial before building a full product Recognize the importance of knowing your strengths and weaknesses as a founder Discover how to "know the game you're playing" in the startup world Identify the dangers of falling into the sunk cost fallacy Gain perspective on realistic startup success rates Appreciate the value of failing fast and learning from failures Explore strategies for efficient idea validation and prototyping Consider alternative paths to building successful businesses outside the VC modelThe Pact

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Follow, rate, and review us in your listening app Subscribe to the TSP Mailing List at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://thestartuppodcast.beehiiv.com/subscribe⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Secure your official TSP merchandise at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://shop.tsp.show/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow us on YouTube at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@startup-podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Give us a public shout-out on LinkedIn or anywhere you have a social media following.Key links

The Startup Podcast is sponsored by Vanta. Vanta helps businesses get and stay compliant by automating up to 90% of the work for the most in demand compliance frameworks. With over 200 integrations, you can easily monitor and secure the tools your business relies on. For a limited-time offer of US$1,000 off, go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.vanta.com/tsp⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Get your question in for our next Q&A episode: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://forms.gle/NZzgNWVLiFmwvFA2A⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ The Startup Podcast website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://tsp.show⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Learn more about Chris and Yaniv

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Editor: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Justin McArthur⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Content Strategist: Carolina Franco https://www.linkedin.com/in/francocarolina/

Intro Voice: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Jeremiah Owyang⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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Podcast: The Startup Podcast (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Founder Mistakes – Why Most Founders Fail (and How Coaching Helps You Succeed) w/ Alexis d'Amecourt
Pub date: 2025-02-03

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As a startup founder, are you constantly putting out fires and feeling overwhelmed? You may be falling into some common pitfalls without even realizing it.

In this episode, Yaniv and Chris are joined by Alexis D’Amecour, Head of Coaching at Mochary Method, to discuss the top founder failure modes that executive coaches see - and how to avoid them.

In this episode, you will:

  • Discover why many founders fail to recognize their own power and influence
  • Learn how to delegate effectively as your company grows
  • Understand the importance of clearly communicating your vision
  • Explore ways to maintain focus on the big picture strategy
  • Gain tips for hiring the right people at the right time
  • Recognize the value of managing your physical and mental health
  • Learn strategies for overcoming imposter syndrome
  • Understand when and how to seek support through coaching or peer groups

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  • The Startup Podcast is sponsored by Vanta. Vanta helps businesses get and stay compliant by automating up to 90% of the work for the most in demand compliance frameworks. With over 200 integrations, you can easily monitor and secure the tools your business relies on. For a limited-time offer of US$1,000 off, go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.vanta.com/tsp⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.
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Editor: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Justin McArthur⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Content Strategist: Carolina Franco https://www.linkedin.com/in/francocarolina/

Intro Voice: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Jeremiah Owyang⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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Podcast: The Startup Podcast (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Scaling with AI- How AI Will Transform Your Startup w/ Grammarly CEO Shishir Mehrotra
Pub date: 2025-02-10

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Have you ever wished for an intelligent assistant that could seamlessly integrate into your workflow, anticipating your needs and enhancing your productivity? What if AI could transform not just how we write, but how we work across all applications?

In this episode, Yaniv Bernstein is joined by Shishir Mehrotra, CEO of the newly merged Coda and Grammarly, to explore the exciting world of AI-native productivity and its potential to revolutionize the way we work.

In this episode, you will:

  • Discover the vision behind the Coda and Grammarly merger and how it aims to create AI-native productivity tools
  • Learn about the concept of AI agents and how they differ from traditional chatbots
  • Understand how AI is changing the role of founders and the skills needed in early-stage startups
  • Explore practical applications of AI in business workflows, such as automated status reporting
  • Gain insights into the future of AI assistants and their potential to enhance human productivity
  • Understand the importance of human ingenuity in an AI-powered world
  • Learn how AI tools can help founders transition from "doers" to "deciders" earlier in their startup journey

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Podcast: Inside the Strategy Room (LS 48 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 231. Best of 2024 - Why strategists should embrace imperfection
Pub date: 2024-12-26

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We're joined by Charles Conn and Rob McLean, AM, the co-authors of The Imperfectionists: Strategic Mindsets for Uncertain Times.

Charles is an investor, environmentalist, and entrepreneur. He co-founded Monograph, a venture firm, and was previously CEO of the Rhodes Trust in Oxford. He is the Board Chair of Patagonia and sits on The Nature Conservancy European Council. He was the founding CEO of Ticketmaster-Citysearch and a partner at McKinsey & Company.

Rob is a Director Emeritus of McKinsey & Company, a Trustee of The Nature Conservancy in Australia and Asia, and a Director of the Paul Ramsay Foundation, Australia’s largest philanthropic foundation. He is the former Dean of the Australian Graduate School of Management. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business.

Rob and Charles' books can be found here: https://bulletproofproblemsolving.com/

You can also listen to their previous interview on Inside the Strategy Room or read the edited transcript on McKinsey.com.


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Podcast: Inside the Strategy Room (LS 48 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 232. Best of 2024 - What’s new in strategy: A view from the frontlines
Pub date: 2025-01-02

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Senior partners Alex D’Amico, Michael Birshan, and Andy West join us for a conversation about the latest developments in the field of strategy. They discuss how generative AI will change strategy creation, the importance of developing distinctive insights as part of the strategy process, and how to avoid social dynamics from derailing your organization’s best-laid plans.


Related insights:

  • Strategic courage in an age of volatility
  • Tying short-term decisions to long-term strategy
  • Strategy Beyond the Hockey Stick
  • Eight shifts that will take your strategy into high gear
  • The social side of strategy
  • The board’s role in strategy

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Podcast: Coaching for Leaders (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: 718: How Leaders Can Use the Algorithms for Good, with Sandra Matz
Pub date: 2025-02-03

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Sandra Matz: MindmastersSandra Matz is a Columbia Business School professor, computational social scientist, and pioneering expert in psychological targeting. Her research uncovers the hidden relationships between our digital lives and our psychology with the goal of helping businesses and individuals make better decisions. She is the author of Mindmasters: The Data-Driven Science of Predicting and Changing Human Behavior*.

Algorithms are becoming more influential with each passing day. That’s why leaders must understand their power and then decide how their organizations engage. In this conversation, Sandra and I discuss where psychological targeting is at, where it’s going, and the opportunity you have to make the world a bit better.

Key Points* Everyone knows everything in a small town (for better or worse). In the same way, psychological targeting can used for both evil and good. * Psychological targeting already is successful at identifying wealth, personality, income level, and sexual orientation – and keeps improving. * None of this is going away. Understanding how the game of targeting is played can help you make it work to your advantage. * Leaders and organization who use targeting responsibly can do tremendous good, including helping people save money and flag early interventions for health crises. * Be transparent with what data you’re collecting how you’re using it. Consider newer practices like federated learning that protect privacy and provide permission-based access. * Design systems and practices that anticipate the reality of future leaders with different values.

Resources Mentioned* Mindmasters: The Data-Driven Science of Predicting and Changing Human Behavior by Sandra Matz

Interview NotesDownload my interview notes in PDF format (free membership required).

Related Episodes* Serve Others Through Marketing, with Seth Godin (episode 381) * The Way to Earn Attention, with Raja Rajamannar (episode 521) * The Reason People Make Buying Decisions, with Marcus Collins (episode 664)

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Episode: 719: How to Better Manage Your Emotions, with Ethan Kross
Pub date: 2025-02-10

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Ethan Kross: ShiftEthan Kross is the author of the national bestseller Chatter and one of the world’s leading experts on emotion regulation. An award-winning professor in the University of Michigan’s top-ranked Psychology Department and its Ross School of Business, he is the Director of the Emotion and Self-Control Laboratory. He’s the author of the new book, Shift: Managing Your Emotions–So They Don’t Manage You*.

Being a leader means that our emotions get triggered, often many times a day. While none of us can avoid those triggers, how we respond to them can make all the difference. In this conversation, Ethan and I explore his research on how to better manage our emotions.

Key Points* We often assume that approaching emotions is universally good and avoiding emotions is universally bad. Reality is much more nuanced. * We can strategically use our senses to modulate our feelings. * Music is a simple and powerful way to manage emotions proactively. Use playlists that align with the mood you wish to create. * Using distancing language when talking to yourself (i.e. saying “you” instead of “I”) can help you regulate. * Time shifting may help regulate your emotions. Ask yourself, how will I feel about this in a week? A month? A year? * Different tools work for different people at different times. Experiment to help you determine what works best for you.

Resources Mentioned* Shift: Managing Your Emotions–So They Don’t Manage You by Ethan Kross

Interview NotesDownload my interview notes in PDF format (free membership required).

Related Episodes* How to Find Helpful Advisors, with Ethan Kross (episode 516) * How to Grow From Your Errors, with Amy Edmondson (episode 663) * How to Handle High-Pressure Situations, with Dan Dworkis (episode 701)

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Podcast: HBR On Strategy (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: What It Takes to Thrive During a Crisis
Pub date: 2024-12-25

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Why did some companies thrive during the Covid-19 pandemic while others struggled?

Keith Ferrazzi, founder of the consulting firm Ferrazzi Greenlight, surveyed more than 2,000 executives to learn how they changed their operations during the pandemic. The results show that some companies had already been cultivating a kind of extreme adaptability before the pandemic. That practice helped them come out on top.

In this episode, Ferrazzi outlines the concrete steps organizations can take to cultivate the resilience and agility to stay competitive in the post-Covid-19 world.

Key episode topics include: strategy, adaptive leadership, organizational transformation, collaboration and teams.

HBR On Strategy curates the best case studies and conversations with the world’s top business and management experts, to help you unlock new ways of doing business. New episodes every week.

· Listen to the full HBR IdeaCast episode: Why Some Companies Thrived During the Pandemic (2022)

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Episode: How McKinsey Resisted Disruption
Pub date: 2025-01-01

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The consulting firm McKinsey has helped its clients navigate disruption in a wide range of industries. But what can we learn from how McKinsey, itself, responded to disruption in the management consulting industry in the early aughts?

In this episode, the originator of disruptive innovation, the late Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen, joined former McKinsey managing partner Dominic Barton to break down how the firm shifted its internal strategy to prioritize flexibility and efficiency.

Key episode topics include: strategy, professional services, innovation, consulting, disruption.

HBR On Strategy curates the best case studies and conversations with the world’s top business and management experts, to help you unlock new ways of doing business. New episodes every week.

· Listen to the original HBR IdeaCast episode: Clay Christensen and Dominic Barton on Consulting’s Disruption (2013)

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Episode: Strategies for Managing Talent Amid Uncertainty and Competition
Pub date: 2025-01-08

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In the last half century, relationships between employers and their employees have evolved away from being rooted in long-term loyalty to a new paradigm of short-term alliances driven by uncertainty and competition.

Entrepreneurs and coauthors Ben Casnocha and Chris Yeh argue that the new world of work isn’t so different from the typical conditions that many entrepreneurs operate in. And if you’re a manager, you may need a new strategy to hire and retain top talent.

Casnocha and Yeh, coauthors of the book The Startup of You, explain why it’s important for your organization to build internal and external employee networks—and how to get started if you don’t already have those groups in place informally.

Key episode topics include: strategy, entrepreneurship, talent management.

HBR On Strategy curates the best case studies and conversations with the world’s top business and management experts, to help you unlock new ways of doing business. New episodes every week.

· Listen to the original HBR IdeaCast episode: Talent Strategies for the Post-Loyalty World (2013)

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Podcast: HBR On Strategy (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: A Middle Manager’s Guide to Executing Strategy
Pub date: 2025-01-22

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Imagine this scenario: Your company’s executive team has just announced their new master plan for growing the business. Now it’s your job, as a mid-level manager, to put it into practice. So where do you start?

In this episode, strategy consultant Andrea Belk Olson explains how to make the most of a plan that you may or may not agree with and that you may or may not have had any input into. She also has advice about the questions you should ask yourself before taking action, how to handle resistance from people you manage, and what to do if the new strategy isn’t working well.

Key episode topics include: strategy, strategy execution, growth strategy, managing people, managing up.

HBR On Strategy curates the best case studies and conversations with the world’s top business and management experts, to help you unlock new ways of doing business. New episodes every week.

· Listen to the full Women at Work episode: How to Manage: Executing Strategy (2024)

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Episode: The Key to Sustaining an Enduring Competitive Advantage
Pub date: 2025-02-05

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It’s a holy grail for many businesses—the search for sustainable competitive advantage. But Chris Zook points out that it’s elusive for most companies. He notes that less than one in 10 companies even achieve a modest level of sustained and profitable growth over a 10-year period on average.

Zook is the former head of Bain’s global strategy practice and coauthor of the book Repeatability: Build Enduring Businesses for a World of Constant Change.

In this episode, he shares three key principles that can help your organization find and maintain an enduring competitive advantage, with real-world examples drawn from IKEA, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, and Nike.

Key episode topics include: strategy, leadership, growth strategy, long-term growth, competitive advantage, case studies.

HBR On Strategy curates the best case studies and conversations with the world’s top business and management experts, to help you unlock new ways of doing business. New episodes every week.

· Listen to the full HBR IdeaCast episode: Good Strategy’s Non-Negotiables (2021)

· Find more episodes of HBR IdeaCast

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Podcast: The Shortcu.tt Podcast
Episode: Empowered Engineers pt. 1: A CTO’s Playbook with Thomas Jespersen | The Shortcu.tt Podcast
Pub date: 2025-02-11

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In this episode ofShortcu.tt Podcast, we sit down withThomas Jespersen, a tech leader with 30+ years in the industry. As a former CTO of successful startups, including Templafy, Thomas shares his insights onengineer empowerment, managing startups vs enterprises, and achieving harmony between business, product and engineering.
From leading a company that has achieved technical excellence and deploys30 times per day to production, Thomas has shared his hard-earned lessons, some of them may be unconventional, that have true impact in buildinghigh-performing engineering teams that deliver quality at scale.

Empowered engineers are essential for building successful tech products.

Silos between business, product, and engineering lead to inefficiencies.

Startups should focus on solving customer problems, not just shipping features.

Continuous Discovery Habits (by Teresa Torres) is a must-read for product teams.

DORA metrics are key indicators of engineering team performance.

Feature flags & CI/CD pipelines are crucial for scaling engineering teams.

Deadlines should be replaced with high-confidence commitments to avoid technical debt.Timestamp:

00:00 Introduction – 30+ years in tech, from startup to scale-up journey.

02:00Simplicity in Engineering – Why "simple" doesn’t mean "easy."

06:00 Breaking Silos – Why engineers should be involved in product discovery.

12:00Delivery vs. Discovery – Moving beyond a feature factory mindset.

18:00Measuring Success – DORA metrics and replacing deadlines with high-confidence commitments.

25:00Practical Engineering Practices – CI/CD, automation, and scaling teams.

32:00Next Episode Sneak Peek – What is developer experience for small teams and startups?Mentioned Resources & References:

📖Books:

Inspired byMarty Cagan – The definitive guide to building great product teams

Continuous Discovery Habits byTeresa Torres – Making discovery a weekly habit

📊Industry Metrics:

DORA Metrics – Deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate, and mean time to recovery

đŸ› ïžTools & Practices:

CI/CD pipelines, feature flags, and automated testing forscalable development

PlatformPlatform – Thomas’s open-source project for codifying engineering best practicesConnect with Us:

Thomas Jespersen-⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasjespersen/ ⁠

Morten Christensen -⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/mortenchr/⁠⁠

Marilag Svennevig -⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/marilag/

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Podcast: Flight Club
Episode: Strategy Work across all Flight LevelsÂź. With Stephan Neck and Klaus Leopold
Pub date: 2024-10-02

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In this Flight Club episode, Klaus Leopold talks with Stephan Neck about the art of strategy across all Flight LevelsÂź.

With his rich leadership background, Stephan shares how Flight Levels enables organizations to bridge the gap between strategy formulation and execution.

They dive into topics like how to keep strategies adaptive, the importance of real-time feedback, and the role of leadership in driving meaningful change.

Stephan’s military experience offers a unique perspective on linking strategy and tactics, which aligns perfectly with the Flight Levels approach.

It’s a great conversation for anyone interested in elevating strategic thinking across their organization. Tune in to catch all the insights, and don't forget to subscribe for more episodes!

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Podcast: Fremtidens arbejdsplads
Episode: Kan Äbenhed Êndre din karriere? - Julie Lindberg Hollegaard, Chief People and Culture Officer hos Visma DataLÞn & ProLÞn A/S.
Pub date: 2025-02-05

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I denne episode har vi besÞg af Julie Lindberg Hollegaard, Chief People and Culture Officer hos Visma DataLÞn & ProLÞn A/S. Julie er kendt for at skabe inkluderende arbejdspladser og har Äbent delt sin historie om at leve med en personlighedsforstyrrelse i medier som Berlingske og Lederstof. Sammen taler vi om trivsel og arbejdsglÊde, og om hvordan hun balancerer sit arbejde med personlige forpligtelser, samt de udfordringer og lÞsninger, hun har oplevet i sin karriere. Julie deler sine erfaringer med inkluderende rekruttering, anonym ansÞgningsproces og hvordan virksomheder kan minimere bias i rekruttering.

Derudover diskuterer vi Ă„benhed pĂ„ arbejdspladsen, hvordan det pĂ„virker karrieren, og hvordan ledere kan skabe et miljĂž, hvor alle kan vĂŠre sig selv. Vi kommer ogsĂ„ ind pĂ„ brugen af teknologi i rekrutteringsprocesser, AI’s rolle i jobsĂžgning og vigtigheden af at skabe inkluderende og fleksible arbejdsmiljĂžer.

En spĂŠndende episode for alle, der interesserer sig for arbejdsmiljĂž, inklusion og rekruttering!

Du kan lÊse mere om Julie i nedenstÄende artikler fra blandt andet Berlingske og Lederstof.

  • Hvis folk tĂŠnker mindre om mig af den grund, er det ikke mig, den er gal medHR-direktĂžr skrotter cv og erfaring i jobansĂžgningerne: »FuldstĂŠndig formĂ„lslĂžs« Kan vi ikke snart blive enige om at slĂ„ den latterlige ansĂžgning ihjel?

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Podcast: The Pragmatic Engineer (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Building a best-selling game with a tiny team – with Jonas Tyroller
Pub date: 2025-01-29

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In today’s episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I’m joined by Jonas Tyroller, one of the developers behind Thronefall, a minimalist indie strategy game that blends tower defense and kingdom-building, now available on Steam.

Jonas takes us through the journey of creating Thronefall from start to finish, offering insights into the world of indie game development. We explore:

‱ Why indie developers often skip traditional testing and how they find bugs

‱ The developer workflow using Unity, C# and Blender

‱ The two types of prototypes game developers build

‱ Why Jonas spent months building game prototypes in 1-2 days

‱ How Jonas uses ChatGPT to build games

‱ Jonas’s tips on making games that sell

‱ And more!

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Timestamps

(00:00) Intro

(02:07) Building in Unity

(04:05) What the shader tool is used for

(08:44) How a Unity build is structured

(11:01) How game developers write and debug code

(16:21) Jonas’s Unity workflow

(18:13) Importing assets from Blender

(21:06) The size of Thronefall and how it can be so small

(24:04) Jonas’s thoughts on code review

(26:42) Why practices like code review and source control might not be relevant for all contexts

(30:40) How Jonas and Paul ensure the game is fun

(32:25) How Jonas and Paul used beta testing feedback to improve their game

(35:14) The mini-games in Thronefall and why they are so difficult

(38:14) The struggle to find the right level of difficulty for the game

(41:43) Porting to Nintendo Switch

(45:11) The prototypes Jonas and Paul made to get to Thronefall

(46:59) The challenge of finding something you want to build that will sell

(47:20) Jonas’s ideation process and how they figure out what to build

(49:35) How Thronefall evolved from a mini-game prototype

(51:50) How long you spend on prototyping

(52:30) A lesson in failing fast

(53:50) The gameplay prototype vs. the art prototype

(55:53) How Jonas and Paul distribute work

(57:35) Next steps after having the play prototype and art prototype

(59:36) How a launch on Steam works

(1:01:18) Why pathfinding was the most challenging part of building Thronefall

(1:08:40) Gen AI tools for building indie games

(1:09:50) How Jonas uses ChatGPT for editing code and as a translator

(1:13:25) The pros and cons of being an indie developer

(1:15:32) Jonas’s advice for software engineers looking to get into indie game development

(1:19:32) What to look for in a game design school

(1:22:46) How luck figures into success and Jonas’s tips for building a game that sells

(1:26:32) Rapid fire round

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The Pragmatic Engineer deepdives relevant for this episode:

‱ Game development basics https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/game-development-basics

‱ Building a simple game using Unity https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/building-a-simple-game

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Podcast: Book Overflow (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Owning Your Career - The Software Engineer's Guidebook by Gergely Orosz
Pub date: 2025-01-13

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In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan discuss The Software Engineer's Guidebook by Gergely Orosz. Join them as they discuss software engineering compensation, how to ace your performance reviews, and what "getting things done" means!

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Podcast: Stellar Work
Episode: #24 Adriana & Eduardo - Helping Law Firms through Kanban
Pub date: 2025-02-02

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In this episode, Benjamin interviews Adriana and Eduardo, experts in Kanban and agile methodologies, focusing on their application in the legal industry in Brazil. They discuss the challenges faced by law firms, the need for agile practices, and how Kanban can transform traditional legal workflows. The conversation highlights the importance of understanding the legal context, the cultural barriers to change, and practical steps for implementation. Adriana and Eduardo also share insights on measuring success and provide actionable tips for law firms looking to adopt agile methodologies.

Adriana da Costa Saliba

https://www.linkedin.com/in/adriana-saliba/

https://spaceneedle.tech/

https://www.agileforall.com.br/

Adriana is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Space Needle Tecnologia, where she collaborates with the CEO to define strategies, develop talent, optimize resources, and drive cost efficiency. She has represented the company in national and international events like Refresh Miami and Startup Safari Miami.

Founder of AGILE FOR ALL, Adriana specializes in training and mentoring in Compliance, LGPD, and Agile Methods. A certified Compliance Officer, she has led compliance training for corporate universities of major companies such as CNP Brasil and Wiz, and facilitated LGPD compliance for organizations including the World Security Federation and the National Federation of Private Security Companies.

With over 14 years of legal expertise, Adriana is a certified Scrum Product Owner, Scrum Master, and Management 3.0 facilitator. She has implemented Agile practices across sectors such as legal, finance, and HR and co-authored the book “Ágil alĂ©m da TI”, exploring agility in the legal field.

As professor at Escola Paulista de Direito and a speaker at Agile Trends, Adriana combines her passion for leadership, mentorship, and innovation, empowering teams and organizations to achieve transformative results.

Eduardo Bobsin Machado https://www.linkedin.com/in/eduardobobsin/?originalSubdomain=br

Eduardo is a seasoned systems and solutions architect with nearly 20 years of experience designing software solutions, from enterprise systems to high-performance backends. His expertise spans architecture, coding, project management, process quality, operations, and networking.

As an Agile Coach specializing in Kanban, Eduardo has led teams and organizations through Agile transformations, combining Lean, Agile, and Kanban methodologies. A passionate educator, he has taught graduate students and trained colleagues in Agile practices, systems architecture, and advanced development techniques, driving innovation and excellence at every level.

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00:00 Introduction to Agile in Law

03:49 The Need for Agile in the Legal Industry

06:34 Challenges in Traditional Legal Practices

09:49 Implementing Agile Methodologies

12:37 Measuring Success in Agile Transformations

15:40 Practical Tips for Immediate Implementation

18:58 Resources and Training Opportunities

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Podcast: Stellar Work
Episode: #25 Niels PflÀging - Organize for Complexity
Pub date: 2025-02-10

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In this episode, Benjamin engages with Niels PflÀging, a thought leader in management and organizational transformation. They discuss the challenges of conventional management practices, the importance of understanding complexity in organizational problems, and the role of consultants in facilitating change. Niels emphasizes the need for effective change management strategies and the significance of learning from successful organizations. The conversation highlights the importance of principles over practices in achieving meaningful transformation.

Niels PflÀging

Niels Pflaeging is founder of the BetaCodex Network, and partner/associate at Red42, based in Wiesbaden (Germany). He is an acclaimed international speaker and acts as an adivsor to organizations from all over the world. Niels is also an investor in the tech startup disqourse, which was founded in September 2021.

Since 2006, Niels has been strongly involved in organizational transformation initiatives in firms both in Europe and in the Americas. Niels is a prolific speaker, speaking four languages fluently - English, German, Spanish and Portuguese. Prior to the BetaCodex Network, Niels was a director with the BBRT for five years.
Website:

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Chapters

00:00 Introduction to Niels Pflaeging and His Work

03:08 The Challenges of Management Tools

05:48 Understanding Complexity in Organizations

08:37 The Role of Consultants in Organizational Change

11:05 The Limitations of Frameworks and Blueprints

13:37 The Importance of Conversations in Problem Solving

16:17 Navigating Organizational Transformation

18:47 Open Source Approaches to Change Management

21:14 Implementing Time-Boxed Change

23:37 Conclusion and Future Directions

27:17 Organizational Suffering and Transformation

32:21 The Challenge of Transformation in Large Corporations

35:46 Learning from Successful Organizations

44:35 The Importance of Understanding Principles Over Practices

51:33 The Future of Automation and Manufacturing

54:50 Transformational Strategies for New Technologies

55:14 Niels Pflaeging.mp4

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Podcast: Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast: Agile storytelling from the trenches (LS 48 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The True Purpose of Scrum, Enabling Individuals And Interactions | Mateusz Komander
Pub date: 2025-02-10

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Mateusz Komander: The True Purpose of Scrum, Enabling Individuals And Interactions Read the full Show Notes and search through the world's largest audio library on Agile and Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website: http://bit.ly/SMTP_ShowNotes.

In this insightful episode, Mateusz shares a valuable learning experience from his early days as a Scrum Master in a biotech company. With a small team of five people, he initially believed he could improve upon existing practices by modifying the Scrum framework. However, by skipping crucial ceremonies like daily standups, planning sessions, and retrospectives, hidden team conflicts emerged.

This experience led Mateusz to a crucial realization: Scrum isn't merely about process management, but rather about facilitating meaningful connections and interactions between team members while enabling empirical management.

Self-reflection Question: How might your current understanding of Scrum's purpose be limiting your effectiveness as a Scrum Master?

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Mateusz, is a Scrum Master at Heineken, and brings expertise from biotech and airline industries, excelling in Agile delivery and transformations. Skilled in Management 3.0, he fosters self-managed, innovative teams. Mateusz just launched a podcast on organizational transformation, Mateusz highlights how understanding team dynamics beyond the Scrum framework enhances collaboration and effectiveness.

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Podcast: The Agile Matrix Podcast
Episode: S1 E037: The Journey to Business Agility with Matt Evans
Pub date: 2025-01-28

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What do you think about today's podcast?

In this episode of the Agile Matrix Podcast, host Temi interviews Matt Evans, a business agility consultant with a diverse background in recruitment and project management.

Matt shares his unique journey into the Agile space, discussing his experiences transitioning from a recruiter to a Scrum Master and ultimately to a business agility coach.

He emphasises the importance of continuous improvement in business agility and shares insights from his recent engagements, highlighting the collaborative approach to Agile transformation. In this conversation, Matt Evans shares his extensive experience in agile transformation and discusses the challenges faced in getting organisational buy-in at all levels.

The discussion also highlights the upcoming Kanban Edge Conference, taking place on the 6th of March 2025, which focuses on practical workshops and learning opportunities for Kanban practitioners.

Register for Kanban Edge here: https://kanbanedge.org/

How to get in touch with Matt
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewevansagile/
Website: https://www.thebusinessagilitycoach.com/
Kanban Training: https://www.thebusinessagilitycoach.com/training
Instagram: @thebusinessagilitycoach

Takeaways

  • Matt Evans transitioned from recruitment to Agile coaching.
  • He emphasizes the importance of continuous learning in Agile.
  • Business agility is about more than just Agile frameworks.
  • Agility allows businesses to pivot quickly in changing markets.
  • Stagnation in business leads to regression.
  • Every team dynamic is subject to change and requires adaptation.
  • Real-world experience is crucial for effective Agile coaching.
  • Collaboration with clients leads to better outcomes in Agile transformations.
  • Value streams are essential for clarity and focus in larger organizations.
  • Agile transformation is an ongoing journey, not a destination. The greatest challenge in agile transformation is getting buy-in at all levels.
  • Collaboration between teams and management is crucial for success.
  • Limiting work in progress can significantly improve team performance.
  • The Kanban Edge Conference offers practical workshops for practitioners.
  • Empathy is essential when working with teams and understanding their challenges.
  • It's important to manage expectations and not just focus on reporting.
  • Agile practices should be tailored to fit the organization's unique context.
  • Continuous improvement is a journey that requires commitment from all levels.
  • Learning from past experi

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Podcast: Developers! - mer Àn bara kod
Episode: 209. “SĂ€msta kulturen jag varit med om” (Ett avsnitt om kultur)
Pub date: 2025-02-06

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En lyssnare berĂ€ttar att hen vill byta jobb – inte för att lönen Ă€r dĂ„lig eller förmĂ„nerna suger, utan för att företagskulturen Ă€r katastrof. Men vad Ă€r egentligen företagskultur? Och varför spelar den sĂ„ stor roll att folk hellre lĂ€mnar Ă€n stannar, trots bra villkor?

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Podcast: Den Agile Agenda
Episode: Hvad gÄr rigtig Kanban egentlig ud pÄ, og hvad fÄr I ud af at bruge metoden?
Pub date: 2025-01-16

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Der er mange myter om Kanban. Mange sejlivede myter, som ikke desto mindre er helt forkerte. Her kommer nogle stykker af dem:

‱Man bruger kun kanban i smĂ„ support teams.

‱Man bruger Kanban, hvis Scrum ikke kan virke.

‱Kanban er bare en tavle.

‱Kanban kan ikke skalere.

‱Man planlégger ikke i Kanban.

Disse myter har jeg lagt Þrer til mange gange, og hver gang bliver jeg lidt Êrgerlig, for disse misforstÄelser er mÄske det, der forhindrer folk i at gÄ i gang med netop den metode, som er den letteste, hurtigste og billigste vej til at skabe mÄlbar agilitet og dramatisk forbedrede resultater. BÄde i teams men sÄ sandelig ogsÄ pÄ tvÊrs af teams og organisatoriske enheder og niveauer.

Som akkrediteret Kanban-underviser og konsulent fra Kanban University er jeg dybt inde i detaljerne om Kanban-metoden, og i denne episode vil jeg dykke ned i, hvad rigtig Kanban er for noget og prĂžve at mane nogle af de bekymringer i jorden, som jeg indimellem hĂžrer som begrundelse for ikke at bruge Kanban.

Jeg fortÊller om de byggesten, der skal til, nÄr I skal have et godt, robust og effektivt Kanban-system op at stÄ, og du fÄr ogsÄ at vide, hvad I konkret vil fÄ ud af at bruge metoden.

Hvis du vil vide endnu mere, kan du finde flere detaljer om Kanban og vores kurser og bÞger pÄ vores hjemmeside, www.agilagenda.com.

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Podcast: Azure & DevOps Podcast (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Scott Ambler: The State of Agile - Episode 334
Pub date: 2025-01-27

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Scott Ambler helps people and teams adopt new ways of working (WoW) and evolve their ways of thinking (WoT), particularly around data warehousing and data quality. He is the creator of the Agile Modeling (AM) (AgileModeling.com) method and Agile Data (AD) (AgileData.org) methods. With Mark Lines, he co-created PMI’s Disciplined Agile (DA) toolkit. As a conference keynote speaker, he speaks about continuous data warehousing (DW)/business intelligence (BI), how to address enterprise data debt, how to succeed at corporate AI, and agile architecture. He has also (co-)authored several books, including Choose Your WoW!, An Executive’s Guide to Disciplined Agile, Refactoring Databases, and Agile Modeling. For a full list of his books, visit Scottambler.com/my-books/.

Topics of Discussion:

[4:29] Scott talks about his career journey.

[6:53] Scott’s early involvement in Agile.

[8:34] Needing to up our game in the Agile space.

[8:55] Agile2025 Conference this summer in Denver, CO.

[11:20] Challenges and evolution within the Agile community.

[20:01] Are we going to have a new Agile gold rush?

[21:47] Keeping an eye out for inappropriate processes.

[25:38] How we can do better.

[28:17] The Agile Manifesto.

[35:03] Importance of database refactoring and continuous data operations.

[36:46] What best practices does Scott recommend?

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Podcast: Coaching for Leaders (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: 717: A Key Tactic for Way Better Conversations, with Alison Wood Brooks
Pub date: 2025-01-27

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Alison Wood Brooks: TalkAlison Wood Brooks is the O’Brien Associate Professor of Business Administration and Hellman Faculty Fellow at the Harvard Business School, where she created and teaches a course called TALK. As a behavioral scientist, she is a leading expert on the science of conversation and her research was referenced in two of the top ten most-viewed TED talks and depicted in Pixar’s Inside Out 2. She is the author of Talk: The Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves*.

Conversations are the venues where leaders do so much of their work. We all know someone who always can keep a conversation interesting and relevant. In this episode, Alison and I discuss how a key tactic can help you towards more meaningful conversations.

Key Points* Healthy relationships are critical for success, and relationships are about talking. * Good conversation is both instinct and deliberate effort. Preparing topics in advance improves conversation immensely. * Topics for conversation can be sourced from almost anywhere and help even if we don’t use those topics. * Good topic management is more important than the right topic. The best conversationalists know when to shift. * Small talk in an essential exploration ground for getting to bigger, more meaningful conversation.

Resources Mentioned Talk: The Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves by Alison Wood Brooks

Interview NotesDownload my interview notes in PDF format (free membership required).

Related Episodes* The Way Into Difficult Conversations, with Kwame Christian (episode 497) * How to Help Difficult Conversations Go Better, with Sheila Heen (episode 655) * How to Connect with People Better, with Charles Duhigg (episode 670)

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Podcast: Fremtidens arbejdsplads
Episode: EP #031: En ĂŠrlig samtale om lederlivet med alkoholisme og autisme - Christoffer Hagen, Director HR & Communications
Pub date: 2025-01-09

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Velkommen til podcasten Fremtidens arbejdsplads – og ikke mindst velkommen til Ă„rets fĂžrste episode, som jeg har glĂŠdet mig enormt meget til at dele med jer. For hvad sker der, nĂ„r man sĂŠtter en autist og en ADHD’er sammen i et lukket lokale? Hvilken samtale vil der opstĂ„, og hvad vil de tale om?

I dagens episode har jeg fornÞjelsen af at tale med en leder, der virkelig gÄr forrest for inklusion. Sammen dykker vi ned i hans historie og undersÞger, hvad det har betydet for ham at blive voksen-diagnosticeret med autisme. Vi taler ogsÄ om, hvad der fik ham til for Är tilbage at Äbne op om sit problem med alkohol.

Ved at stille sig frem og dele sin historie Äbent viser dagens gÊst, hvordan sÄrbarhed som leder kan styrke bÄde lederskabet og arbejdskulturen. Hvis vi som arbejdsgivere Þnsker at skabe arbejdspladser, hvor mennesker trives, og hvor de kan vÊre sig selv, mÄ vi gÞre inklusion til mere end blot et buzzword. Den bedste mÄde at gÞre det pÄ er ved, at vi som ledere gÄr forrest og skaber rum for Äbenhed om de ting, der nogle gange gÞr arbejds- og lederlivet udfordrende.

Lyt med og bliv inspireret af en ĂŠrlig samtale med dagens gĂŠst, Christoffer Hagen, Head of HR and Communications hos DHL, Christoffer.

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Podcast: Fremtidens arbejdsplads
Episode: EP #032: JobsĂžgning og rekruttering er ultra competitive - Nicklas Pyrdol, Internation foredragsholder og stifter af Beyond Talents
Pub date: 2025-01-16

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Velkommen til Fremtidens Arbejdsplads. I dag skal vi hilse pÄ en gammel kending og ikke mindst en ven af huset, nemlig Nicklas Pyrdol.

Nicklas driver virksomheden Beyond Talents og mÄ siges at vÊre en anerkendt foredragsholder og specialist inden for HR, rekruttering og talentudvikling.

Han har en baggrund som sportspsykologisk konsulent og har arbejdet med bÄde olympiske atleter og verdensmestre.

Nicklas drÞmmer om et bedre arbejdsliv, hvor mennesker er engagerede og har lige muligheder uanset alder, kÞn, race eller seksualitet. Udfordringen er ifÞlge Nicklas, at vi stÄr midt i en virkelighed, hvor stress og udbrÊndthed stiger, og inkluderende organisationer er en mangelvare. Det skal vi Êndre pÄ ved at genskabe ledelse, prÊstationer og kultur.

Med en passion for at forbedre arbejdsmiljÞer og skabe inkluderende kulturer arbejder Nicklas pÄ at befri verden fra dÄrlig ledelse, rekruttering og feedbackkulturer, der underminerer vores arbejdsliv.

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Podcast: The Agile Matrix Podcast
Episode: S1 E013: Breaking Boundaries: Unveiling the NoEstimates Paradigm with Neil Killick
Pub date: 2024-05-17

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What do you think about today's podcast?

Neil Killick, a trailblazing Agile Coach, trainer, and Consultant with a knack for challenging the status quo. Neil brings with him a wealth of experience and expertise, and today, we're diving headfirst into the fascinating realm of the NoEstimates movement.

Where to find Neil:
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neilkillick/
Email: neil2killick@gmail.com
twitter: @neil_killick
Subscribe to his blog here: https://www.neilkillick.com/blog

Get ready to buckle up for a rollercoaster ride of insights, revelations, and thought-provoking discussions as we explore the implications of NoEstimates in the Agile space. From breaking free of traditional estimation practices to unlocking the true potential of Agile delivery, Neil is here to shake things up and ignite your passion for innovation.

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Podcast: The Agile Matrix Podcast
Episode: S1 E018 Mastering Agile Metrics: Insights with Louis-Philippe Carignan
Pub date: 2024-06-21

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In this episode, we dive deep into the essence of metrics, asking the fundamental question: why do we measure in the first place? Louis-Philippe shares his invaluable insights, drawing from his extensive experience as a Prokanban trainer and PST.

From the controversial role of velocity to the practical application of metrics in agile environments, we explore it all. Discover the metrics that have sparked conversations and the challenges of introducing them to organizations firsthand.

Join us as Louis-Philippe unravels the toughest moments in his journey of metrics implementation and offers sage advice to agile enthusiasts looking to revolutionize their approach.

Stay tuned till the end for Louis-Philippe's final words of wisdom, empowering scrum masters, agile coaches, and team leads to navigate the realms of agility, effectiveness, and efficiency with confidence.

Plus, find out when you can catch Louis-Philippe’s next training classes and how you can connect with her directly. Don’t miss out—tune in now for an episode packed with actionable insights and expert guidance!

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Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/lpcarignan
Website: https://www.pacemkr.ca/
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Episode: S1 E019 Optimizing Your Sprint Retrospective
Pub date: 2024-06-28

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In this episode of the Agile Matrix podcast, the host discusses the importance of optimising the sprint retrospective in Scrum. The sprint retrospective is a scrum event held at the end of a sprint where the team reflects on the recent sprint and identifies ways to improve for future sprints. The objectives of a sprint retrospective include reflection, continuous improvement, team cohesion, process optimisation, and action planning. The structure of a typical sprint retrospective involves setting the stage, gathering data, generating insights, encouraging open and honest discussion, deciding on actions, and closing the retrospective. The host also discusses the importance of balancing subjective and objective retrospectives, common pitfalls in retrospectives, and solutions to overcome them.

Takeaways

  • The sprint retrospective is a scrum event held at the end of a sprint to reflect on the recent sprint and identify ways to improve for future sprints.
  • The objectives of a sprint retrospective include reflection, continuous improvement, team cohesion, process optimisation, and action planning.
  • The structure of a typical sprint retrospective involves setting the stage, gathering data, generating insights, encouraging open and honest discussion, deciding on actions, and closing the retrospective.
  • Balancing subjective and objective retrospectives is important to get a comprehensive view of the sprint.
  • Common pitfalls in retrospectives include domination by outspoken team members, lack of concrete actions, and a blame game environment.
  • Solutions to overcome these pitfalls include using anonymous feedback, round robin formats, focusing on positive feedback, creating a blame-free environment, and following up on previous actions.

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Episode: S1 E020 Agile Leadership: Inspiring Teams to Excellence Part 1
Pub date: 2024-07-15

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Get ready to be inspired as we embark on a journey into the realm of Agile leadership with none other than Jim Sammons , Professional Scrum Trainer with scrum.org, Agile consultant and Coach — a problem solver extraordinaire, dedicated to igniting the flames of excellence within Agile teams worldwide.

Join us as we delve deep into the art of Agile leadership and explore Jim’s unique approach to inspiring teams to reach new heights of excellence. From unlocking the potential of individuals to fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation, Jim’s insights are sure to leave you feeling energized and empowered to lead with confidence.

So, grab your notepads, buckle up, and prepare to embark on a transformative journey with Jim Sammons on the Agile Matrix Podcast!

How to reach Jim Sammons
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/jamessammons/
Website: www.masteringagility.org
Mastering Agility: https://masteringagility.org/index.php/media/
Mastering Agility Discord server: https://masteringagility.org/index.php/discord/
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Episode: S1 E021 Agile Leadership: Inspiring Teams to Excellence Part 2
Pub date: 2024-07-19

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Get ready to be inspired as we embark on a journey into the realm of Agile leadership with none other than Jim Sammons , Professional Scrum Trainer with scrum.org, Agile consultant and Coach — a problem solver extraordinaire, dedicated to igniting the flames of excellence within Agile teams worldwide.

Join us as we delve deep into the art of Agile leadership and explore Jim’s unique approach to inspiring teams to reach new heights of excellence. From unlocking the potential of individuals to fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation, Jim’s insights are sure to leave you feeling energized and empowered to lead with confidence.

So, grab your notepads, buckle up, and prepare to embark on a transformative journey with Jim Sammons on the Agile Matrix Podcast!

How to reach Jim Sammons
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/jamessammons/
Website: www.masteringagility.org
Mastering Agility: https://masteringagility.org/index.php/media/
Mastering Agility Discord server: https://masteringagility.org/index.php/discord/
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Episode: S1 E022 Getting Sprint Planning right
Pub date: 2024-07-26

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Are your Sprint Planning sessions setting your team up for success, or are they leaving you adrift without clear direction? In this episode of the Agile Matrix Podcast, we delve into the essential elements of Sprint Planning and how to optimize this crucial event to drive team success.

Join us today, as we explore what Sprint Planning is all about, and discover actionable strategies to make your planning sessions more effective. We’ll uncover three common pitfalls that can derail your sprints and offer practical solutions to overcome them. From setting clear sprint goals to fostering collaboration and avoiding overload, this episode is packed with insights to enhance your Agile practices.

Engage with us as we pose socially engaging questions designed to spark conversation and sharing among our listeners. Share your own experiences, tips, and strategies on social media using #AgileMatrixPodcast, and become part of our Agile community.

Plus, don’t miss our top tip to keep your planning sessions efficient and focused, and a thought-provoking quote from Ken Schwaber on the importance of Sprint Planning. Whether you’re a Scrum Master, Product Owner, or Agile enthusiast, this episode will equip you with the tools you need to transform your Sprint Planning and deliver exceptional results.

Tune in now to ensure your next sprint sets sail with purpose and direction!

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Episode: S1 E023 Mindset Shifts and Agile Misconceptions: Insights from Damien Stark
Pub date: 2024-08-02

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In this enlightening episode, we sit down with Damien Stark, a seasoned Agilist with over 14 years of experience, to explore the complex world of Agile transformations. Damien delves into the common challenges and misconceptions that organizations face when attempting to implement Agile methodologies, particularly in large, siloed environments.

Throughout the conversation, Damien emphasizes the crucial role of mindset shifts in successfully adopting Agile principles. He shares insightful anecdotes from his work with major organizations, highlighting the importance of embracing Agile values rather than merely conforming to specific frameworks. Damien warns against the pitfalls of creating new processes without aligning them with core Agile principles and stresses the need for organizations to prioritize value delivery.

Our discussion also covers the importance of continuous learning and improvement in the Agile industry. Damien introduces his innovative apps—Stack Agile, PSM app, and PSP app—designed to aid individuals preparing for Agile exams and enhance their understanding of Agile practices.

Together with Temi, Damien explores the vital role of Agile coaches and Scrum Masters in helping organizations deliver high-quality value efficiently. They also discuss the challenges these professionals face and the importance of aligning leadership with Agile principles to foster a culture of openness and learning.

How to reach Damien
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/damienstark/
Website: https://starkagile.com/
Email: linkedin@starkagile.com
PSM Prep iOS app: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/psm-prep/id6504202804
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Episode: S1 E024 Unveiling the Secrets of Product Agility with Ben Maynard Part 1
Pub date: 2024-08-09

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Welcome to another enlightening episode of Agile Matrix, where we delve deep into the dynamic world of agile methodologies and product development. I’m thrilled to have with us today, Ben Maynard, a seasoned expert in the realm of agility and innovation and Host of the Product Agility Podcast.

Product Agility Podcast: https://productagilitypod.co.uk/

In this episode, we’re exploring the cornerstone of modern business success: Product Agility.

Join us as we unravel the intricacies of fostering agility within organizations, unlocking pathways to adaptability, responsiveness, and ultimately, sustainable growth.

Get ready to gain invaluable insights as Ben shares his wealth of experience and knowledge on how organizations can traverse the agile landscape, harnessing its principles to thrive in an ever-evolving market.

How to reach Ben
Ben's LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/benmaynard-sheev
Website: sheev.co.uk
Product Agility Podcast: productagilitypod.com
Email: ben@sheev.co.uk

Stay tuned as we navigate through the realms of product agility, uncovering practical strategies, real-world examples, and actionable advice to empower you on your agile journey. Let’s dive in and uncover the secrets to achieving unparalleled product agility

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Episode: S1 E025 Unveiling the Secrets of Product Agility with Ben Maynard Part 2
Pub date: 2024-08-16

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Welcome to another enlightening episode of Agile Matrix, where we delve deep into the dynamic world of agile methodologies and product development. I’m thrilled to have with us today, Ben Maynard, a seasoned expert in the realm of agility and innovation and Host of the Product Agility Podcast.

Product Agility Podcast: https://productagilitypod.co.uk/

In this episode, we’re exploring the cornerstone of modern business success: Product Agility.

Join us as we unravel the intricacies of fostering agility within organizations, unlocking pathways to adaptability, responsiveness, and ultimately, sustainable growth.

Get ready to gain invaluable insights as Ben shares his wealth of experience and knowledge on how organizations can traverse the agile landscape, harnessing its principles to thrive in an ever-evolving market.

How to reach Ben
Ben's LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/benmaynard-sheev
Website: sheev.co.uk
Product Agility Podcast: productagilitypod.com
Email: ben@sheev.co.uk

Stay tuned as we navigate through the realms of product agility, uncovering practical strategies, real-world examples, and actionable advice to empower you on your agile journey. Let’s dive in and uncover the secrets to achieving unparalleled product agility

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Episode: S1 E026 Data-Driven Excellence: Mastering Metrics for Agile Teams with Sonya Siderova Part 1
Pub date: 2024-08-23

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In this enlightening episode of the Agile Matrix Podcast, we sit down with Sonya Siderova, the visionary CEO and Founder of Nave, and a leading Kanban coach. Join us as we delve deep into the critical role of metrics and predictability in Agile teams, and discover how to harness the power of data to drive continuous improvement.

Sonya shares her wealth of experience and expertise, providing actionable insights on:
- Key metrics every Agile team should focus on to enhance performance
- Strategies for achieving predictability and improving workflow efficiency
- The importance of data-driven decision-making in fostering a culture of continuous improvement
- Real-world examples and success stories of teams that have transformed their processes using metrics

Whether you’re a seasoned Agile practitioner or just starting out, this episode is packed with valuable tips and practical advice to help you elevate your team's performance and deliver consistent value to your customers.

Don't miss this opportunity to learn from one of the best in the industry. Tune in now and take your Agile journey to the next level!

How to reach Sonya
Sonya's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/siderova/
Nave Analytics Suite: https://getnave.com/
Nave Blog: https://getnave.com/blog/
Nave Digital Program: https://getnave.com/enroll

Agile #Kanban #Metrics #ContinuousImprovement #Predictability #Scrum #TeamPerformance #AgileLeadership #Podcast #SonyaSiderova #AgileMatrix

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Episode: S1 E027 Data-Driven Excellence: Mastering Metrics for Agile Teams with Sonya Siderova Part 2
Pub date: 2024-08-30

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In this enlightening episode of the Agile Matrix Podcast, we sit down with Sonya Siderova, the visionary CEO and Founder of Nave, and a leading Kanban coach. Join us as we delve deep into the critical role of metrics and predictability in Agile teams, and discover how to harness the power of data to drive continuous improvement.

Sonya shares her wealth of experience and expertise, providing actionable insights on:
- Key metrics every Agile team should focus on to enhance performance
- Strategies for achieving predictability and improving workflow efficiency
- The importance of data-driven decision-making in fostering a culture of continuous improvement
- Real-world examples and success stories of teams that have transformed their processes using metrics

Whether you’re a seasoned Agile practitioner or just starting out, this episode is packed with valuable tips and practical advice to help you elevate your team's performance and deliver consistent value to your customers.

Don't miss this opportunity to learn from one of the best in the industry. Tune in now and take your Agile journey to the next level!

How to reach Sonya
Sonya's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/siderova/
Nave Analytics Suite: https://getnave.com/
Nave Blog: https://getnave.com/blog/
Nave Digital Program: https://getnave.com/enroll

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Episode: S1 E028 Mastering Agility: Kanban and Beyond with Accredited Kanban Consultant Christoph Dibbern
Pub date: 2024-09-06

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In this episode of the Agile Matrix Podcast, we’re joined by Christoph Dibbern, an Accredited Kanban Consultant, Scrum Trainer, Flight Levels Coach, and Management 3.0 Facilitator. Christoph brings a wealth of experience from his diverse roles, including his work as a lecturer at the University of Hamburg, to share valuable insights on mastering agility at scale.

Tune in as Christoph takes us on a journey through the intricacies of scaling Agile frameworks like Kanban and Scrum@Scale, exploring how to align teams, streamline processes, and create a culture of continuous improvement across your organization. He also delves into the Flight Levels approach, offering a fresh perspective on connecting strategy to execution and managing work effectively at every level.

In this episode, you’ll learn about:

‱The key principles and benefits of Kanban and how to implement it effectively

‱Strategies for scaling Scrum beyond individual teams with Scrum@Scale

‱How Flight Levels can help bridge the gap between strategy and operational work

‱Practical tips for Agile leaders and practitioners to foster collaboration and drive success across teams

How to reach Christoph
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christoph-dibbern-8b184b99/
Email: chdibbern@gmail.com
Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/34838956453

Whether you’re looking to scale your Agile practices or simply enhance your current processes, Christoph’s insights will provide you with the tools and inspiration you need. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from one of the foremost experts in the Agile community!

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Episode: S1 E029 Unlocking the Power of Kanban: Real-World Applications and Economic Impact with Joey Spooner
Pub date: 2024-09-13

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In this episode, we dive into the transformative power of Kanban with insights from Joey, exploring how the principles from David Anderson’s Kanban book have been applied across various contexts, including higher education, nonprofits, and government agencies. Joey emphasises the importance of managing work through clear policies and leveraging metrics to identify bottlenecks and improve flow.

We discuss how Kanban’s impact goes beyond individual teams, optimising entire organisations from the ground up to the executive level. Joey highlights the significant economic benefits, sharing examples of organisations saving millions of dollars by implementing Kanban practices.

How to reach Joey
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/spoonstein/
Email: spoonstein@spoonstein.com
Website: http://www.spoonstein.com/

Kanban University Courses: https://kanban.university/kuapps/#/courses/list

Throughout the conversation, Joey underscores the role of Kanban coaches in guiding teams toward greater resilience and customer focus, helping executives and CFOs gain better data and early indicators for decision-making. Whether you’re looking to improve flow, manage demand, or boost predictability, this episode reveals how Kanban can bring rapid evolution to your organisation, step by step. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how to optimise your processes and drive real value!

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Episode: S1 E030 Unlocking Leadership: Achieving the Impossible with Kimberly Wiefling
Pub date: 2024-09-27

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In this conversation, Kimberly Wiefling discusses the critical role of leadership in organisations, emphasizing the need for leaders to transform from managers into inspiring figures who foster hope and optimism. She introduces the concept of 'Scrappy Leadership,' which encourages taking risks and embracing messiness in the pursuit of innovation. The discussion highlights the importance of employee engagement, the consequences of dysfunctional leadership, and the need for a cultural shift towards collaboration and empowerment. Kimberly shares real-world examples of her work in leadership development and offers practical advice for aspiring leaders.

Takeaways

  • Most challenges in organisations stem from a failure of leadership.
  • Leadership is not just about authority; it's about inspiring others.
  • Hope and optimism are essential for creating a better future.
  • Scrappy leadership involves taking risks and learning from failures.
  • Engaged employees contribute significantly to organisational success.
  • Dysfunctional leadership can create toxic environments.
  • Leaders should create a clear vision for their teams.
  • Celebrating small wins can boost morale and engagement.
  • Leadership is a continuous journey of learning and adaptation.
  • Transforming managers into leaders is crucial for organisational growth.

How to reach Kimberly
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scrappykimberlywiefling/
Email: kwiefling@gmail.com
Website: https://kimberlywiefling.com/
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Episode: S1 E031 Mastering Agile Coaching: Elevate Your Impact with Bob Galen
Pub date: 2024-10-04

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SummaryIn this engaging conversation, Bob Galen, an experienced Agile coach, shares his journey from software development to Agile coaching, discussing the evolution of the role and the importance of self-mastery and personal branding. He emphasizes the need for Agile coaches to communicate their value effectively and to continuously grow their skills. Bob also reflects on the current state of Agile coaching, the challenges faced, and the opportunities for growth in the profession. He encourages coaches to look beyond their immediate teams and to impact the organization as a whole.

Takeaways

  • Agile coaching is a journey that requires continuous learning and adaptation.
  • Self-mastery and self-awareness are crucial for effective coaching.
  • Personal branding is essential; it's what people say about you when you're not in the room.
  • The role of an Agile coach is evolving, and coaches must adapt to meet new challenges.
  • Coaches should focus on delivering business value, not just following Agile practices.
  • Building a network of trusted partnerships is vital for growth.
  • Coaching is not just about asking questions; it's about providing value and solutions.
  • The Agile coaching community needs to raise the bar and eliminate mediocrity.
  • It's important to leave a positive legacy in your coaching practice.
  • Self-care is essential for coaches to avoid burnout and maintain effectiveness.

How to reach Bob
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobgalen/
Email: bob@rgalen.com
Websites:
rgalen.com
meta-cast.com
agile-moose.com

Bob's Substack: https://bobgalen.substack.com/

Link to the Meta-Cast Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3TF8VKgnNXIlmi75yNZfSj?si=JgEdWFwWSza995o-KXo6pA

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Podcast: The Agile Matrix Podcast
Episode: S1 E032 From Dysfunction Mapping to Agile Mastery: Tools for Continuous Improvement with Michael Lloyd
Pub date: 2024-10-11

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In this episode, Mike and Temi dive into the challenges and misconceptions surrounding the role of a Scrum Master in Agile environments.

They discuss the importance of delivering measurable improvements and aligning with an organisation’s definition of value.

The conversation also highlights the decline in the quality of Agile practitioners and the need for a higher standard.

Mike introduces dysfunction mapping as a problem-solving tool, and both guests emphasise the importance of adaptation, discipline, and continuous learning in Agile.

The episode wraps up with insights into competition, experimentation, and the importance of admitting failure for growth.

Takeaways

  • Scrum Masters should focus on delivering measurable improvements and demonstrating their value.
  • Understanding the organisation's definition of value and aligning with it is crucial.
  • The perception of Agile has shifted, and there are challenges in implementing Agile practices in organisations.
  • Understanding the rules and building discipline is important before attempting to modify or break them in an agile context.
  • Dysfunction mapping is a tool for problem-solving and systems thinking, allowing teams to identify root causes of issues and run experiments to find solutions.
  • The agile industry needs more tools and approaches to solve complex problems and improve ways of working.
  • Continuous learning and improvement are essential in the agile industry. Competition and experimentation are crucial for the growth and improvement of the agile industry.
  • Admitting failure is essential for learning and growth.
  • Agile practitioners should strive for a higher standard and focus on demonstrating value and impact.

Where to find Michael:

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikelloydagility/
Dysfunction Mapping Training: https://www.dysfunctionmapping.com/
Email: michael@honestagile.co.nz
Honest Agile Youtube page: http://www.youtube.com/@honestagile6416

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Podcast: The Agile Matrix Podcast
Episode: S1 E035: Understanding SAFe: Myths and Realities with Danielle Gerber
Pub date: 2024-11-15

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In this episode Temi speaks with Danielle Gerber, an SPCT and expert in agile transformations. They discuss Danielle's journey from traditional project management to agile coaching, her experiences with various frameworks like SAFe, Scrum, and Kanban, and the importance of mindset in agile practices. Danielle shares her insights on the challenges and misconceptions surrounding agile methodologies, particularly the SAFe framework, and emphasizes the need for continuous learning and adaptation in agile environments.

The conversation highlights the significance of cultural transformation in organizations and the role of coaches in guiding teams towards effective agile practices.

Takeaways

  • Agility is about delivering value, not just checking boxes.
  • The mindset is crucial for successful agile transformations.
  • SAFe is a toolkit that can be adapted to fit organizational needs.
  • Cultural transformation is essential for agile success.
  • Learning from mistakes is a key part of the agile journey.
  • Teams should be persistent unless change is necessary for value delivery.
  • The economic view is vital in assessing agile practices.
  • Frameworks should be seen as starting points, not prescriptions.
  • Continuous improvement is necessary for high-performing teams.
  • Coaching is essential for guiding teams through agile practices.

Sound Bites

  • "I don't want to do anything but this again."
  • "The whole reason we would say keep teams persistent."
  • "Agility isn't about the book."
  • "You need to keep refining your tools to get better."
  • "You have to know the goal."
  • "SAFe is a toolkit, not a prescription."
  • "It's about how does it all work together holistically."
  • "It's a cultural transformation."
  • "You have to change over time."

Where to Find Danielle:

Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/daniellegerber1

Email: dgerber@practicalagilityatwork.com

Website: https://agilerising.com/

Danielle's Training Schedule: https://www.agilerising.com/agile-training-calendar/

Lean Machine: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lean-Machine-Harley-Davidson-Profitability-Revolutionary/dp/0814432883

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Podcast: The Agile Matrix Podcast
Episode: S1 E033: Scaling Kanban: A Journey of Change with Taz Brown
Pub date: 2024-10-18

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In this episode of the Agile Matrix Podcast, Taz Brown shares her extensive experience in Kanban and agile coaching. She discusses her journey from IT to becoming a Kanban coach, emphasizing the importance of collaboration, leadership, and experimentation in implementing Kanban. Taz debunks common myths about Kanban, highlights the significance of empathy in coaching, and provides insights on scaling Kanban across organizations. She also offers valuable advice for agile practitioners and reflects on the challenges and successes encountered in the journey of change.

Takeaways

  • Kanban is about evolutionary change.
  • Leadership has to be the lever for change.
  • We start with what they're most proud of.
  • Change is an experiment, right?
  • What if we made your work more visible?
  • Kanban scales organically, naturally.
  • You can't install change like an iOS update.
  • Everything is just a learning opportunity.
  • Empathy wins every time in coaching.
  • You have to take ownership of your experiments.

Where to find Taz:

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coachtazbrown/
Website: https://www.adaptxinnovations.net/

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Podcast: The Agile Matrix Podcast
Episode: S1 E034: Fixing your Daily Scrum
Pub date: 2024-11-01

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In this episode of the Agile Matrix podcast, host Temi dives deep into the Daily Scrum, a crucial agile event.

Temi discusses the common pitfalls teams face during their daily scrums, such as turning it into a status meeting, going off-topic, and ignoring blockers. The episode emphasizes the importance of synchronizing efforts towards the sprint goal and provides practical strategies to improve the effectiveness of daily scrums.

Temi encourages teams to focus on collaboration, maintain a time box, and address blockers promptly to transform their daily scrums into energizing and productive meetings.

Takeaways

  • The Daily Scrum is a 15-minute event for team synchronization.
  • Avoid turning the Daily Scrum into a status meeting.
  • Focus on the sprint goal during discussions.
  • Use strategies like the parking lot method to stay on topic.
  • Address blockers immediately to maintain team momentum.
  • Daily scrums should be energizing and empowering for the team.
  • Encourage collaboration rather than reporting.
  • Time box the Daily Scrum to keep it effective.
  • Elevate the importance of the sprint goal in conversations.
  • The Scrum Master should facilitate, not dominate, the meeting.

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Podcast: BG2Pod with Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Satya Nadella | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner
Pub date: 2024-12-12

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Open Source bi-weekly convo w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner on all things tech, markets, investing & capitalism. This week they are joined by Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, to discuss becoming Microsoft’s CEO, Advice for CEO’s, Microsoft’s Investment in OpenAI, Legacy Search, Ten Blue Links, Consumer and Enterprise AI, The Future of AI Agents, Infinite Memory, CoPilot, Microsoft’s Capital Expenditure, Open AI’s future, AI safety & more. Enjoy another episode of BG2.

Timestamps:

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(01:31) Becoming Microsoft CEO

(06:42) Satya’s Memo to CEO Committee

(10:42) Satya’s Advantage as a CEO

(11:34) Advice for CEO’s

(15:01) Microsoft’s Investment in OpenAI

(19:42) AI Arms Race

(23:55) Legacy Search and Consumer AI

(28:07) The Future of AI Agents

(38:32) Near-Infinite Memory

(39:47) Copilot Approach to AI Adoption

(50:26) Leveraging AI within Microsoft

(56:03) CapX

(01:00:20) The Cost of Model Scaling and Inference

(01:15:15) Open AI Conversion to Profit

(01:18:05) Next Steps for OpenAI

(01:19:43) Open vs. Closed and Safe AI

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Episode: New year, new habits: Fixing time management mistakes in 2025
Pub date: 2024-12-18

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A new year is a fresh opportunity to take control of our time, but a lot of hacks don't actually help us prioritize and focus. In this special bonus episode, time management expert Laura Vanderkam shares her best strategies for making decisions with more intention—so you have time for the things that truly matter. Laura Vanderkam was featured in the episode "Flip the Script."

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Episode: Why Are So Many Developers Out of Work in 2024?
Pub date: 2024-12-12

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The tech industry faces a paradox: despite high demand for skills, many developers and engineers are unemployed. At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in Salt Lake City, Utah, Andela and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced an initiative to train 20,000 technologists in cloud native computing over the next decade. oss O'neill, Senior Program Manager at Andela and Chris Aniszczyk, CNCF’s CTO, highlighted the lack of Kubernetes-certified professionals in regions like Africa and emphasized the need for global inclusivity to make cloud native technology ubiquitous.

Andela, operating in over 135 countries and founded in Nigeria, views this program as a continuation of its mission to upskill African talent, aligning with its partnerships with tech giants like Google, AWS, and Nvidia. This initiative also addresses the increasing employer demand for Kubernetes and modern cloud skills, reflecting a broader skills mismatch in the tech workforce.

Aniszczyk noted that companies urgently seek expertise in cloud native infrastructure, observability, and platform engineering. The partnership aims to bridge these gaps, offering opportunities to meet evolving global tech needs.

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Episode: How To Lead Yourself w/ Stedman Graham
Pub date: 2024-12-05

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This week Scott is joined by author, businessman and public speaker, Stedman Graham. Scott and Stedman discuss the importance of identity leadership, centering your worth around your own strengths and talents, and self actualization.

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Podcast: Agile Uprising Podcast (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Scrum Sucks? Kanban Sucks? with CST Chris Li and PKT Troy Lightfoot
Pub date: 2024-09-23

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In this episode of the Agile Uprising podcast, host and Professional Kanban Trainer Troy Lightfoot sits down with Certified Scrum Trainer Chris Li to discuss the pervasisive online sentiment that common agile of ways of working like Scrum and Kanban just suck. If you read LinkedIn you'll see these types of posts frequently. They discuss why so many people feel this way, is it a fault of the ways of working themselves or something else? They also give practicial tips to address common issues! Links Spark Plug Agility: Trainer Immersion Program: ProKanban.org: Kanban Pocket Guide: The Secret HIstory of Kanban and Why it Matters: Contact Info About the Agile Uprising If you enjoyed this episode, please give us a review, a rating, or leave comments on iTunes, Stitcher or your podcasting platform of choice. It really helps others find us. Much thanks to the artist from who provided us our outro music free-of-charge! If you like what you heard, to find more music you might enjoy! If you’d like to join the discussion and share your stories, please jump into the fray at our We at the Agile Uprising are committed to being totally free. However, if you’d like to contribute and help us defray hosting and production costs we do have a . Who knows, you might even get some surprises in the mail!

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Episode: Crossing the Feedback Chasm - a Conversation with Ken Finnigan
Pub date: 2024-11-11

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Michael Stiefel spoke with Ken Finnigan about how the lack of feedback impedes the development of software professionals. Without feedback, the right candidates are not hired, software professionals cannot improve or grow into new roles, or individuals stagnate or regress in their current positions. Feedback must also be delivered at the right time - when it can be effectively used.Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/4fjmLtoSubscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter for your monthly guide to the essential news and experience from industry peers on emerging patterns and technologies:https://www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter Upcoming Events:QCon San Francisco (November 18-22, 2024)Get practical inspiration and best practices on emerging software trends directly from senior software developers at early adopter companies.https://qconsf.com/ QCon London (April 7-9, 2025)Discover new ideas and insights from senior practitioners driving change and innovation in software development.https://qconlondon.com/ Save the date: InfoQ Dev Summit Boston (June 9-10, 2025)Actionable insights on today’s critical dev priorities.devsummit.infoq.com/conference/boston2025The InfoQ Podcasts: Weekly inspiration to drive innovation and build great teams from senior software leaders. Listen to all our podcasts and read interview transcripts:- The InfoQ Podcast https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/ - Engineering Culture Podcast by InfoQ https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/#engineering_culture - Generally AI: https://www.infoq.com/generally-ai-podcast/ Follow InfoQ:- Mastodon: https://techhub.social/@infoq - Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq- Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8- Instagram: @infoqdotcom- Youtube: www.youtube.com/infoqWrite for InfoQ:Learn and share the changes and innovations in professional software development.- Join a community of experts.- Increase your visibility.- Grow your career.https://www.infoq.com/write-for-infoq

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Episode: Mastering Observability: Unlocking Customer Insights with Gojko Adzic
Pub date: 2024-10-18

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This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences.In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Gojko Adzic about his work in software development, product management, and value creation. Gojko discusses his experiences in building and improving products, the importance of measuring user behavior changes, and the concept of "lizard optimization" - improving products by addressing unexpected user behaviors.Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/485EukYSubscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter for your monthly guide to the essential news and experience from industry peers on emerging patterns and technologies:https://www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter Upcoming Events:QCon San Francisco (November 18-22, 2024)Get practical inspiration and best practices on emerging software trends directly from senior software developers at early adopter companies.https://qconsf.com/ QCon London (April 7-9, 2025)Discover new ideas and insights from senior practitioners driving change and innovation in software development.https://qconlondon.com/ Save the date: InfoQ Dev Summit Boston (June 9-10, 2025)Actionable insights on today’s critical dev priorities.The InfoQ Podcasts: Weekly inspiration to drive innovation and build great teams from senior software leaders. Listen to all our podcasts and read interview transcripts:- The InfoQ Podcast https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/ - Engineering Culture Podcast by InfoQ https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/#engineering_culture - Generally AI: https://www.infoq.com/generally-ai-podcast/ Follow InfoQ:- Mastodon: https://techhub.social/@infoq - Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq- Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8- Instagram: @infoqdotcom- Youtube: www.youtube.com/infoqWrite for InfoQ:Learn and share the changes and innovations in professional software development.- Join a community of experts.- Increase your visibility.- Grow your career.https://www.infoq.com/write-for-infoq

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Episode: Trends in Engineering Leadership: Observability, Agile Backlash, and Building Autonomous Teams
Pub date: 2024-11-15

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This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences.In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Chris Cooney about emerging trends in software engineering such as the backlash against "Agile" practices, the growing importance of observability and people-focused metrics, and strategies for aligning teams around common goals while still preserving their autonomy.Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3O50dQTSubscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter for your monthly guide to the essential news and experience from industry peers on emerging patterns and technologies:https://www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter Upcoming Events:QCon San Francisco (November 18-22, 2024)Get practical inspiration and best practices on emerging software trends directly from senior software developers at early adopter companies.https://qconsf.com/ QCon London (April 7-9, 2025)Discover new ideas and insights from senior practitioners driving change and innovation in software development.https://qconlondon.com/ Save the date: InfoQ Dev Summit Boston (June 9-10, 2025)Actionable insights on today’s critical dev priorities.devsummit.infoq.com/conference/boston2025The InfoQ Podcasts: Weekly inspiration to drive innovation and build great teams from senior software leaders. Listen to all our podcasts and read interview transcripts:- The InfoQ Podcast https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/ - Engineering Culture Podcast by InfoQ https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/#engineering_culture - Generally AI: https://www.infoq.com/generally-ai-podcast/ Follow InfoQ:- Mastodon: https://techhub.social/@infoq - Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq- Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8- Instagram: @infoqdotcom- Youtube: www.youtube.com/infoqWrite for InfoQ:Learn and share the changes and innovations in professional software development.- Join a community of experts.- Increase your visibility.- Grow your career.https://www.infoq.com/write-for-infoq

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Episode: Sparks: Vulnerability is a Superpower: The Five Superhero Archetypes of Vulnerable Leaders
Pub date: 2024-11-15

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Vulnerability might seem like a weakness, but in leadership, it’s a true superpower. In today's Leadership Spark, we dive into the spectrum of vulnerability, showing how it’s far from one-size-fits-all. We’ll explore the five 'superhero' types of vulnerable leaders and help you pinpoint your unique style for building trust and connection. Discover how understanding and embracing your vulnerability type can reshape the way you lead and elevate the impact you have on those around you.

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Episode: Master Negotiator James Sebenius Reveals the Secrets Every Leader Needs to Win Any Negotiation
Pub date: 2024-11-18

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How do top leaders close impossible deals and get buy-in from the toughest stakeholders? James Sebenius, Professor of Business Administration at Harvard and co-founder of Harvard’s Negotiation Program, has been involved with the world’s most successful negotiation cases. In today’s episode, he reveals the top strategies that make great negotiators. Drawing from icons like Bob Iger, Jim Baker, and Henry Kissinger, James shares the keys to negotiation that every leader needs: when to use “intermediate moves” to gain advantage, why the best negotiators think like chess players, why “setup” is everything in negotiation, and how to balance empathy with assertiveness to get results.

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Episode: Sparks: Retraining for Work Beyond Automation: The Three Key Skills You Need in An AI-Driven World
Pub date: 2024-11-22

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How do you keep your team ready for the future when tech constantly reshapes the workplace? AI is rewriting the rules of work and pushing us to think beyond the traditional job roles. In today's Leadership Spark, we break down three ways leaders can stay ahead: helping employees make the most of tech, encouraging a culture of self-driven learning, and focusing on human skills that strengthen team connections. If you're a leader looking to keep your team adaptable and engaged in the tech-driven future of work, this episode offers you real, practical insights on embracing change without losing that all-important human touch.

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Episode: How To Be A Future-Ready Leader in 2025
Pub date: 2024-12-02

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Leadership in 2024 was challenging, and 2025 promises to be even more demanding. With economic pressures, hybrid work complexities, and the rapid rise of AI, the expectations for leaders have never been higher. But the good news is we've packed the best leadership advice from 2024 into one powerhouse episode, giving you the tools to thrive in the year ahead. In this episode, Guy Kawasaki, Author & Chief Evangelist at Canva, kicks things off by sharing how a growth mindset and resilience can help leaders tackle challenges head-on and turn them into opportunities. Dr. Amy Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership & Management, reveals why creating psychological safety and embracing “intelligent failures” is the key to innovation and team trust. Finally, John R. Miles, Founder & CEO of PASSION STRUCK, wraps it up with his next-level framework for mindset and behavior shifts, showing leaders how to unlock intrinsic motivation and lead with intention. Get all the insights you need to lead with confidence, inspire your team, and make 2025 your breakthrough year.

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Podcast: Future Ready Leadership With Jacob Morgan (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How Leaders Can Use Foresight to be Future-Ready and Prepare For What's Next - Lisa Bodell
Pub date: 2024-12-09

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Amid constant change, how can leaders prepare for what's next without losing focus on today? In this episode, Lisa Bodell, Bestselling Author of "Kill the Company" and "Why Simple Wins", shares powerful strategies for becoming future-ready. She explains why agility and resilience matter more than rigid planning, how to leverage tools like STEEP and the Futures Wheel, and why every company must "Kill the Company" to uncover blind spots and innovate. Lisa also explores the dangers of "perma crisis" on creativity and why teaching human-centered skills like curiosity and agility is essential to thriving in uncertainty.

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Podcast: Knowledge at Wharton (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: AI and Wellbeing
Pub date: 2024-09-03

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Since the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022, Stack Overflow has seen a noticeable drop in daily visits, with traffic decreasing by 1 million — a 15% reduction within just four months. This trend underscores a growing preference for automated solutions, as users increasingly turn to AI for answers, reflecting a shift in how people seek information and interact socially.

In this “AI Horizons” podcast episode, Wharton marketing professor and AI at Wharton co-director Stefano Puntoni joins Gordon Burtch, information systems professor at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business; Julian De Freitas, a business administration professor and director of the Ethical Intelligence Lab at Harvard Business School; and Weiguang Wang, a computer and information systems professor at the University of Rochester’s Simon Business School to discuss the topic.


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Podcast: At The Table with Patrick Lencioni (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 234. The Real Cost of Mediocrity
Pub date: 2024-08-07

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The opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference. This week, Pat and the team discuss the causes of mediocrity, and why it comes with costs beyond the financial.

To listen to the Working Genius Podcast: https://www.workinggenius.com/podcast

This week's unpaid ad: https://no.co/brands/noco-boost

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Podcast: Dev Interrupted (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Back to First Principles | Productiv CTO Ashish Aggarwal
Pub date: 2024-10-29

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Everyone knows the era of growth at all costs is over, but where does that leave us? And specifically, where does that leave founders? The answer is straightforward: founders have to start thinking like business people.

This week, Conor Bronsdon interviews Ashish Aggarwal, founder and CTO of Productive and an active investor in over 30 companies.

Ashish shares his insights on how startups are adapting to the new “efficient growth” environment, why this paradigm shift is an opportunity for founders, and how the pressures of efficiency have created incentives for companies to move towards geo-distributed teams instead of co-located teams.

Show Notes:

  • Refactoring x Dev Interrupted Survey
  • Ashish’s LinkedIn
  • 2024 State of SaaS Consolidation Report

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Podcast: Dev Interrupted (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: From Fear to Function: Rethinking Engineering Processes | Stytch’s Julianna Lamb
Pub date: 2024-11-26

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Most developers (ourselves included) want to run for the hills when they hear the words “engineering process.” But it turns out, the biggest danger to your team may not be having enough process.

You don’t have to take our word for it. This week’s guest made a believer out of us and we’re willing to bet she’ll make a believer out of you too.

Julianna Lamb, co-founder and CTO of Stytch, understands that engineering processes can be a sensitive subject for developers. But she argues that the right amount of process can actually boost your team's velocity and empower them to take ownership. Julianna shares insights on how to right-size processes for teams, implement effective project life cycles, and address friction points to ensure smooth workflows.

Show Notes:

  • Refactoring x Dev Interrupted Survey
  • Learn more about Stytch
  • Julianna’s LinkedIn
  • Julianna’s Twitter

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Podcast: Dev Interrupted (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Developer Productivity Will Decline in 2025 | Predictions from LinearB’s Ori Keren
Pub date: 2024-12-10

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2025 will test every assumption about how engineering teams work.

With the new year fast approaching Ori Keren, CEO of LinearB, has some bold predictions that might surprise you, like why developer productivity could actually go down in 2025.

Yep, you read that right.

As AI tools flood the market, we might see a dip in both productivity and creativity before the long-term benefits kick in. It’s a wake-up call for engineering leaders to rethink how they lead their teams.

Ori dives into the trends that’ll dominate:
- AI’s rise
- The ever-growing need for cybersecurity
- Why DevEx and developer productivity are heading for a showdown

His advice? Stop flying blind. “You can’t optimize what you don’t measure,” he says.

If you’re leading an engineering org, this episode is your 2025 game plan: a mix of data-driven decision-making and people-first strategies to stay ahead in a year of change. Don’t miss this insightful fusion of qual and quant.

Show Notes:

  • Join us at Dev Interrupted Live!
  • 2025 Engineering Benchmarks Insights Webinar
  • Follow Ori
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Podcast: Product Thinking (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 202: Transforming Product Teams into Investment Partners with Fabrice des Mazery
Pub date: 2024-12-18

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Fabrice des Mazery, Chief Product Officer at productROI joins Melissa Perri on this episode of the Product Thinking podcast, discussing shifting product managers' mindsets from builders to investors. Drawing from his extensive experience, including leading product at TripAdvisor's TheFork, Fabrice shares insights on evaluating product decisions through an investment lens, building stakeholder relationships, and creating a balanced product portfolio. He emphasizes the importance of understanding business metrics, ROI, and risk assessment in product management, while offering practical advice on how to communicate with stakeholders, using their language rather than product jargon.

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Podcast: Engineering Enablement by Abi Noda (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: DX Core 4: Framework overview, key design principles, and practical applications
Pub date: 2024-12-12

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In this episode, Abi and Laura introduce the DX Core 4, a new framework designed to simplify how organizations measure developer productivity. They discuss the evolution of productivity metrics, comparing Core 4 with frameworks like DORA, SPACE, and DevEx, and emphasize its focus on speed, effectiveness, quality, and impact. They explore why each metric was chosen, the importance of balancing productivity measures with developer experience, and how Core 4 can help engineering leaders align productivity goals with broader business objectives.

Mentions and Links:

  • Measuring developer productivity with the DX Core 4
  • Laura’s developer productivity metrics course

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  • (2:42) Introduction to the DX Core 4
  • (3:42) Identifying the Core 4's target audience and key stakeholders
  • (4:38) Origins and purpose
  • (9:20) Building executive alignment
  • (14:15) Tying metrics to business value through output-oriented measures
  • (24:45) Defining impact
  • (32:42) Choosing between DORA, SPACE, and Core 4 frameworks

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Podcast: Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | Career (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: How Shopify builds a high-intensity culture | Farhan Thawar (VP and Head of Eng)
Pub date: 2024-12-19

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Farhan Thawar is the head of engineering at Shopify, where he oversees more than 1,000 engineers and a platform that powers over 10% of all U.S. e-commerce. Before Shopify, he was VP of engineering at Pivotal Labs and Xtreme Labs, and co-founder of Helpful.com. In our conversation, Farhan shares:

‱ Why choosing the harder path leads to better outcomes

‱ How to create intensity within your org (without burnout)

‱ Why every company should be embracing pair programming

‱ How he hires without interviewing

‱ How he built the world’s largest internship program

‱ His mission to create a “crafter’s paradise” for engineers

‱ Much more

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In this episode, we cover:

(00:00) Farhan’s background

(05:38) Choosing the hard path

(09:37) Getting comfortable with looking dumb

(13:20) Lessons from working with visionaries

(19:19) Creating intensity in organizations

(22:06) The power of pair programming

(29:18) Shopify’s culture of intensity

(37:18) Meeting Armageddon: revolutionizing company meetings

(39:46) Reducing distractions

(41:10) Deleting 1M+ lines of code

(49:05) Three buckets of building

(57:45) Remote work and trust battery

(01:00:29) Finding stability in uncomfortable times

(01:03:14) Hiring philosophy

(01:11:41) Internship programs and co-op systems

(01:15:32) Lessons from managing 120 direct reports

(01:20:40) Failure corner

(01:27:46) Lightning round and closing thoughts

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Referenced:

‱ The Steve Jobs quote about connecting dots: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/463176-you-can-t-connect-the-dots-looking-forward-you-can-only

‱ Shopify: https://www.shopify.com/

‱ GitHub: https://github.com/

‱ Farhan’s “questions to ask” framework: https://x.com/fnthawar/status/1514193402828574721

‱ Palantir: https://www.palantir.com/

‱ Joe Liemandt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/liemandt

‱ Chamath Palihapitya: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamath_Palihapitiya

‱ Xtreme Labs: https://www.xtremelabs.io

‱ Parkinson’s law: https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-parkinsons-law-6674423

‱ Pair programming: https://dev.to/documatic/pair-programming-best-practices-and-tools-154j

‱ Cody Fauser on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/codyfauser

‱ How Shopify builds product: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-shopify-builds-product

‱ Chaos Monkey: We look at Shopify’s new ‘culture of focus’: https://www.siliconrepublic.com/careers/shopify-chaos-monkey-meetings-culture-deann-evans

‱ Empowering devs with AI: How Shopify made GitHub Copilot core to its culture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVKBwcm5dbw&t=2318s

‱ Tobi LĂŒtke of Shopify: Powering a Team with a ‘Trust Battery’: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/24/business/tobi-lutke-of-shopify-powering-a-team-with-a-trust-battery.html

‱ Brian Chesky’s new playbook: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/brian-cheskys-contrarian-approach

‱ Stop Being Deceived by Interviews When You’re Hiring: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesleadershipforum/2012/02/07/stop-being-deceived-by-interviews-when-youre-hiring/

‱ Shopify’s made the Life Story a major part of their interview: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39294140

‱ Internships at Shopify: https://internships.shopify.com

‱ Nick Adams on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-adams-32b28139

‱ React Native: https://reactnative.dev

‱ Swift: https://www.swift.org

‱ Acquired podcast: The Mark Zuckerberg interview: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/the-mark-zuckerberg-interview

‱ The Power of Performance Reviews: Use This System to Become a Better Manager: https://review.firstround.com/the-power-of-performance-reviews-use-this-system-to-become-a-better-manager

‱ Airbnb’s Vlad Loktev on embracing chaos, inquiry over advocacy, poking the bear, and “impact, impact, impact” (Partner at Index Ventures, Airbnb GM/VP Product): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/impact-impact-impact-vlad-loktev

‱ The Secret to a Great Planning Process—Lessons from Airbnb and Eventbrite: https://review.firstround.com/the-secret-to-a-great-planning-process-lessons-from-airbnb-and-eventbrite

‱ How to do great work: https://www.paulgraham.com/greatwork.html

‱ Challengers on Prime: https://www.amazon.com/Challengers-Luca-Guadagnino/dp/B0CX5MZ9M4

‱ Halt and Catch Fire on Prime: https://www.amazon.com/Halt-Catch-Fire-Season-1/dp/B0CKXZNT96

‱ Meta Ray-Bans: https://www.meta.com/smart-glasses/shop-all

‱ Making Meta | Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth (CTO): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/making-meta-andrew-boz-bosworth-cto

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Recommended books:

‱ The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds: https://www.amazon.com/Undoing-Project-Friendship-Changed-Minds/dp/0393254593

‱ Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World: https://www.amazon.com/Range-Generalists-Triumph-Specialized-World/dp/0735214484

‱ Manna: Two Visions of Humanity’s Future: https://www.amazon.com/Manna-Two-Visions-Humanitys-Future-ebook/dp/B007HQH67U

‱ Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street: https://www.amazon.com/Business-Adventures-Twelve-Classic-Street/dp/1504000021

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Podcast: alphalist.CTO Podcast - For CTOs and Technical Leaders (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: #109 - Cloud Cost Optimisation feat. Claire Fautsch // CTO @ Joblift
Pub date: 2024-10-17

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From 100k to 30k: How Joblift slashed their monthly cloud billSave Money on Cloud Costs with Claire Fautsch (CTO @ Joblift). Find out how the team at Joblift slashed monthly cloud costs from €100K to €30K without compromising performance.Listen to find out:📊 How to build dashboards 📈 How to align cloud costs with business KPIsđŸ€ How to get the entire team involved in cost optimization (Spoiler Alert: No FinOps team)🛠 How to optimize resource allocation and avoid over-provisioning⚙ Technical tweaks that made an impact: CUDs, Spot instances, SSD usage, network costs

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About Claire FautschClaire Fautsch is working as CTO at Joblift, where she is leading the engineering team but also still enjoying regular coding time. She enjoys being part of a team building innovative products and tackle complex challenges. Besides spending all non-coding and tech time with her family, she enjoys reading and sports

Timestamps(00:00:00) – Meet Claire Fauch: From Academia to CTOClaire introduces her background and shares her journey from mathematics to tech leadership at Joblift. Valuable insights on transitioning to leadership roles in tech.

(00:08:09) – Early Days of Joblift & Cloud Adoption StrategyDiscussion on Joblift’s decision to adopt Kubernetes from the start. How early cloud adoption shaped their current infrastructure.

(00:10:01) – Joblift’s Cloud Cost Optimization Journey BeginsKey lessons on identifying inefficiencies and how Claire’s team cut cloud costs from €100K/month to €30K/month.

(00:13:04) – Strategic Use of Committed Usage Discounts (CUDs)How Joblift leverages Google Cloud committed usage plans to reduce long-term cloud costs without sacrificing flexibility.

(00:18:15) – Making Cost Optimization a Team EffortTips on building a culture of financial awareness and encouraging developers to participate in cost-saving efforts.

(00:20:53) – Creating a FinOps Mentality Across TeamsClaire discusses FinOps principles and the importance of integrating cost management into developers’ daily operations.

(00:28:38) – Technical Adjustments for Maximum SavingsDeep dive into resource allocation strategies, auto-scaling adjustments, and network cost reductions in Kubernetes clusters.

(00:32:01) – The Impact of Cloud Startup ProgramsCautions on relying too heavily on cloud credits from startup programs, with advice on using them wisely to avoid pitfalls.

(00:35:10) – CTO Advice: Key Takeaways for Optimizing Cloud UsageClaire’s closing advice for CTOs starting their cloud optimization journey, including the importance of monitoring costs early and fostering a cost-conscious culture.

(00:37:39) – A Message to Young Claire: Embracing Risk and OwnershipPersonal reflections on leadership and learning to take risks as a CTO. Practical advice for tech leaders looking to foster accountability within their teams.

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Podcast: alphalist.CTO Podcast - For CTOs and Technical Leaders (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: #111 - Organising for Impact feat. Eric Bowman // CTO @ King
Pub date: 2024-11-07

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Output → Outcome → Impact | Product + Tech | Adjacent PossibilitiesHow do we actually organize people to consistently deliver value and enjoy the process? This, Eric Bowman (CTO @ King) says, is the core challenge facing any CTO. In this thought-provoking episode, Eric shares insights from his remarkable career in gaming (The Sims, King), e-commerce (Zalando), and navigation technology (TomTom), offering a unique perspective on building high-performing teams and effective tech organizations.

Listen in to explore:🔄 Outcome AND Outputs → Impact (ala Kent Beck’s Universal Value Streams)đŸ€– Theory of Adjacent Possibility + Why AI isn’t there yet⚖ Product + Tech: Single-threaded (Amazon) vs. Dual Role (Marty Cagan or Google)🎯 Goals: Kanban-Style Stack Ranking that limits Work-in-Progress📈 ROI of Tech: Does it increase revenue or accelerate delivery?🧘 Discipline = Action & Commitment

  • is it time to rethink small teams and platform engineering?Have a listen. Eric has such a great combination of great combination of experience đŸŠŸ, knowledge 📚 and wisdom 🧠.

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Timestamps(00:00) Introduction(01:05) Eric Bowman's Career Journey(02:44) The Core CTO Challenge(05:50) Outcome AND Output → Impact(07:57) Accountability Over Output(09:22) Universal Value Streams(10:57) Product + Tech Leadership Models + Dynamics(14:16) Single Threaded Leaders vs. Dual Roles(16:03) CTO Role: Balancing Today and Tomorrow(17:17) CTO Role: Economics of Decision-Making(19:20) Team Organization: Autonomy and Rethinking Small Teams(22:48) Causal Chains, Goals and Feedback Loops(26:52) Discipline = Action + Commitment(29:43) Prioritise Goals with Kanban-Style Stack Ranking(36:37) Platform Engineering: Help or Hindrance? (DORA-inspired)(39:03) CAUTION: Compensating Measures(40:57) Tech Investments: ROI and Value Creation(42:56) AI and The Theory of Adjacent Possibilities(50:35) Why Eric Dislikes the Word ‘Innovation’(51:48) Quickfire Round: Tools and Tech

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Podcast: Drunk Agile (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 92 - Control Chart In Jira
Pub date: 2024-07-02

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Jira has a chart it calls a "Control Chart"Is it a control chart? Why does it matter?

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Podcast: Drunk Agile (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 95 - Done Is Not What You Think It Is
Pub date: 2024-08-19

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Nisha, Dan, and Prateek discuss what the 'Done' column on your board means and how it is not what most people think it is.

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Podcast: Drunk Agile (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 97 -Agile Through A Flow Lens
Pub date: 2024-11-11

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Episode 97 -Agile Through A Flow Lens by Dan Vacanti & Prateek Singh

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Podcast: Drunk Agile (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 96 - Validation Is Not What You Think It Is
Pub date: 2024-11-11

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Episode 96 - Validation Is Not What You Think It Is by Dan Vacanti & Prateek Singh

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Podcast: Sooner Safer Happier
Episode: Squads, Tribes, Chapters and Guilds at Spotify. The origin story with Joakim Sundén
Pub date: 2024-03-26

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Squads, Tribes, Chapters and Guilds at Spotify. The origin story with Joakim Sundén, someone who was in the room when deciding the language.

It’s the Age of Digital and we’re all living in it. Sooner Safer Happier is a podcast orchestrated to help you on your unique journey to improving ways of working.

Hosted by Jon Smart, business agility practitioner, thought leader, coach, and author of Sooner Safer Happier. Jon is also the founder of the Enterprise Agility Leaders Network. Follow the podcast as Smart delves into conversation with business professionals and provides advice for a Ways of Working transformational journey.

Listen now to be at the front of change and ahead of the competition.

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Timestamps:

(00:01) - Intro

(3:15) - Empowered Teams (Spotify Model). Squads, Tribes, Chapters, and Guilds

(17:35) - Flexibility of Teams (Spotify Model). Autonomy and Alignment of Evolution

(28:30) - Leadership and Central PMOs. A change of conventional leadership

(33:20) - Top 10 Priorities/Strategies. Figuring out what needs to get done with company bets

(35:00) - Background to Guilds/Chapters. Understanding the terminology

(41:48) - Reporting Lines & Leadership Structure. Leadership within the Chapters

(53:58) - Cultures and Values . Incentivised Behavior to Empower

(1:01:50) - Lessons to Conclude. Applying the Model to Change


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Podcast: Tech Lead Journal (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: #198 - Better Software Faster: Measure & Improve Developer Productivity with DX Core 4 - Laura Tacho
Pub date: 2024-11-11

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“Now more than ever, engineering leaders are being asked to be more transparent with how their work is getting done. Every single thing that an engineering team works on needs to benefit the business.”

Laura Tacho is the CTO of DX and a leading voice in the world of developer experience and productivity. In this episode, we explore the ever important role of aligning developer experience with business goals and discuss the DX Core 4, a new developer productivity framework recently published by DX.

Laura shares how engineering leaders can leverage intuition for data-driven decisions and effectively communicate the impact of engineering initiatives in business language. We discuss the importance of balancing business goals with engineering needs and delve into the process of building a strong business case for improving developer experience.

Discover the new DX Core 4 framework as Laura breaks down its four dimensions, key metrics, and actionable strategies for measuring and enhancing developer productivity. Learn how DX Core 4 complements existing frameworks, such as DORA, SPACE, and DevEx, and why it suggests “diffs per engineer” as a valuable metric to measure. Understand the Developer Experience Index (DXI) and why internal developer platforms and AI play crucial roles in improving developer experience.

Tune in to learn new valuable insights on developer experience and how to measure, communicate, and improve developer productivity effectively.

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  • Career Turning Points - [00:02:13]
  • Following Your Intuition - [00:05:36]
  • Business Oriented Engineering Leaders - [00:08:06]
  • Explaining Tech Debt - [00:12:01]
  • Balancing Between Engineering and Business Focus - [00:16:53]
  • Building a Case for Improving Developer Experience - [00:21:00]
  • DX Core 4 - [00:22:46]
  • DX Core 4 vs Others (DORA, SPACE, DevEx) - [00:25:19]
  • The DX Core 4 Dimensions - [00:26:49]
  • Diffs per Engineer - [00:30:32]
  • Impact Dimension - [00:33:27]
  • Measuring DX Core 4 - [00:34:59]
  • Developer Experience Index (DXI) - [00:38:19]
  • Impact of Implementing DX Core 4 - [00:41:54]
  • Best Strategy to Improve Developer Experience - [00:44:26]
  • Internal Developer Platform & AI - [00:47:52]
  • The Importance of Talking to the Developers - [00:51:40]
  • 3 Tech Lead Wisdom - [00:54:18]

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Laura Tacho’s Bio
Laura Tacho is CTO at DX, a developer experience company. She’s a technology leader with a successful track record leading engineering and product development teams at companies like CloudBees, Aula Education, and Nova Credit. She’s been building developer tools and working on improving developer productivity for over 10 years, all the way from the heyday of IaaS and PaaS on cloud, through Docker and containers, CI/CD, and now as part of DX. She’s also an executive coach for engineering leaders and an expert in building world-class engineering organisations that consistently deliver outstanding results. Laura has coached CTOs and other engineering leaders from startups to the Fortune 500, and also facilitates a popular course on metrics and engineering team performance.

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  • Website – lauratacho.com
  • LinkedIn – linkedin.com/in/lauratacho
  • DX Core 4 – getdx.com/research/measuring-developer-productivity-with-the-dx-core-4
  • Developer Productivity Metrics Course - lauratacho.com/developer-productivity-metrics-course

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Podcast: Tech Lead Journal (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: #199 - Think Like an Engineer, Talk Like an Executive, and Go Beyond Your Limits - Pramoda Vyasarao
Pub date: 2024-11-18

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“As an engineer, you don’t have to drop your technical skills, but you need to communicate like an executive. The more you communicate this way, you will have more opportunities and more impact on your job.”

Pramoda Vyasarao is an engineering leader turned coach with two decades of experience at Oracle and Meta, and the author of “Beyond Your Limits”. In this episode, Pramoda shares his insights on the importance of communication for engineers, as well as his inspiring journey of achieving 52 lofty goals in over 20 years and going beyond his limits.

Having joined Toastmasters in 2003 to improve his public speaking, Pramoda believes engineers should focus on developing their communication skills to advance their careers and become better leaders. He discusses his TALL framework for effective communication: talking with structure, asking insightful questions, listening deeply, and leadership development.

Our conversation also delves into key topics from Pramoda’s book, “Beyond Your Limits”. Pramoda discusses the importance of setting goals and finding life’s meaning, sharing his own inspiring journey in his goal-oriented life. He explains the power of thoughts, how our thoughts can influence our feelings and actions significantly, and the three common saboteurs to achieving our goals: time, purpose, and belief.

Tune in to learn practical advice on improving your communication and leadership skills, as well as how to achieve your big goals and realize your true potential.

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  • Career Turning Points - [00:02:13]
  • Going Through Layoff - [00:03:42]
  • Joining Toastmasters - [00:05:25]
  • Tips for Being a Great Speaker - [00:07:34]
  • Think Like an Engineer, Talk Like an Executive - [00:09:17]
  • Your Communication Gives You More Opportunities - [00:11:45]
  • Written Communication Skills - [00:13:41]
  • TALL Framework for Communication and Leadership - [00:15:24]
  • T = Talking with Structures - [00:19:08]
  • L = Listening Deeply - [00:21:59]
  • ABC Framework for Leadership - [00:25:19]
  • Why Writing “Beyond Your Limits” Book - [00:33:31]
  • The Power of Thoughts - [00:37:39]
  • Top 3 Saboteurs of Goal Achievement - [00:41:12]
  • 7 Step Framework for Goal Achievement - [00:47:56]
  • Creating Milestones & Habits - [00:51:01]
  • Pramoda’s Biggest Goal Achievement - [00:54:28]
  • 3 Tech Lead Wisdom - [00:57:13]

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Pramoda Vyasarao’s Bio
Pramoda Vyasarao, the founder of Changesmith Coaching LLC, has a rich background in computer science and boasts over two decades of experience with tech giants like Oracle and Meta. Beginning his career as an engineer and eventually transitioning into a management role, he recognized the importance of structured leadership development. This realization spurred his journey into leadership coaching. With 17 years of coaching experience, Pramoda has significantly impacted thousands of individuals across 11 countries. He specializes in fostering personal growth for senior leaders through one-on-one coaching and cohort-based courses that focus on communication, leadership, and storytelling. Pramoda is the author of the bestselling book “Beyond Your Limits.”

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  • LinkedIn – linkedin.com/in/pramodavyasarao
  • Digital Courses – changesmith.me/courses
  • Live Courses – maven.com/changesmith
  • 📚 Beyond Your Limits – amazon.com/Beyond-Your-Limits-Achieving-Happiness/dp/B0D5ZDX3P5
  • 🎧 Beyond Your Limits Audiobook – open.spotify.com/show/4tHbhirBUklc2Zehq5f9NN

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Podcast: Tech Lead Journal (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: #200 - Become a Great Engineering Leader - James Stanier
Pub date: 2024-11-25

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“Leadership is where you have, not necessarily a large organization, but increasing scope and increasing impact, while bringing lots of people along with you.”

In this milestone episode of the podcast, James Stanier returns for the third time to discuss his latest book, “Become a Great Engineering Leader.” We explore the role of an engineering leader and delve deep into the nuances of engineering leadership.

James explains the difference between an engineering leader and an engineering manager through the lens of the three levels of warfare: strategy, operational, and tactical. We then discuss the importance of organizational chart design and some best practices, including Conway’s law and how to avoid politics.

James also talks about the importance of time management, always having a long-term view of your work (long-termism), and the critical role of writing in leadership. We discuss important approaches such as one-way vs. two-way doors and balancing between writing vs. bias for action.

Finally, James explains the importance of strategic thinking, why a strategy is not necessarily a plan, and how an engineering leader can communicate their strategy effectively. He also provides practical tips for upcoming engineering leaders and discusses how we should all navigate a career in technology.

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  • Writing “Become a Great Engineering Leader” - [00:02:19]
  • The Role of Engineering Leader - [00:04:21]
  • Engineering Leader vs Engineering Manager - [00:05:57]
  • Tenure Relevancy - [00:09:36]
  • The Importance of an Org Chart - [00:11:30]
  • Org Chart Best Practices - [00:13:44]
  • Conway’s Law - [00:15:55]
  • Avoiding Politics - [00:17:16]
  • Writing Skills & Time Management - [00:21:41]
  • T-Shaped Leadership - [00:26:35]
  • Long-termism - [00:28:39]
  • Leadership is Writing - [00:33:02]
  • Writing vs Bias for Action - [00:36:13]
  • One-Way vs Two-Way Door - [00:38:20]
  • Reading & Seeking Information - [00:41:09]
  • Strategic Thinking - [00:44:46]
  • A Strategy is Not a Plan - [00:48:05]
  • Communicating Your Strategy - [00:52:23]
  • Becoming an Engineering Leader - [00:55:39]
  • 3 Engineering Leader Wisdom - [01:01:56]

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James Stanier’s Bio
James Stanier is Director of Engineering at Shopify. James holds a Ph.D. in computer science and runs theengineeringmanager.com. He has over a decade of experience with building people and software. He is also the author of Become an Effective Software Manager and Effective Remote Work.

Follow James:

  • LinkedIn – linkedin.com/in/jstanier
  • X – x.com/jstanier
  • The Engineering Manager Blog – theengineeringmanager.com
  • The Engineering Manager Newsletter – theengineeringmanager.substack.com
  • 📚 Become a Great Engineering Leader – pragprog.com/titles/jsenglb/become-a-great-engineering-leader/
  • 📚 Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager – pragprog.com/titles/jsengman/become-an-effective-software-engineering-manager/
  • 📚 Effective Remote Work – pragprog.com/titles/jsrw/effective-remote-work/

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Podcast: Evolution Exchange Denmark Podcast
Episode: Evo DK #227 - Moving From A Technical Lead To A People Manager
Pub date: 2024-12-11

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Host Alex Robinson connects with Carsten WeirsĂže Widtfeldt, IT Chef at Daka Denmark, Mangesh Sharma, Senior Manager of Data & Analytics at The Carlsberg Group, and Martin Hojgaard Hansen, Executive IT Consultant at Nordea Asset Management. Together, they explore the challenges and strategies involved in transitioning from technical roles to people management. Discover insights on leadership development, team management, and the unique skills required to successfully guide teams in the ever-evolving tech and analytics industries.

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Podcast: Evolution Exchange Denmark Podcast
Episode: Evo DK #228 - How Can A Good Product Strategy Facilitate Positive Outcomes
Pub date: 2024-12-17

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Join Sean Thompson as he unpacks the impact of strategic product management with Jesper Sand Wilson (VP of Product Management, EG A/S), David Neville (Interim Managing Director, Enova Energy), and Jonas Vang Gregersen (Product Consultant). This discussion highlights actionable strategies to drive positive business outcomes through product innovation and management expertise. Learn how industry leaders approach decision-making, tackle challenges, and optimize resources to achieve success in competitive markets, offering valuable insights for professionals across various industries.

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Podcast: Think Fast Talk Smart: Communication Techniques (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 164. Rethinks: Using "Pre-suasion" to Influence Others
Pub date: 2024-10-15

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The inner workings of social influence and persuasion.

Want to change someone’s mind? First, explains Robert Cialdini, you have to change their framing.

For Cialdini, the Regent's Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Marketing at Arizona State University, persuasion begins before we even deliver our pitch or presentation. Through what he calls “Pre-suasion,” communicators can prime audiences to receive messages in a specific way, simply by drawing their attention in specific directions.

“It involves focusing people on—putting them in mind of—those motivators before they encounter [them] in the communicator’s message,” Cialdini says, “bringing people’s focus of attention onto something that is nested in the message
before that message is delivered, so they have been readied for the concept.”

In this episode, Matt Abrahams and Cialdini talk about the motivating power of FOMO, getting better advice from others, and how your next wine purchase could be influenced by what music is playing in the shop.

Episode Reference Links:

  • Robert Cialdini
  • Robert's books: Influence / Pre-Suasion
  • Ep.11 The Science of Influence: How to Persuade Others And Hold Their Attention
  • Ep.142 Power and Persuasion: Live Insights from Stanford Experts
  • Original Episode: Ep.76 Change My Mind: Using “Pre-suasion” to Influence Others

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  • (00:00) - Introduction
  • (02:51) - Persuasion and Pre-suasion
  • (06:12) - Priming and Framing in Pre-suasion
  • (08:53) - Understanding Scarcity
  • (11:43) - The Unity Principle
  • (14:59) - Social Proof and Influence
  • (20:19) - The Role of Language in Persuasion
  • (23:18) - The Final Three Questions
  • (27:44) - Conclusion

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Podcast: Think Fast Talk Smart: Communication Techniques (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 166. Why Relying on Talent Alone Will Fail You
Pub date: 2024-10-29

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Why practice is the key to success.

If there’s anyone who knows about performing under pressure, it’s former NFL quarterback Andrew Luck. Whether playing in front of thousands or presenting to ten, his key to success is practice.

"There's a romantic notion that you rise to the occasion," says Luck, a Stanford graduate and four-time Pro Bowl selection. "But I think you settle to the level of your training. We practiced those high-pressure situations all the time.” From calling critical game-winning plays to navigating communication off the field, our performance in high-stakes situations, Luck maintains, is determined by our level of preparation.

In this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, Luck and host Matt Abrahams explore how deliberate practice can help us hone our performance across all domains of our lives. From managing high-pressure situations to building psychological safety in homes and workplaces, Luck shares insights gained from both sides of the field — as a player and now as a coach.

Episode Reference Links:

  • Andrew Luck
  • Ep.153 Listen Up, Leaders: A Record-Setting Coach’s Guide to Communication

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  • (00:00) - Introduction
  • (02:04) - Communication in High-Stress Situations
  • (04:14) - Staying Calm Under Pressure
  • (06:44) - Earning Leadership Through Respect
  • (08:07) - Overcoming Conflict Aversion
  • (09:14) - Decision to Retire from the NFL
  • (11:21) - Returning to Education
  • (12:59) - Life Lessons Through Coaching
  • (15:20) - The Final Three Questions
  • (18:28) - Conclusion

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Podcast: Think Fast Talk Smart: Communication Techniques (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 172. Bring Mindfulness to Your Communication
Pub date: 2024-12-03

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Mindfulness can transform your communication and your career.

When we react, our instincts and impulses are in the driver’s seat. But when we take the time to reflect, that’s when Marshall Goldsmith says we take back control of how we respond.

“​​​​Before speaking at work, breathe,” Goldsmith says. “Is my comment going to improve this other human being's commitment? At home, breathe. Is my comment going to improve this relationship with someone I love? If the answer is no, why am I saying it?”

As a world-renowned executive coach, speaker, and best-selling author, Goldsmith teaches how a mindful approach can change how we relate to others, to ourselves, and even to our career goals and ambitions. Through reflection, we identify our values, which we can use to live what Goldsmith calls an “earned life — when the choices, risks, and effort we make in each moment align with an overarching purpose in our lives.”

In this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, Goldsmith joins host Matt Abrahams to explore practical strategies for bettering our interactions with others and ourselves, from his “feed forward” method for giving and receiving constructive critique to his "daily questions" practice, which prompts reflective self-inquiry to keep us focused on what truly matters.

Episode Reference Links:

  • Marshall Goldsmith
  • Marshall’s Books: What Got Here Won't Get You There / Triggers
  • Ep.138 Speak Your Truth: Why Authenticity Leads to Better Communication

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  • (00:00) - Introduction
  • (01:59) - Key Communication Advice
  • (02:41) - An Earned Life
  • (04:38) - Transition to Leadership
  • (06:09) - Breathe Before Speaking
  • (07:24) - Feedforward vs. Feedback
  • (08:24) - Managing Triggers
  • (10:15) - Daily Success Checklist
  • (12:53) - Using AI for Coaching
  • (14:22) - Influencing Up Leadership
  • (15:57) - The Final Three Questions
  • (18:52) - Conclusion

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Podcast: Think Fast Talk Smart: Communication Techniques (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Between the Lines: In Storytelling, Simplify to Amplify - Premium Sampler
Pub date: 2024-12-05

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"Start with the action moment or right before it," advises Hilary Price whose one-panel comic strips offer insights far beyond humor—they’re lessons in concise storytelling that resonate with anyone seeking to communicate effectively. “Simplify and amplify,” Price advises, emphasizing the art of clarity and impact. Every stroke of her pen strips away the unnecessary, letting the essentials shine through.
Creating her daily comic strip, Rhymes with Orange, Price starts with the game of “what if,” merging unexpected ideas to surprise and engage her readers. “You want to start at the action moment—or just before,” she notes, pointing out how the unsaid often speaks louder. Price extends this philosophy beyond cartoons: whether crafting a presentation, a joke, or a story, it’s essential to leave room for the audience to co-create meaning. “Don’t spoon-feed your readers,” she says. “The joy comes from not getting it, then getting it.”
In this bonus episode of Think Fast Talk Smart, Price joins host Matt Abrahams to explore the power of surprise, stakes, and shared experience in storytelling—reminding us that the punchline, whether in humor or communication, is where the magic happens.

Episode Reference Links:

  • Hilary Price
  • Rhymes With Orange
  • Ep.170 Advice From Nontraditional Storytellers Part 1
  • Ep.171 Advice From Nontraditional Storytellers Part 2

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  • (00:00) - Introduction
  • (02:59) - What Makes a Good Story?
  • (03:52) - Crafting a Story
  • (05:12) - Auditioning the Characters
  • (08:16) - Stories in Daily Life
  • (10:04) - Visuals in Storytelling
  • (11:51) - The Power of a Punchline
  • (13:58) - Admired Storytellers
  • (15:55) - Communicating with Titles
  • (17:27) - Conclusion

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Podcast: Think Fast Talk Smart: Communication Techniques (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 174. Fix Meetings: Transform Gatherings Into Meaningful Moments
Pub date: 2024-12-17

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Turn any meeting or get-together into a chance for deep connection and collaboration.

Whether you’re holding a team meeting or hosting a family get-together, the success of any gathering, says Priya Parker, isn’t about the perfect agenda or venue, but about the intentionality behind how you bring people together.

“90% of the success of any gathering happens before anyone enters the room,” says Parker. As the author of The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters, and a strategic advisor who has helped organizations worldwide reimagine their gatherings, Parker believes that thoughtful preparation can turn any meeting, whether professional or personal, into a meaningful and memorable experience for all involved. “Intentionality is the first step,” she says, “to pause and ask: why are we doing this? What is the purpose? What is the need in this community or in this classroom or in this team?”

In this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, Parker joins Matt Abrahams to explore the art of meaningful gatherings, sharing practical strategies for everything from crafting invitations that prime engagement to designing powerful closings that leave a lasting impact. By being more thoughtful in bringing people together, we can transform ordinary meetings into extraordinary opportunities for connection and collaboration.

Episode Reference Links:

  • Priya Parker
  • Priya’s Book: The Art of Gathering
  • Ep.124 Making Meetings Meaningful, Pt. 1: How to Structure and Organize More Effective Gatherings
  • Ep.125 Making Meetings Meaningful, Pt. 2: Key Ingredients for Effective Meetings

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Chapters:

  • (00:00) - Introduction
  • (01:44) - Intentionality in Everyday Conversations
  • (03:30) - Questioning the Purpose of Gatherings
  • (05:38) - The Power of Great Questions
  • (08:41) - Managing Heat in Conversations
  • (10:50) - Encouraging Participation Beforehand
  • (13:30) - Creating Impactful Endings
  • (15:56) - The Final Three Questions
  • (18:50) - Conclusion

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Podcast: CXOTalk: Leadership, AI, and the Digital Economy (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: What is DevSecOps? (explained by GitLab) | CXOTalk #861
Pub date: 2024-11-26

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AI is revolutionizing software development, but where do you start? Ashley Kramer, Chief Marketing & Strategy Officer and Interim Chief Revenue Officer at GitLab, joins CXOTalk to discuss how to integrate AI strategically into your DevSecOps process. Learn how to measure AI's ROI, increase developer productivity and happiness, and navigate the hype around AI-powered coding. Discover practical strategies for leveraging AI to build better software faster, improve security, and drive innovation. đŸ”· Subscribe: www.cxotalk.com/subscribeđŸ”· Read the summary and key points: https://www.cxotalk.com/episode/what-is-ai-powered-devsecops-explained-by-gitlabđŸ”· LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/cxotalkđŸ”· Twitter: twitter.com/cxotalk#ai #DevSecOps #SoftwareDevelopment #DigitalTransformation #DevOps #CXOTalk #GitLab

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Podcast: Den Agile Agenda
Episode: Nej, SAFe er ikke agilt, men det er dyrt og nÊrmest umuligt at fÄ til at fungere.
Pub date: 2024-10-15

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Lad os nu fÄ punkteret nogle af de sejlivede myter om SAFeHer vover jeg pelsen, og tager fat i SAFe frameworket nok engang. Der er jo mange diskussioner i forskellige agile fora, der handler om, hvorvidt SAFe er agilt eller ej, og det er der mange holdninger til. Nu kaster jeg mine holdninger ind i diskussionen.

I de sidste mange Är har jeg brugt meget tid pÄ at analysere, hvordan de forskellige sÄkaldt agile tilgange virker. BÄde pÄ papiret og ude i virkeligheden. Jeg er nÄet til den konklusion af nej, SAFe er ikke agilt og skaber heller ikke agilitet.

I denne episode fortÊller jeg, hvordan jeg er nÄet til den konklusion og hvorfor jeg mener, at SAFe er unÞdigt dyrt og tilmed nÊrmest umuligt at fÄ til at fungere.

Jeg indrÞmmer gerne, at jeg stikker nÊsen meget langt frem, og ved udmÊrket, at mange fÞler meget stÊrkt for SAFe. Jeg vil bare gerne parkere fÞlelserne lidt og tage et nogenlunde objektivt og udogmatisk kig pÄ SAFe og hvad man egentlig kaster sig ud i, hvis man vÊlger at gÄ den vej.

Her i den Agile Agenda tager jeg jĂŠvnligt fat i nogle af de myter og vedtagne sandheder, som florerer i det agile landskab. I dette tilfĂŠlde er det myten om, at SAFe er den eneste vej, hvis men er stor eller skal skalere det agile. I forbindelse med en tidligere episode, som ogsĂ„ handlede om SAFe, gravede jeg i hvad andre agile specialister mener om sagerne. Jeg ville nemlig gerne finde ud af, om jeg var ”Annette alene i verden”.

I mit gravearbejde dengang stÞdte jeg pÄ en hjemmeside, som faktisk har samlet en lÊngere rÊkke agile koryfÊers holdninger til SAFe. Den hjemmeside hedder: www.safedelusion.com, og her er der mange agile kendisser, der udtaler sig, ligesom du kan finde en rÊkke cases med eksempler pÄ store virksomheder, der valgte SAFe til, men senere er gÄet vÊk fra det igen, fordi resultaterne udeblev, eller simpelthen gav dÄrligere resultater, end man havde fÞr.

Summa summarum, sÄ er mine konklusioner baseret pÄ mine mange Ärs praktiske erfaring med agile transformationer og viden om agile systemer fuldstÊndig pÄ linje med de holdninger, som disse verdenskendte agile folk giver udtryk for.

Jeg vil lige understrege, at jeg ikke forsÞger at overbevise nogen om, at de skal eller ikke skal arbejde med SAFe. Det vil jeg slet ikke blande mig i. Mit formÄl er alene at vÊre rationel og faktuel og opfordre til, at der kommer flere fakta og fÊrre fÞlelser pÄ bordet, nÄr vi snakker agile tilgange.

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Podcast: REWORK (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Your Competition is Your Costs
Pub date: 2024-11-27

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Remaining profitable in business is a simple equation — sales revenue exceeding operating costs. In this episode of The REWORK Podcast, 37signals’ co-founders Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson explain why controlling costs should be a bigger focus than what your competition is doing. They share some simple strategies for analyzing costs and share why operating without a formal office space might be worth considering.

Key Takeaways:

  • 00:37 – Why you should stop worrying about what everyone else is doing
  • 02:26 – Focusing on the things within your control
  • 06:58 – Analyzing your business' cash cows, dogs, and shooting stars
  • 11:21 – Budgeting doesn’t always mean being frugal
  • 12:24 – Weighing cost against value
  • 16:16 – What the company gained by letting go of a physical office space
  • 18:31 – Aesthetics of a well-run, profitable business
  • 21:06 – The biggest expenses entrepreneurs often overlook

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"You only compete with one thing" from Jason Fried's HEY World

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Podcast: Hardcore Soft Skills Podcast (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: How to Build Resilience: Dr. Marie-HélÚne Pelletier
Pub date: 2024-11-19

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Bad situations are expected at any point, that’s a given, so how do we manage to deal with them effectively? At work, how do we help our teams become resilient?

Today you will learn specific strategies on that with Dr. Marie-HélÚne Pelletier, leadership psychologist, keynote speaker, executive coach, workplace mental health expert and author of the book The Resilience Plan: A Strategic Approach to Optimizing Your Work Performance and Mental Health.

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Podcast: The Mob Mentality Show (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Discovery of Ignorance in Product Development: Time for a Smarter Way to Deliver Customer Value with Gary Cohen
Pub date: 2024-10-29

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In this episode of the Mob Mentality Show, join us as we delve into "The Discovery of Ignorance in Product Development: Time for a Smarter Way to Deliver Customer Value" with our special guest, Gary Cohen. Drawing on his rich experience across diverse sectors—from government agencies to startups—Gary brings a wealth of insight into optimizing product discovery and delivery for true customer impact.

Key Topics Explored: The Product Discovery and Delivery Intersection

Even if a team is familiar with the 80/20 rule (e.g., where 80% of features go unused), how does it determine the right 20% to deliver? Gary shares strategies to tackle this challenge, advocating for a shift from traditional roadmap fixation to embracing dynamic, continuous discovery that keeps customer value at the forefront. Together, we examine the effectiveness of "strict" roadmap discipline (the practice of adhering to set timelines and objectives) and if it becomes a barrier to true innovation and customer value.

We also briefly touch on the FAST framework and its relevance to product discovery, emphasizing how collective discovery through mobbing allows teams to stay closer to evolving customer needs.

The Role of GenAI in Modern Product Development

Is AI is reshaping product discovery? We explore how GenAI can be a collaborative asset for mobs, not only for code development but also for bringing value by uncovering insights into customer behavior and streamlining feature prioritization. We compare "introverted" AI and "extroverted" AI in mob environments and discusses how developing refined AI inquiry skills is key to leveraging AI’s full potential. From training mobs in nuanced prompt engineering to using AI to help drive a more lean delivery, we share ways to maximize AI's impact while maintaining expert human oversight.

Bootstrapping Pair and Mob Programming in Individualist Cultures

Transitioning to collaborative programming environments such as pair or mob programming can be challenging, especially in workplaces with a culture of individuality. We offer quick tips on how to bootstrap these methods, from creating a safe space for experimentation to aligning incentives via a peer promotion process. By using context sensitive analogies, how can we influence others in the org to consider jumping into the highly effective world of mob programming?

Unpacking Behavioral Expectations: A Smarter Approach to Product Decisions

Beyond the technical, we look at the behavioral side of product monitoring, asking, “What responses do we expect from our users?” Gary emphasizes the importance of behavioral prediction in discovery, cautioning against information bias and providing ways to gauge responses to feature experiments in real-time. We highlight the importance of monitoring usage data and what it reveals about customer engagement—whether a feature elicits a “wow” or a mere “meh.”

Takeaways for Product Managers, Engineers, and Innovators

From continuous discovery to leveraging the art of AI prompting, Gary Cohen’s insights provide actionable advice for product managers, developers, and cross-functional teams who are ready to rethink their approach to product development and delivery. Whether you're looking to reduce waste, increase customer value, or integrate mob programming and GenAI into your workflow, this episode offers some experiments to try in your journey to achieve product success.

Don’t miss this engaging discussion filled with actionable strategies, insightful anecdotes, and forward-thinking approaches to innovation!

Video and Show Notes: https://youtu.be/od7E_M9B6gI

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Podcast: The Mob Mentality Show (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Complex Adaptive Organizations, Org Topologies, and FAST Agile with Ariel Pérez
Pub date: 2024-12-17

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In this thought-provoking episode of the Mob Mentality Show, we are joined by Ariel Pérez to explore the fascinating intersection of Complex Adaptive Organizations, Organizational Topologies, and the FAST Agile Framework. Together, we dive into the challenges and opportunities of modern software development and organizational dynamics, offering actionable insights for leaders, teams, and anyone navigating complexity in their work.

Highlights from the Episode...Complex Adaptive Organizations and FAST Agile:* Manufacturing vs. Software Development: Why building the same product repeatedly differs from creating custom software . * Complexity Theory in Software Development: How unpredictable side effects shape outcomes and the pursuit of predictability in organizations. * Fixed Scope and Fixed Date: Are they real business needs, or just external motivators? What are their long-term impacts on quality and delivery? * Theory X vs. Theory Y (management theories): How a leaders' management principles and practices influence autonomy, trust, and collaboration. * Dynamic Teams in FAST Agile: The pros and cons of adapting teams dynamically to match work needs versus forcing work into rigid team structures. * Story of Transitioning to FAST: A tale of initial resistance to the FAST Agile approach and the eventual embrace of its benefits.

Building a Culture of Experimentation and Learning:* Experimentation as a Foundation for Innovation: How to test hypotheses in product development and team practices without compromising quality. * From Fear to Trust: Encouraging experimentation in new teams or under new leadership while creating safety for bold ideas. * Practical Experiments: Implementing small feature flags, A/B testing (comparing two versions in production), and time-limited trial runs to foster innovation. * Respect and Radical Candor: Building trust through open communication, mutual respect, and the occasional dose of healthy banter 😅.

Risks and Controls: A Never-Ending Game of Whack-a-Mole:* Balancing Risk and Control: How risk-heavy environments lead to more controls (e.g., CAB—Change Advisory Board, PR—Pull Request) and the ripple effects of other risks these controls create. * Holistic Thinking: Why addressing one risk often introduces others and how to manage risk without stifling agility. * Mob Programming as a Solution: Handling emergency changes safely and collaboratively without falling into the trap of excessive gatekeeping.

Key Takeaways:* Embrace complexity and adapt dynamically to navigate unpredictable challenges. * Optimize for learning through experimentation and apply these insights to real-world problems. * Avoid control-heavy environments that stifle innovation and agility by thinking holistically about risks.

Join us as we unpack these ideas and share strategies to foster a responsive, trust-based culture in your teams and organizations.

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Podcast: Adventures in .NET (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Product Management? - .NET 205
Pub date: 2024-11-12

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Most developers we know find project management to be a necessary evil but without it a lot of us would be stumbling around in the dark. Shawn and Caleb look back over their careers to discuss different project management methodologies. Whether it is waterfall, agile, scrum, or none of these, projects are hard to manage. Both Shawn and Caleb have seen a lot of different ways that projects can be managed or mismanaged and they have differing opinions on what works best. Join us for this episode to find out which they prefer and what allows them to focus on getting to work coding. What is your preferred project management style? Let us know on Twitter at @dotnet_Podcast

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* Caleb- Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons * Shawn- Neewer Desk Mount LED Video Light

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Podcast: Lederens Dilemma
Episode: SÊrudgave: Fremtiden topledere - hvem indtager hjÞrnekontorerne om fem Är?
Pub date: 2024-12-11

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I denne sÊrudgave giver tre headhuntere deres bud pÄ, hvad man skal kunne for at blive topleder om tre-fem Är.

Det er i forbindelse med, at BÞren i samarbejde med konsulenthuset Bain i januar offentliggÞr listen Fremtidens Topleder. Her er tre headhunterfirmaers kvalificerede bud pÄ 25 erhvervsprofiler, som med stor sandsynlighed i fremtiden vil indtage direktionskontorerne i nogle af landets stÞrste virksomheder.

GĂŠsterne er:

  • Karina Soldal fra Korn Ferry
  • Mads Wilhelmsen, Russell Reynolds Associates,
  • Rasmus Riisgaard, Heidrick & Struggles
  • VĂŠrt: Nikolaj Sommer, chefredaktĂžr, BĂžrsen

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Podcast: The Startup Podcast (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Early Ideation - Your Idea Is Worthless (Replay)
Pub date: 2024-11-13

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Ever had someone tell you "I have this great idea for an app"? While everyone seems to have the next billion-dollar idea, the reality of startup success is far more complex than just having a clever concept.

In this episode, Chris Saad and Yaniv Bernstein explore the real value of ideas in startups and why execution matters more than ideation.

In this episode, you will:

  • Discover why "ideas are like assholes - everyone's got one"
  • Learn how to identify truly valuable problems worth solving
  • Understand the critical difference between problems and solutions
  • Master the art of validating ideas in the real market
  • Explore how technology enables new solutions to old problems
  • Recognize why protecting ideas with NDAs is counterproductive
  • Gain insights into building consensus around your vision
  • Learn how to pitch ideas effectively to early collaborators

Originally published as 'Edu: Early ideation - Your Idea Is Worthless', March 2022.

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Intro Voice: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Jeremiah Owyang⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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Podcast: The Startup Podcast (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Product-Market Fit – 5 Proven Steps to Exponential Growth w/ Pablo Srugo
Pub date: 2024-12-02

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What does it really take to achieve product-market fit? For many founders, this critical milestone feels elusive, shrouded in myths and misconceptions that derail even the most promising startups.

In this episode, Chris Saad and Pablo Srugo, seasoned startup advisors and founders, unravel the mysteries of product-market fit. Pablo, host of The Product-Market Fit Show and a partner at Mistral VC, shares five proven steps founders can take to avoid costly mistakes, navigate pivots, and find true market pull.

In this episode, you will:

  • Learn why starting in "research mode" is the secret to uncovering real customer problems.
  • Discover the difference between "push" and "pull" in market demand—and why it matters.
  • Master the art of doing "things that don’t scale" to kickstart momentum.
  • Understand how to prioritize customer value over premature growth metrics.
  • Explore the critical role of pivots—and why most founders regret not pivoting sooner.
  • Unpack actionable insights from over 100 interviews with successful founders.
  • Get practical advice to align your product with your customers’ most urgent needs.

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Intro Voice: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Jeremiah Owyang⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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Podcast: The Startup Podcast (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: First Principles Thinking - Don’t Doom Yourself to Mediocrity (Replay)
Pub date: 2024-12-09

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Disrupt or Digitize? The Art of Breaking the Status Quo

Why do some startups revolutionize entire industries while others just digitize legacy processes? Disruption isn’t just a buzzword; it’s a mindset and one that too many founders shy away from. Are you pre-compromising your vision before you even start?

In this episode, Chris Saad and Yaniv Bernstein break down the essence of first-principles thinking and how startups can challenge legacy constraints to create truly disruptive solutions. Drawing on examples from Uber, Netflix, and DocuSign, they discuss how to identify and creatively navigate constraints without sacrificing vision.

In this episode, you will:

  • Understand the difference between incrementalism and true disruption.
  • Learn how to apply first-principles thinking to reimagine industries from scratch.
  • Explore real-world examples of companies like Uber and Netflix that rewrote the rules.
  • Identify which constraints are real, imagined, or worth challenging.
  • Master the art of balancing bold vision with practical constraints.
  • Uncover strategies to creatively layer in constraints while staying true to your goals.
  • Apply an iterative approach to move incrementally toward your ideal outcome without compromising vision.

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Intro Voice: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Jeremiah Owyang⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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Podcast: The Startup Podcast (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Best of 2024 #1 – 5 Biggest Team Building Mistakes w/ Netflix Legend Patty McCord
Pub date: 2024-12-16

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As we head into 2025, we're looking back on our most popular episodes of 2024. This episode was originally published on June 17, 2024.

How do the best founders build exceptional teams? Learn how a practical approach to HR can transform the culture at your startup.

In this episode, Patty McCord, former Chief Talent Officer at Netflix and author of 'Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility,' shares her wisdom on fostering a high-performance culture.

Patty, Yaniv and Chris discuss:

  • Finders Keepers: How the Netflix 'keeper test' can help you hire appropriately for the current stage of your startup.
  • All Groan Ups Here: How treating employees as adults and providing honest feedback can strengthen your workplace.
  • Vanishing Acts: Why eliminating 'HR theater' serves everyone in the long run.

This is a long episode, but worth every minute of your time. Don't miss it!

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Podcast: The Logan Bartlett Show (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: EP 123: Intercom CEO on Endorsing Trump, Reinventing The Company, and the Future of AI in Software
Pub date: 2024-11-15

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Eoghan McCabe returned to the CEO seat at Intercom with a mission to shake things up. Over the past two years, he's been reinventing the company’s culture, leading with zero apologies, and transforming Intercom into an AI-driven powerhouse.

In my latest conversation, we dive into Eoghan’s journey back to Intercom after a two-year break, his blueprint for turning a software company into an AI leader, and the tactics he uses to keep Intercom running like a high-intensity startup. Eoghan also shares his thoughts on personal freedom and his controversial endorsement of Donald Trump.

[0:00] Intro

[1:33] Eoghan McCabe's Return to Intercom

[3:01] Challenges and Learnings

[10:44] Cultural Reset at Intercom

[29:23] AI and the Future of Customer Service

[31:11] Adapting to AI and Market Changes

[43:00] Competitive Landscape and Strategy

[48:29] Future of AI in Customer Service

[50:24] The Evolution of Work

[52:18] Challenges and Rewards of Leadership

[56:45] Media and Public Perception

[1:00:40] Political Endorsements and Reactions

[1:10:11] Freedom Club and Cultural Influence

[1:12:33] HR and Company Culture

[1:29:35] Fundraising and Investor Relations

[1:33:01] Final Reflections and Advice

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Episode: EP 125: Glenn Fogel (CEO, Booking Holdings) Building a $170B Travel Empire: On AI, Acquisitions, and Shaping Travel’s Future
Pub date: 2024-12-06

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(00:00) Intro

(01:37) Overview of Booking Holdings

(02:31) Early Days of Priceline and Joining the Company

(03:33) Dot-Com Boom and Financial Challenges

(07:28) Travel Industry Resilience

(07:47) Cultural and Economic Factors in Travel

(09:17) Stock Splits and Employee Incentives

(13:34) Acquisition of Booking.com and Active Hotels

(24:20) Growth and Integration of Acquired Companies

(29:11) Artificial Intelligence in Travel

(30:57) Future of Travel and AI Integration

(38:54) The Greatest Acquirers in History

(39:16) Teamwork in Business Acquisitions

(40:48) Challenges in M&A and Regulatory Hurdles

(41:49) Patterns in Successful and Failed Deals

(46:06) Cultural Alignment in Mergers

(50:31) Brand Management and Integration

(54:14) Regulatory Environment and Smart Regulations

(01:00:11) Post-COVID Business Travel Trends

(01:08:24) Leadership Through Crises

(01:15:33) Technological Advancements in Travel

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Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode, Logan goes behind the scenes with world-class entrepreneurs and investors. If you're interested in the real inside baseball of tech, entrepreneurship, and start-up investing, tune in every Friday for new episodes.

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Episode: EP 126: Eran Zinman (Co-Founder, monday.com) on The Efficiency Hacks That Drove monday.com to $14B
Pub date: 2024-12-13

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Eran Zinman entered a crowded category, out-executed everyone, and scaled monday.com into a $14B public company. In my latest conversation with him, he details their unique metric tracking system (dubbed Big Brain) that allows them to do the same amount of work with œ the people, along with their relentless focus on cash over other metrics, and the little tactics that brought significant ROI (like sending everyone—including investors—a daily SMS with yesterday’s metrics).

(00:00) Introduction to the Logan Bartlett Show

(01:12) The Philosophy Behind Monday.com

(01:29) Building a Flexible Platform

(04:12) Competing in a Crowded Market

(06:21) The Evolution of Monday.com

(13:43) The Importance of Cash Efficiency

(14:22) Big Brain: The In-House Analytics Platform

(23:54) Performance Marketing Strategies

(29:47) AI Integration and Future Prospects

(38:51) Founder Mode and Company Philosophy

(40:53) Learning from Mistakes and Adapting

(43:04) Customer Success and Service Philosophy

(46:53) Building a Strong Company Culture

(51:10) Interviewing and Hiring Best Practices

(54:49) Going Public and Investor Relations

(01:03:38) Co-CEO Model and Partnership

(01:08:34) Future Vision for Monday.com

(01:11:07) Embracing Failure and Continuous Improvement

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Podcast: Coaching for Leaders (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: 704: Crafting the Modern Business Plan, with Seth Godin
Pub date: 2024-10-21

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Seth Godin: This is StrategySeth Godin has published 21 bestselling books that have changed the way people think about work. He writes one of the most popular blogs in the world, and two of his TED talks are among the most popular of all time. His blog is at seths.blog and his newest book is titled This is Strategy.Seth writes this: “It’s not clear to me why business plans are the way they are, but they’re often misused to obfuscate, bore, and show an ability to comply with expectations.” In this conversation, Seth and I explore the key components of a modern business plan.Key Points Big problems require small solutions. We often skip strategy because most of us have trained our whole lives for tactics. A modern business is clear about systems and the status quo. Use the system if you intend to change the system. Assertions are the heart of a business plan. Leaders need to have empathy for someone else’s “better.” Articulating alternatives helps you stay resilient when some of your assertions are inevitably wrong. Find people to support you who have a track record of shipping. A useful business plan gets easier over time and persists (and maybe even thrives) when the world changes.The six sections of a modern business plan: Truth Assertions Alternatives People Money TimeResources Mentioned This is Strategy by Seth GodinInterview NotesDownload my interview notes in PDF format (free membership required).Related Episodes How Leaders Build, with Guy Raz (episode 491) How to Grow Your Business, with Donald Miller (episode 629) Doing Better Than Zero Sum-Thinking, with RenĂ©e Mauborgne (episode 641)Discover MoreActivate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic. To accelerate your learning, uncover more inside Coaching for Leaders Plus.

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Episode: 705: A Few Ways to Stay Relevant, with Steve Dennis
Pub date: 2024-10-28

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Steve Dennis: Leaders LeapSteve Dennis is a strategy consultant, advisor, speaker, and author focused on transformational leadership and the impact of digital disruption. He is the president of SageBerry Consulting and host of the Remarkable Retail podcast. He's the author of the book Remarkable Retail and his newest book Leaders Leap: Transforming Your Company at the Speed of Disruption.Every leader needs to stay relevant in order to serve well. In this conversation, Steve and I explore the mindset and tactics that will help us lead in the context of an ever-changing world.Key Points Self-sufficiency is a virtue, until it’s not. Learning to ask for help is a key practice for leaders. Be cautious about a deserving attitude. High expectations may be correlated with low resilience. Seek insight everywhere. It’s no longer sufficient just to gain ideas from direct competitors. Turning pro means showing up and doing the work, especially when we don’t feel like it. We must go through discomfort, not around it. Radical acceptance of truth will help you stay relevant in changing times.Resources Mentioned Leaders Leap: Transforming Your Company at the Speed of Disruption by Steve DennisInterview NotesDownload my interview notes in PDF format (free membership required).Related Episodes How to Win the Long Game When the Short-Term Seems Bleak, with Dorie Clark (episode 550) How to Help People Engage in Growth, with Whitney Johnson (episode 576) How to Keep Improving, with Maurice Ashley (episode 697)Discover MoreActivate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic. To accelerate your learning, uncover more inside Coaching for Leaders Plus.

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Episode: 706: How to Talk to People Who Intimidate You, with Shandy Welch
Pub date: 2024-11-02

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Shandy Welch: Leadership CoachShandy Welch is an executive leadership coach. Her coaching focus is around humanizing leadership and re-engaging individuals and teams to inspire change and innovation. She is also a Coaching for Leaders Fellow.Most leaders find themselves — at least occasionally — in conversations with people who intimidate them. In this SaturdayCast, Shandy and I share what’s worked for us and how it might help you have better conversations.Key Points Nervousness is your friend. If you feel it, that means you care. Try to get the butterflies flying in formation. You are there because you are the best person to be there. Full stop. People with visibility will expect you've done your homework. If they’ve put something out into the world, they want you to find it. Preparation helps you improvise. “You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.” -Charlie Parker Always assume there is something you can do to help out someone else. Consider their perspective and what they gain from the meeting with you. Everybody has doubts and struggles. Remember the humanity that’s present in every interaction.What was helpful to you from our conversation? We’d love to know. Share it with Shandy at shandywelch@gmail.comRelated Episodes How to Talk to People Who Have Power, with Jordan Harbinger (episode 343) How to Help People Speak Truth to Power, with Megan Reitz (episode 597) Set the Tone for Speaking Up, with Mike Massimino (episode 672)Discover MoreActivate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic. To accelerate your learning, uncover more inside Coaching for Leaders Plus.

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Episode: 708: Preparing for a Conversation with Someone You Don’t Trust, with Charles Feltman
Pub date: 2024-11-11

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Charles Feltman: The Thin Book of TrustCharles Feltman is the founder of Insight Coaching. He has over 25 years of professional experience coaching, facilitating, consulting to, and training people who lead others. He is the author of The Thin Book of Trust: An Essential Primer for Building Trust at Work.It’s a reality of life that we need to interact with some people we’d rather not. And it’s absolutely a reality of leadership, that sometimes we need to have a conversation with someone we don’t quite trust. In this episode, Charles and I explore how to prepare so it goes better for both parties.Key Points The four assessment domains of trust include care, sincerity, reliability, and competence.Seven steps to prepare for a conversation: Identify the assessment(s) you are concerned with: care, sincerity, reliability, and/or competence. Define the standard you are using. Identify the specific actions or behaviors that have led to your assessment of distrust. Consider what you are doing that may be contributing to the situation. Determine what you need from them in order for them to regain your trust. Decide if you are willing to talk to the person about it. Ask the other person if they would be willing to have a conversation with you.Resources Mentioned The Thin Book of Trust: An Essential Primer for Building Trust at Work by Charles FeltmanInterview NotesDownload my interview notes in PDF format (free membership required).Related Episodes How to Handle Pushback From Difficult Askers, with Vanessa Patrick (episode 637) How to Help Difficult Conversations Go Better, with Sheila Heen (episode 655) How to Change People’s Minds, with Michael McQueen (episode 676)Discover MoreActivate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic. To accelerate your learning, uncover more inside Coaching for Leaders Plus.

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Episode: 710: Becoming an AI-Savvy Leader, with David De Cremer
Pub date: 2024-11-25

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David De Cremer: The AI-Savvy LeaderDavid De Cremer is the Dunton Family Dean of the D’Amore-McKim School of Business and professor of management and technology at Northeastern University. He’s also an affiliated faculty member at the Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University and an affiliated researcher at the Center for Collective Intelligence at MIT. His newest book is titled The AI-Savvy Leader: Nine Ways to Take Back Control and Make AI Work*.

We’ve all heard the warnings that AI is going to take our jobs. That’s certainly a possibility in the long term, but the story emerging, at least for now, is looking a little different. In this episode, David and I discuss how leaders can use AI to augment, not replace, human intelligence.

Key Points* AI is substantially different than prior digital transformations, and adoption efforts are failing at alarming rates. * Instead of leading, too often leaders are being too deferential to data and analytics teams. * Your expertise is exactly what your organization needs to deploy AI successfully. * Leaders who learn the fundamentals of AI will play an essential role in narrating dialogue between the technology experts and everyone else. * Get just enough foundational knowledge with statistics and modeling to communicate with the data and analytics folks better.

Resources Mentioned The AI-Savvy Leader: Nine Ways to Take Back Control and Make AI Work by David De Cremer

Interview NotesDownload my interview notes in PDF format (free membership required).

Related Episodes* How to Solve the Toughest Problems, with Wendy Smith (episode 612) * How to Begin Leading Through Continuous Change, with David Rogers (episode 649) * Principles for Using AI at Work, with Ethan Mollick (episode 674)

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Episode: 713: How to Grow From Feedback, with Jennifer Garvey Berger
Pub date: 2024-12-16

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Jennifer Garvey Berger: Changing on the JobJennifer Garvey Berger is cofounder and CEO of Cultivating Leadership, a consultancy that serves executives and teams in the private, non-profit, and government sectors. Her clients include Google, Microsoft, Novartis, Wikipedia, and Oxfam International. She is the author of four leadership books, including now in it’s second edition, Changing on the Job: How Leaders Become Courageous, Wise, and Steady in an Anxious World*.

We often think about feedback as something we give to someone else. What if, in addition to that, feedback is an opportunity for both parties to learn and grow. In this conversation, Jennifer and I explore how this can open a door to some of the best leadership work we do.

Key Points* If we view feedback as only giving our truth to someone else, we’ve missed a huge opportunity for growth. * Start by separating what happened from the interpretation of what happened. * Get curious about your own response: what made you react so strongly? * Talk it out. You have to welcome someone else into your thinking if you’re going to really learn. * Invite in how the other person sees the situation. Consider saying, “I’m really interested in what this looked like from your perspective.” * The process of unwinding what you hear is the good work of leadership and some the best work you can do. * Build a solution together.

Resources Mentioned Changing on the Job: How Leaders Become Courageous, Wise, and Steady in an Anxious World by Jennifer Garvey Berger

Interview NotesDownload my interview notes in PDF format (free membership required).

Related Episodes* Essentials of Adult Development, with Mindy Danna (episode 273) * How to Give Feedback, with Russ Laraway (episode 583) * How to Lead Better Through Complexity, with Jennifer Garvey Berger (episode 613)

Production CreditCoaching for Leaders is edited by Andrew Kroeger. Production support is provided by Sierra Priest.

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Podcast: Fremtidens arbejdsplads
Episode: EP #027: Karrierelivet med kunstig intelligens - Lead AI Engineer hos Visma Dinero, Kasper Junge
Pub date: 2024-10-23

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I denne episode har jeg valgt at invitere Kasper Junge ind til en runde 2. Kasper har nemlig tidligere vÊret gÊst i epiode 19. Vi tager en uformel samtale om hvordan det gÄr med karrieren og ikke mindst rollen som ny lede. SÄ hvordan nagivere man i en hverdag, hvor der bÄde er fuld fart pÄ kunstig intelligens og ikke mindst Kaspers karriere som Lead AI Engineer hos Visma Dinero.

Ydermere er Kasper ogsÄ vÊrt pÄ Verbos Podcast samt IngeniÞr Life, hvor han deler ud af alt sin viden om AI og softwareudvikling. Hans indgÄende kendskab til AI og evnen til at formidle komplekse tekniske emner gÞr ham til en eftertragtet stemme inden for branchen.

FÞr Dinero har Kasper haft roller som machine learning engineer hos SEO.ai og Data Scientist hos Ekstra Bladet. I dagens program vil jeg forsÞge at fÄ sÄ meget viden om AI ud af Kasper, sÄ vi sammen med alle jer lyttere, kan blive klogere AI og hvordan teknologien kommer til at forandre vores arbejdsprocesser og roller.

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Podcast: Fremtidens arbejdsplads
Episode: EP #029: Alle hjerner fortjener et godt arbejdsliv, Charlotte Holmer Kaufmanas, DirektĂžr for Uddannelse, Hans Knudsen Instituttet
Pub date: 2024-12-13

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I et samfund, hvor arbejdspladsens krav og tempo stiger, bliver det stadigt vigtigere at forstĂ„ og inkludere medarbejdere med neurodivergente trĂŠk – personer, hvis hjerner arbejder anderledes, sĂ„som dem med ADHD, autisme eller andre neurodivergente tilstande. I denne episode af Fremtidens Arbejdsplads inviterer vĂŠrt Torben Tronborg Charlotte Holmer Kaufmanas, direktĂžr for uddannelse hos Hans Knudsen Instituttet, til en uformel samtale om en ny undersĂžgelse, der handler om neurodivergente mennesker pĂ„ jobbet. Samtalen fokuserer pĂ„, hvad vi som arbejdsgivere kan gĂžre for at skabe bedre og mere inkluderende arbejdspladser for mennesker med hjerner, der fungerer anderledes end gennemsnittet.

UndersÞgelsen tilbyder en unik indsigt i de barrierer og muligheder, der findes for neurodivergente medarbejdere pÄ arbejdspladsen. Episoden udforsker, hvordan ledere og HR kan tage ansvar for at skabe inkluderende miljÞer, hvor forskellighed ses som en styrke.

Link til undersÞgelsen: Neurodivergens pÄ job: FÞrste danske undersÞgelse afslÞrer udfordringer og behov for inklusion
Link til artikel pÄ Berlingske: Flere voksne fÄr adhd-diagnose. DirektÞr er én af dem, og han efterlyser stÞrre Äbenhed pÄ arbejdspladsen
Link til ADHD foreningen: Skal jeg oplyse om min ADHD ved en ansĂŠttelsessamtale?
Link til artiklen i BÞrsen: Arbejds­gi­vere skal trÊde varsomt ved fyring af ansatte med diagnoser
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Podcast: Fremtidens arbejdsplads
Episode: EP #030: Sund kost og motion i arbejdslivet, Teddy Sissick Prip, Virksomhedscoach og personlig trĂŠner hos TP Fitness
Pub date: 2024-12-19

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I denne episode har Torben Tronborg besÞg af Teddy Sissisk Prip fra TP Fitness. Teddy er en erfaren personlig trÊner og sundhedskonsulent, der har specialiseret sig i at hjÊlpe bÄde enkeltpersoner og virksomheder med at opnÄ bedre trivsel og sundhed. I dagens episode vil vi dykke ned i, hvordan man som medarbejder kan fremme sin egen trivsel og sundhed pÄ arbejdspladsen, og hvad arbejdsgivere kan gÞre for at stÞtte deres medarbejderes velvÊre.

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Podcast: GOTO - The Brightest Minds in Tech (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Optimizing Organizational Flow with Wardley Mapping & DDD ‱ Susanne Kaiser & James Lewis
Pub date: 2024-11-29

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This interview was recorded at GOTO Amsterdam for GOTO Unscripted.
http://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/articles/326

Susanne Kaiser - Independent Tech Consultant & Author of "Architecture for Flow"
James Lewis - Software Architect & Director at Thoughtworks

RESOURCES
Susanne
https://mastodon.social/@suksr
https://twitter.com/suksr
https://www.linkedin.com/in/susannekaiser1
https://susannekaiser.net

James
https://twitter.com/boicy
https://linkedin.com/in/james-lewis-microservices
https://github.com/boicy
https://www.bovon.org

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Susanne Kaiser, an expert tech consultant, shares her secrets for integrating Wardley mapping, team topologies and domain-driven design to streamline value delivery and boost team effectiveness. The discussion with James Lewis highlights the power of hands-on collaboration, the value of understanding the purpose behind tools, and practical tips for breaking down silos and overcoming analysis paralysis. Tune in to discover how these cutting-edge techniques can transform your approach to organizational change and team dynamics.

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Podcast: The Bike Shed (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 451: Making Time for and Managing Focus
Pub date: 2024-12-17

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It’s officially the holidays at the Bike Shed! Defrag your hard drives and take a break with JoĂ«l and Stephanie as they breakdown different ways to manage your focus during the day.

The pair discuss separating coding time from thinking time when working, the pros and cons of blocking out time for different tasks and clever ways to move seamlessly from one project to the next without losing momentum.

Joël has some more timezone facts to share, while Stephanie reveals her worst enemy when it comes to productivity.

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Podcast: The Pragmatic Engineer (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Linear: move fast with little process (with first engineering manager Sabin Roman)
Pub date: 2024-11-20

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On today’s episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I’m joined by fellow Uber alum, Sabin Roman, now the first Engineering Manager at Linear. Linear, known for its powerful project and issue-tracking system, streamlines workflows throughout the product development process.

In our conversation today, Sabin and I compare building projects at Linear versus our experiences at Uber. He shares insights into Linear’s unique approaches, including:

‱ How Linear handles internal communications

‱ The “goalie” program to address customer concerns and Linear’s zero bug policy

‱ How Linear keeps teams connected despite working entirely remotely

‱ An in-depth, step-by-step walkthrough of a project at Linear

‱ Linear’s focus on quality and creativity over fash shipping

‱ Titles at Linear, Sabin’s learnings from Uber, and much more!

Timestamps

(00:00) Intro

(01:41) Sabin’s background

(02:45) Why Linear rarely uses e-mail internally

(07:32) An overview of Linear's company profile

(08:03) Linear’s tech stack

(08:20) How Linear operated without product people

(09:40) How Linear stays close to customers

(11:27) The shortcomings of Support Engineers at Uber and why Linear’s “goalies” work better

(16:35) Focusing on bugs vs. new features

(18:55) Linear’s hiring process

(21:57) An overview of a typical call with a hiring manager at Linear

(24:13) The pros and cons of Linear’s remote work culture

(29:30) The challenge of managing teams remotely

(31:44) A step-by-step walkthrough of how Sabin built a project at Linear

(45:47) Why Linear’s unique working process works

(49:57) The Helix project at Uber and differences in operations working at a large company

(57:47) How senior engineers operate at Linear vs. at a large company

(1:01:30) Why Linear has no levels for engineers

(1:07:13) Less experienced engineers at Linear

(1:08:56) Sabin’s big learnings from Uber

(1:09:47) Rapid fire round

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The Pragmatic Engineer deepdives relevant for this episode:

‱ The story of Linear, as told by its CTO

‱ An update on Linear, after their $35M fundraise

‱ Software engineers leading projects

‱ Netflix’s historic introduction of levels for software engineers

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‱ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sabinroman/

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‱ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gergelyorosz/

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Podcast: The Pragmatic Engineer (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Shipping projects at Big Tech with Sean Goedecke
Pub date: 2024-12-18

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In today’s episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I’m joined by Sean Goedecke, Staff Software Engineer at GitHub. Sean is widely known for his viral blog post, “How I ship projects at big tech companies.” In our conversation, he shares how to successfully deliver projects in large tech companies.

Drawing from his experiences at GitHub and Zendesk, Sean reflects on key lessons learned, and we discuss the following topics:

‱ Why shipping cannot exclude keeping management happy

‱ How to work on stuff the company actually values

‱ Why you should take on extra responsibility to get projects done

‱ Why technical skills are still more important than soft skills

‱ Soft skills you should learn: including learning the “management lingo”

‱ First-hand remote work learnings: advantages, disadvantages, and how to thrive in this setup

‱ 
 and much more!

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Timestamps

(00:00) Intro

(01:50) An explanation of shipping

(05:35) Reasons management may choose to ship something customers don’t love

(09:20) A humbling learning from Sean’s time at Zendesk

(13:27) The importance of learning which rules need to be broken for good business outcomes

(15:28) Common obstacles to shipping

(18:13) DRI: Directly responsible individual

(23:06) The value of strong technical skills and why moving fast is imperative

(28:44) How to leverage your technical skills the right way

(32:16) Advice on earning the trust of leadership

(36:10) A time Gergely shipped a product for a political reason

(38:30) What GenAI helps software engineers do more easily

(41:08) Sean’s thoughts on GenAI making engineers more ambitious

(43:20) The difficulty of building AI tools

(46:10) Advantages of working remotely and strategies for making it work

(52:34) Who is best suited to remote work

(54:48) How the pandemic provided a remote work trial for Sean

(56:45) Rapid fire round

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The Pragmatic Engineer deepdives relevant for this episode:

‱ Software Engineers Leading Projects ⁠https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/engineers-leading-projects⁠

‱ Shipping to production ⁠https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/shipping-to-production⁠

‱ Paying down tech debt ⁠https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/paying-down-tech-debt⁠

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Podcast: Book Overflow (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Agile, Good or Bad? - The Agile Manifesto
Pub date: 2024-11-25

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In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan discuss The Agile Manifesto, a free-to-read document that has greatly defined the modern software engineering landscape. Join them as they discuss its legacy, how it persists in software engineering today, and whether it was ultimately a good or bad development!

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Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!

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Podcast: Stellar Work
Episode: #17 Jurgen Appelo - The Unfix Model
Pub date: 2024-12-09

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In this episode, Jurgen Appelo discusses his journey from software engineer to agile management expert, emphasizing the importance of pattern libraries over rigid frameworks in organizational development. He explains how organizations can benefit from adopting flexible patterns that allow for adaptability and innovation. Through case studies, he illustrates the successful implementation of these patterns in various companies. The conversation also explores the future of agile management in the context of AI advancements and the evolving job market for software developers.

Jurgen Appelo:

Jurgen helps organizations survive and thrive in the 21st century. He offers the unFIX model for organization design, continuous innovation, and a better human experience.
From 2008, Jurgen wrote a popular blog at NOOP.NL with ideas on agile management and organizational change. He is the author of the best-selling book Management 3.0, which describes the role of the manager in agile organizations; How to Change the World, which describes a supermodel for change management; Managing for Happiness, which offers you practical ideas to engage workers, improve work, and delight clients; and Startup, Scaleup, Screwup, which dives into the major topics that business leaders and entrepreneurs are confronted with throughout the business lifecycle. The fifth book he is working on is the sci-fi novel Glitches of Gods.

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Podcast: Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast: Agile storytelling from the trenches (LS 48 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Curious Strategist and The Overwhelmed Task Manager, Two Contrasting Product Owner Patterns | Sara Caldwell
Pub date: 2024-12-13

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Sara Caldwell: The Curious Strategist and The Overwhelmed Task Manager, Two Contrasting Product Owner Patterns The Great Product Owner: The Curious Strategist, A Model Product Owner Sara describes an exemplary Product Owner who blended curiosity, strategic thinking, and empathy. By understanding team concerns and fostering connection, this PO became a trusted collaborator. Whether strategizing or engaging in team bonding, this PO consistently demonstrated entrepreneurial thinking and alignment with team goals.

The Bad Product Owner: The Overwhelmed Task Manager A contrasting example involves a PO unable to perform beyond task management due to divided focus and limited availability. Sara reflects on systemic issues and offers tips for collaboration, like defining key moments for engagement and modeling desired behaviors to build alignment between PO and team.

[The Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast Recommends]

đŸ”„In the ruthless world of fintech, success isn’t just about innovation—it’s about coaching!đŸ”„ Angela thought she was just there to coach a team. But now, she’s caught in the middle of a corporate espionage drama that could make or break the future of digital banking. Can she help the team regain their mojo and outwit their rivals, or will the competition crush their ambitions? As alliances shift and the pressure builds, one thing becomes clear: this isn’t just about the product—it’s about the people.

🚹 Will Angela’s coaching be enough? Find out in Shift: From Product to People—the gripping story of high-stakes innovation and corporate intrigue.

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About Sara Caldwell

Sara is an organizational anthropologist passionate about human-centered change. She helps organizations tackle tough problems, all while keeping things fun and engaging. Sara blends strategic thinking with empathy, turning challenges into opportunities. Agile values guide her—whether helping teams flow, wrangling her rescue pets, or navigating the complexities of everyday life.

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Podcast: Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast: Agile storytelling from the trenches (LS 48 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Aligning Metrics and Mindsets in Agile Teams | Karthiga Seturaj
Pub date: 2024-12-17

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Karthiga Seturaj: The Right And The Wrong Metrics For Agile Teams Read the full Show Notes and search through the world’s largest audio library on Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website: http://bit.ly/SMTP_ShowNotes.

Karthiga shares a team story where metrics like Flow Efficiency were implemented to improve understanding of work processes. Despite leadership support and training, the team became overly focused on “making metrics look good,” reflecting Goodhart’s Law. This led to discussions on aligning the purpose of metrics with improving workflows, not chasing numbers.

Self-reflection Question: Are your team’s metrics driving the right behaviors and outcomes?

Featured Book of the Week: Project to Product by Mik Kersten Karthiga recommends Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework for its introduction to the Flow Framework and its impact on understanding value stream management. This book transformed her approach to metrics, highlighting bottlenecks and improving flow efficiency. She particularly appreciated its simplicity and practical application in bridging business and technical team gaps.

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đŸ”„In the ruthless world of fintech, success isn’t just about innovation—it’s about coaching!đŸ”„ Angela thought she was just there to coach a team. But now, she’s caught in the middle of a corporate espionage drama that could make or break the future of digital banking. Can she help the team regain their mojo and outwit their rivals, or will the competition crush their ambitions? As alliances shift and the pressure builds, one thing becomes clear: this isn’t just about the product—it’s about the people.

🚹 Will Angela’s coaching be enough? Find out in Shift: From Product to People—the gripping story of high-stakes innovation and corporate intrigue.

Buy Now on Amazon

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About Karthiga Seturaj

Karthiga is a dedicated Agilist with over 15 years of experience in the software industry. She specializes in coaching agile teams, emphasizing respect, inclusion, accountability, and outcomes. Her journey spans from Scrum Master to Manager of Agile Coaches, transforming teams and driving impactful change.

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Podcast: Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast: Agile storytelling from the trenches (LS 48 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Leading Agile Transformations with the Flow Framework | Karthiga Seturaj
Pub date: 2024-12-18

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Karthiga Seturaj: Leading Agile Transformations with the Flow Framework Read the full Show Notes and search through the world’s largest audio library on Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website: http://bit.ly/SMTP_ShowNotes.

Karthiga discusses an agile transformation involving the adoption of the Flow Framework and Spotify model. With leadership support and tools like Lean Change Canvas, the transition fostered psychological safety, adaptability, and feedback-driven improvement. Key lessons include measuring the current state, establishing clear success criteria, and embracing agility in agile adoption.

Self-reflection Question: How can you ensure psychological safety during major changes in your organization?

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đŸ”„In the ruthless world of fintech, success isn’t just about innovation—it’s about coaching!đŸ”„ Angela thought she was just there to coach a team. But now, she’s caught in the middle of a corporate espionage drama that could make or break the future of digital banking. Can she help the team regain their mojo and outwit their rivals, or will the competition crush their ambitions? As alliances shift and the pressure builds, one thing becomes clear: this isn’t just about the product—it’s about the people.

🚹 Will Angela’s coaching be enough? Find out in Shift: From Product to People—the gripping story of high-stakes innovation and corporate intrigue.

Buy Now on Amazon

[The Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast Recommends]

About Karthiga Seturaj

Karthiga is a dedicated Agilist with over 15 years of experience in the software industry. She specializes in coaching agile teams, emphasizing respect, inclusion, accountability, and outcomes. Her journey spans from Scrum Master to Manager of Agile Coaches, transforming teams and driving impactful change.

You can link with Karthiga Seturaj on LinkedIn.

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Podcast: The Shortcu.tt Podcast
Episode: The Strong Engineering Community at Pandora with Casper Jensen | The Shortcu.tt Podcast
Pub date: 2024-12-03

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In this episode of The Shortcu.tt podcast, hosts Morten and Marilag are joined by Casper Jensen, Engineering Director Enterprise Architecture at Pandora.

They discuss Pandora's journey towards improving developer experience and productivity, the transition from project-led to product-led organization, and the challenges and strategies involved in managing a global tech team. Casper also shares insights on the importance of cross-functional collaboration, the impact of a strong engineering culture, and the significance of broadening one's technological scope as a developer.

Key Points:

  • Pandora's transition from a project-led to a product-led organization.

  • The structure and role of product teams at Pandora.

  • The importance of developer experience and the steps Pandora is taking to improve it.

  • The challenges of integrating internal and external engineering teams.

  • The role of AI in enhancing developer productivity.

  • The significance of cross-functional collaboration and understanding different technologies.

  • The benefits of broadening one's technological scope for better productivity.

Timestamp:

00:00 Introduction to the podcast and guests

00:45 Overview of Pandora and Casper Jensen's role

06:21 Pandora's developer experience

12:37 The Engineering community at Pandora, and its challenges

16:12 Encouraging cross-functional collaboration

24:00 - Challenges in data discoverability

28:01 Use of Backstage and exploring Kubernetes Space

33:22 Controversial question about mass adoption of technology

36:12 AI's role in developer productivity

39:34 Casper's Shortcu.tt

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Casper Jensen - https://www.linkedin.com/in/casperj/

Morten Christensen - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mortenchr/

Marilag Svennevig - https://www.linkedin.com/in/marilag/

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Podcast: Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast: Agile storytelling from the trenches (LS 48 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How OKRs Transformed Our Goal-Setting Process | Gosia SmoleƄska
Pub date: 2024-11-20

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Gosia SmoleƄska: How OKRs Transformed Our Goal-Setting Process Read the full Show Notes and search through the world’s largest audio library on Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website: http://bit.ly/SMTP_ShowNotes.

Gosia shares her experience leading a startup through significant change by introducing a goal framework and implementing OKRs (Objectives and Key Results). Initially resistant, the company transitioned to quarterly reviews and goal-setting processes. Teams were tasked with defining their contributions, leading to greater collaboration and understanding of their roles. Regular retrospectives and actionable feedback refined the approach, while tools like Monte Carlo simulations and WIP limits helped maintain focus. This story emphasizes that driving change requires adaptation and continuous learning.

Self-reflection Question: How do you ensure that goal-setting frameworks support your team’s focus and growth?

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Podcast: GOTO - The Brightest Minds in Tech (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Dynamic Teams: Reteaming Patterns & Practices ‱ Heidi Helfand & Charles Humble
Pub date: 2024-10-18

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Heidi Helfand - Author of Dynamic Reteaming; Building High-Performing Teams that Change
Charles Humble - Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & Consultant

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Explore the importance of embedding company values into daily operations and how Procore Technologies successfully integrates values like ownership, openness, and optimism. Heidi shares insights on recognizing when to split a team, especially when meetings become unmanageable, or decision-making slows down.

Charles Humble and Heidi Helfand discuss managing dependencies among specialist roles and the significance of fostering a shared team history through collaborative activities. Addressing toxic team members and utilizing effective management practices are emphasized as crucial for maintaining a healthy team dynamic. The discussion concludes with book recommendations for those navigating organizational changes. [...]

RECOMMENDED BOOKSHeidi Helfand ‱ Dynamic Reteaming
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Podcast: Stellar Work
Episode: #8 Sophie Seiwald Hojer & Matthias Patzak - All Hands on Tech
Pub date: 2024-07-22

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The conversation Sophie, Matthias and Benjamin discuss the the need for a pragmatic approach to evolve, and the importance of understanding the specific pain points in an organization. They also discuss the role of methodologies and frameworks in driving change and the need to focus on value creation rather than just process execution. They highlight the importance of understanding the purpose behind rituals and meetings and the need to adapt them to the organization's context.

The conversation explores the concepts of agile software development, domain-driven design, and Wardley mapping. It emphasizes the importance of understanding the why behind these methodologies and tailoring them to the specific context of an organization. Overall, the conversation encourages a thoughtful and iterative approach to software development.

Guest:

Sophie Seiwald-HĂžjer

For 17 years, Sophie has been immersed in the world of technology at Mercedes-Benz. Throughout her career, she has accumulated a wealth of experience and insights, encountering the inevitable ‘wear and tear’ that comes with long-term dedication to the tech industry. Over the past decade, Sophie has played a pivotal role in transforming her teams from a project-led to a product-led approach. This journey has been filled with challenges, from emotional outbursts and unmet expectations to rebellious teams, downtimes, and major process and design failures. Despite these hurdles, Sophie finds immense value in these experiences and loves to share her insights with others, affirming that the journey is indeed worth it.

Mathias Patzak

Mathias’s passion for technology is evident from his early achievements. In 2002, he built his first continuous integration pipeline for 120 engineers at a German automotive company. By 2004, he had pioneered the first multi-scrum team as an engineering manager, gaining hands-on experience with extreme programming techniques. His career trajectory led him to become the CTO of AutoScout24, a leading European classified portal for cars, where he introduced lean-agile practices at scale. Since joining Amazon Web Services in 2020 as an Enterprise Strategist, Mathias meets with leaders of the world’s largest companies to help modernize their business and IT from a people, process, and technology perspective. His extensive experience and strategic insights make him a valuable asset in the tech industry.

  • Homepage https://www.all-hands-on.tech/
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  • LinkedIn⁠ https://www.linkedin.com/in/sophieseiwald/
  • LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthias-patzak/

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Podcast: Stellar Work
Episode: #9 Mike Lyons - Fixing the Scrum Master Crisis
Pub date: 2024-08-05

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In this conversation, Benjamin and Mike discuss the current state of the agile community, particularly the layoffs and job market for Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches. They emphasize the importance of understanding project management and how it relates to agile ways of working. Mike suggests that Scrum Masters should focus on showing value by increasing top-line revenue and decreasing bottom-line costs. They also discuss the need for context-specific approaches to agile, depending on the size and industry of the organization.

Mike Lyons:

With three decades of hands-on experience, Mike completed 16 agile certifications, and having trained thousands and garnered over 10,000 followers and earned recognition as a top voice in the Agile Community by LinkedIn. His journey has taken him through diverse landscapes, from startups and nonprofits to global corporations and government agencies.

Mikes Training Institute⁠ https://www.kairise.com/⁠

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Stellar Work:

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Episode: #10 David Anderson - The Future is Kanban
Pub date: 2024-08-19

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In this conversation, Benjamin and David Anderson discuss the evolution of agile and the principles of Kanban. David shares his background and how he got involved in the Agile movement. He explains that Kanban is an evolutionary approach to achieving agility, focusing on operational and management practices. He emphasizes the importance of starting with the basics and evolving from there, rather than implementing prescriptive frameworks. David also discusses the challenges of scaling agile practices in organizations and the need for an explicit approach to dealing with resistance.

David Anderson:

Anderson studied electronics and computer science at the University of Strathclyde and worked in the IT field at companies including Motorola, Microsoft, and Corbis in the Seattle metropolitan area. In 2005, he established the use of Kanban in software development, and five years later, he published the first book on Kanban. Anderson is an influential author, with notable works including “Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business.” As a consultant and trainer, he founded David J. Anderson & Associates and the Kanban University, offering expert guidance on implementing agile practices. Through his thought leadership and community contributions, Anderson has significantly shaped the modern understanding and application of agile and lean management principles.

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Episode: #13 Simon Wardley - Wardley Mapping
Pub date: 2024-09-30

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In this episode, host Benjamin welcomes Simon Wardley, the creator of Wardley Mapping, to discuss his innovative framework for understanding competitive landscapes. Simon shares the story behind Wardley Mapping, explaining how it started as a personal tool and evolved into a widely used method for strategy development. He also touches on his background in building companies, working in open source, and even his personal life.

Simon Wardley:

Explorer of uncharted spaces. Twice voted in the UKTech50, Judge in Nesta's Open Banking and Netflix's Open Source competitions, Co-Chair of OSCON Europe, Cloud Camp and Map Camp. Regular speaker on the global tech circuit.

Simon Wardley on LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonwardley/⁠

Simon Wardley on X: ⁠https://x.com/swardley⁠

Simon Wardley on Medium: ⁠https://swardley.medium.com/⁠

Communities:

Mapcamp:⁠ https://www.map-camp.com/⁠

Learnwardleymapping: ⁠https://learnwardleymapping.com/⁠

GitHub: ⁠https://github.com/wardley-maps-community/awesome-wardley-maps⁠

Discord: ⁠https://discord.com/invite/wDeRkkmXRE⁠

Wardleymaps: ⁠https://www.wardleymaps.com/⁠

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Podcast: Stellar Work
Episode: #19 Klaus Leopold - Flight Levels Case Study
Pub date: 2024-11-11

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In this episode of the Stellarwork Podcast, Klaus Leopold discusses the concept of Flight Levels, a framework designed to optimize agility across multiple teams and levels of an organization. He explains the three levels of Flight Levels—operational, coordination, and strategy—and emphasizes the importance of visualizing work and creating focus. The conversation also covers practical steps for starting small with Flight Levels, measuring success through metrics, and the importance of stakeholder engagement.

Klaus Leopold:

Klaus Leopold is a well-known expert in the field of Kanban, Agile, and Lean methodologies. He has made significant contributions to improving the flow of work and optimizing organizational agility, especially in complex environments. Klaus is the creator of the Flight Levels model, a concept that helps organizations visualize work at different levels—from strategic initiatives to operational tasks—to ensure alignment and effective prioritization across the organization.

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Links:

Flight Levels Academy - https://www.flightlevels.io/

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/klausleopold/https://www.linkedin.com/in/klausleopold/

Book - https://www.amazon.com/Rethinking-Agile-Nothing-Business-Agility/dp/3903205397

Introduction To Flight Levels: https://www.flightlevels.io/workshops/flight-levels-introduction/

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Episode: Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about SAFe and the product owner role | Melissa Perri (author, founder of Product Institute)
Pub date: 2024-11-10

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Melissa Perri is the founder of Product Institute, author of Escaping the Build Trap, and host of the Product Thinking Podcast. She has worked with startups, Fortune 50 companies, and everything in between to help them build better products and level up their product teams. In our conversation, we discuss:

‱ The history of the product owner role

‱ The differences between product owners and product managers

‱ How to transition from product owner to product manager

‱ The evolution of and problems with the SAFe framework

‱ How large non-tech companies can improve their product practices

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Where to find Melissa Perri:

‱ X: https://twitter.com/lissijean

‱ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissajeanperri/

‱ Website: https://melissaperri.com/

‱ Product Institute: https://productinstitute.com/

‱ Podcast: https://www.produxlabs.com/product-thinking

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‱ X: https://twitter.com/lennysan

‱ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennyrachitsky/

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In this episode, we cover:

(00:00) Melissa’s background

(02:12) The rise of the product owner role

(06:37) Understanding Agile and Scrum

(08:27) Challenges in Agile transformations

(10:41) The history of the product owner role

(13:58) The Scrum Guide

(15:43) Product owner responsibilities

(21:01) Adopting Scrum in organizations

(26:21) The origins and implementation of SAFe

(35:20) Why Melissa doesn’t recommend SAFe

(40:33) Advice for implementing a digital transformation

(49:12) An example of SAFe adoption

(51:27) The value of experienced product leaders

(56:53) Career paths for product owners

(01:04:14) Transitioning from product owner to product manager

(01:06:41) Be careful relying on certifications

(01:11:43) Evaluating existing product owners

(01:16:55) Final thoughts on Agile and product management

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Referenced:

‱ Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value: https://www.amazon.com/Escaping-Build-Trap-Effective-Management/dp/149197379X

‱ Lean UX: https://leanuxnyc.co/

‱ Scrum: https://www.scrum.org/

‱ What is Extreme Programming? https://www.agilealliance.org/glossary/xp/

‱ Capital One: https://www.capitalone.com/

‱ The Agile Manifesto: https://www.atlassian.com/agile/manifesto

‱ Ken Schwaber on X: https://x.com/kschwaber

‱ Jeff Sutherland on X: https://x.com/jeffsutherland

‱ Kanban: https://www.atlassian.com/agile/kanban

‱ What is a kanban board?: https://www.atlassian.com/agile/kanban/boards

‱ Ron Jeffries’s website: https://www.ronjeffries.com/

‱ Jeff Patton on X: https://x.com/jeffpatton

‱ The Scrum Guide: https://www.scrum.org/resources/scrum-guide

‱ OpenSky: https://www.openskycc.com/

‱ SAFe: https://scaledagileframework.com/

‱ Dean Leffingwell on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/deanleffingwell/

‱ Capital One scraps 1,100 tech positions: https://www.reuters.com/technology/capital-one-scraps-1100-tech-positions-source-2023-01-19/

‱ Product management theater | Marty Cagan (Silicon Valley Product Group): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/product-management-theater-marty

‱ Marty Cagan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cagan/

‱ Jeff Gothelf on X: https://x.com/jboogie

‱ Shruti Patel on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shruti-patel-32bb573a/

‱ Product Thinking Podcast: Mastering Product Focus: Balancing Legacy and Innovation with Shruti Patel: https://www.produxlabs.com/product-thinking-blog/2024/9/25/episode-190-mastering-product-focus-balancing-legacy-and-innovation-with-shruti-patel

‱ Melissa Douros on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissadouros/

‱ Mind the Product: https://www.mindtheproduct.com/

‱ Athenahealth: https://www.athenahealth.com/

‱ McKinsey: https://www.mckinsey.com/

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Episode: Becoming an AI PM | Aman Khan (Arize AI, ex-Spotify, Apple, Cruise)
Pub date: 2024-11-14

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Aman Khan is Director of Product at Arize AI, an observability company for AI engineers at companies like Uber, Instacart, and Discord. Previously he was an AI Product Manager at Spotify on the ML Platform team, enabling hundreds of engineers to build and ship products across the company. He has also led and worked on products at Cruise, Zipline, and Apple. In our conversation, we discuss:

‱ What is an “AI product manager”?

‱ How to break into AI PM

‱ What separates top 5% AI PMs

‱ How to thrive as an individual-contributor PM

‱ Common pitfalls to avoid when building AI products

‱ The importance of energy and curiosity in product roles

‱ Much more

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‱ X: https://x.com/_amankhan

‱ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanberkeley/

‱ Website: https://amanalikhan.com/

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‱ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennyrachitsky/

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In this episode, we cover:

(00:00) Aman’s background

(06:16) Understanding AI product management roles

(13:29) Getting started as an AI product manager

(18:14) Building a portfolio and standing out

(22:31) Why product management is not dead

(28:56) How to thrive as an AI product manager

(35:42) Finding good ideas that are AI-oriented

(39:27) Be careful not to automate away every customer experience

(42:53) What separates top 5% AI PMs

(46:55) Key habits for long-term IC success

(52:48) The importance of energy in meetings

(57:00) Wandering vs. waiting

(01:01:41) Amplifying signal through AI tools

(01:03:18) Just have fun

(01:05:36) Lightning round

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Referenced:

‱ AI Resources and Tools for PMs (Updated Oct 2024): https://open.substack.com/pub/amankhan1/p/ai-resources-and-tools-for-pms-updated

‱ Unlocking the AI PM Dream: Your Roadmap to Success: https://amankhan1.substack.com/p/unlocking-the-ai-pm-dream-your-roadmap

‱ Arize: https://arize.com/

‱ Ryzen: https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/business-systems/ryzen-ai.html

‱ NotebookLM: https://notebooklm.google/

‱ Figma: https://www.figma.com/

‱ Cursor: https://www.cursor.com/

‱ Replit: https://replit.com/

‱ Excalidraw: https://excalidraw.com/

‱ Vercel: https://vercel.com/

‱ v0: https://v0.dev/

‱ How Airbnb Proved That Storytelling Is the Most Important Skill in Design: https://www.inc.com/yazin-akkawi/the-surprising-technique-airbnb-uses-to-better-sell-an-experience.html

‱ Brian Chesky’s new playbook: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/brian-cheskys-contrarian-approach

‱ Midjourney: https://www.midjourney.com/

‱ Dall-E: https://openai.com/index/dall-e-3/

‱ Introducing the Realtime API: https://openai.com/index/introducing-the-realtime-api/

‱ Intro to Large Language Models | Andrej Karpathy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjkBMFhNj_g

‱ Watch Me Build an App in 60 Minutes With o1 and Cursor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Zmhe6_T-xU

‱ Greg Isenberg on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gisenberg/

‱ Vision, conviction, and hype: How to build 0 to 1 inside a company | Mihika Kapoor (Product at Figma): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/vision-conviction-hype-mihika-kapoor

‱ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/

‱ Instacart: https://www.instacart.com/

‱ How to grow a subscription business | Yuriy Timen (Grammarly, Canva, Airtable): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/transform-your-subscription-growth

‱ When Identifying the Problem Isn’t Enough: Lessons from Boxed Cake Mix by Ann M. Aly, TechFlow Director of Human Centered Design: https://www.techflow.com/when-identifying-the-problem-isnt-enough-lessons-from-boxed-cake-mix/

‱ Waymo: https://waymo.com/

‱ The Ikea effect: https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/ikea-effect

‱ Blue Apron: https://www.blueapron.com/

‱ Unorthodox PM wisdom: Automating user insights, unselling job candidates, logging every decision, more | Kevin Yien (Stripe, Square, Mutiny): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/unorthodox-pm-wisdom-kevin-yien

‱ LeBron James: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeBron_James

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Podcast: Book Overflow (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: "Building Evolutionary Architectures" by Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, Patrick Kua, and Pramod Sadalage (Part 1)
Pub date: 2024-08-19

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In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter Morgan and Nathan toups discuss "Building Evolutionary Architecture" by Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, Patrick Kua, and Pramod Sadalage. Join them as they discuss how the approaches to designing software architecture have changed over the years, the purpose of fitness functions, and how trying to re-use code can backfire!

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Episode: Carl Brown (Internet of Bugs) Shares His Favorite Books
Pub date: 2024-08-29

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In this special episode of Book Overflow, Carl Brown (of the YouTube channel Internet of Bugs) joins Carter and Nathan to share some of his favorite books! Carl is incredibly well read and shares which books have influenced him over his very impressive 35 year career.

To get links to the books mentioned in this episode, check the YouTube episode description at https://youtu.be/GL0EE_cv9T0

00:00 Intro02:17 How did Internet of Bugs come to be?06:03 Why still read tech books?08:32 Mythical Man-Month14:40 Philosophy of Software Design, TCL/TK, 25:56 Advanced Programming in Unix and TCP/IP Illustrated32:32 How important is it to be well-versed in Unix?42:27 Freelance, Business, and Consulting book recommendations52:57 Lightning Round: Managing your programming career, philosophy, and general advice01:02:34 Final Thoughts

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Episode: Delivering High Value Work & Doing Fewer Things - Slow Productivity by Cal Newport
Pub date: 2024-09-16

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In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan discuss Slow Productivty by MIT-educated computer scientist and productivity expert Cal Newport. Join them as they discuss how to avoid burnout, how to balance ambition with stamina, and useful productivity hacks Cal Newport recommends!

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Episode: Work at a Natural Pace & Obsess Over Quality - Slow Productivity by Cal Newport
Pub date: 2024-09-23

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In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan discuss the second half of Slow Productivty by MIT-educated computer scientist and productivity expert Cal Newport. Join them as they discuss what it means to work at a natural pace, how to obsess over quality, and the useful tactics Cal Newport recommends to do both!

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Episode: Local Development & Maddening Bureaucracy - The Unicorn Project by Gene Kim
Pub date: 2024-09-30

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In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan discuss the part one of The Unicorn Project by Gene Kim. Written in the style of a novel, join them as they discuss the protagonist Maxine's journey of being assigned to a failing project, working within a maddening bureaucracy, fighting for easy local development!

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Episode: You Build It, You Run It - The Unicorn Project by Gene Kim
Pub date: 2024-10-08

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In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan discuss Part Two of The Unicorn Project by Gene Kim. Written in the style of a novel, join them as they discuss the protagonist Maxine's journey of transforming the failing Phoenix Project from a big ball of mud into an agile, efficient architecture!

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Episode: New Horizons & Executive Politicking - The Unicorn Project by Gene Kim
Pub date: 2024-10-14

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In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan finish their discussion of The Unicorn Project by Gene Kim. Written in the style of a novel, join them as they discuss how businesses bet big on new ideas, dealing with layoffs, and executive politicking!

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Episode: SE Radio 628: Hans Dockter on Developer Productivity
Pub date: 2024-08-07

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Hans Dockter, the creator of the Gradle build tool and founder of Gradle Inc, the company behind the developer productivity platform Develocity, joins SE Radio host Giovanni Asproni to talk about developer productivity. They start with some definitions and an explanation of the importance of developer productivity, its relationship with cognitive load, and the big impact that development tools have on it. Hans describes how to implement developer productivity metrics in an organization, as well as warns about some pitfalls. The episode closes with some discussion on Hans's views on the future of this discipline, as well as some near-term developments and expectations. Brought to you by IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Software magazine.

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Episode: AI, ML, and Lifelong Learning - A Great Combination, A Conversation With Richmond Alake, SPaMCAST 825
Pub date: 2024-08-25

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The SPaMCAST 825 features our conversation with Richmond Alake. During our conversation, we discussed AI, Machine Learning, and most importantly why being a lifelong learner is important (really important). Need more? We also will discuss what comes next now that AI Chat has been done. Richmond’s bio: Richmond Alake is an AI/ML Practitioner with an academic background in computer vision, robotics, and machine learning. He has worked in software development and machine learning roles since 2016. Richmond has also taught online AI/ML/Data courses and written over 200 technical articles with over 1 million views. He is passionate about using technology to solve real-world problems. Try out MongoDB for free: Get hands-on code for AI Agents: Connect with Richmond: Master Work Intake! Mastering Work Intake by and I hit the bookshelves earlier this year. We have also been running cohort-based workshops to help expose and solve this dirty little secret. Two of the questions we have gotten as we have promoted the workshops are: What is a cohort-based workshop? What value will I get if I join? Both are greater questions and we have an answer! Join us for a one-hour open house to explore how to diagnose and solve work intake challenges, the most critical issue facing organizations today. This session will provide an overview of our course designed to help you to master work intake and ensure your organization thrives. We’ll cover key takeaways such as effective prioritization, navigating organizational structures, measuring work intake flow, and diagnosing common work intake issues. You'll leave with actionable insights and a clear plan to address work intake problems immediately. Sign up on Eventbrite! https://bit.ly/MasteringWorkIntake Re-read Saturday News Chapter 1 of (buy a copy and read along) establishes that the central question of all cultures and philosophies is “how to live.” Let's begin by dispelling the notion that Stoicism eschews emotion and feeling, rather the ancient philosophy based on the importance of wisdom, character, and balance. Pigilucci states, “Stoicism is an approach to living in which moral character is the only truly worthy thing to cultivate.” While I believe Spock (Star Trek) has a high moral character, if you are expecting How To Be A Stoic to teach how to be a Vulcan, you will be disappointed. If nothing else, the Stoics have a wry sense of humor. Forewarned is forearmed. Week 1: Week 2: Next SPaMCAST The SPaMCAST 826 will explore whether urgency has more power in prioritization in collaborative events. Importance is supposed to trump urgency but when you involve many voices things are murkier. We will also have a visit from Kies Kostaqi who will bring her You Are Not Alone column to the Software Process and Measurement Cast.

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Episode: Secrets to successful teamwork
Pub date: 2024-09-20

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We all work in teams, from families, to companies, and everything in between. So what's the secret to doing it better? This hour, TED speakers share surprising strategies for successful teamwork. Guests include activist Hajer Sharief, social psychologist Amy Edmondson and private equity investor Pete Stavros.

TED Radio Hour+ subscribers now get access to bonus episodes, with more ideas from TED speakers and a behind the scenes look with our producers. A Plus subscription also lets you listen to regular episodes (like this one!) without sponsors. Sign-up at: plus.npr.org/ted

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Episode: Monday — Friday: Making the most of the workweek
Pub date: 2024-10-11

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Week in, week out, we work. But what can we do to not lose ourselves in the 9-to-5 grind? This hour, we question how long we work, why we valorize work, and what good leadership looks like. Guests include executive coach Anne Morriss, economist Juliet Schor, social psychologist Azim Shariff and political scientist Margaret Levi.

Original broadcast date: September 22, 2023

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Podcast: The Tim Ferriss Show (LS 81 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: #771: Productivity Tactics – Two Approaches I Personally Use to Reset, Get Unstuck, and Focus on the Right Things
Pub date: 2024-10-02

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In this short and very tactical episode, I share some of my personal methods for how to get out of a rut, re-aim yourself at big outcomes, and make progress on a daily basis, despite the self-defeating tendencies that we all have.

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Podcast: Engineering Culture by InfoQ (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: The State of Engineering Management in 2024
Pub date: 2024-08-23

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This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences.In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Andrew Lau about the State of Engineering Management Report for 2024.Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/4cfxJ0p Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter for your monthly guide to the essential news and experience from industry peers on emerging patterns and technologies:www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletterUpcoming Events:InfoQ Dev Summit Munich (Sept 26-27, 2024)Practical learnings from senior software practitioners navigating Generative AI, security, modern web applications, and more.devsummit.infoq.com/conference/munich2024QCon San Francisco (November 18-22, 2024)Get practical inspiration and best practices on emerging software trends directly from senior software developers at early adopter companies.qconsf.com/QCon London (April 7-9, 2025)Discover new ideas and insights from senior practitioners driving change and innovation in software development.qconlondon.com/The InfoQ Podcasts:Weekly inspiration to drive innovation and build great teams from senior software leaders. Listen to all our podcasts and read interview transcripts:- The InfoQ Podcast www.infoq.com/podcasts/- Engineering Culture Podcast by InfoQ www.infoq.com/podcasts/#engineering_culture- Generally AIFollow InfoQ:- Mastodon: techhub.social/@infoq- Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq- Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8- Instagram: @infoqdotcom- Youtube: www.youtube.com/infoqWrite for InfoQ:Learn and share the changes and innovations in professional software development.- Join a community of experts.- Increase your visibility.- Grow your career.www.infoq.com/write-for-infoq

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Podcast: Knowledge at Wharton (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: AI and Innovation
Pub date: 2024-09-24

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From crowdsourcing to search engines, emerging AI technologies are pivotal in fostering innovation and advancing progress across various sectors.

In this “AI Horizons” podcast episode, Kartik Hosanagar — Wharton professor of operations, information and decisions, and co-director of AI at Wharton — joins leading academics as they discuss how artificial intelligence is set to shape future developments.


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Episode: The Trick to Boosting Customer Referrals
Pub date: 2024-09-09

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Marketing professor Zhenling Jiang discusses her research paper, “Referral Contagion: Downstream Benefits of Customer Referrals,” and shares a simple intervention that can help companies gain more customers through referrals.


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Episode: The Rising Demand for Soft Skills in Engineering | LinkedIn’s VPE Aarathi Vidyasagar
Pub date: 2024-09-10

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According to a LinkedIn study, engineers with strong soft skills are promoted 13% faster than those with only technical skills. Given how AI will continue to reshape market demands for developers and engineering leaders, how can you adapt to these changes and further your career?

This week we’re joined by Aarathi Vidyasagar, VP of Engineering at LinkedIn, to explore the growing importance of soft skills and how leadership, communication, and empathy are becoming just as critical as technical expertise.

Aarathi shares how LinkedIn is preparing engineers to thrive in this new environment, focusing on upskilling teams to navigate AI and empower collaboration and innovation through strong interpersonal skills. She offers valuable takeaways into building engineering teams that balance hard technical abilities with the soft skills needed to lead, mentor, and work effectively in diverse teams.

For anyone interested in the future of engineering and the rising demand for soft skills, this episode offers an important perspective on how to equip your teams for long-term success in an AI-driven world.

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  • 00:56 How industry changes have impacted the need for communication and soft skills
  • 04:31 How software development is going to continue to change
  • 12:33 Generalists vs Specialists
  • 15:52 How is LinkedIn positioned for the new era of hiring?
  • 31:11 How is LinkedIn approaching developer experience and productivity?
  • 36:33 How to support devs in automating migrations

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Episode: Spreading Lean Thinking to Software and Startups: a Conversation with Regis Medina
Pub date: 2024-09-12

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In this episode of the WLEI podcast, we speak with Regis Megina, a software industry veteran who has undergone a journey from Agile to Lean. Regis shares insights on:

  • How he transitioned from early frustrations with waterfall development to embracing Agile and Extreme Programming
  • The challenges he faced in spreading these new ideas, and why he ultimately sought a deeper understanding of Lean principles
  • Regis' current work applying Lean Thinking to startups and scale-ups, including creating educational materials and training programs
  • The importance of continuous learning, technical mastery, and developing team capabilities - rather than just focusing on process improvement tools.

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Episode: Moving from Agile to Lean: a Conversation with Sandrine Olivencia
Pub date: 2024-10-03

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In this episode of WLEI Podcast, we welcome Sandrine Olivencia, author of Build to Sell and expert in applying Lean principles to software development. Sandrine shares her journey from waterfall to Agile and eventually to Lean Product and Process Development (LPPD), which she sees as a more holistic and sustainable system for building great products and lasting businesses. The conversation explores:

  • The importance of Gemba and why leaders at all levels need to stay closely connected to customers and the problems they face.
  • How Lean thinking can help companies avoid “feature frenzy mode” and maintain a clear focus on delivering customer value.
  • Why even mature tech companies often struggle to develop people and the steps leaders can take to build a culture of problem-solving and continuous improvement.
  • Practical advice on where to start implementing Lean principles, including Sandrine’s three key strategies for building a more product-led company.
  • The limitations of so-called “founder mode” and “manager mode” and how an alternative “Lean management mode” addresses the shortcomings of both.

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Episode: Understand Before You Execute: a Conversation by AI
Pub date: 2024-10-10

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In this episode of the WLEI podcast, we explore the LPPD principle: Understand Before You Execute. Too often, companies commit to a product design before assessing their customers’ needs, leading to development churn and failed products. The conversation examines how to avoid that trap by precisely identifying customer needs before development and features a case study of a company that did just that.

However, people did not engage in this conversation. Artificial intelligence, specifically Google’s NotebookLM, generated the entire discussion based only on this six-minute video clip. The result is astonishing.

Tune in and share in the comments what you thought of the conversation.

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Episode: #97 - From Maker to Multiplier feat. Pat Kua // CTO Coach and Founder of the Tech Lead Academy
Pub date: 2024-03-14

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Leadership Unlearnings, Metrics, Mindshifts and CommunicationLet’s become better Multipliers ✖ in this CTO Podcast featuring Pat Kua, former CTO of N26 who by popular request now helps CTOs Level Up themselves and their teams. As a sought-after expert in helping ICs transition to leadership roles, Pat shares leadership gems with CTOs.Listen to find out:

  • Why you should fly high đŸ•Šïžand dive deep đŸ€ż
  • Why even ICs need leadership skills đŸ§‘â€đŸ’»
  • Maker⚒ to MultiplierđŸŒŹïž: What you need to unlearn when you move into management.
  • How to communicate: CRY Principle, Translate into Foreign Tongue 💬.. And TCP vs UDP Communication
  • What the long German Hiring Cycles mean for CTOsListen here

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Timestamps:(00:00) Intro to alphalist(02:00) Welcome Pat(03:37) From Accounting to IT: Pat Kua's Nerd Journey(07:14) The Art of Teaching and Mentoring in Tech(12:30) From CTO to Chief Scientist(15:55) Allow devs to try out management(17:28) IC Career Path: EU vs. US(19:37) Trident Model: Leadership skills aren’t just for managers(23:00) ‘Maker vs Multiplier’: IC to Leader(25:14) Do CTOs need to be technical ninjas?(31:35) Flying High and Diving Deep: Is it healthy?(34:02) Staying Sharp in Tech(35:02) Hierarchy of Knowledge(36:39) Maker to Multiplier: How to measure effectiveness?(40:11) What do you need to unlearn when you move from Maker to Multiplier?(42:16) Communication Styles: UDP and TCP(48:29) What long hiring cycles in Germany mean for CTOs.

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Podcast: alphalist.CTO Podcast - For CTOs and Technical Leaders (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: #99 -Team Topologies 101 feat. Matthew Skelton, co-author of Team Topologies
Pub date: 2024-04-18

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A CTO’s Primer to Value Flow, Continuous Stewardship and Decoupling in TimeLead a more humane and effective organisation with inspiration from Matthew Skelton, co-author of Team Topologies. Inspired by system design💠, cyberneticsđŸ€– and neuroscience 🧠, Team Topologies allows CTOs to structure their teams in a more humane way that reduces cognitive load đŸ€Ż while increasing user value 🎯.Listen to find out:

  • Value Flow💩: What, why and how to find it
  • Team TopologiesđŸȘą: The 3 team types,1 grouping, and 3 interaction modes
  • Why Continuous Stewardship 🛞 is important in software
  • DecouplingđŸ§© in Time: Amazon’s Secret Source+Why Team Topologies is like Pilates đŸ‹ïž for your company goals🩾

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Timestamps:(00:00) Intro(00:56) Welcome(02:11) Matthew Skelton's Personal Nerd Journey(06:44) System Thinking for Effective Humane Organisations(08:18) Team Cognitive Load(08:48) Team Interaction Modes(09:59) The Complexity and Chaos of Human Nature in Organisational Design(10:31) The Influence of Neuroscience on Team Topologies(13:52) How team topologies is influenced by cybernetics, neuroscience and systems(15:40) Getting Started with Team Topologies(16:45) Continuously Adapting(17:55) Then vs. Now: Structuring around Value Flows(22:24) Continuous Stewardship: Responsibility of Software Orgs(26:03) How to have everyone work together(26:45) Workshopping to find Value Flow(30:04) Value Flow: Work Backwards from User Needs, Wardley Maps and Existing Team Structure(33:49) Decoupling in Time and why you become less agile when you rely on PMs(38:30) Amazon's Secret to Scaling and Efficiency(39:58) 4 TEAM TYPES(40:23) Stream Aligned Team(42:54) Enabling Team(43:38) Complicated Subsystem Team(44:34) Platform - grouping of teams(45:34) 3 INTERACTION MODES(45:42) Collaboration(45:49) Facilitation(45:57) X-as-a-Service(46:08) How the Dynamic nature and adaptation to change is the Secret Sauce of Team Topologies(49:28) Ditch Hierarchy for Better Value Flow(54:26) Team Topologies as Pilates for Your Organization(1:01:05) Have the confidence to listen: To Yourself and Others

About Matthew Skelton#Matthew Skelton is co-author of the award-winning and ground-breaking book Team Topologies, and Founder & Principal at Conflux. The Team Topologies book was rated one of the ‘Best product management books of all time’ by Book Authority and is widely used by organisations worldwide to transform the way they deliver value. Matthew is one of the foremost leaders in modern organisational dynamics for fast flow, drawing on Team Topologies and related practices to support organisations with transformation towards a sustainable fast flow of value and true business agility.

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Podcast: alphalist.CTO Podcast - For CTOs and Technical Leaders (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: #100 - Intuition over 'Data Driven' feat. Jason Fried // co-founder + CEO @ 37signals
Pub date: 2024-05-03

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Intuition over Data-Driven, Hooks over Towel Rails and Profit over RevenueTrust your intuition, you will gain a lot from this CTO podcast featuring Jason Fried, co-founder and CEO of 37signals, a company known for having groundbreaking policies and products (Basecamp, HEY, Once, etc.). He is also bootstrapping hero and author of multiple books (Getting Real, REWORK, REMOTE, It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work).

Listen to find out:

  • Intuitive🔼 over ‘data-driven’ 🔱decision making
  • Hook đŸȘ vs Towel Rail 🎏: The Power of Simple, Versatile Products
  • CEO-CTO Relationship: How to counteract the negativity brought on by the typical push-pull đŸ€Œ
  • Why they do Customer interviews post-launch
  • Take-home assessments at 37signals: paid and overloaded đŸ‹ïž
  • Bezos’ shares in 37signals

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Timestamps:(00:00) INTRO(03:32) Who is Jason Fried(04:59) Early Days of 37Signals(06:05) Jeff Bezos' shares in 37Signals(09:01) Profits over Revenue(10:42) JASON’S NERD JOURNEY(15:35) The Power of No Expectations as First-Time Founder(16:46) Open Source and Rails(19:06) CEO-CTO RELATIONSHIP(19:34) Scale of Product: CEO's Vision vs. CTO's Reality(22:42) Tips to have a good relationship with the CEO as CTO(23:01) Find common ground(24:32) Positive interactions to counteract the negativity of differing opinions (27:38) HOOK VS TOWEL BAR: Analogy for Simple Products(31:07) How to make sure you are building a 'Hook' (not a Towel Bar)(33:20) 'Heated Towels' and Tradeoffs(34:44) Reverse Engineering Product Decisions(35:27) IDEAS AND PRODUCT DISCOVERY(36:06) Where do Ideas come from?(36:45) The Evolution of 'Hey' Email: An Unfolding Idea(38:31) Why they do Customer Interview only Post-Launch(40:09) INTUITION VS DATA DRIVEN DECISIONS (43:49) Hiring: The Human Element(47:17) TakeHome Assessments - Paid and Overloaded (to test decision-making ability)(48:38) Hiring: Attitude vs. Experience(51:15) Do Less to Accomplish More(51:45) No Estimates - but Appetites(53:46) His Anti-Advice Advice for Younger Self(57:15) Pay attention to CSS

About Jason Fried#Jason Fried is the cofounder and president of Basecamp (formerly 37signals), a privately held Chicago-based company committed to building the best web-based tools possible with the least number of features necessary. With David Heinemeier Hansson, Fried is the coauthor of Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application; Remote: Office Not Required; and the New York Times bestseller Rework.

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Podcast: Managing Managers (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 29: What CTOs look for in manager of managers with Meri Williams
Pub date: 2024-08-31

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Meri has a tonne of experience managing managers as a serial CTO, and we chat about everything from being a non-executive director, common traps of first-time directors/VPs of Engineering, what they look for when interviewing managers of managers, and so much more.

Guest biography:

Meri is an experienced CTO and leader of technology organisations, currently leading the technology team at Pleo. They particularly enjoy helping others to level up as technical leaders and managers of organisations, and works as a CTO coach and tech advisor to various companies in this capacity through micro-consultancy ChromeRose.

They have led teams ranging in size from 30 to 300, in a range of organisations from Procter & Gamble, to the Government Digital Service, award-winning online print company MOO, mobile-first challenger bank Monzo and patient-inspired AI-driven rare disease treatment discovery company Healx, amongst others.

A published author and international speaker, they are the chair of The Lead Developer conference, and a tech advisor for Kindred Capital. Together with their wife, they run micro-charity One Goes Up to help young women & enby folks pursue STEM education & careers.

Transcript and show notes: https://managingmanagers.tech/episodes/episode-029-meri-williams/

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Podcast: Tech Lead Journal (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: #194 - Building Loved Products: The Tech Product Marketing Fundamentals - Martina Lauchengco
Pub date: 2024-10-07

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“Product marketing’s purpose is to drive product adoption by shaping market perception through strategic marketing activities that align with business goals.”

Are you making the mistake of focusing too much on product and not enough on the market? In this episode, Martina Lauchengo, a partner at Costanoa Ventures and the author of the SVPG book “LOVED: How to Rethink Marketing for Tech Products”, discusses the often-overlooked importance of marketing in the success of tech products.

Martina challenges the traditional notion of “product market fit,” suggesting “market product fit” instead, because a product’s value is determined by the market’s capacity to absorb it. She emphasizes the critical role of go-to-market strategy in informing product development and driving adoption.

We explore the four fundamentals of product marketing outlined in Martina’s book: ambassador, strategist, storyteller, and evangelist. Martina shares real-world examples of how these principles have been applied successfully, highlighting the importance of understanding customer needs, crafting compelling narratives, and enabling authentic evangelism.

Tune in to discover valuable insights into how to rethink marketing for your tech products and achieve greater success.

Listen out for:

  • Career Journey - [00:01:52]
  • Market in the Product Market Fit Dimensions - [00:04:02]
  • Importance of Go-To-Market - [00:07:02]
  • Marketing Tech Product - [00:09:16]
  • Product Marketing vs Marketing Campaign - [00:12:17]
  • Sales-Marketing-Product Roles - [00:15:52]
  • How Product Marketing Collaborate - [00:17:20]
  • Product Marketing Metrics & Attribution - [00:21:16]
  • 4 Fundamentals of Product Marketing - [00:25:33]
  • Ambassadorship - [00:28:40]
  • How to Get Customer Insights - [00:31:25]
  • Human Aspect of Product Marketing - [00:35:47]
  • Directing the Product Go-To-Market - [00:39:03]
  • Storytelling - [00:41:53]
  • Curating Stories - [00:44:50]
  • Evangelism - [00:46:52]
  • Authentic vs Authoritative - [00:49:26]
  • Product Review Channels - [00:52:16]
  • Product Support - [00:54:07]
  • 3 Tech Lead Wisdom - [00:56:01]

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Martina Lauchengco’s Bio
Martina spent 30 years as a marketing and product leader. She started her career working on market-defining software, Microsoft Office and Netscape Navigator. She teaches what she’s learned with SVPG and is a lecturer at UC Berkeley’s graduate school of engineering. As a partner at Costanoa Ventures, she sits on multiple boards and coaches startups. She is the author of LOVED: How to Rethink Marketing Tech Products, a #1 Amazon Best Seller. Martina holds a B.A. in Political Science and M.A. in Organizational Behavior from Stanford University. She’s a native Californian, mother of two, and proud wife to Chris.

Follow Martina:

  • LinkedIn – linkedin.com/in/martinalauchengco
  • Costanoa Ventures – https://costanoa.vc/
  • Silicon Valley Product Group – svpg.com
  • 📚 LOVED – https://www.svpg.com/books/loved-how-to-rethink-marketing-for-tech-products/

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Podcast: Evolution Exchange Denmark Podcast
Episode: Evo DK #198 - Transitioning Between The Corporate World And Startups
Pub date: 2024-09-19

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Host Connor Leyland leads a discussion on navigating career transitions from corporate roles to startups. Featuring Daniel Lazarov, Tech & Product Lead at Legacy, Joseph Abraham, Senior Platform Product Manager at A.P. Moller - Maersk, and Claus Andersen, CTO at Travel Operations, this episode delves into the challenges and rewards of moving between established companies and emerging startups. Gain insights into leadership in fast-paced environments, product management strategies, and how to successfully adapt to the unique demands of startup life.

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Podcast: Think Fast Talk Smart: Communication Techniques (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 159. Earn Your Audience: You Can’t Lead If No One’s Listening
Pub date: 2024-09-10

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What it takes to develop as a leader.

Great leaders and great communicators aren't born, they're made. That's why John Hennessy and Tina Seelig, directors of Stanford University’s Knight-Hennessy Scholars, are working to create the great storytellers of tomorrow, today.

"We decided that there was a leadership void, and that was a driving motivation to do this," says Hennessy, former Stanford president and current Alphabet chairman. The program, which he co-founded in 2016 with Stanford alum and Nike co-founder Phil Knight, equips scholars with essential leadership skills through hands-on experience and collaborative problem-solving.

Seelig, executive director of the program, emphasizes that great leadership centers on effective storytelling. "No matter how compelling your invention, your idea, the thing you want to do in the world, if you can't communicate it in [an] effective way, nobody's going to listen," she says.

In this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, Hennessy, Seelig, and host Matt Abrahams explore what it takes to develop as a leader, discussing the role of communication, the power of empathy, and the centrality of storytelling.

Episode Reference Links:

  • Stanford Biography: John L Hennessy
  • Tina Seelig: Website
  • Stanford Profile: Tina Seelig
  • Knight-Hennessy Scholars
  • Leading Matters Podcast
  • Ep.155 Can We Be Candid? How to Communicate Clearly and Directly Website / YouTube
  • Ep.35 Leading From the Hot Seat: Hot to Communicate Under Pressure Website / YouTube

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Chapters:

(00:00:00) Introduction
Host Matt Abrahams introduces guests John Hennessy and Tina Seelig, directors of Stanford’s Knight-Hennessy Scholars.

(00:01:07) The Core of Knight-Hennessy Scholars

The inception and mission of the Knight-Hennessy Scholars program.

(00:01:55) Knight-Hennessy Scholars Leadership Model

The three components of their leadership model and how it's applied to train scholars.

(00:03:34) Empathy and Humility in Leadership

How empathy and humility enhance leadership effectiveness.

(00:06:00) Storytelling in Leadership

The role of storytelling within the leadership framework at Knight-Hennessy Scholars.

(00:07:22) Challenges in Storytelling

Common storytelling pitfalls and how to overcome them.

(00:08:56) Diversity in LeadershipThe importance of diversity in leadership teams and how it enhances problem-solving.

(00:11:20) Feedback in Leadership Development

The significance of feedback and how it is cultivated within the program.

(00:12:30) Aspiring to Big Ideas in Leadership

The value of focusing on impactful, big-picture goals.

(00:13:16) The Leading Matters Podcast
John and Tina outline their vision for inspiring leadership through their new podcast.

(00:15:10) The Final Three Questions

Tina shares a leadership skill she learned, and John shares a communicator he admires and ingredients for successful communication.

(00:18:31) Conclusion

  • (00:00) - Introduction
  • (01:50) - The Core of Knight-Hennessy Scholars
  • (02:38) - Knight-Hennessy Scholars Leadership Model
  • (04:17) - Empathy and Humility in Leadership
  • (06:43) - Storytelling in Leadership
  • (08:05) - Challenges in Storytelling
  • (09:39) - Diversity in Leadership
  • (12:03) - Feedback in Leadership Development
  • (13:13) - Aspiring to Big Ideas in Leadership
  • (13:59) - The Leading Matters Podcast
  • (15:53) - The Final Three Questions
  • (19:14) - Conclusion

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Podcast: Think Fast Talk Smart: Communication Techniques (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 161. Do Your Homework: Know What to Say by Knowing Who You’re Talking To
Pub date: 2024-09-24

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Know your audience and tailor the message for them.

In high-stakes communication, every word counts. For Jen Psaki, that means knowing who she’s talking to — so she knows just what to say.

As the former White House Press Secretary and current host of Inside with Jen Psaki on MSNBC, Psaki has discovered that communication isn’t about “saying the most words or saying them the loudest,” but about knowing your audience well enough to tailor the message just for them. “You need to think about how you're going to get your audience to listen to you,” she says. “The goal of communicating is to crack the door open so somebody wants to hear more.”

In this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, Psaki and host Matt Abrahams explore her approach to strategic communication: identifying your audience and using what you know to engage with them and get them to engage with you.

Episode Reference Links:

  • Jen Psaki
  • Jen’s Book: Say More
  • Ep.22 Under Pressure How to Communicate Clearly and Timely During Crisis Website / YouTube
  • Ep.155 Can We Be Candid? How to Communicate Clearly and Directly Website / YouTube

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Chapters:

(00:00:00) Introduction
Host Matt Abrahams introduces guestJen Psaki, a political analyst and former White House official.

(00:01:07) Principles of Communication
The importance of doing your homework and active listening.

(00:02:08) Skills for Effective ListeningTechniques for focusing and improving listening skills in communication.

(00:02:51) Engagement and Lowering Barriers

Strategies for making communication more engaging and accessible.

(00:03:50) Tailoring Communication

Importance of audience understanding and adjusting communication style.

(00:05:14) Preparation and Practice for Confidence

The role of preparation and continuous practice to build confidence.

(00:07:07) The Value of Feedback

Seeking feedback and reflecting on communication performances.

(00:10:10) Handling Difficult QuestionsTips for managing tough questions and controlling the narrative.

(00:12:38) High-Stakes Negotiation
Lessons from diplomatic negotiations and finding common ground.

(00:15:30) The Final Three Questions

Jen shares a question that Matt should have asked, a communicator she admires, and her ingredients for successful communication.

(00:19:48) Conclusion

  • (00:00) - Introduction
  • (01:50) - Principles of Communication
  • (02:51) - Skills for Effective Listening
  • (03:34) - Engagement and Lowering Barriers
  • (04:33) - Tailoring Communication
  • (05:57) - Preparation and Practice for Confidence
  • (07:50) - The Value of Feedback
  • (10:53) - Handling Difficult Questions
  • (13:21) - High-Stakes Negotiation
  • (16:13) - The Final Three Questions
  • (20:31) - Conclusion

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Podcast: Den Agile Agenda
Episode: Alle organisationer arbejder i 3 flyvehĂžjder. Kanban-metoden skaber flow i og imellem dem
Pub date: 2024-08-13

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Uanset om du arbejder i en lille, stor eller gigantisk virksomhed, sÄ foregÄr alt det arbejde I laver i 3 forskellige flyvehÞjder. Der er simpelthen 3 forskellige niveauer. Nemlig det strategiske, det koordinerende og det udfÞrende.

Uhyggeligt tit er der ikke sammenhÊng mellem disse 3 niveauer, og den ene hÄnd ved ikke, hvad den anden laver. Derfor ser man tit, at teams pÄ det udfÞrende niveau arbejder pÄ ting og sager, der ikke har rod i strategien, men stikker af i alle mulige andre og mere tilfÊldige retninger.

Det er selvfÞlgelig ikke sÊrlig smart, for man kan kun bruge sine ressourcer 1 gang, og det skulle da helst vÊre pÄ noget, der hÊnger sammen med strategien. Og lige netop dét skulle det koordinerende lag helst sikre. Det gÞr de bare langt fra altid.

Men der findes en lÞsning pÄ, hvordan man kan skabe den sammenhÊng, der bÞr vÊre mellem de 3 niveauer. Den lÞsning hedder Kanban, og i denne episode fortÊller jeg om, hvordan det sÄ lige hÊnger sammen.

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Podcast: Udviklere er ogsÄ mennesker
Episode: NĂžrderier om facilitering med Katrine Schumann
Pub date: 2024-03-13

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Fremtids facilitering - hvad pokker er det? Det vil Katrine sĂŠtte lidt flere ord pĂ„, sĂŠrligt med vinklen af, hvordan vi kan inddrage leg i vores facilitering og hvad leg egentlig er.. Katrine drysser ogsĂ„ godt med historier fra det virkelige liv so, facilitator. OgsĂ„ er der faktisk ogsĂ„ noget vi er lidt uenige om, utroligt nok, mĂ„ske det her ikke er sidste gang du hĂžrer fra Katrine i denne podcast 😅

Lille detalje, hvis du studser over min lyd, sĂ„ kan jeg fortĂŠller at jeg blev ramt med en ordentlig forkĂžlelse nĂŠrmest under vores optagelse og lagde mig syg bagefter (godt vi optog online, sĂ„ Katrine ikke blev smittet 😅)

Referencer:
Afsnittet fra balance podcasten hvor Katrine er med

Kurset jeg har deltaget pÄ sidste efterÄr: https://www.katrineschumann.dk/faciliteringsuddannelsen

FremtidsvĂŠrksted - faciliteringsmetode

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Faciliterings Haiku kilde

Boglisten (pssst husk jeg fÄr en lille skilling fra Saxo, hvis I bruger mine links til at kÞbe bÞgerne)
Den legende organisation af Ann Charlotte Thorsted (vi snakker ikke om bogen, men det er Katrines med-underviser, pÄ Faciliteringsuddannelsen, der har udgivet bogen).

Find Katrine
Hendes hjemmeside: https://www.katrineschumann.dk // www.fremtidsfacilitering.dk
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katrineschumann/

Find din vĂŠrt Anne Cathrine
Du er altid velkommen til at connected med mig pÄ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/cathrinefallesen/ eller sende en mail pÄ ac@anothernerd.dk

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Podcast: Hardcore Soft Skills Podcast (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Soft Skills Coaching: How Can My Team Become More Agile?
Pub date: 2023-12-26

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How do I help my team become agile?

Hello and welcome to episode 100 of the HSS. If this hapesn to be the first episode you lsten to, in each episode I discuss a difefernt essential skill with the help of an expert. I have spoken to globally recognized authors, Harvard professors, military leaders, psychologists, pscyhitiatrics, people who have done scientific reserahc on how to become better at the so called "soft" skills to help you thrive in your career.

I want to thank you for being with me in this learning journey. I started this alongside my graduate studies in Organizational Psychology at Harvard, and through my own career journey which at this time involves working with multiole technical teams to help them become high perfoming, and create an agile organization.

This is why today I chose to highlight this topic of agility because it embodies what soft skills are about, how to integrate human dynamics to deliver a solution.

In this episode I’ll play some excerpts from some of the folks who co-created the famous Agile Manifesto, the base document for all things agile. Let's listen to Jeff Sutherland talking about what makes a great team, Jon Kern, on what we really need or don’t need, to get things done faster, and Arie van Benekum on the essentials of collaboration.

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Podcast: Hardcore Soft Skills Podcast (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Building 'Soft' Skills with AI: Camilo Rojas, Ph. D.
Pub date: 2024-04-30

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Lets talk about AI, Artificial Intelligence. You are probably using itn right now to make your life easier, create transcripts, products, images
 but are you really using it to make yourself a better person? Today you will learn how in this conversation with Camilo Rojas, Ph. D.

Camilo is the CEO and Founder of ProjectUs.ai, a venture capitalist backed MIT Media Lab spinoff that created an AI tool that seeks to help people become the best version of themselves.

Camilo did his postdoctoral research at the MIT Media Lab, focusing on the ethical use of AI to help people develop complex skills that we talk about on the podcast such as e.g., empathy, self-awareness, effective communication, etc.), and to help teams and organizations become more creative, cohesive and productive.

Today, you will learn how Project Us AI was developed and how it works, misconceptions about AI and possibilities for the future.

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Podcast: No Nonsense Agile Podcast
Episode: #0108 - Wiring the Winning Organisation with Gene Kim
Pub date: 2024-08-16

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Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson as they chat with Gene Kim, leader of the Enterprise Technology Leadership Conference and author of the Phoenix and Unicorn Projects.

Gene describes how DevOps research shows that excellent socio-technical leadership is critical to team success and failure. He explains how technical leaders can dramatically increase team effectiveness by improving the organisational architecture and wiring to support independence of action, rapid feedback and simplification while maintaining stability and security.

Listen to the podcast on your favourite podcast app:

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Connect with gene via LinkedIn or over at https://itrevolution.com/product/enterprise-technology-leadership-summit-las-vegas-2024/

Contact Murray via email or Shane on LinkedIn shagility.

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Podcast: No Nonsense Agile Podcast
Episode: #0111 - The crisis in agile with Jurgen Appelo
Pub date: 2024-09-26

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Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson as they chat with Jurgen Appelo about the crisis in the agile community.

We explore how the agile job market has changed with diminishing roles for agile coaches and scrum masters. And we discuss what people can do now that the agile consulting and training gold rush is over. We talk about the poor quality of agile practices in organizations claiming to have done agile. And the need to improve further, to get the benefits available. And we talk about the evolution and rebranding of agile practices and the impact of AI on the industry.

Gain valuable insights into the future of agile, the importance of adapting to change and strategies for sustaining relevance in a shifting market.

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Podcast: Agile Book Club (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: #1 Rethinking Agile by Klaus Leopold
Pub date: 2024-10-02

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Podcast: RikaTillsammans | Om privatekonomi & rikedom i livet (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Erfarenheter frÄn styrelsearbete | Drömmen om att bli styrelseproffs | #34
Pub date: 2024-08-01

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För 15 Är sedan drömde jag om att bli styrelseproffs. SÄhÀr 25 styrelseuppdrag senare i alla typer av organisationer tÀnkte jag dela mina lÀrdomar.

Att vara en del av en styrelse Àr bÄde spÀnnande och lÀrorikt. Jag rekommenderar alla att prova pÄ rollen som suppleant eller adjungerad ledamot för att fÄ insikt i företagsstyrning, redovisning, ekonomi och mÀnskligt beteende. Det kan ge en kÀnsla av prestige och personlig utveckling.

Dock Àr styrelsearbete ofta förenat med stort ansvar och liten ekonomisk ersÀttning. Risken Àr hög, dÄ personligt ansvar kan leda till allvarliga konsekvenser vid felaktiga beslut. Styrelser Àr sÀllan avgörande för ett bolags överlevnad, vilket ofta beror pÄ bristande struktur och professionellt arbetssÀtt. MÄnga styrelser Àr reaktiva snarare Àn proaktiva och diskuterar triviala frÄgor istÀllet för att fokusera pÄ viktiga strategiska beslut.

Utmanande Àr det sÀrskilt att vara extern ledamot i Àgarledda bolag, dÀr Àgaren ofta Àr operativ VD. Konflikter kan uppstÄ om VD inte lever upp till förvÀntningarna men ÀndÄ behÄller sin position pÄ grund av Àgarintresset.

Trots en nÄgot negativ bild ser jag fram emot att höra era erfarenheter och tankar kring styrelsearbete. Har ni upplevt liknande utmaningar, eller har du kanske andra perspektiv att dela med dig av?

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Podcast: Lederens Dilemma
Episode: Leder sÞger hele tiden bekrÊftelse, fyringsproces og lederkollega med dÄrlig opfÞrsel
Pub date: 2024-10-03

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Ligegyldigt hvilken ledertype du er, er dagligdagen fyldt med dilemmaer:

Jeg bliver nogle gange nervÞs og sÞger bekrÊftelse - hvordan bliver jeg bedre til at hÄndtere mig selv psykologisk? Hvordan timer jeg bedst fyringer? Lederkollega opfÞrer sig dÄrligt til mÞder - hvordan hÄndterer jeg den pÄgÊldende?

Det er nogle af de dilemmaer fra virkelighedens verden, som BĂžrsens chefredaktĂžr Nikolaj Sommer tager under kĂŠrlig behandling med dette kompetente panel:

  • Gitte Aabo, tidligere CEO for GN Hearing og Leo Pharma
  • Sophus Garfiel, Dep.chef i en rĂŠkke ministerier, senest Digitaliserings- og Ligestillingsministeriet
  • Frans Bevort, Lektor, CBS, ledelsesforsker.

Har du et dilemma, som vi skal tage op, sÄ skriv til dilemma@borsen.dk

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Podcast: Lederens Dilemma
Episode: BonusbĂžvl, peptalk og ansĂŠttelse giver uro
Pub date: 2024-10-10

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Ligegyldigt hvilken ledertype du er, er dagligdagen fyldt med dilemmaer: Mit team er uenigt om fordelingen af bonusser - hvad er jeres rÄd? Hvordan lÞfter man bedst en medarbejder der underprÊsterer? En nyansat har fÄet bedre vilkÄr end resten af teamet og det skaber uro - hvordan hÄndterer jeg det?

Det er nogle af de dilemmaer fra virkelighedens verden, som BĂžrsens chefredaktĂžr, Nikolaj Sommer, tager under kĂŠrlig behandling med dette kompetente panel:

  • Mette Maix, bestyrelseskarriere og bl.a. forperson for Aarstiderne
  • Jesper SĂžrensen, cheftrĂŠner BrĂžndby,
  • Peter Holdt Christensen, ledelsesforsker, CBS

Har du et dilemma, som du gerne vil have belyst sÄ skriv til dilemma@borsen.dk.

Mette Maix, bestyrelseskarriere og bl.a. forperson for Aarstiderne

Jesper SĂžrensen, cheftrĂŠner BrĂžndby,

Peter Holdt Christensen, ledelsesforsker, CBS

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Podcast: The Stack Overflow Podcast (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: This dev went from coding at Meta, to search at Google, to investing in AI with Anthropic
Pub date: 2024-09-27

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You can find Deedy on Twitter and LinkedIn.

You can learn more about the Anthology Fund here.

You can learn more about Menlo Ventures here.

Congrats to Stack Overflow users Bobince for earning a Populist badge with their answer to the question: What does sorting mean in non-alphabetic languages?

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Podcast: Coaching for Leaders (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: 698: How to Structure 1:1 Meetings, with Steven Rogelberg
Pub date: 2024-09-16

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Steven Rogelberg: Glad We MetSteven Rogelberg is an organizational psychologist, holding the title of Chancellor’s Professor at UNC Charlotte for distinguished national, international and interdisciplinary contributions. He is an award-winning teacher and recipient of the Humboldt Award for his research on meetings. He is the author of Glad We Met: The Art and Science of 1:1 Meetings.Many us appreciate the value of 1:1 meetings with employees. For a lot of managers, it’s one of their biggest time commitments. And yet, nobody ever taught us how to do it. In this conversation, Steven and I discuss how to actually structure an effective 1:1.Key Points First and foremost, a 1:1 meeting is for the direct report. A set schedule for 1:1’s with your team reduces bias by ensuring you connect with everyone, consistently. A loose framework is better than a lock-step agenda. Two approaches help: the manager proposing a core question or listing out topics that the direct report brings. Avoid status update meetings by articulating the purpose of 1:1’s and dedicating agenda time (or future meetings) to bigger picture topics. Skip-level 1:1’s are valuable for both employees and senior leaders. Avoid undermining another leader by approaching the meeting with the mindset to support the employee, rather than making decisions.Resources Mentioned Glad We Met: The Art and Science of 1:1 Meetings by Steven RogelbergInterview NotesDownload my interview notes in PDF format (free membership required).Related Episodes How to Lead Meetings That Get Results, with Mamie Kanfer Stewart (episode 358) Moving Towards Meetings of Significance, with Seth Godin (episode 632) Bringing Your Strengths to a Big Job, with General CQ Brown, Jr. (episode 691)Discover MoreActivate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic. To accelerate your learning, uncover more inside Coaching for Leaders Plus.

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Podcast: Coaching for Leaders (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: 700: Three People Who Will Help You Grow, with Andrew C.M. Cooper
Pub date: 2024-09-23

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Andrew C.M. Cooper: The Ethical ImperativeAndrew C.M. Cooper is an executive leader and apologist for compassionate business practices. He led as a history-making first Millennial and Black executive to serve as General Counsel of UPS Airlines, the world’s largest logistics airline with over 20,000 employees. His team was essential to the success of Operation Warp Speed, the United States’ pandemic vaccine relief effort. He’s the author of The Ethical Imperative: Leading with Conscience to Shape the Future of Business*.

We all know the power of relationships to help us grow. However, we don’t always seek out some of the non-traditional relationships that might help most. In this conversation, Andrew and I discuss three types of people we often overlook that will help us grow.

Key Points* Many of us invest in organic, traditional relationships. Those are important, but not sufficient in such a dynamic world. * Invest 30% of your time into relationships that will add skills, knowledge, or insights you can’t develop yourself. * Shifters observe well, read between the lines, and help us adapt in uncertain and changing situations. * Connectors will help your expand professional affiliations. Having a connector in your corner can be as helpful as being a connector yourself. * People who first appear as sharks may be benevolent antagonists. Listen for what others around them say to determine who might challenge you in healthy ways.

Resources Mentioned The Ethical Imperative: Leading with Conscience to Shape the Future of Business by Andrew C.M. Cooper

Interview NotesDownload my interview notes in PDF format (free membership required).

Related Episodes* How to Strengthen Your Network, with Marissa King (episode 525) * How to Build a Network While Still Doing Everything Else, with Ruth Gotian (episode 591) * How to Recognize Remarkable People, with Guy Kawasaki (episode 671)

Production CreditCoaching for Leaders is edited by Andrew Kroeger. Production support is provided by Sierra Priest.

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Podcast: Coaching for Leaders (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: 701: How to Handle High-Pressure Situations, with Dan Dworkis
Pub date: 2024-09-30

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Dan Dworkis: The Emergency MindDan Dworkis is Chief Medical Officer at The Mission Critical Team Institute. He’s an emergency physician who helps individuals and teams apply knowledge under extreme pressure and perform at their best when it matters the most. He is the author of The Emergency Mind: Wiring Your Brain for Performance Under Pressure*.

Every leader, at least occasionally, faces emergencies. In an emergency, the only way out is through. In this conversation, Dan and I explore the mindsets and tactics that will help us handle the most difficult situations.

Key Points* Emergencies are not just worse bad days. They are liminal — the only way out is through. * Apply graduated pressure. Never allow suffering to be wasted. By going a bit slower, you notice where and why failures happen. * Label an emergency with language that both recognizes the urgency of the situation and your faith in the team to resolve it. * The room is always smarter than any one person in it. Tell people what problem they are working and your confidence level in it. * Staying cool under pressure is not a fixed personality trait. You can get better by noticing and experimenting with what works for you (and doesn’t) to handle high-pressure situations. * Experience makes working under pressure easier, but you still need to practice for it. Notice what’s effective (and not) in past and new situations before you experiment. * Use situations in everyday life (a hard workout, an angry customer, getting cut off in traffic) to train yourself for responding in the toughest situations.

Resources Mentioned The Emergency Mind: Wiring Your Brain for Performance Under Pressure by Dan Dworkis

Interview NotesDownload my interview notes in PDF format (free membership required).

Related Episodes* How to Become the Person You Want to Be, with James Clear (episode 376) * How to Build Psychological Safety, with Amy Edmondson (episode 404) * How to Prevent a Team From Repeating Mistakes, with Robert “Cujo” Teschner (episode 660)

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Podcast: Coaching for Leaders (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: 702: Moving Past Transactional and Towards Relational, with Jonathan Raymond
Pub date: 2024-10-07

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Jonathan Raymond: Good AuthorityJonathan Raymond is the founder of Refound and Ren AI. He helps leaders make work a better place, one conversation at a time. He’s the author of the book Good Authority: How to Become the Leader Your Team Is Waiting for and hosts the podcast of the same name. He’s also the creator of The Accountability Dial, used by many in our community to support healthy accountability in their organizations.

With all the tools and technology we have access to, it’s so easy to fall in the trap of mostly being transactional. Yet, leadership is at its best when it elevates above the transaction and builds the broader relationship. In this conversation, Jonathan and I discuss how to make that shift.

Key Points* While the pandemic helped us shift in some helpful ways, it also created an environment where leaders don’t always feel safe with healthy accountability. * The most healthy conversations have consequences if change does not happen. * The primary obstacle to holding people accountable is fear. Leaders will find times when then not able to defend themselves. * Having access to too much detail is a recipe for micromanagement. The best feedback moves away from transitional and towards relational. * Find places of retreat to spend unstructured, non-transactional time. * Don’t let the perfect get in the way of the good. Hold people accountable for the qualities of leadership, not the outcomes.

Resources Mentioned Ren AI: a platform of AI-powered tools built on the Good Authority methodology * Good Authority: How to Become the Leader Your Team Is Waiting For by Jonathan Raymond

Related Episodes* Five Steps to Hold People Accountable, with Jonathan Raymond (episode 306) * How to Give Feedback, with Russ Laraway (episode 583) * How to Connect with People Better, with Charles Duhigg (episode 670)

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Podcast: HBR On Strategy (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: 24 Steps to Launch a Start-Up
Pub date: 2024-09-04

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Many people aspire to entrepreneurship. But Bill Aulet, who has advised founders for decades, warns that it remains a high-risk endeavor.

In this episode, he outlines concrete steps anyone can take to get a new venture off the ground — including intrapreneurs within large organizations. He also breaks down some of the important trends he’s seeing in entrepreneurship, like the increasing commoditization of products and lower barriers to entry, due to technology.

Aulet is a professor of entrepreneurship at the Sloan School of Management at MIT. He’s also the author of the book Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup.

Key episode topics include: strategy, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurs and founders, entrepreneurial business strategy, innovation, start-ups.

HBR On Strategy curates the best case studies and conversations with the world’s top business and management experts, to help you unlock new ways of doing business. New episodes every week.

· Listen to the full HBR IdeaCast episode: A Roadmap for Today’s Entrepreneurs (2024)

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Podcast: HBR On Strategy (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: To Set a Great Strategy, Start by Imagining the Future You Want
Pub date: 2024-09-18

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Some managers develop strategy by focusing on problems in the present, and that’s especially true during a crisis.

But Mark Johnson, co-founder of the innovation consulting firm Innosight, argues that leaders should imagine the future and then work backward to build their organization for that new reality.

In this episode, he outlines the practical steps managers can take to look beyond the typical short-term planning horizon and help their teams grasp future opportunities. Johnson also shares real-world examples from Apple, Johnson & Johnson, and Intel to illustrate what can happen when leaders shift their strategic mindset to focus on the future.

Key episode topics include: strategy, innovation, decision making and problem solving, growth strategy, crisis leadership, managing teams.

HBR On Strategy curates the best case studies and conversations with the world’s top business and management experts, to help you unlock new ways of doing business. New episodes every week.

· Listen to the original HBR IdeaCast episode: To Build Strategy, Start with the Future (2020)

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Podcast: HBR On Strategy (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: How to Get Forecasting Right
Pub date: 2024-10-02

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Do you know the difference between accurate forecasting and effective forecasting?

Technology forecaster Paul Saffo says accurate forecasting is nearly impossible to do. But if you aim for effective forecasting, he notes, then at least you’re considering the full range of reasonable possibilities for the future, rather than jumping to one conclusion and preparing only for that outcome. “If you head straight towards accurate forecasting, you may end up in a much worse situation by overlooking things that eventually come to pass,” Saffo argues.

In this episode, he shares his six rules for effective forecasting—from visualizing future uncertainty to discerning patterns in past data—and explains why it’s important to be your own worst critic of your forecasts.

Key episode topics include: strategy, strategic planning, risk management, decision making and problem solving, forecasting, technology.

HBR On Strategy curates the best case studies and conversations with the world’s top business and management experts, to help you unlock new ways of doing business. New episodes every week.

· Listen to the full HBR IdeaCast episode: Six Rules for Effective Forecasting (2007)

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Podcast: Flight Club
Episode: Strategy development and execution: Flight Levels and Hoshin Kanri at Siemens. With Roland PĂŒrzer and Klaus Leopold
Pub date: 2024-06-12

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In this Flight Club episode, Klaus Leopold chats with Roland PĂŒrzer about the powerful combination of Hoshin Kanri and Flight LevelsÂź at SIEMENS.

Hoshin Kanri, a cornerstone of the SIEMENS Development Principles, has been strategically leveraged by Roland to solidify their strategy work. To make the comprehensive nature of Hoshin Kanri more approachable, he mapped the key artifacts to the strategic interface of Flight Levels - SOFI, and then visually presented these elements on a Flight Level 3 system. This setup not only made vital strategic information easily accessible but also significantly aided decision-making, continually highlighting areas requiring further decisions.

Tune into this episode with Roland PĂŒrzer to dive deeper into how they brought their strategy to life using Hoshin Kanri and Flight LevelsÂź. There's also a written case study on Roland's story if you want to read up on the details: Hoshin Kanri and Flight LevelsÂź Get Siemens Ready For The Future https://circle.flightlevels.io/c/blog/hoshin-kanri-and-flight-levels-siemens

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Podcast: Flight Club
Episode: Taming Conway's Law with Flight Levels. With Mike Freislich and Klaus Leopold
Pub date: 2024-06-25

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In this episode of the Flight Club podcast, Klaus Leopold had a great conversation with Mike Freislich about the relationship between Conway's Law and Flight LevelsÂź. They explored how Conway's Law highlights the impact of communication structures on system design and how Flight LevelsÂź can mitigate negative effects by focusing on value flow through work systems topologies and flight routes. Mike shared practical insights and real-world examples, explaining how organizations can enhance communication without the need for constant restructuring.

This episode is packed with valuable information for anyone interested in modern organizational design. Tune in to discover how Flight LevelsÂź can transform your approach to communication and value delivery, and don't forget to subscribe on your favorite podcast platform for more enlightening discussions!

If you are interested in learning more about Flight Levels Systems Architecture, join one of Mike’s workshops. Check the latest dates

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Podcast: Fremtidens arbejdsplads
Episode: EP #025: Hvad sker der nÄr direktÞren udviser "svaghedstegn" ? - Torben Tronborg, Neurodivergent direktÞr hos Computerworld it-jobbank
Pub date: 2024-09-03

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I denne jubilĂŠums episode nr. 25 dykker jeg ned i et emne, der ofte bliver gemt vĂŠk bag lukkede dĂžre – sĂ„rbarhed i ledelse. Jeg deler min personlige historie om, hvorfor jeg har valgt at stĂ„ frem og tale Ă„bent om mine egne oplevelser med stress og diagnoser. Det har ikke kun vĂŠret en "rejse" mod bedre selvforstĂ„else, men ogsĂ„ en mulighed for at skabe en mere ĂŠrlig og autentisk forbindelse til mine kolleger, medarbejdere og de mennekser som jeg omgĂ„s med i professionelle virke. Ved at vĂŠre Ă„ben omkring mine udfordringer har jeg oplevet, hvordan sĂ„rbarhed kan skabe en stĂŠrkere relation og Ăžget forstĂ„else i lederskabet. Det har givet mig et mere nuanceret perspektiv pĂ„, hvordan vi som ledere kan inspirere andre ved at vise, at vi ogsĂ„ er mennesker med vores egne kampe som i sidste ende fremmer trivslen pĂ„ arbejdspladsen og dermed et bedre arbejdsmiljĂž.

I episoden taler jeg om, hvordan min tilgang har ĂŠndret min mĂ„de at lede pĂ„ og skabt et mere empatisk arbejdsmiljĂž, hvor der er plads til at vĂŠre sig selv – pĂ„ godt og ondt.

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Podcast: Fremtidens arbejdsplads
Episode: EP #026: Fremtiden tilhĂžrer dem, som evner at lytte hĂžjere! - Jonathan LĂžw, IvĂŠrksĂŠtter, forfatter og podcastvĂŠrt
Pub date: 2024-10-07

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I denne episode har jeg fornþjelsen af at byde velkommen til Jonathan Lþw, en erfaren ivérksétter, foredragsholder, podcastvért og forfatter. Vi skal tale om et emne, han ”brénder” for – nemlig hvorfor han mener, at den vigtigste ledelseskompetence i fremtiden er evnen til at lytte hþjere.

Derudover skal vi dykke ned i, hvorfor det er afgÞrende at sÊtte 'arbejdsglÊde og trivsel' pÄ agendaen i virksomhederne. Jonathan mener, at der er gÄet inflation i forskellighed, og at det skader os alle.

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Podcast: Signals and Threads (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Writing, Technically with James Somers
Pub date: 2021-09-01

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James Somers is Jane Street’s writer-in-residence, splitting his time between English and OCaml, and helping to push forward all sorts of efforts around knowledge-sharing at Jane Street. In this episode, James and Ron talk about the role of technical writing in an organization like Jane Street, and how engineering software relates to editing prose.

You can find the transcript for this episode on our website.

Some links to topics that came up in the discussion:

  • mdx, the modified Markdown format that supports executing OCaml code blocks
  • More on the 4 types of technical writing that James references
  • Donald Knuth’s original book on Literate Programming
  • More on John McPhee’s use of KEDIT
  • Peter Seibel’s Coders at Work
  • David Goodsell’s The Machinery of Life
  • Scott Huler’s Defining the Wind

Some of James’s writing on our tech blog

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Podcast: The Engineering Room with Dave Farley (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Platform Strategies & Platform Engineering | Gregor Hohpe In The Engineering Room Ep. 24
Pub date: 2024-02-01

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Gregor Hohpe. is a world-class expert on software architecture and the role of the architect, he is a technologist and expert on the topics of large-scale systems and the public Cloud as well as lots of other stuff.

Gregor is currently part of the Serverless team working as an Enterprise Strategist for Amazon at AWS, Previously he was Technical Director in the Office of the CTO at Google, and before that was Chief SW Architect at Allianz the German Insurance giant. Gregor is an international speaker, author of Several great books, as well as writing on his always thought-provoking blog, “The Architect Elevator”. and he’s just published a new book called “Platform Strategy”.

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🖇 LINKS

🔗 "Architect Elevator Blog" https://architectelevator.com/blog/

🔗 "Architecture as Code" https://architectelevator.com/cloud/i...

📖 "Cloud Strategy", Gregor Hohpe âžĄïž https://leanpub.com/cloudstrategy

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📖 "Enterprise Integration Patterns", âžĄïž Gregor Hohpe https://amzn.to/47r2j56

📖 Dave’s NEW BOOK "Modern Software Engineering" is available as paperback, or kindle here âžĄïž https://amzn.to/3DwdwT3 and NOW as an AUDIOBOOK available on iTunes, Amazon and Audible.

📖 The original, award-winning "Continuous Delivery" book by Dave Farley and Jez Humble âžĄïž https://amzn.to/2WxRYmx

📖 "Continuous Delivery Pipelines" by Dave Farley Paperback âžĄïž https://amzn.to/3gIULlA

ebook version âžĄïž https://leanpub.com/cd-pipelines

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Podcast: The Engineering Room with Dave Farley (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Spotify's Strong Ownership Model, Fleet Management & "Golden Technologies | Niklas Gustavsson In The Engineering Room Ep. 27
Pub date: 2024-03-31

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In this episode, Dave Farley and Niklas Gustavsson, Chief Architect and VP of Engineering at Spotify, discuss the facets of Spotify's software development and operational strategies, discussing the company's unique approach to organising software development, notably through Fleet Management.

Dave and Niklas discuss how to overcome common misconceptions and anti-patterns associated with microservices, and explore the role of Spotify's "Golden Technologies" in standardising technology stacks to reduce fragmentation.

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🙏The Engineering Room series is SPONSORED BY EQUAL EXPERTS

Equal Experts is a product software development consultancy with a network of over 1,000 experienced technology consultants globally. They increase the pace of innovation by using modern software engineering practices that embrace Continuous Delivery, Security, and Operability from the outset âžĄïž https://bit.ly/3ASy8n0

📖 Dave’s NEW BOOK "Modern Software Engineering" is available as paperback, or kindle here âžĄïž https://amzn.to/3DwdwT3 and NOW as an AUDIOBOOK available on iTunes, Amazon and Audible.

📖 The original, award-winning "Continuous Delivery" book by Dave Farley and Jez Humble âžĄïž https://amzn.to/2WxRYmx

📖 "Continuous Delivery Pipelines" by Dave Farley Paperback âžĄïž https://amzn.to/3gIULlA ebook version âžĄïž https://leanpub.com/cd-pipelines

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Podcast: The Engineering Room with Dave Farley (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Developer Productivity ISN'T About Measurement | Trisha Gee In The Engineering Room Ep. 26
Pub date: 2024-03-27

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Trisha Gee joins Dave to talk about developer productivity. What are the keys to creating an environment for software engineers to feel positive and happy while being at their most productive? Can we really measure developer productivity? Let's find out!

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🙏The Engineering Room series is SPONSORED BY EQUAL EXPERTS

Equal Experts is a product software development consultancy with a network of over 1,000 experienced technology consultants globally. They increase the pace of innovation by using modern software engineering practices that embrace Continuous Delivery, Security, and Operability from the outset âžĄïž https://bit.ly/3ASy8n0

📧 JOIN CD MAIL LIST 📧 Keep up to date with the latest discussions, free "How To..." guides, events, online courses and exclusive offers. âžĄïž https://bit.ly/MailListCD

📖 Dave’s NEW BOOK "Modern Software Engineering" is available as paperback, or kindle here âžĄïž https://amzn.to/3DwdwT3 and NOW as an AUDIOBOOK available on iTunes, Amazon and Audible.

📖 The original, award-winning "Continuous Delivery" book by Dave Farley and Jez Humble âžĄïž https://amzn.to/2WxRYmx

📖 "Continuous Delivery Pipelines" by Dave Farley Paperback âžĄïž https://amzn.to/3gIULlA ebook version âžĄïž https://leanpub.com/cd-pipelines

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Podcast: The Engineering Room with Dave Farley (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: DORA, Measuring Software ROI & Choosing The Right Metrics | Dr. Nicole Forsgren In The Engineering Room Ep. 29
Pub date: 2024-05-26

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In this episode of the Engineering Room, we are pleased to welcome Dr. Nicole Forsgren. Dr. Forsgren is is an American technology executive, IT impact expert, and author. She joins Dave to talk about software developer productivity metrics, DORA, her part in one of the most impactful industry leading book's “accelerate”, her predictions for the future of software engineering under the influence of science and data and MUCH MORE.

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Equal Experts is a product software development consultancy with a network of over 1,000 experienced technology consultants globally. They increase the pace of innovation by using modern software engineering practices that embrace Continuous Delivery, Security, and Operability from the outset âžĄïž https://bit.ly/3ASy8n0

📧 JOIN CD MAIL LIST 📧 Keep up to date with the latest discussions, free "How To..." guides, events, online courses and exclusive offers. âžĄïž https://bit.ly/MailListCD

📖 Dave’s NEW BOOK "Modern Software Engineering" is available as paperback, or kindle here âžĄïž https://amzn.to/3DwdwT3 and NOW as an AUDIOBOOK available on iTunes, Amazon and Audible.

📖 The original, award-winning "Continuous Delivery" book by Dave Farley and Jez Humble âžĄïž https://amzn.to/2WxRYmx

📖 "Continuous Delivery Pipelines" by Dave Farley Paperback âžĄïž https://amzn.to/3gIULlA ebook version âžĄïž https://leanpub.com/cd-pipelines

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Podcast: The Engineering Room with Dave Farley (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: How Leadership Affects Software Quality, Large-Scale Agile & MORE | Gary Gruver In The Engineering Room Ep. 30
Pub date: 2024-06-30

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Welcome Gary Gruver in this episode of The Engineering Room!

Gary is an experienced executive and consultant known for transforming software development and delivery processes in large organisations. He discusses his journey, starting with his impactful work as the R&D director for the HP LaserJet firmware team, where he led productivity improvements of 2-3 times, and later as an independent consultant, speaker, and author.

Join Dave Farley and Gary Gruver for a deep dive into the practical and philosophical aspects of software engineering, leadership, and the future of AI in the industry.

Listen to the full episode to gain valuable insights and actionable strategies for improving software development and delivery in your organisation. Don't forget to check out the links for more resources and Gary's latest book, "Engineering the Digital Transformation.”

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Gary Gruver Consulting âžĄïž https://garygruver.com/

Leading Large Software Organizations: âžĄïž https://garygruver.com/docs/whitepapers/Leading-Large-Software-Organizations.pdf

A Practical Approach to Large-Scale Agile Development: How HP Transformed LaserJet FutureSmart Firmware (Agile Software Development) âžĄïž https://amzn.to/2YgZ7ss

Leading the Transformation: Applying Agile and DevOps Principles at Scale âžĄïž https://amzn.to/3VSVOUP

Engineering The Digital Transformation âžĄïž https://www.amazon.co.uk/Engineering-Digital-Transformation-Gary-Gruver/dp/1543975267

Join the Continuous Delivery community and access extra perks & content! âžĄïž https://bit.ly/ContinuousDeliveryPatreon

📖 Dave’s NEW BOOK "Modern Software Engineering" is available as paperback, or kindle here âžĄïž https://amzn.to/3DwdwT3 and NOW as an AUDIOBOOK available on iTunes, Amazon and Audible.

📖 The original, award-winning "Continuous Delivery" book by Dave Farley and Jez Humble âžĄïž https://amzn.to/2WxRYmx

📖 "Continuous Delivery Pipelines" by Dave Farley Paperback âžĄïž https://amzn.to/3gIULlA ebook version âžĄïž https://leanpub.com/cd-pipelines

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Podcast: GOTO - The Brightest Minds in Tech
Episode: How Architecture & Culture Go Hand in Hand ‱ Eoin Woods & Charles Humble
Pub date: 2024-06-28

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https://gotopia.tech

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Eoin Woods - Chief Engineer at Endava & Co-Author of 3 Software Architecture Books
Charles Humble - Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & Consultant

RESOURCES
Eoin
https://twitter.com/eoinwoodz
https://linkedin.com/in/eoinwoods
https://eoinwoods.info

Charles
https://twitter.com/charleshumble
https://linkedin.com/in/charleshumble
https://mastodon.social/@charleshumble

Links
https://youtu.be/nchRmYvUf2Y
https://youtu.be/963Ls1X17zs
https://youtu.be/w9YhmMPLQ4U
https://youtu.be/rIgTE9aDVj4
https://youtu.be/aWZFRk-w3ng
https://youtu.be/wtmW89I941I

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Charles Humble and Eoin Woods take a step back to look at the changing landscape of software architecture, emphasizing the shift towards continuous architecture and the evolving role of architects in adapting to agile methodologies. They also explore the importance of people skills in architecture, the necessity of open communication, and the preservation of a supportive culture, as exemplified by Endava's approach to fostering a collaborative environment amidst rapid growth. [...]

RECOMMENDED BOOKSMultiple Authors ‱ Software Architecture Metrics
Woods, Erder & Pureur ‱ Continuous Architecture in Practice
Woods & Rozanski ‱ Software Systems Architecture
Gregor Hohpe‱ The Software Architect Elevator
Elisabeth Hendrickson ‱ Explore It!

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Podcast: GOTO - The Brightest Minds in Tech
Episode: The Value Flywheel Effect: A Modern Cloud Strategy ‱ David Anderson & Charles Humble
Pub date: 2024-09-13

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https://gotopia.tech

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David Anderson - Software Architect at G-P/Globalization Partners & Author of "The Value Flywheel Effect"
Charles Humble - Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & Consultant

RESOURCES
David
https://x.com/davidand393
https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-anderson-belfast
https://theserverlessedge.com

Charles
https://twitter.com/charleshumble
https://linkedin.com/in/charleshumble
https://mastodon.social/@charleshumble
https://conissaunce.com

Links
https://blog.container-solutions.com/adrian-cockcroft-on-serverless-continuous-resilience
https://www.wardleymaps.com

DESCRIPTION
David Anderson, co-author of "The Value Flywheel Effect", shares his experiences and insights from his time at Liberty Mutual, where he drove significant technological transformation through a serverless first approach in a conversation with Charles Humble.

Anderson discusses the importance of aligning business and IT strategy, fostering an environment of psychological safety, and enabling teams with the right tools and frameworks to achieve rapid software development. He emphasizes the value of principles-driven development, collaborative processes, and the impact of using the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) to create reusable patterns. Anderson also highlights the continuous nature of software evolution and the importance of timing and momentum in driving successful change in large organizations. [...]

RECOMMENDED BOOKSDavid Anderson, Marck McCann & Michael O'Reilly ‱ The Value Flywheel Effect
Gregor Hohpe ‱ The Software Architect Elevator
Gene Kim, Nicole Forsgren & Jez Humble ‱ Accelerate
Jim Collins ‱ Turning the Flywheel
Gene Kim & Steve Spear ‱ Wiring the Winning Organization
Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis & Nicole Forsgren ‱ The DevOps Handbook
Elisabeth Hendrickson ‱ Explore It!
Gerald M. Weinberg ‱ Becoming a Technical Leader

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Podcast: The Pragmatic Engineer (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Efficient scaleups in 2024 vs 2021: Sourcegraph (with CEO & Co-founder Quinn Slack)
Pub date: 2024-10-09

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On today’s episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I’m joined by Quinn Slack, CEO and co-founder of Sourcegraph, a leading code search and intelligence platform. Quinn holds a degree in Computer Science from Stanford and is deeply passionate about coding: to the point that he still codes every day! He also serves on the board of Hack Club, a national nonprofit dedicated to bringing coding clubs to high schools nationwide. In this insightful conversation, we discuss:

‱ How Sourcegraph's operations have evolved since 2021

‱ Why more software engineers should focus on delivering business value

‱ Why Quinn continues to code every day, even as a CEO

‱ Practical AI and LLM use cases and a phased approach to their adoption

‱ The story behind Job Fairs at Sourcegraph and why it’s no longer in use

‱ Quinn’s leadership style and his focus on customers and product excellence

‱ The shift from location-independent pay to zone-based pay at Sourcegraph

‱ And much more!

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Where to find Quinn Slack:

‱ X: https://x.com/sqs

‱ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/quinnslack/

‱ Website: https://slack.org/

Where to find Gergely:

‱ Newsletter: https://www.pragmaticengineer.com/

‱ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/mrgergelyorosz

‱ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gergelyorosz/

‱ X: https://x.com/GergelyOrosz

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In this episode, we cover:

(01:35) How Sourcegraph started and how it has evolved over the past 11 years

(04:14) How scale-ups have changed

(08:27) Learnings from 2021 and how Sourcegraph’s operations have streamlined

(15:22) Why Quinn is for gradual increases in automation and other thoughts on AI

(18:10) The importance of changelogs

(19:14) Keeping AI accountable and possible future use cases

(22:29) Current limitations of AI

(25:08) Why early adopters of AI coding tools have an advantage

(27:38) Why AI is not yet capable of understanding existing codebases

(31:53) Changes at Sourcegraph since the deep dive on The Pragmatic Engineer blog

(40:14) The importance of transparency and understanding the different forms of compensation

(40:22) Why Sourcegraph shifted to zone-based pay

(47:15) The journey from engineer to CEO

(53:28) A comparison of a typical week 11 years ago vs. now

(59:20) Rapid fire round

The Pragmatic Engineer deepdives relevant for this episode:

‱ Inside Sourcegraph’s engineering culture: Part 1 https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/inside-sourcegraphs-engineering-culture‱ Inside Sourcegraph’s engineering culture: Part 2 https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/inside-sourcegraphs-engineering-culture-part-2

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References and Transcript:

See the transcript and other references from the episode at https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/podcast

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Podcast: Make Things That Matter (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Itamar Gilad: the GIST of product discovery
Pub date: 2024-07-30

Itamar Gilad is the author of Evidence Guided, which is my favorite book out there on how to practically DO product discovery. Prior to becoming a product consultant and trainer, he had a long product career at Google where he led the creation and launch of products that are now used by over a billion people.

In this conversation we explore the GIST approach to product discovery through the origin story of Gmail's tabbed inbox, to help you see what great product discovery looks like in practice.

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Topics discussed

(01:33) Creating frameworks and coming up with catchy models

(10:02) GIST: the meta framework organizing model concept.

(15:02) Illustrating GIST through the story of Gmail tabbed inbox

(21:06) Refocusing goals led to stronger, simpler idea.

(25:08) Prioritize, filter, and reevaluate for effective ideas.

(29:02) Usability and value risks, low confidence, evolution.

(35:43) Key results drive achieving goals, engaging company.

(40:07) Inquiring about applying startup approach to enterprises.

(45:32) Navigating uncertainty in strategy with evidence and discovery.

(50:44) Emphasizing iterative nature of product discovery process.

(59:10) Encouraging analysis for companies hesitant about changes.

(01:01:18) Evaluate, test, experiment, launch, measure, impact, outcomes

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Links & resources mentioned

‱ Send episode feedback on Twitter @askotzko , or via email

‱ Itamar Gilad : website, LinkedIn

‱ Evidence Guided (book) - website, Amazon

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Related episodes:

‱ #55: How does continuous discovery come together for a new product?

‱ #44 Teresa Torres: Habits for clear thinking and better product bets

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Books:

‱ Evidence Guided: website, Amazon

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Other resources:

‱ Itamar’s downloadable frameworks & resources

‱ The GIST framework

‱ Confidence meter for ICE scoring

‱ Creating Product Strategy with Multiple Strategic Tracks (MuST)

‱ Marty Cagan: The four big risks

‱ Gibson Biddle: proxy metrics (within product strategy)

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Podcast: Topchefernes strategi med Niels Lunde
Episode: Jacob Aarup-Andersen: SÄdan vil jeg skabe vÊkst i Carlsberg
Pub date: 2024-09-17

Niels Lunde taler med Jacob Aarup-Andersen, Group CEO i Carlsberg, der gÞr status efter sit fÞrste Är i spidsen for bryggeriet.

03.30: Om synlighed, kommunikation og hans fĂžrste mandat.

14.30: Derfor forĂŠrede han medlemmerne af Top 80 en brosten fra det gamle bryggeri i Valby.

22.20: Carlsberg skal have en vĂŠkstkultur.

31.46: KompromislĂžs rekruttering.

37.50: Tidens uforudsigelighed: SÄdan arbejder Carlsberg med den nye normal.

44.00: Tidens uforudsigelighed: Med opkÞbet af lÊskedrikproducenten Britvic, er Carlsberg sÄ stadig en Þlbrygger?

50.00: Opsamling.

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Producer: Peter-Emil Witt.

FÄ Niels Lundes nyhedsbrev: Tilmelding pÄ borsen.dk/nyhedsbreve.

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Podcast: Topchefernes strategi med Niels Lunde
Episode: Lars Fruergaard JĂžrgensen: Det har jeg lĂŠrt
Pub date: 2024-09-20

Topchefen i Novo Nordisk fortĂŠller om sine vigtigste lĂŠringer fra virksomhedens vĂŠkstrejse.

Optagelsen er lavet i forbindelse med, at Lars Fruergaard Jþrgensen fik prisen ”Manager of the Year 2024” i Stockholm torsdag aften.

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JD Meier of Microsoft, Productivity Strategies for Success #339Summary

JD Meier, high performance and innovation coach, discusses his focus on using AI to advance high performance and change how the world innovates. He emphasizes the power of one person businesses to impact and influence a billion minds. Meier shares his two-track transformation model for innovation, which involves sustaining innovation in the current business while also working on disruptive innovation for the future. He also highlights the importance of productivity and offers strategies such as setting three wins each day and reflecting on weekly achievements.

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 and then you have your future business model” Apple PodcastSpotify PodcastTakeaways* AI can be used to advance high performance and enhance senses
  4. One person businesses have the power to impact and influence a billion minds
  5. The two-track transformation model involves sustaining innovation in the current business while working on disruptive innovation for the future
  6. Productivity strategies include setting three wins each day and reflecting on weekly achievements JD Meier is a High Performance & Innovation Coach who has 25 years of experience changing the world at Microsoft. JD was the former head coach for Satya Nadella’s innovation team at Microsoft and is also the author of the bestselling book Getting Results the Agile Way. His WHY is to advance human potential and to help people realise their potential in work and life while his specialty is to provide proven practices combined with information models to advance a space. People at Microsoft know JD for innovation, productivity, and changing the world because he always took on big challenges and moved the ball forward.

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CHAPTERS​00:00 Introduction

05:07 The Billion Dollar Solopreneur

08:58 The Two-Track Transformation Approach

15:03 Improving Productivity with Three Wins and Reflection

31:07 Conclusion

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James Taylor (00:08)
Meyer is a high performance and innovation coach who has 25 years of experience changing the world at Microsoft. JD was the former head coach at Satya Nadella’s innovation team at Microsoft and is also the author of the bestselling book, Getting Results the Agile Way. His why is to advance human potential and to help people realize their potential in work and life, while his specialty is to provide program practices combined with information models to advance the space.

People at Microsoft know JD for innovation, productivity, and changing the world because he always took on big challenges and moved the ball forward. JD, welcome to the Super Creativity Podcast.

JD Meier (00:48)
Wow, that was a great intro. Thank you.

James Taylor (00:51)
So share with us what’s going on in your world just now. What currently has your focus?

JD Meier (00:56)
Okay. So that’s a great question. AI is definitely top of mind and specifically, I’m, I’m all about trying to use it to advance high performance. I think there’s a lot of tricks and hacks that people haven’t thought about yet specifically about enhancing your senses. And, the other big thing is really, I’m trying to change how the world innovates. I know that might sound audacious, but when I wake up in the morning, I actually ask myself how to want to change the world today. It actually guides a lot of what I do.

And with innovation, I think there’s an incredible, easy way to change how we innovate at the individual level, the team level and the org level. So that’s got my focus. The other big thing I would say is, I call it billion dollar solopreneur. I call it billion dollar solopreneur, not because you’re going to make a billion dollars. You might, but it’s about impacting and influencing a billion minds. I think that we’re in a perfect time and age where the one person business.

can actually share and scale their expertise with the world. And so I’ve been diving into that, looking at it from two perspectives on the, let’s say the left -hand side. The left -hand side is the tech arena. So what can we do with AI, of course? What can we do with social media? And what can we do with SEO? I know a lot of people think, SEO is dead, but not really. SEO, what I found, especially as an innovator, is the best way to figure out the language of your customers and your audience. There’s pains, needs, and outcomes, even if you don’t do SEO.

But so that’s on the tech side. There’s this other side though, this other side of scaling to the world. There’s tools that we have. So for example, there’s a massive transformative purpose. So for example, Nike, you know, just do it. Everybody fights their demons every day, but you get on board with Nike’s bigger mission. Microsoft empower every person in business to achieve more. Again, you know, it’s, it’s bigger than you. When you have something bigger than you, it’s easier to get on board. But there’s also these ideas of like,

simple, sticky slogans, the things that stick in your mind. And if you can create those idea viruses as the one person and then share and scale with the technology, you’re on fuego. So I think now is one of the greatest times ever to be able to change the world as one person. And even though I say one person, it doesn’t mean you’re just one person. You have your friends, your partners, your network, your family, you have your everybody, but it means that you don’t have to go and be part of a giant business to go change the world. I think that’s the key.

James Taylor (03:24)
Yeah, we had a guest on the show a little while ago, Elaine Pofeld, who wrote the million dollar one person business. And I interviewed her, actually, and I spoke to her recently, we were doing an event for the New York Public Library together. And she said, if she was to change anything about the book, she said, maybe the one million is too small, because you have people, especially with technology now, that are doing and you see, you look at a number of companies now, I think of especially in the AI space who have very few actual employees.

JD Meier (03:42)
It’s too small. Yep.

James Taylor (03:52)
but they are billing multi -billion dollar businesses. So maybe the one person billion dollar business is closer than we think just now as well. Yeah. So you’re obviously passionate about productivity, you’re passionate about innovation as well. I thought where we’d go first is, because we’ve had a number of guests on the show recently who have talked about the challenge in being able to do the main


JD Meier (03:53)
Yeah.

Yeah.

It’s a reality. Yeah. And it’s exciting.

James Taylor (04:21)
of what that business is about, whether it’s a legal business or it’s a technology business or whatever the business is. And then at the same time, innovating in their industry, innovating in their businesses as well. How do you, you know, those are two wild horses. How do you deal with those horses?

JD Meier (04:37)
Yeah. Okay, so great question. It starts, believe it or not, it actually starts with your mental model. I asked an anthropologist long ago, I said, what are the best business leaders do that other business leaders don’t? And the surprise was she said, they share their mental model. I was like, for real? Like, is that really it? And it actually was, because when you don’t share your model as a leader, and you have tens of thousands of people reporting to you,

People guess and they make things up and they try to figure out how to do innovation. So they end up either doing innovation despite the organization rarely with the organization, because they don’t know what it’s supposed to be. So with that in mind, I kept going back through all my experiences, like where did people get stuck? Like why did I call it the innovator gets fired? I call it innovation gets a fired side -liner pushed out. And it’s because they don’t have a space in their mind where innovation goes. So recently I shared the model, but I call it two track transformation.

And the idea is to have a simpler, better metaphor for to do innovation in parallel. But here’s how it works. You have your current business, which is your current business model. It’s your current customers. It’s your current talent. It’s your current products and offers, and it’s your current KPIs. You know that track, but I’m, I’m letting leaders know like, look, that is your sustaining innovation track. That is your 10 % growth. Yes. Take care of it. Good. However, in parallel.

This is where we need to work future back. This is how we avoid getting disrupted. This is how we disrupt ourselves. This is your future business model. This is that second track. This is your disruptive innovation, possibly 70 % growth cumulative over time. This is your different set of talent, because it’s a different type of talent to actually focus on these kinds of things. But the reality is, is you’re stepping into the future. And this is where it’s going to be.

A lot of people get lost because they step in the future. They have no empathy for it. It’s like a stranger. You’re stepping into the future and you’re breaking it down into small business experiments to check value today. You validate value today. So what you’re really doing is you’re not suddenly wildly changing your business. What you’re doing is you’re setting up these two tracks and running them well. Because if you don’t do it like this, what happens is you use your current KPIs against the second track and you break everything. You don’t make space for innovation.

But with this, this two track mindset, with this two track mental model, you have space for both and you can do both well, especially when you recognize that, that first track that’s yeah, we’re doing innovation. Yes. You’re doing sustaining innovation, 10 % growth. Great. Do you want a piece of that 70 % growth? And do you want to have a chance to be able to survive in the future? And do you want to make sure that you’re not the one disrupted or that you disrupt yourself? Yes. Okay. So that model, it’s easy for me to whiteboard it. It lands well with people. People follow it very easily and it.

Usually it can easily get people out of the muck and the mess that they’ve been in going by all these other different, you know, models of innovation and trying to do even something as simple as like an innovation portfolio. As soon as you have those two tracks in your mind, now you know which KPI is to focus on. Now you know why they’re different. It’s intentional. And that basically makes space for the real, cause usually when people are thinking about innovation, they’re thinking about the disruptive stuff.

they’re already doing sustaining, they don’t realize that they’re innovating in their processes and their products. They’re doing that 10 % optimization, but the disruptive innovation is really where the big action is, especially in today’s world where change is so fast. And the other thing I told people do when you’re working backwards from that future to make it real, make your mock press releases, make your one page write -ups of those future scenarios that you want to bring to reality. That

lets everybody feel the future. When you can feel the future and start to create empathy, now you get more stakeholders and sponsorship in the game. And then that’s a good thing. But if we don’t, if we do not make space for this in the minds of the leaders, then there will be a lot of sabotage. Maybe not even on purpose, but it happens. But when you are very deliberate about carving out that space, you could protect and support it. Otherwise the current business.

is going to eat it up, is going to fight for the resources, is going to fight for the money, and it’s going to defeat it with the current KPIs. Does that make sense?

James Taylor (08:58)
So you’re building almost like your competitor, your category killer, alongside you’re building the existing business as well. I love the idea of creating those mock -up kind of press releases. I’ve heard authors do that before where they’ve actually written up the reviews of their book before they’ve written the book to give them a sense, what value do I want to have this book? What kind of impact do I want this book to create? So you’re doing that. So that’s really kind of talking about, I guess, imagination.

JD Meier (09:03)
Yeah, yeah, -huh.

Yeah.

James Taylor (09:26)
and having a depth of imagination. I’m a big critic at the moment for, I see loads of great stuff on Netflix and Apple and all these great TV shows just now. But it feels at the moment when we talk about the future, a lot of the future that we see on TV and in movies is like a post -apocalyptic future. TV shows like Fallout, which are great, which are really fun and everything. But it doesn’t feel like we have so much of that painting that picture of


JD Meier (09:27)
Yes.

Yeah, right. Yep.

Yes.

James Taylor (09:56)
a more optimistic future, what that could be and how technology can actually help us get there.

JD Meier (10:00)
Yeah. Yep. I agree. And I think we have a deficit when it comes to the visionary leaders that can share that vision. That was actually the instigator of the billion dollar solarpreneur. I realized that people weren’t able to share the big visions. I’m like, you know, where’s the Disney’s? Where’s the Andrew Carnegie’s? Where’s the captains of the industry? And I was lucky to be surrounded by a lot of great people that were very good at articulating a future state. Like you could step into the future and they could connect the dots and they could light up these beautiful scenes of the future.

And it got people excited and inspired. And what I realized was, a lot of people don’t think about the future as this space of creativity and opportunity. They just project more of the past. So their past drives their present. And their present is driving the future, but all driven from the past. When you step out of that and you step into the future for real, but to do this, there’s also, I found that there’s another gap. So.

There’s a skill strategic foresight. It’s actually more popular in Europe than it is in the U S that kind of surprised me. But with strategic foresight, you’re learning about trends, you’re building vocabulary around the trends. So you have all of these little building blocks. So, I have a couple of frameworks that I use, but you know, one of my patterns is I call it the CEO pattern, customers, employees, and operations. You know, how do you transform the customers, the employees, the operations makes the people to realize where to focus their effort. But then the other thing I do.

Is then I would pull in, well, how does mixed reality or augmented reality change the scenario? How does AI change our customer experience? How does, and when you step into it that way, now you’re using these building blocks for innovation to create these scenes of the future. You become the choreographer, you become the director of the future. And if you decide deliberately that you’re going to work backwards from, you’re not going to accept bad scenarios in the future. You’re going to create great scenarios in the future.

you’re not going to try to predict the future. You’re actually going to create and shape it. When you come from that place, you have a lot of, it gives you a lot of empowerment. And especially if you stay on top of the trends, enough to know which ones to pay attention to enough to know which ones to ignore. And when I do that, I like to take a, a 10 year view. So if I look 10 years back, 10 years back was utility computing, your cloud companies, your Amazon, your Microsoft, your Google’s 10 years forward.

And the big mega pattern is ESG, environment, social and governance, or I think of it as good for people. I call it good for people, good for the planet. You know, think about it like that. Every business then has to reimagine itself, has to figure out how to be good for people, good for the planet. That means that you can actually go back to the basics of your business. And I like to use a business strategy pyramid. You can think of it like this at the top is your bold ambition. In the middle is your business model. And in the bottom.

is your operating model. The problem is too many people think, I’m transforming. And they’re focused on cloudifying or transforming or digitizing the operating model. And what they’re ignoring is that ambition part to start with the ambition. So if you were backwards from bold ambitions, it changes the strategies you choose. It changes the opportunities that you create. So you’re right. There’s a lot of a lack of imagination for the future because it’s focused on just doing more of the past. And it tends to be pretty pessimistic.

James Taylor (13:18)
Yeah.

We had on Professor Sir David Ormond on the show and we’ll put a link here as well to that. And we were talking about, so he is the former, basically he was the person that advised the prime ministers in the UK on the various security services. So in the UK we have MI5, MI6, GCHQ, in the US you have CIA, NSA, similar kind of roles. And he was talking, what you just mentioned about the strategic foresight in his book, he calls it strategic notice.

JD Meier (13:41)
Hmm.

Hmm.

James Taylor (13:53)
So he said, you know, part of the role that you’re trying to do as an intelligence analyst is the kind of work he would probably talk about is taking that 10 year view that you spoke about. And he said, that does require both critical thinking and creative thinking, like the imagination and like, well, what is the probabilities? And now we get into the mathematics of it. What do we believe is the probability? And when we look at risk, obviously just today, today, we see


JD Meier (14:04)
Yeah.

Yep. Yes. Yeah.

Right.

James Taylor (14:19)
certain risks that we’re seeing like now it’s on CNN, it’s on Fox and those channels, but the environmental, the E of the ESG piece, feels a little bit further away. So we kind of push it out a little bit further and we don’t kind of bring it in a little bit. So you’ve spoken about vision, we’ve spoken about the big picture stuff and promoting that vision and helping people understand that mental models with the Charlie Munger, like the kind of mental models. What about when it comes to the rubber hits the road, the productivity?

JD Meier (14:23)
Hmm.

Yeah, right.

Hmm.

James Taylor (14:49)
You’ve worked with these leaders at Microsoft and you’ve really helped these leaders on their productivity, both as a leader individually and as a team. Where do we get to on that? What are some of the key things that you notice on those people and the teams that are really great at productivity?

JD Meier (15:02)
Yeah.

Yep, so it’s definitely a mind shift because usually what happens is people start to care about it when they’re in pain. They get a bad review in terms of their health score, their org score, their whatever score. Then now they start to care about it. And because I moved in so many different orgs in Microsoft, I had to learn how to change the culture fast. And I learned that I could change it through questions because smart people like to answer questions. And so one of the questions I would ask, I would


You know, so we’d say, yeah, that productivity stuff. Why should we do this? I said, well, you spent a lot of time last month, right? You did, you spent a lot of energy. You probably did more than 40 hour work weeks, right? Everybody on the team did a lot of work, right? What were the three wins? I asked them for the three wins. And usually first I see a deer in headlights. Then I see them start to rattle off like meetings they went to and activities and all this stuff, but it doesn’t accrue to anything. And I go, you know, we can completely change the game.

by telling three stories of victories. We should be able to tell three stories of victories a day, three stories of victories for the week, three stories of victory for the month, three stories of victory for the quarter, three stories of victory for the year. And when I put it out like that, they said, well, we’re doing OKRs. I’m like, OK, show me your OKRs. And usually, it’s something abstract and disconnected that they don’t really have empathy for. And I go, look, if you’re trying to tell your manager that that was your impact,

Would that feel like a wow moment? Is that a press release? Where are the wows? And so I actually combine some of the practices I have in Azure results, where some of the practices that people do look like the OKRs, but thinking of three wins, it’s the simplest, easiest way to start to drive better outcomes because you’re working backwards now. Otherwise you fall into the trap of, and I fell into this trap too, where you hope that your process takes care of you. You hope that by doing the right things each day, it’ll lead to these awesome things.

But if you never put a line in the sand, if you’d never sketched out that model of the future, if you never thought about what that future scene of victory looked like, you’re not going to look your way there. Kind of like, you know, you’re not going to wander your way up the mountain, right? You’re not going to wake up one day and I’m on the top of Mount Everest like a zigzag. So the idea here is that you’re working backwards. At the same time, I’m a big fan that you do need to work your way forwards. And so the way I do it is I have the backbone of my book, I call it


Monday Vision, Daily Wins, Friday Reflection. So on Monday, you step into your Friday and you look back on your week. What do you want those three victories to be? So that’s your Monday Vision. Now imagine that you’re looking forward to going through your week because you have three victories to pull you through. And it sounds simple, but now what you’ve done by identifying these three victories is you’ve prioritized. You’ve chosen what you’re going to do, what you’re not going to focus on. You’ve also created a way.

to channel your energy. So now you’re going to find your motivation. It’s meaningful. You can connect it to your values. Don’t call back a customer when a raving fan. Don’t go do a project, lead an epic adventure. Don’t go do a task. Turn your chores into chances to practice and master what your strengths and your special abilities are all about. So that’s really the key. That’s the Monday Vision on the Daily Winds through Winds for Today. So when you wake up, you’re going to have a day. You’re going to spend a bunch of time.

What are the three wins for today? You can do your, have your existing to -do list. It might be a laundry list, actually a lot of stuff, but just put the three wins at the top that you hope that you can achieve. So you can direct your energy and attention and you’ll get better at it. You will get better at that. And then Friday reflection. This is where personal development meets your productivity. This is where self awareness comes to life. You actually reflect on what were my three wins for this week? You know, what are three things going well, three things to improve.

And it’s that improvement piece that means that you’re going to get, but this is your chance to be honest with you and go, did you bite off more than you could actually chew? Did you get randomized? Like if you completed things that had nothing to do with your goals, did you get randomized or are you not good at learning in your system? Are you not good at understanding and predicting what’s going to be expected of you in the week? So you get better at that. And the surprise, this is, this to me is the biggest surprise is that, by practicing Friday reflection.

You know, I started by putting an appointment on my calendar for 20 minutes on Friday. I made space for it. I got so good at my basic productivity, like extreme, that I started to take on much bigger goals. And, one of the things that I started to do was I just started to add checkpoint questions about ways that I want to improve myself at the identity level. And I had read the book leadership challenge and in it.

One of the questions is around, you know, seeing around corners. How will DC around the corners? So I had this one little question in my Friday reflection. So each week I was just asking myself, yeah, how am I getting surprised? Am I seeing around the corners? Am I predicting what’s going to happen? That alone improved me to the point where I actually think if I trace it back, that led to me becoming an innovator that led to me becoming a futurist. That was the basic skills that helped me become the head coach for Satya’s innovation team.

So it surprised me in a lot of ways. But those are the basics. If you can do a day well, you can do a week well. If you could do a week well, it compounds. But you want to be working backwards from your big dreams, your ambitions, your future scenarios, your future state, and using that to drive why do you do what you do today? and then the.

James Taylor (20:36)
Those questions obviously, so please carry on.

JD Meier (20:41)
I was going to say this. There’s one more frame that really helped me a lot, like the light bulb went off. It was super productivity, as when you’re working on the right things at the right time, the right way. When you unpack that and you start to dive in, am I using my strengths? Am I driving from vision? Am I spending more time in my values so I can renew my energy? You’re on fire.

James Taylor (21:07)
thinking as you were talking about this and kind of bringing some of these ideas together, there was Marshall Goldsmith, the leadership coach for a lot of various executives. He has someone who calls him every day, I think at the same time, to basically ask him a series of questions. That’s their only job. And it’s an accountability, it’s a way of keeping him on track in terms of what he’s doing. Now, that’s wonderful, but not everyone can


JD Meier (21:26)
Wow. Wow.

Hmmmm

James Taylor (21:36)
You can afford to have someone that that’s their job. So I was thinking obviously now with AI, not everyone can afford windy roads from billions on their team that’s asking those questions and making them think slightly differently about things, but everyone can pretty much afford an AI to be asking questions, asking better questions every time and asking questions that kind of nudge us out of our usual way of doing things.

JD Meier (21:37)
Right. Yeah.

Right.

Yes.

Big time. And so first and foremost, I would say structure your week. So for example, I have three recurring appointments on my calendar that ask me the question. So like my Monday vision, when it pops up, it asks me, what are your three wins for this week? And then each day it pops up, what are your three wins for today? And then Friday reflection, it pops up. So I made the space and the time for it. And then to use AI to take you to the next level.

You can actually pair up with AI. I think if it is pairing, you know, pairing up, you can pair up with AI to figure out a good personal, actually a great, a great personal development plan for the month. I think that when you do it at the month level, you get a different balcony view. And in that balcony view, you can ask higher order questions. Cause if you get too mired in the day to day, I think, and if you ask yourself too many questions in the day to day,

It’s kind of hard to see the forest for the trees, but I think when you do it at these timeframes, like, okay, what’s the, what’s the mindset of motivational questions for today that keep me growing and showing up strong. Like for example, one that I never expected to have is how do I want to change the world today? But there’s a little story there. Like, I kept for some reason it’s like deep in me. I think it’s because one of my early managers at Microsoft, every time he came by the office or in the break room.

He would say, did you change the world today? Like every day. And I’d be like, yeah, we changed it, but everybody wants us to change it back. And so, you know, it’s, it’s strong in me. And one of my early books, you know, went to like 800 ,000 people in six months. So when, when would you do that? You get used to changing the world. And so one day I found myself asking the question, how do you want to change the world? And I thought, you know, everybody’s stressed. They’re worried about the future. They’re worried about today. They’re,

James Taylor (23:32)
Yeah.

JD Meier (23:57)
overwhelmed, they’re overloaded and they’re in fear mode. I was like, that sucks. It’s like, what’s the best thing I can give people that would help them to start their day. So I ended up creating a, so that night I was like, okay, how do I change the world today? I want to change how the world wakes up. So that night I put together like 40 slides. I created a framework on the fly. I created 40 slides. I called it wake up great. I haven’t written. I don’t think I’ve even written about it yet, but it’s a, it’s wake up great. And it’s, I’ve been teaching it to different companies, but it’s a G is gratitude.

If you feel grateful, you can’t feel fear. So when you actually do gratitude, right, and you’re in that grateful mode, you can feel fear. So I thought, wow, what a great way for people to start, you know, gratitude. R is reflection. Reflect on your future self. People go, okay, reflection, but they don’t know what to reflect on. Reflect on your future self. Last week or even yesterday or even today, are you being that person that you want to be for the future? So R is reflection. E is of course, exercise, but people, I don’t have time and I don’t know what to do.

And so I put together a small set of things that people really can do, like Bruce Lee’s three minute workout. When he broke his back, he had to figure out how do I work out my full body? Well, he’s got a three minute workout. So when you learn these kinds of things, you, you open up these possibilities. So then there’s a affirmation, but most people do affirmations wrong. What do they do? They have a bunch of affirmation. I am smart. I am happy. I’m great. I’m strong. Choose one. You choose one. You picture it in your mind so your subconscious can see it.

So you know what you actually mean and you’re congruent. Otherwise, if you say like an apple, red apple, green apple, Steve jobs, you know what? So you picture it, but you have to feel it. So my affirmation, for example, for today, I am strong. When I say that, what do I look like when I’m strong? What do I feel like when I’m strong later in the day, when I don’t feel strong, I remember in the morning. So you say it, you feel it because you’re rewiring your nervous system. You’re changing your nervous system. That’s where this gets real.

So G -R -E -A and then T. It was funny when I was making the framework that night, I was like, what’s T? Three wins, you know, from my book. It was like, it was perfect. I was like, picture three scenes in your day, morning, noon and night, your three victory scenes. So you can have a compelling day that you’ve just envisioned on the fly in the morning, in your strength place, in a place of gratitude and greatness where you can be as strong as you could possibly be. And so, you know, that was like, you know, quick little framework, but it helps, it changes lives.

James Taylor (26:03)
you can have a compelling day to just envision on.

I love that.

But changing how the world works, I often think about when I go into the shower in the morning, I call the shower my ideas machine. Because different people have their ideas at different days and at times of day. For me in the morning, I actually ended up having longer showers because all these ideas start coming to me. Obviously, you’ve been ingesting them overnight. You’ve been kind of thinking through them overnight. For yourself, where do you go, where do new ideas generally come from for you? Where do you go to just


JD Meier (26:31)
Yep.

Yeah.

James Taylor (26:50)
Maybe take a step back from your day to day to kind of reflect, to really think at that kind of higher level.

JD Meier (26:56)
Yep. So where do the ideas come from? God, they come from so many places, but of course, like you, the shower. So this morning I had a thought about thought maps or thought structures or thought scaffolding. I thought about a lot of times people give you a thought to think, but they don’t break it down. And I had a parallel thought around, and program management work, breakdown structures. I thought about what if we actually shared these thought challenge and responses for specific challenges that we have.

because people do have these thought patterns. There’s success patterns and there’s anti -patterns. But too often, I think we hit the tip of the iceberg, but we don’t drill in. And I bet that if we start to share examples of thought maps, like what should be my thought structure when I feel like nervous or anxious about presenting? What does that look like? Break it down, but like little example of thought structures. So showers is a place, of course, before bed is of course another perfect time. So I keep my handy little sticky pad, my yellow sticky pad and pen. It’s been my greatest advantage.

And I also use a practice I call Imagine If. Imagine If is how I channel my imagination, but in any situation that I’m in, I imagine how it could be better. And so it gives me a lot of flexibility around choreographing the future of like a restaurant or even in the movie theater, you know, traffic, you know, how would I redesign this? So playing with Imagine If and just playing out future possible scenarios completely changes the game. A quick example is


You go to the grocery store and this is before we have all the things that we have now. But I remember I was supposed to design, you know, the future of, grocery stores for big company. And I thought, man, when I drove up parking sucked. What if I could just drive to the curb and the groceries come to me? And then another scenario was like, wow, I can’t find anything in the store. What if I could hold up my phone and like either play, find the vegetable or I could find the gluten free, whatever, you know, whatever I need to go look for. And, you know, as I’m going to fill these scenarios, I was like, well, what if.

groceries came to me. This was before they did. What if the groceries came to me? And to scare the leaders into the future, I gave them a competitive idea. I said, look, your house is the future store. If you don’t fill the shelves, then Amazon will. And so it’s those little ideas, but they come from everywhere. But what made that even possible was I read a book called Thinker Toys. And in it, Thomas Edison shared his idea quotas. And so that was the idea.

That first week, I took my little yellow sticky pad and I wrote one idea per note. By the end of the week, I had 10 notes. And I thought, wow, my God. But it wasn’t that. It was that as soon as I put the ideas down, and these were good ideas, these are 10 good ideas, when I put it down, my head was empty from those. I didn’t realize how much those were bouncing around. Once my head was empty from those, ideas wouldn’t stop coming. So the next week, I filled two of the notepads.

By the third week, it was getting silly. It was just absolutely ridiculous. So I think a lot of people don’t realize if you keep your ideas floating around in your head, see what happens when you put them somewhere. Have an idea catcher, a thought catcher, an idea portfolio, an idea catalog, put them somewhere. And then you’ll be amazed at how much space and room you have for ideas to come your way. And practice that imagine if habit. It’s a habit you can practice and share with your friends.

James Taylor (30:07)
That’s great. And while we’re talking about capturing ideas, is there a tool that you use or an app, some way that you find it very easy, because you’re getting all these ideas all the time, how do you ensure that you can capture them so you can then go through them at a later date?

JD Meier (30:17)
Yep.

Yeah, I know it sounds old school, but I use Evernote and I have more than 30 ,000 notes and the it I’ve been on a quest for probably, I guess, a couple of decades. I’ve been actually on a quest to find the world’s best insight and action. So I have principles, patterns, insights for mind, body, emotions, career, finance, relationships, fun. And so I have not just a big, deep library of profound knowledge, but then I have my catalog of my ideas where I have, I do two things. Actually, I have a.

a notebook for my best ideas where I capture those in different domains. And then I have a daily insights where it’s just, it’s, it’s a running note. I put today’s date and any like little idea that pops up, I put it in my journal. So basically the daily journaling combined with my catalog, my portfolio of my best ideas.

James Taylor (31:07)
Yeah, I love I’ve been like you, I’m a long time Evernote user. My only complaint, if anyone from Evernote is listening just now, please speed up the mobile app, because it’s by the time you have the app from the idea to capturing it, those six seconds or 10 seconds it takes to open the app and put it in can be really frustrating. Very, very simple thing there. What about if you were to recommend one book?

JD Meier (31:11)
Cool.

my god. my god. Yeah.

Yeah.

James Taylor (31:29)
to our listeners. You mentioned one that’s Thinker Toys, which I’m going to definitely check out that one. If you would recommend one other book to our listeners, not one of your own, but kind of links to your own, what would that book be?

JD Meier (31:30)
Mmm.

Hahaha, yeah.

It would be Unlimited Power by Tony Robbins. That’s my secret of how I read faster. But Unlimited Power is probably the deepest book that I’ve ever read that goes into the inner engineering. And what I’ve learned in life is that all things are created twice, first in the mind, then in the world. I think of it as inner world, outer results. But that book is probably the deepest that I know for modeling, learning, sharing, and scaling expertise of other experts. It’s a way to distill it because it’s the inner engineering.

You watch somebody shoot pool, you watch what they did with the cue. You don’t go through the thought process of wait, their neurology. What was their breathing? Where was their focus? Did they look at the, you know, the hole? Did they look past it? Did they focus on the cue ball? So that is probably the greatest book for profound performance, I would say.

James Taylor (32:24)
a huge, like you, massive, I think I’ve read that, I don’t know how many times I’ve read that book. I read it when I was probably 13 years old, changed my life. I think it was, there was a line in that you mentioned in questions. I think you said, Tony said something along like the quality of life is the quality of the questions that you ask. And it’s just that constant, wonderful book, absolute classic. Let’s, as we finish up now, what is the best way for people to connect with you JD, to learn more about your books, your writing, your other things you’ve got going on just now? Where should they go?

JD Meier (32:33)
my god.

Yes, yes, so true.

Probably the best starting point is JDMeier .com. So JDMeier .com. Yeah, that’s the best bait.

James Taylor (33:03)
Well, JD, thank you so much for being a guest on the show today. After listening to you, I’m gonna go and pick up my old battered copy of Unlimited Power and reread it again as well. Thank you so much for being a guest on the Super Creativity Podcast.

JD Meier (33:09)
Hahaha.

Thank you for having me. Awesome times. Take care.

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Pub date: 2024-02-25

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Podcast: Engineering Culture by InfoQ (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: The Evolution of Use Cases in Modern Software Engineering
Pub date: 2024-06-07

This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences.In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Ivar Jacobson about the evolution of use cases in modern software engineering.Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/4c36Yg7 Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter for your monthly guide to the essential news and experience from industry peers on emerging patterns and technologies:www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletterUpcoming Events:InfoQ Dev Summit Boston (June 24-25, 2024)Actionable insights on today’s critical dev priorities.devsummit.infoq.com/conference/boston2024InfoQ Dev Summit Munich (Sept 26-27, 2024)Practical learnings from senior software practitioners navigating Generative AI, security, modern web applications, and more.devsummit.infoq.com/conference/munich2024QCon San Francisco (November 18-22, 2024)Get practical inspiration and best practices on emerging software trends directly from senior software developers at early adopter companies.qconsf.com/QCon London (April 7-9, 2025)Discover new ideas and insights from senior practitioners driving change and innovation in software development.qconlondon.com/The InfoQ Podcasts:Weekly inspiration to drive innovation and build great teams from senior software leaders. Listen to all our podcasts and read interview transcripts:- The InfoQ Podcast www.infoq.com/podcasts/- Engineering Culture Podcast by InfoQ www.infoq.com/podcasts/#engineering_culture- Generally AIFollow InfoQ:- Mastodon: techhub.social/@infoq- Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq- Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8- Instagram: @infoqdotcom- Youtube: www.youtube.com/infoqWrite for InfoQ:Learn and share the changes and innovations in professional software development.- Join a community of experts.- Increase your visibility.- Grow your career.www.infoq.com/write-for-infoqRead a transcript of this interview: bit.ly/3JWNJbTSubscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter for your monthly guide to the essential news and experience from industry peers on emerging patterns and technologies:www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletterUpcoming Events:InfoQ Dev Summit Boston (June 24-25, 2024)Actionable insights on today’s critical dev priorities.devsummit.infoq.com/conference/boston2024InfoQ Dev Summit Munich (Sept 26-27, 2024)Practical learnings from senior software practitioners navigating Generative AI, security, modern web applications, and more.devsummit.infoq.com/conference/munich2024QCon San Francisco (November 18-22, 2024)Get practical inspiration and best practices on emerging software trends directly from senior software developers at early adopter companies.qconsf.com/QCon London (April 7-9, 2025)Discover new ideas and insights from senior practitioners driving change and innovation in software development.qconlondon.com/The InfoQ Podcasts:Weekly inspiration to drive innovation and build great teams from senior software leaders. Listen to all our podcasts and read interview transcripts:- The InfoQ Podcast www.infoq.com/podcasts/- Engineering Culture Podcast by InfoQ www.infoq.com/podcasts/#engineering_culture- Generally AIFollow InfoQ:- Mastodon: techhub.social/@infoq- Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq- Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8- Instagram: @infoqdotcom- Youtube: www.youtube.com/infoqWrite for InfoQ:Learn and share the changes and innovations in professional software development.- Join a community of experts.- Increase your visibility.- Grow your career.www.infoq.com/write-for-infoq

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Podcast: Future Ready Leadership With Jacob Morgan (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How Leaders Can Be Strategic Thinkers, With Grandmaster Maurice Ashley
Pub date: 2024-06-24

Chess Grandmasters are like master strategists, meticulously planning every move. In this episode, Maurice Ashley, the first African-American Chess Grandmaster, shares how the principles of elite-level chess can transform your business and leadership strategies. Learn how to cultivate the mental endurance and focus necessary for success, and why embracing the mindset of an “advanced beginner” can lead to continuous improvement. Maurice also discusses the dangers of overconfidence, the importance of humility, and how strategic risk-taking can pay off. Tune in to uncover the secrets of thinking like a Grandmaster and applying these insights to achieve success in your professional life.

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Podcast: Future Ready Leadership With Jacob Morgan (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Sparks: 10 Things Leaders Should STOP Doing At Work
Pub date: 2024-07-12

Are you aware of the bad habits holding back your leadership? Many leaders focus on what they should start or keep doing to lead better, but they often overlook the bad habits they need to stop. Marshall Goldsmith, the world’s #1 Executive and CEO Coach, has pinpointed harmful behaviors that can sabotage your leadership’s effectiveness and your overall success. These habits can damage relationships and hold your team back, and many leaders don’t even realize the harm they’re causing. In today’s Leadership Spark, we’ll dive into the 10 things leaders should stop doing and why these behaviors are so damaging. You’ll also learn practical tips on how to break these bad habits.

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Podcast: Schmidt List - Inspiring Leaders (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Navigating AI and Organizational Change
Pub date: 2024-07-16

Join us on the Schmidt List Podcast as host Kurt Schmidt sits down with Beth Elliott, the owner of Elberry Transformation Consultants, to dive deep into the world of AI in change management and its impact on organizations. đŸŽ™ïžđŸ€–

In this insightful episode, Kurt and Beth explore the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning in the business landscape. They discuss how AI is being leveraged as a solution in change management, the importance of human-centered design in AI implementation, and the pivotal role of team collaboration and customer feedback.

🌟 Key Topics Covered in This Episode: -

The role of AI and machine learning in change management discussions - The need to consider the impact of AI on people and processes - The challenges of aligning perceptions and values surrounding AI - Using analog methods like online whiteboards for collaboration - The importance of front-end strategy and alignment among leaders - Steps to avoid a decision by committee approach - High-level strategy and iterative concept co-creation in highly regulated environments - The significance of cross-functional collaboration and breaking down silos - The benefits of getting direct customer feedback - Addressing broken systems and processes in digital transformation - The impact of social media on organizational processes and customer experience - The limitations of digital transformation and software adoption challenges - Best practices for effective communication and change management Beth shares her experiences of working with large organizations to foster cross-functional collaboration and identify complex business problems. From improving call times in a health insurance call center to cultivating storytellers within organizations, this episode is packed with practical insights and real-world examples.

đŸ’Œ About Our Guest: Beth Elliott, owner of Elberry Transformation Consultants, specializes in innovation and transformation consulting. Her expertise lies in human-centered design, enterprise transformation strategy, and breaking down organizational silos to facilitate collaboration.

🔗 Connect with Beth Elliott:
Website: www.ellberry.com * LinkedIn:* https://www.linkedin.com/in/belliott17/

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If you’re interested in AI, change management, innovation, and transformation within organizations, this episode is a must-listen! Be sure to subscribe to the Schmidt List Podcast for more engaging discussions with industry experts.

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Podcast: At The Table with Patrick Lencioni (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: July Rerun: Change is Easy, Transition is Hard
Pub date: 2024-07-11

This episode originally aired February 17, 2021.

We don't hate change, we just struggle with transition. This week, Pat, Cody and Tracy discuss the real reason why people are afraid of change.

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Podcast: Dev Interrupted (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Why You Need to Take Risks as an Engineering Leader | GitHub’s VPE Neha Batra
Pub date: 2024-04-30

This week, I sat down with Neha Batra, VP of Engineering for Core Productivity at GitHub. Our conversation is about the value of taking calculated risks in engineering leadership, using a “risk budget," and how you can leverage your social capital to take risks that help your career.

Neha also shares her insights on senior engineering leaders' challenges when aligning business needs with talent and product execution. She discusses her framework for strengthening company alignment and engineering efficiency using established communication paths.

Episode Highlights:
00:26 Frameworks that strengthen company alignment
03:11 How should you channel frustration into creation?
05:58 Conceptualizing your risk budget
12:53 Strategies for building communication pathways
16:04 Conducting AMA's with your team
21:47 How do you get team members to take accountability?
25:27 How do you gather signals from your team?
29:13 Mistakes leaders make you can learn from
36:32 Building curiosity into mundane experiences like dating

Show Notes:

  • Starting Your Engineering Metrics Program
  • nerdneha (Neha Batra) · GitHub
  • Neha Batra
  • Neha (@nerdneha) / X
  • GitHub: Let’s build from here · GitHub

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Podcast: Dev Interrupted (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Labs: Setting Engineering Goals and Reporting to Stakeholders
Pub date: 2024-05-14

In our first Labs episode of the year, LinearB COO and Co-founder Dan Lines is joined by CTO Yishai Beeri to explore how elite engineering organizations set and report on their engineering goals.

Modern engineering leaders face a dual mandate of achieving operational excellence while aligning their work with business priorities. To achieve this, you need to deliver software predictably—projects need to be delivered on time, within scope, and as promised so the rest of the business can drive ROI. Dan and Yishai highlight goal-setting methodologies to achieve predictable delivery and key metrics to focus on, ranging from planning accuracy and capacity accuracy to cycle time.

Along with goal setting, we cover how to effectively report on your goals and progress to business stakeholders. Plus, you can download LinearB’s CTO Board Deck Template to leverage in your next board meeting.

Episode Highlights:

01:24 Key terms to know when setting goals
02:17 Engineering leaders’ dual mandate: operational excellence and business alignment
08:18 How can engineering leaders set goals to achieve both sides of this mandate?
11:37 Why engineering organizations need to deliver predictably
19:37 How to set goals around resource allocation
27:30 Reporting on your goals to business stakeholders
32:56 The LinearB CTO Board Deck Template

Show Notes:

  • Gartner SEI Platform Market Guide
  • CTO Board Slides
  • Engineering Leader Guide to Goals and Reporting
  • LinkedIn: Yishai Beeri
  • Twitter: Yishai Beeri

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Podcast: Dev Interrupted (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Rise of Cloud Costs, and How to Optimize Them | Plaid’s Mark Robinson
Pub date: 2024-07-16

“If you're not careful, cloud computing can lose more money faster than any invention in history” - Mark Robinson, Infrastructure Engineer at Plaid

This week, guest host Ben Lloyd Pearson sits down with Plaid’s Mark Robinson to learn how he helped Plaid save 25% in costs by optimizing existing resources and eliminating waste in cloud computing.

Mark explains the importance of understanding your cloud bill, identifying areas of overspend, and implementing changes that lead to significant savings. From the basics of tagging resources to the intricacies of optimizing network and storage costs, Mark offers practical tips that can help you uncover countless optimization opportunities.

Tune in to learn about the rewards of improving cloud cost efficiency, the role of organizational buy-in, and the benefits of making cost optimization a company-wide value.

Episode Highlights:00:56 How did cloud computing get so expensive?
02:34 Digging into what your costs actually are
04:55 How can you account for the various services you use?
07:35 Where are organizations going to get the most value out of?
12:26 Cloud costs relation to better code quality
16:08 Blockers in organizations to cost savings
19:32 Getting buy-in from leadership on cutting cloud costs

Show Notes:

  • Download your copy of the Essential Guide to Software Engineering Intelligence
  • https://www.finops.org/
  • https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-robinson-944084b

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Podcast: Level-up Engineering (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Beyond the Bias: The Truth About Remote Work vs. Returning to the Office
Pub date: 2024-05-15

Liam Martin, Co-Founder of Time Doctor, debunks myths around remote work and shares valuable tips on managing remote engineering teams so they remain well-aligned in an asynchronous environment.

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In this interview we're covering:

  • Finding unbiased information
  • Social implications
  • State of remote working
  • Asynchronous team management
  • Remote work is here to stay

Excerpt from the interview:

"If you try to force employees back to the office, you'll likely end up with a team of B players, as the top talent will have the freedom to choose how they want to work. Right now, it's a seller's market, especially for engineers.

For managers uncomfortable with leading a remote engineering team, I don't have any comforting solutions. The reality is, if you insist on running your engineering team from the office, it's likely to fail. It's a tough truth, but there's no way around it."

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Podcast: Semaphore Uncut
Episode: Gene Kim on Unpacking Organizational Wiring
Pub date: 2024-05-07

Forget fancy titles and complex frameworks. The secret to an organization’s success might lie in a surprisingly simple act: two people moving a couch. This seemingly mundane task, according to Gene Kim (Author, Researcher, and Multiple award-winning CTO), holds profound lessons about communication, problem-solving, and creating a frictionless work environment.

Listen to the full episode or read the transcript on the Semaphore blog.

Like this episode? Be sure to leave a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review on the podcast player of your choice and share it with your friends.

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Podcast: AdfĂŠrd
Episode: Kapitel 1: Det vigtigste princip for personlig indflydelse (sommerskole)
Pub date: 2024-07-09

FĂ„ al info om min Masterclass i AdfĂŠrdesign lige her: https://mortenmunster.com/masterclass/

Vil du have fat i bogen ’Personlig indflydelse', sĂ„ finder du den her: https://rb.gy/eneumm

Du kan i Þvrigt se interviewet pÄ Youtube her: https://youtu.be/xG3zHCBuXx4

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I dag skal det handle om:

Tre overraskende sandheder om at fÄ sin vilje
1. En begivenhedsrig dag i dit liv
PĂ„ indkĂžb
PĂ„ afveje 2. Argumenter duer ikke
Relationen trumfer argumenterne
Rationelle argumenter gĂžr det vĂŠrre
Processen er altid vigtigere end begivenheden 3. MĂ„ jeg ikke nok springe over?
Det ureflekterede menneske
De kognitive smutveje

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Podcast: AdfĂŠrd
Episode: Kapitel 2: Hvad dommedagskulte kan lĂŠre dig om mere indflydelse i hverdagen (sommerskole)
Pub date: 2024-07-12

FĂ„ al info om min Masterclass i AdfĂŠrdesign lige her: https://mortenmunster.com/masterclass/

Vil du have fat i bogen ’Personlig indflydelse', sĂ„ finder du den her: https://rb.gy/eneumm

Du kan i Þvrigt se interviewet pÄ Youtube her: https://youtu.be/XDQhAN-srnw

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I dag skal det handle om:

Giv dem skoene pĂ„ – om dommedagskulte, hjemlĂžse sĂŠlgere, og hvorfor du overspiser juleaften

Dommedagskulten og teorien om den kognitive dissonans

Kravet om konsistens

  1. FĂ„ din modpart til at forpligte sig
  2. FĂ„ din modpart til at tage et lille skridt i din retning
  3. HenfĂžr til, hvad modparten selv har sagt eller gjort
  4. FĂ„ din modpart til at bruge tid og energi
  5. FĂ„ din modpart til at gĂžre dig en tjeneste
  6. Skab en appellerende historie om din modpart

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Podcast: AdfĂŠrd
Episode: Kapitel 3: Kunsten at tale, sÄ folk lytter (sommerskole)
Pub date: 2024-07-15

FĂ„ al info om min Masterclass i AdfĂŠrdesign lige her: https://mortenmunster.com/masterclass/

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Du kan i Þvrigt se interviewet pÄ Youtube her: https://youtu.be/tHYoNqp6BuQ

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I dag skal det handle om:

FortĂŠl en historie – om Darth Vader, hyppige dĂždsĂ„rsager og den sande historie om DSB’s rettidighed
* Historier gÄr under den kritiske radar * Historier udvider din modparts erfaringer * Vi husker og forstÄr historier * Historier er trovÊrdige

Historiens tre vĂŠsentligste elementer
* Detaljer – husk Darth Vader-tandbĂžrsten * Castingen – find en appellerende hovedrolle * BeskĂŠr informationen, sĂ„ de selv har ansvar for konklusionen * Tre steder, du skal bruge fortĂŠllingen

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Podcast: AdfĂŠrd
Episode: Kapitel 4: Bliv venner med hvem som helst (sommerskole)
Pub date: 2024-07-18

FĂ„ al info om min Masterclass i AdfĂŠrdesign lige her: https://mortenmunster.com/masterclass/

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Du kan i Þvrigt se interviewet pÄ Youtube her: https://youtu.be/jcUcM3LCdFE

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I dag skal det handle om:

Styrk relationen
Om Roosevelt, Emma Gad og hvorfor fodboldspillere er uintelligente

Som du spÞrger, fÄr du svar
- Smutvejen til sympati og resultater
- SpÞrgsmÄl giver kontrol
- SpÞrgsmÄl giver dig nÞdvendig information
1. Brug problemlÞsende spÞrgsmÄl
2. Brug spÞrgsmÄl, der skaber fÞlelsesmÊssig motivation
3. Brug prÊsupponerende spÞrgsmÄl
4. Stil overraskende og originale spÞrgsmÄl

Hold din kĂŠft (og lyt)
- Derfor er det sÄ svÊrt at lytte ordentligt
- Lign en lytter
- Stil opfÞlgende spÞrgsmÄl
- Lyt efter de rigtige ting

Bliv en del af familien
1. Fokusér pÄ fÊlles baggrund
2. Kommunikér som din modpart
3. Vis, at I har en fĂŠlles referenceramme
4. Spejl dem

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Podcast: Lederhjerne
Episode: SÄdan skaber du en sund arbejdskultur, der fÄr dine medarbejdere til at blive
Pub date: 2023-12-13

Hvis du vil undgÄ, at dine medarbejdere sÞger vÊk, skal du som leder skabe en arbejdskultur, der er bÄret af sunde relationer, vÊrdighed og lighed. Det bliver det helt store konkurrenceparameter i fremtidens arbejdsfÊllesskaber, siger de to erhvervspsykologer Louise Dinesen og Vibeke Lunding-Gregersen.

VĂŠrter: Vibeke Lunding-Gregersen og Louise Dinesen

Musik: Christian SchĂždts-SĂžrensen

Programmet er produceret af Rakkerpak Productions for Lederstof.dk

LÊs mere pÄ www.lederstof.dk

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Podcast: Lederhjerne
Episode: Her er faldgruberne, nÄr svÊre personalesager skal kommunikeres ud
Pub date: 2024-01-11

Det sker ofte, at en leder ufrivilligt blÊser en sag op eller tysser den for meget ned. Det er blot en af flere faldgruber, nÄr det handler om at kommunikere de svÊre personalesager ud til medarbejderne. Erhvervspsykologerne Louise Dinesen og Vibeke Lunding-Gregersen fortsÊtter her samtalen om de svÊre personalesager.

VĂŠrter: Vibeke Lunding-Gregersen og Louise Dinesen

Musik: Christian SchĂždts-SĂžrensen

Programmet er produceret af Rakkerpak Productions for Lederstof.dk

LÊs mere pÄ www.lederstof.dk

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Podcast: The Work Item - A Podcast About Unconventional Career Advice (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: #79 - How To Get Promoted To Tech Executive - Lena Reinhard (VP Engineering, CircleCI, Travis CI)
Pub date: 2024-05-28

We often talk about promotions and growth, but the moment the conversation shifts towards paths to staff or executive positions, the advice goes blank. There is very little actionable information out there that can tell you how you can get to the highest echelons of leadership.

To get a clearer picture on this topic, I sat down with Lena Reinhard, a seasoned executive with an extensive track record at CircleCI, Travis CI, and more. Lena shares her insights on the best ways to accelerate career growth in the tech space, answer thorny questions, such as “Why are executives hired from the outside?” and provide some candid takes on why taking things slow sometimes can pay off in the end.

You can find Lena on the following sites:

  • 🌍 Website
  • đŸ’Œ LinkedIn
  • đŸŽ™ïž Leadership Confidential Podcast

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Podcast: Coaching Real Leaders (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How Do I Get Results Without Feeling Burned Out?
Pub date: 2024-03-25

He’s a leader with a passion for going the extra mile and achieving results. But he’s struggling with how long he can sustain the level of effort and time required to meet the demands of his new role. Host Muriel Wilkins helps this leader unpack what drives his work habits, redefine how he demonstrates his value, and align his workload with his overall goals.

Further reading:

  • Resisting the Pressure to Overwork
  • Why We Glorify Overwork and Refuse to Rest
  • Hard Work Doesn’t Always Lead to Success
  • 5 Easy Ways to Work Smarter, Not Longer

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Podcast: Coaching Real Leaders (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How Do I Avoid a Career Plateau at Midlife?
Pub date: 2024-04-22

She’s an experienced leader who has always been highly ambitious and motivated to achieve impressive results. But now as she enters mid-life, she’s thinking about the next phase of her career and how to find a balance between striving and fulfillment. Host Muriel Wilkins coaches her through her concerns about aging in the workforce, finding the right challenges, and planning for her future.

Further reading:

  • From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life (Arthur Brooks)
  • Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better with Age (Chip Conley)
  • Making Peace with your Midlife, Mid-Career Self (HBR IdeaCast)
  • How Do I Get Through My Mid-Career Crisis? (Coaching Real Leaders)

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Podcast: Coaching Real Leaders (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How Can I Set the Right Boundaries in a New Job?
Pub date: 2024-05-20

She’s experienced burnout in more than one past role. Now, after taking some time away from work, she’s gearing up to start a new position and she wants to avoid making the same mistakes. Host Muriel Wilkins coaches her toward uncovering the root of her burnout and realizing how she can change the work habits that have caused it in the past.

Further reading:

  • BrenĂ© Brown on empathy, compassion and boundaries
  • Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
  • On the Brink of Burnout
  • Burnout Immunity: How Emotional Intelligence Can Help You Build Resilience and Heal Your Relationship with Work
  • Setting boundaries at your new job will help you avoid burnout. Here’s how to start

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Podcast: De Agile RĂždder - en podcast om effektivitet, samarbejde og ledelse
Episode: 35: Kvalitet, test og godt hÄndvÊrk - pÄ tur til TopDanmark
Pub date: 2023-10-31

Man skulle tro, at man fĂ„r et kort svar, nĂ„r man stiller et sĂ„ simpelt spĂžrgsmĂ„l som: “Hvad er kvalitet?” Men selv hvis du holder dig indenfor det tekniske omrĂ„de, stikker svarene i utroligt mange retninger.

Vi har vÊret pÄ tur til TopDanmark, hvor de i september satte fokus pÄ kvalitet og test. Vi taler med arkitekt Michael Romose, Christian Jensen der arbejder med automatiseret test og Morten Dines Andersen, der er leder med holdning til kvalitet.

Sammen med de tre kommer vi omkring alt fra det nÞrdede over det strategiske og til det menneskelige. Det handler om unit test, regressions-test og automatiseret test. Det handler om kundeforventninger, prioritering og godt hÄndvÊrk. Og sÄ handler det om at tale sammen om de opgaver, man skal lÞse sammen.

LINKS:

  • Billeder fra optagelsen med publikum pĂ„
  • Teaser-video fra optagelsen
  • Michael Romose pĂ„ LinkedIn
  • Christian Jensen pĂ„ LinkedIn
  • Morten Dines Andersen pĂ„ LinkedIn
  • TopDanmark
  • Den anden episode, vi har lavet med publikum pĂ„: SĂ„dan kĂžrer du Shape Up i en startup
  • Ordbogen
  • deagilerĂždder.dk
  • Rasmus pĂ„ LinkedIn - og pĂ„ rasmusgothgen.dk
  • Line pĂ„ LinkedIn - og pĂ„ lineh.dk

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Podcast: De Agile RĂždder - en podcast om effektivitet, samarbejde og ledelse
Episode: 37: Facilitering - gode rÄd og krigshistorier fra felten
Pub date: 2023-11-21

Hvad er facilitering egentlig? Hvorfor er det svĂŠrt? Og hvad er smart at gĂžre?

Det er vist i det store hele, hvad vi talte med facilitator Anne Cathrine Wind Fallesen om, da vi gen-inviterede hende til en rundbords-samtale om netop facilitering. Facilitering er nemlig Anne Cathrines hjertebarn (hvilket ikke siger sÄ lidt, eftersom hun er et multi-passioneret menneske).

Vi kommer ogsÄ omkring faciliterings-trekanten og fÞlelsesmÊssige leverancer. Vi deler krigshistorier fra nogle af de gange, hvor vi selv virkelig kom pÄ glat is. Og sÄ sprÞjter vi alle sammen gode faciliterings-rÄd ud af Þrerne, incl. gode rÄd til online facilitering.

MÄske skal vi ogsÄ advare om, at det her er den episode, der har den absolut hÞjeste stemning nogensinde. Der er fest i studiet i en grad, sÄ vi mÄske burde have medbragt konfettirÞr. Kom ikke og sig, at du ikke var advaret!

LINKS:

  • Studie-selfie med Anne Cathrine og bĂžgerne
  • Anne Cathrine pĂ„ LinkedIn
  • Another Nerd - hvor du ogsĂ„ finder Anne Cathrines bog
  • To gange Instagram-profiler, hvor du ogsĂ„ kan finde Anne Catrhine: falle_anothernerd og udviklereerogsamennesker
  • To gange podcasts: Hvor F er Balancen og Udviklere er ogsĂ„ mennesker (hvor Line dukker op lidt senere pĂ„ Ă„ret og taler om remote facilitering)
  • Anne Cathrines yndlings-faciliterings-podcast: Gruppen som lĂŠremester
  • De to bĂžger, Anne Cathrine anbefalede: The Surprising Power of Liberating Structures af Keith McCandless & Henri Lipmanowicz og Tag teten af Mette Ullersted, Katrine Kent & Pernille Bandholm Jakobsen
  • Den anden episode med Anne Cathrine: ForstĂ„elser, misforstĂ„elser - og parterapi for udviklingsteams
  • Episoden med rundbordssamtale om personlig produktivitet
  • Uddannelser nĂŠvnt undervejs: Faciliterings-uddannelsen og PAC, Professional Agile Coach
  • LinkedIn-post, hvor Anne Cathrine erklĂŠrer, at hun hader energizers
  • JĂžrgen Clevin og Jens Olesen
  • Miro, der burde sponsorere Line
  • Rasmus og Lines koncept, FlowCamp (der blev fĂŠrdigudviklet efter endt optagelse 😉)
  • Ordbogen
  • deagilerĂždder.dk
  • Rasmus pĂ„ LinkedIn - og pĂ„ rasmusgothgen.dk
  • Line pĂ„ LinkedIn - og pĂ„ lineh.dk

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Podcast: De Agile RĂždder - en podcast om effektivitet, samarbejde og ledelse
Episode: 39: Fokus pÄ vÊrdi med eksperimenter, feedback og retning
Pub date: 2024-02-06

Tobias Egmose er kommunikations- og marketingschef i Danish Export, og han er en mand med en képhest. Képhesten hedder ‘Vérdiskabelse’.

Vi taler med ham om, hvorfor man bÄde skal lave planer og samtidig afvige fra sine planer. Hvorfor man skal turde lave eksperimenter for at blive klogere, og hvordan det krÊver tryghed overhovedet at turde.

Og sÄ taler vi om det dér evige dilemma mellem drift og udvikling: Hvorfor det er fornuftigt bÄde at stoppe op i driften - og nogle gange helt at stoppe med at gÞre noget - for at skabe plads til udvikling.

LINKS:

  • Studie-selfie med Tobias
  • Tobias pĂ„ LinkedIn
  • Og pĂ„ Twitter, a.k.a. X
  • Og pĂ„ egmose.com
  • Danish Export
  • Bettina PrĂŒhs-podcast, hvor Line og Rasmus var gĂŠster: Teamflow - samarbejde i optimale processer
  • Vores fĂžrste episode med Andreas, der heller ikke arbejdede i IT: Hvordan i alverden leder man agilt?
  • Lines blog-indlĂŠg om planer: Hvem har bildt dig ind, at en plan er et diktat?
  • deagilerĂždder.dk
  • Rasmus pĂ„ LinkedIn - og pĂ„ rasmusgothgen.dk
  • Line pĂ„ LinkedIn - og pĂ„ lineh.dk

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Podcast: De Agile RĂždder - en podcast om effektivitet, samarbejde og ledelse
Episode: 40: SÄdan starter man agile teams - hvad vi kan lÊre af ITU
Pub date: 2024-03-05

Du skal spidse Ăžrer i denne episode, ogsĂ„ selvom du intet har med studerende at gĂžre. Vi taler ganske vist med Stefano Vincenti om hans undervisning pĂ„ ITU’s to Scrum-forlĂžb, men vi skal da lige love for, at der er god lĂŠring at hente for virksomheder ogsĂ„!

Vi taler om, hvordan de studerende bliver stÞttet og coachet hele vejen. Om det tÊtte samarbejde, ITU har etableret med virksomheder, og som betyder, at de studerende bliver dyppet i Êgte praktik lige fra start. Og sÄ taler vi om den vildeste team-matchings-proces og den rette respekt for Scrum Masters.

Til sidst dribler vi ogsÄ omkring den agile fremtid. Det agile stÄr nemlig og vipper lidt. Det samme gÞr ideen om stabile teams. Det sidste har ITU ogsÄ et interessant svar pÄ.

LINKS:

  • Studie-selfie med Stefano
  • Stefano pĂ„ LinkedIn
  • Tryzone.dk
  • Agilcoach.dk
  • Episode 12 med Ida, der har gennemfĂžrt ITU’s forlĂžb: Fra Junior Scrum Master til Super Scrum Master
  • Agil guru, Mike Cohn, a.k.a. verdens sĂždeste mand, var gĂŠst i episode 25: Æh, hvad ER agilitet egentlig? Mike Cohn og lytterne svarer
  • Episode 38 med Per fra Alka, der ogsĂ„ talte om fluid teams: GĂžr organisationen agil: Keep it simple
  • Hvad sker der i agile? DĂ©t har vi talt om i det her webinar
  • deagilerĂždder.dk
  • Rasmus pĂ„ LinkedIn - og pĂ„ rasmusgothgen.dk
  • Line pĂ„ LinkedIn - og pĂ„ lineh.dk

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Podcast: De Agile RĂždder - en podcast om effektivitet, samarbejde og ledelse
Episode: 42: High Performing Teams: LĂŠringer fra elitesporten - i form af Rikke HĂžrlykke
Pub date: 2024-04-16

Burde vi vÊre lidt mere elitesport-agtige pÄ de danske arbejdspladser? Det er det helt store spÞrgsmÄl, som vi taler med Rikke HÞrlykke om i denne episode.

Rikke er tidligere elite-hÄndboldspiller pÄ det danske kvindelandshold, hvor hun i sin tid var med til at vinde bÄde EM og OL. I dag er hun selvstÊndig og hjÊlper andre med at leve sundere liv.

Der er tonsvis af ting fra sportens verden, som arbejdspladserne roligt kan lade sig inspirere af. Vi taler fx om, at vi skal turde krÊve noget af hinanden, om at sÊtte teamets mÄl foran sig selv og om vigtigheden af at kunne give hinanden anerkendende og udviklende feedback.

LINKS:

  • Studie-selfie med Rikke
  • Rikke pĂ„ LinkedIn
  • HĂžrlykke Performance - med links til det hele, ogsĂ„ appen TrĂŠn Til Livet
  • deagilerĂždder.dk
  • Rasmus pĂ„ LinkedIn - og pĂ„ rasmusgothgen.dk
  • Line pĂ„ LinkedIn - og pĂ„ lineh.dk

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Podcast: Engineering Enablement by Abi Noda (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: The science behind DORA | Derek DeBellis (Google)
Pub date: 2024-05-07

In this week's episode, we welcome Derek DeBellis, lead researcher on Google's DORA team, for a deep dive into the science and methodology behind DORA's research. We explore Derek's background, his role at Google, and how DORA intersects with other research disciplines. Derek takes us through DORA's research process step by step, from defining outcomes and factors to survey design, analysis, and structural equation modeling.

Discussion points:

  • (3:00)Derek’s transition from Microsoft to the DORA team at Google
  • (4:28) Derek talks about his connection to surveys
  • (6:16) Derek’s journey to becoming a quantitative user experience researcher
  • (7:48) Derek simplifies DORA
  • (8:19) DORA - Philosophy vs practice
  • (11:09) Understanding desired outcomes
  • (12:45) Self reported outcomes vs objective outcomes
  • (16:16) Derek and Abi discuss the nuances of literature review
  • (19:57) Derek details survey development
  • (27:55) Pretesting issues
  • (29:30) Designing surveys for other companies
  • (35:02) Derek simplifies model analysis and validation techniques
  • (38:48) Benchmarks: Balancing data limitations with method sensitivity

Mentions and Links:

  • Derek DeBellis on LinkedIn
  • DX’s guide to measuring GenAI adoption and impact
  • 2023 Accelerate State of DevOps Report

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Podcast: Engineering Enablement by Abi Noda (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: DORA, SPACE, and DevEx: Choosing the right framework | Laura Tacho + Abi Noda
Pub date: 2024-05-21

This week’s episode is a recording from a recent event hosted by Abi Noda (CEO of DX) and Laura Tacho (CTO at DX). The episode begins with an overview of the DORA, SPACE, and DevEx frameworks, including where they overlap and common misconceptions about each. Laura and Abi discuss the advantages and drawbacks of each framework, then discuss how to choose which framework to use.

Discussion points:

  • 2:50- DORA, SPACE, DevEx overview
  • 10:35- Choosing which framework to use
  • 13:15- Using DORA
  • 22:42-Using SPACE

Mentions and Links:

  • Dora.dev

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Podcast: Engineering Enablement by Abi Noda (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Exploring Developer Productivity with AI: Insights from Airbnb, GitHub, and Jumio
Pub date: 2024-07-17

In this week's episode, Abi is joined by industry leaders Idan Gazit from GitHub, Anna Sulkina from Airbnb, and Alix Melchy from Jumio. Together, they discuss the impact of GenAI tools on developer productivity, exploring challenges in measurement and enhancement. They delve into AI's evolving role in engineering, from overcoming friction points to exploring real-world applications and the future of technology. Gain insights into how AI-driven chat assistants are reshaping workflows and the vision for coding.

Links: How to measure GenAI adoption and impact

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Podcast: Smart Friends (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: #077 Alex Komoroske: Systems Thinking, Builders vs Gardeners, and Working In Large Organizations
Pub date: 2024-07-18

Topics:

(00:00:00) - Intro

(00:03:52) - The Gardener of Systems

(00:07:43) - Builders vs. Gardeners

(00:11:09) - Who are the best farmers of miracles?

(00:16:52) - How did you become a “systems” person?

(00:23:45) - What does Systems Thinking look like for you?

(00:53:09) - Alex’s Slime Mold deck

(00:55:12) - The iterative, adjacent possible

(00:59:53) - Alex’s experience at Google

(01:03:12) - AI uses and potentials

(01:17:54) - Book recommendations

Links:

Alex’s website

Alex on X

Alex on LinkedIn

Emergence by Steven Johnson

The Systems Bible by John Gall

The Origin of Wealth by Eric Beinhocker

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Podcast: Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | Career (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The social radar: Y Combinator’s secret weapon | Jessica Livingston (co-founder of Y Combinator, author, podcast host)
Pub date: 2024-06-27

Jessica Livingston is a co-founder of Y Combinator, the first and most successful startup accelerator. Y Combinator has funded over 5,000 companies, 200 of which are now unicorns, including Airbnb, Dropbox, DoorDash, Stripe, Coinbase, and Reddit. Jessica played a crucial role in YC’s early success, when she was nicknamed the “social radar” because of her uncanny ability to quickly evaluate people—an essential skill when investing in early-stage startups. She’s also the host of the popular podcast The Social Radars, where she interviews billion-dollar-startup founders, and the author of the acclaimed book Founders at Work, which captures the origin stories of some of today’s most interesting companies. In our conversation, we discuss:

‱ How Jessica gained the affectionate title of the “social radar”

‱ Why defensive founders are a red flag

‱ How to develop your social radar

‱ What she looks for in founders during YC interviews

‱ How YC’s early inexperience in angel investing led to the batch model

‱ Her favorite stories from interviews with Airbnb, Rippling, and more

‱ Lessons learned from hosting her own podcast

‱ Much more

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‱ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicalivingston1/

‱ Podcast: https://www.thesocialradars.com/

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In this episode, we cover:

(00:00) Jessica’s background

(02:42) Thoughts on being under-recognized

(07:52) Jessica’s superpower: the social radar

(15:11) Evaluating founders: key traits and red flags

(21:00) The Airbnb story: a lesson in hustle and determination

(25:57) A YC success story

(28:26) The importance of earnestness

(32:45) Confidence vs. defensiveness

(34:43) Commitment and co-founder disputes

(37:46) Relentless resourcefulness

(40:00) Jessica’s social radar: origins and insights

(43:24) Honing her social radar skills

(45:44) Conviction and scams: a Y Combinator story

(46:50) The interview process: challenges and insights

(48:20) Operationalizing founder evaluation

(49:38) Advice for building social radar skills

(52:08) The “Reading the Mind in the Eyes” quiz

(55:19) Jessica’s podcast: The Social Radars

(01:00:34) Lessons from podcasting and interviewing

(01:09:58) Lightning round

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Referenced:

‱ Paul Graham’s post about Jessica: https://paulgraham.com/jessica.html

‱ Paul Graham on X: https://x.com/paulg

‱ Robert Tappan Morris: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tappan_Morris

‱ Trevor Blackwell on X: https://x.com/tlbtlbtlb

‱ Y Combinator: https://www.ycombinator.com/

‱ “The Founders” examines the rise and legend of PayPal: https://www.economist.com/culture/2022/02/19/the-founders-examines-the-rise-and-legend-of-paypal

‱ Patrick Collison on X: https://x.com/patrickc

‱ John Collison on X: https://x.com/collision

‱ Brian Chesky on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianchesky/

‱ Nate Blecharczyk on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/blecharczyk/

‱ Joe Gebbia on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jgebbia/

‱ Airbnb’s CEO says a $40 cereal box changed the course of the multibillion-dollar company: https://fortune.com/2023/04/19/airbnb-ceo-cereal-box-investors-changed-everything-billion-dollar-company/

‱ Parker Conrad on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/parkerconrad/

‱ Zenefits: https://connect.trinet.com/hr-platform

‱ Goat: https://www.goat.com/

‱ Eddy Lu on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eddylu/

‱ Drew Houston on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drewhouston/

‱ Arash Ferdowsi on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arashferdowsi/

‱ Lessons from 1,000+ YC startups: Resilience, tar pit ideas, pivoting, more | Dalton Caldwell (Y Combinator, Managing Director): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/lessons-from-1000-yc-startups

‱Bitcoin launderer pleads guilty, admits to massive Bitfinex hack: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/03/new-york-man-admits-being-original-bitfinex-hacker-during-guilty-plea-in-dc-to-bitcoin-money-laundering.html

‱ Paul Graham’s tweet with the facial recognition test: https://x.com/paulg/status/1782875262855663691

‱ SmartLess podcast: https://www.smartless.com

‱ Jason Bateman on X: https://x.com/batemanjason

‱ Will Arnett on X: https://x.com/arnettwill

‱ Sean Hayes on X: https://x.com/seanhayes

‱ The Social Radars with Tony Xu, Co-Founder & CEO of DoorDash: https://www.ycombinator.com/library/Ja-tony-xu-co-founder-ceo-of-doordash

‱ The Social Radarswith Brian Chesky: https://www.ycombinator.com/library/JW-brian-chesky-co-founder-ceo-of-airbnb

‱ The Social Radarswith Patrick and John Collison: https://www.ycombinator.com/library/Kx-patrick-john-collison-co-founders-of-stripe

‱ The Social Radars with Brian Armstrong: https://www.ycombinator.com/library/K3-brian-armstrong-co-founder-and-ceo-of-coinbase

‱ The Social Radarswith Emmett Shear: https://www.ycombinator.com/library/KM-emmett-shear-co-founder-of-twitch

‱ The Social Radars with Paul Graham: https://www.ycombinator.com/library/JV-paul-graham-co-founder-of-y-combinator-and-viaweb

‱ The Social Radarswith Adora Cheung: https://www.ycombinator.com/library/L0-adora-cheung-co-founder-of-homejoy-instalab

‱ Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days: https://www.amazon.com/Founders-Work-Stories-Startups-Early/dp/1430210788

‱ Startup School: https://www.startupschool.org/

‱ The Social Radars with Parker Conrad: https://www.ycombinator.com/library/Ky-parker-conrad-founder-of-zenefits-rippling

‱ Rippling: https://www.rippling.com/

‱ Carry on, Jeeves: https://www.amazon.com/Carry-Jeeves-Dover-Thrift-Editions/dp/0486848957

‱ Very Good, Jeeves: https://www.amazon.com/Very-Good-Jeeves-Wooster-Book-ebook/dp/B0051GST06

‱ Right Ho, Jeeves: https://www.amazon.com/Right-Ho-Jeeves-P-Wodehouse-ebook/dp/B083FFDNHN/

‱ Life: https://www.amazon.com/Life-Keith-Richards-ebook/dp/B003UBTX72/

‱ My Name Is Barbra: https://www.amazon.com/My-Name-Barbra-Streisand/dp/0525429522

‱ Clarkson’s Farm on Prime: https://www.amazon.com/Clarksons-Farm-Season-1/dp/B095RHJ52R

‱ Schitt’s Creek on Hulu: https://www.hulu.com/series/schitts-creek-a2e7a946-9652-48a8-884b-3ea7ea4de273

‱ Yellowstone on Peacock: https://www.peacocktv.com/stream-tv/yellowstone

‱ Sam Altman on X: https://x.com/sama

‱ Justin Kan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justinkan/

‱ Alexis Ohanian on X: https://x.com/alexisohanian

‱ Steve Huffman on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shuffman56/

‱ Breaking News: CondĂ© Nast/Wired Acquires Reddit: https://techcrunch.com/2006/10/31/breaking-news-conde-nastwired-acquires-reddit/

‱ Charles River Venture: https://www.crv.com/

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Podcast: Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | Career (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Pattern Breakers: How to find a breakthrough startup idea | Mike Maples, Jr. (Founding Partner at Floodgate, ex-Product at Silicon Graphics)
Pub date: 2024-07-07

Mike Maples, Jr. is a legendary early-stage startup investor and a co-founder and partner at Floodgate. He’s made early bets on transformative companies like Twitter, Lyft, Twitch, Okta, Rappi, and Applied Intuition and is one of the pioneers of seed-stage investing as a category. He’s been on the Forbes Midas List eight times and enjoys sharing the lessons he’s learned from his years studying iconic companies. In his new book, Pattern Breakers: Why Some Start-Ups Change the Future, co-authored with Peter Ziebelman,he discusses what he’s found separates startups and founders that break through and change the world from those that don’t. After spending years reviewing the notes and decks from the thousands of startups he’s known over the past two decades, he’s uncovered three ways that breakthrough founders think and act differently. In our conversation, Mike talks about:

‱ The three elements of breakthrough startup ideas

‱ Why you need to both think and act differently

‱ How to avoid the “comparison trap” and “conformity trap”

‱ The importance of movements, storytelling, and healthy disagreeableness in startup success

‱ How to apply pattern-breaking principles within large companies

‱ Mike’s one piece of advice for founders

‱ Much more

Pre-order Mike’s book here and get a second signed copy for free. Limited copies are available, so order ASAP: patternbreakers.com/lenny.

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Where to find Mike Maples, Jr.:

‱ X: https://x.com/m2jr

‱ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maples/

‱ Substack: https://greatness.substack.com/

‱ Website: https://www.floodgate.com/

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In this episode, we cover:

(00:00) Mike’s background

(03:10) The inspiration behind Pattern Breakers

(08:09) Uncovering startup insights

(11:37) A quick summary of Pattern Breakers

(13:52) Coming up with an idea

(15:30) Inflections

(17:09) Examples of inflections

(28:10) Insights

(36:58) The power of surprises

(47:36) Founder-future fit

(55:33) Advice for aspiring founders

(56:41) Living in the future: valid opinions

(55:34) Case study: Maddie Hall and Living Carbon

(58:40) Identifying lighthouse customers

(01:00:53) The importance of desperation in customer needs

(01:03:57) Creating movements and storytelling

(01:24:22) The role of disagreeableness in startups

(01:34:42) Applying these principles within a company

(01:40:43) Lightning round

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Referenced:

‱ Pattern Breakers: Why Some Start-Ups Change the Future: https://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Breakers-Start-Ups-Change-Future/dp/1541704355

‱ Justin.tv: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin.tv

‱ Airbnb’s CEO says a $40 cereal box changed the course of the multibillion-dollar company: https://fortune.com/2023/04/19/airbnb-ceo-cereal-box-investors-changed-everything-billion-dollar-company/

‱ Brian Chesky’s new playbook: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/brian-cheskys-contrarian-approach

‱ The Unconventional Exit: How Justin Kan Sold His First Startup on eBay: https://medium.datadriveninvestor.com/the-unconventional-exit-how-justin-kan-sold-his-first-startup-on-ebay-4d705afe1354

‱ Kyle Vogt on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kylevogt/

‱ The State of Telehealth Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9035352/

‱ The Craigslist Killers: https://www.gq.com/story/craigslist-killers

‱ The social radar: Y Combinator’s secret weapon | Jessica Livingston (co-founder of Y Combinator, author, podcast host): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/the-social-radar-jessica-livingston

‱ Michael Seibel on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mwseibel/

‱ The Airbnb Story: How Three Ordinary Guys Disrupted an Industry, Made Billions ... and Created Plenty of Controversy: https://www.amazon.com/Airbnb-Story-Ordinary-Disrupted-Controversy/dp/0544952669

‱ Scott Cook: https://www.forbes.com/profile/scott-cook/

‱ Chegg: https://www.chegg.com/

‱ Aayush Phumbhra on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aayush/

‱ Osman Rashid on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osmanrashid/

‱ Okta: https://www.okta.com/

‱ The Man Who Makes the Future: Wired Icon Marc Andreessen: https://www.wired.com/2012/04/ff-andreessen/

‱ Peter Ludwig on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterwludwig/

‱ Qasar Younis on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/qasar/

‱ Paul Allen’s website: https://paulallen.com/

‱ Louis Pasteur quote: https://www.forbes.com/quotes/6145/

‱ What was Atrium and why did it fail? https://www.failory.com/cemetery/atrium

‱ Patrick Collison on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickcollison/

‱ Drew Houston on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drewhouston/

‱ William Gibson’s quote: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/681-the-future-is-already-here-it-s-just-not-evenly

‱ Maddie Hall on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maddie-hall-76293135/

‱ Living Carbon: https://www.livingcarbon.com

‱ Zenefits (now Trinet): https://connect.trinet.com/

‱ Sam Altman on X: https://x.com/sama

‱ Steve Wozniak on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wozniaksteve/

‱ Horsley Bridge Partners: https://www.horsleybridge.com/

‱ David Swensen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_F._Swensen

‱ Judith Elsea on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/judithelsea/

‱ 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy: https://www.amazon.com/7-Powers-Foundations-Business-Strategy/dp/0998116319

‱ Business strategy with Hamilton Helmer (author of 7 Powers): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/business-strategy-with-hamilton-helmer

‱ Lyft’s Focus on Community and the Story Behind the Pink Mustache: https://techcrunch.com/2012/09/17/lyfts-focus-on-community-and-the-story-behind-the-pink-mustache/

‱ Logan Green on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/logangreen/

‱ John Zimmer on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnzimmer11/

‱ Storytelling with Nancy Duarte: How to craft compelling presentations and tell a story that sticks: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/storytelling-with-nancy-duarte-how

‱ Steve Jobs Introducing the iPhone at MacWorld 2007: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7qPAY9JqE4

‱ Jonathan Livingston Seagull: https://www.amazon.com/Jonathan-Livingston-Seagull-Richard-Bach/dp/0743278909

‱ The paths to power: How to grow your influence and advance your career | Jeffrey Pfeffer (author of 7 Rules of Power, professor at Stanford GSB): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/the-paths-to-power-jeffrey-pfeffer

‱ Robin Roberts on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robin-roberts-393a934b/

‱ Skunkworks: https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/who-we-are/business-areas/aeronautics/skunkworks.html

‱ Vision, conviction, and hype: How to build 0 to 1 inside a company | Mihika Kapoor (Product at Figma): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/vision-conviction-hype-mihika-kapoor

‱ Hard-won lessons building 0 to 1 inside Atlassian | Tanguy Crusson (Head of Jira Product Discovery): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/building-0-to-1-inside-atlassian-tanguy-crusson

‱ Figma: https://www.figma.com/

‱ Atlassian: https://www.atlassian.com/

‱ Vinod Khosla: https://www.khoslaventures.com/team/vinod-khosla/

‱ Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing: https://www.amazon.com/Top-Five-Regrets-Dying-Transformed-ebook/dp/B07KNRLY1L

‱ Chase, Chance, and Creativity: The Lucky Art of Novelty: https://www.amazon.com/Chase-Chance-Creativity-Lucky-Novelty/dp/0262511355

‱ Clay Christensen’s books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Clayton-M.-Christensen/author/B000APPD3Y

‱ Resonate: Present Visual Stories That Transform: https://www.amazon.com/Resonate-Present-Stories-Transform-Audiences/dp/0470632011

‱ Ferrari on Prime: https://www.amazon.com/Ferrari-Adam-Driver/dp/B0CNDBN672

‱ Montblanc fountain pens: https://www.montblanc.com/en-us

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Episode: Teaching Lean Thinking to Kids: A Conversation with Alan Goodman
Pub date: 2024-04-23

In this episode of the WLEI podcast, LEI speaks with Alan Goodman, professor and department chair of quality engineering at Milwaukee Area Technical College. Alan spent his career in operations at GE before becoming a professor. The podcast explores his recent work to teach young students lean skills to prepare them for careers after school.

In the discussion, we explore:

  • Alan's background in lean and how he's transferring his skills to students through a program he's grown from a one-week online course to a year-round initiative.
  • Getting students interested in lean concepts through interactive games and how to apply these lessons to adult learning.
  • Alan's vision to partner with companies to create a pipeline for students to enter the workforce from school.
  • Methods Alan incorporates new technologies like AI and gamification into his teaching methods to foster creativity and critical thinking.

If you'd like to support Alan's work, check out https://cityonahillmke.org.

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Episode: The History of the Term "Lean": a Conversation with Jim Womack and John Krafcik
Pub date: 2024-05-14

In this episode of the WLEI podcast, Jim Womack and John Krafcik share the origin story of the term "lean." Jim led the MIT global benchmarking study of the automotive industry, which led to the seminal book The Machine That Changed the World, and John was one of the principal researchers. Jim went on to co-author a similarly influential book, Lean Thinking, and founded the Lean Enterprise Institute. John Krafcik became an executive in the auto industry, serving as CEO of Hyundai America and Waymo. The discussion closes by turning from the past to the future with updates on Waymo's autonomous driving technology.

This conversation took place at LEI's Lean Summit in March 2024.

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Episode: Episode 88 - Prioritization Level I
Pub date: 2024-05-10

We finally prioritized(or did we) doing the episodes. Nisha, Dan, and Prateek talk about the three levels of prioritization, starting with Level I - Prioritization of Active Work.

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Episode: Episode 89 - Prioritization Level II
Pub date: 2024-05-30

How do Nisha, Dan, and Prateek decide the content for the next episode of hashtag#DrunkAgile? Come find out the answer to the question in the next episode of our Prioritization series. We are on to Level II of prioritization.

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Episode: Episode 90 - Prioritization Level III
Pub date: 2024-06-11

Nisha believes that the type of prioritization most Agile frameworks tell people to spend time on is the least important. It is also the most wasteful. Dan and Prateek wholeheartedly agree.

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Episode: Episode 93 - Continuous Process
Pub date: 2024-07-09

Our contract negotiations with Nisha were successful. She is back and has some opinions about sprints and other fixed-length timeboxes. Daniel Vacanti and I might have a couple of things to say about this as well.

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Episode: Episode 16: Management as a true calling and the three pillars of being a director with Dan Na
Pub date: 2024-03-02

I’ve been a big fan of Dan’s writing for a while. You might have read some of his articles on management in my Level Up newsletter. In this episode, he shines a light on how he found himself in his first managing managers role, how he sees management as his true calling, how management might not be everyone’s cup of tea and how to deal with the ambiguity of the role.

Guest Biography

Dan Na is the Engineering Director of the Market Expansion organization at Squarespace in NYC. Previously he was a Staff Engineer at Squarespace and an Engineering Manager at Etsy. He loves learning and teaching in a collaborative environment and solving both the technical and people problems of shipping software. He’s a weather-agnostic iced coffee drinker, a mediocre golfer, an NBA basketball fan and loves spending time with his family.

Social links:

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  • Twitter - https://twitter.com/dxna
  • Mastodon - @dxna@mastodon.social

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Episode: Episode 24: Designing Team APIs as a manager of managers and more with Jess Mink
Pub date: 2024-06-22

Although currently Director of Platform Engineering, Jess Mink is an unusual manager of manager in tech, who’s also played a full-time product role. Listen to this episode as they explain what they took away from that experience, their perspective on how engineering managers differ from other managers, and share their managing manager roles change across different organisations and contexts.

Guest Biography:

Jess is passionate about building strong, productive technical organizations that are focused on outcomes. While some people are fascinated by architecting code Jess loves to understand and debug human systems. Developer tools and health tech companies speak to them and despite seeking engineering roles they have a habit of taking on product roles when needed. They've worked at companies such as Auth0, FOLX and Amazon and held roles from Director of Engineering to VP of Product. They are currently Director of Platform Engineering at Honeycomb.io. In their spare time they volunteer doing Search and Rescue.

Episode and show notes: https://managingmanagers.tech/episodes/episode-024-jess-mink/

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Episode: Episode 25: Being a leader first, then a manager with Sarah Abrantes
Pub date: 2024-07-06

In this conversation with VP of Engineering, Sarah Pimentel Abrantes, we cover the importance of being a leader before being a manager, the challenge of letting go at different stages, how to counteract authority differences in skip levels and also managing areas where you don’t necessarily have that background and much more.

Guest Biography:

Sarah Abrantes has experienced a lot of different tech roles over her career. She’s collected knowledge from development, business analysis, process engineering, testing and management, all acquired in a vast range of company and team sizes.She has played senior management roles and helped level up engineering leads over the last years in organisations such as GoEuro, N26, GetYourGuide and Tier Mobility, having recently joined Adyen as VP of Engineering.

Sarah also presented at LeadingEng Berlin in 2023, so go check out her talk called “Influencing your company’s culture from the driver’s seat”

Episode and show notes: https://managingmanagers.tech/episodes/episode-025-sarah-abrantes/

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Podcast: Tech Lead Journal (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: #183 - Mastering Team Leadership by Embracing Conflicts and Building Resilience - Hari Haralambiev
Pub date: 2024-07-15

“Strong teams embrace conflict. They use it as a tool, and they have their great way of handling disagreements."

Hari Haralambiev is co-founder of SoftSkillsPills.com and author of the leadership newsletter “A Leader’s Tale”. In this episode, we discuss essential elements of team leadership and dynamics. Hari begins by sharing his insights on what makes a great software development team, emphasizing the importance of creating the right environment for collaboration and sustainable results. He introduces the TReE team model, a framework for assessing team dynamics, which stands for Trust, Results, and Evolution.

Our conversation also explores the significance of handling conflicts and disagreements within teams, highlighting the role of leaders in fostering healthy conflict resolution. Hari provides strategies for maintaining team engagement during challenging times, such as layoffs and the pandemic, emphasizing the importance of open communication, focusing on controllable objectives, and the importance of authenticity and vulnerability in leadership.

Listen out for:

  • Career Journey - [00:02:09]
  • What Makes Software Development Team Great - [00:06:14]
  • TReE Team Model - [00:08:40]
  • Team Conflicts and Disagreements - [00:15:28]
  • The Role of Leaders in Conflicts - [00:25:39]
  • Making It Safe to Speak Up - [00:35:16]
  • Maintaining Engagement During Tough Times - [00:43:49]
  • Maintaining Mental Health for Leaders - [00:51:57]
  • 3 Tech Lead Wisdom - [00:55:07]
  • Fun Fact About Soft Skills Pills - [00:59:41]

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Hari Haralambiev’s Bio
Hari started his 20-year career in the IT industry as a software engineer, led dozens of projects as a manager of software teams, and reached the position of Innovation Director before starting his own company. For the past 10 years, he has focused on helping tech people work better together through team coaching and leadership & soft skills training. Hari is co-founder of SoftSkillsPills.com, the platform for dev teams who care about people, co-host of the popular Bulgarian podcast for IT people Radio Tochka 2, and author of the leadership newsletter/comic A Leader’s Tale.

Follow Hari:

  • LinkedIn – linkedin.com/in/haralambi-haralambiev
  • Soft Skills Pills – softskillspills.com
  • Newsletter – softskillspills.com/aleaderstale

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Episode: #180 - Becoming a Distinguished Engineer, Public Speaking, and Early Retirement - Kelsey Hightower
Pub date: 2024-06-24

“Learn the difference between activities and impact. Sometimes we spend our career trying to get really great at activities. Always ask yourself, what is the impact of the work I’m doing?”

From Google Distinguished Engineer to early retirement, Kelsey Hightower has a career journey filled with lessons for tech professionals at every stage. In this episode, Kelsey reflects on his journey, revealing why he decided to retire early, and offering valuable insights and lessons learned.

Discover the importance of an entrepreneurial mindset, differentiating between activity and impact, and building a strong personal brand. Kelsey reveals his top strategies for becoming a confident public speaker and shares his thoughts on staying engaged and planning your career path. Plus, we touch on the impact of AI on software developers’ careers.

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from one of the industry’s most respected figures and gain a unique perspective on achieving career success and fulfillment.

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  • Career Journey - [00:01:35]
  • Entrepreneurial Mindset - [00:04:15]
  • Taking Risks in Our Role - [00:07:50]
  • Activity vs Impact - [00:11:45]
  • Thinking in Bigger Impact - [00:16:04]
  • Impact of AI - [00:24:52]
  • Getting Good at Public Speaking - [00:31:23]
  • Building a Personal Brand - [00:38:05]
  • Retiring Early - [00:44:04]
  • Getting Engaged in Our Career - [00:50:49]
  • Tech Lead Wisdom - [00:57:48]

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Kelsey Hightower’s Bio
Kelsey has worn every hat possible throughout his career in tech and enjoys leadership roles focused on making things happen and shipping software. Prior to his retirement, he was a Distinguished Engineer at Google, where he worked on Google Cloud Platform. He is a strong open source advocate with a focus on building great software as well as great communities around them. He is also an accomplished author and keynote speaker with a knack for demystifying complex topics, doing live demos and enabling others to succeed. When he is not writing code, you can catch him giving technical workshops covering everything from programming to system administration.

Follow Kelsey:

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  • LinkedIn – linkedin.com/in/kelsey-hightower-849b342b1
  • Email – kelsey.hightower@gmail.com

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Episode: #181 - Engineer Your Career and Your Life: Timeless Career Advice and the Power of Small Bets - Louie Bacaj
Pub date: 2024-07-01

“Engineers make this mistake of thinking that if they just do the work, they’re going to be rewarded. But it’s just not how it happens. Be heads down, add the value, do great work, but don’t forget to make the noise."

Louie Bacaj is a software engineer and engineering leader who turned entrepreneur. In this episode, Louie shares his unique career journey and valuable insights for aspiring tech professionals and aspiring entrepreneurs.

Louie reveals the secrets behind his rapid career progression, sharing the key differences between working in a big corporate versus a nimble startup, and the challenges and rewards of wearing multiple hats. He offers practical advice on self-upskilling, embracing more senior management roles, and excelling at people management. He also shares timeless career advice for engineers at all stages of their journey.

Louie then opens up about his entrepreneurial journey, emphasizing the importance of taking small bets and learning from the small wins, and embracing freedom and independence by building your own business. Plus, discover why strong writing skills are a secret weapon for success at any stage of your career.

This episode is packed with actionable tips and inspiration for anyone navigating the tech industry – whether you’re a seasoned engineer or an aspiring entrepreneur.

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  • Career Journey - [00:02:14]
  • Big Corporate vs. Startup - [00:03:36]
  • Wearing Multiple Hats - [00:06:02]
  • Self-Upskilling Rapidly - [00:08:18]
  • Louie’s Rapid Career Progression - [00:10:56]
  • Getting Comfortable with More Senior Roles - [00:16:00]
  • Tips on People Management - [00:21:55]
  • Timeless Career Advice for Engineers - [00:25:41]
  • Going Into Entrepreneurship - [00:31:24]
  • Sense of Freedom & Independence - [00:38:59]
  • Small Bets - [00:45:10]
  • Learning from Small Wins - [00:49:12]
  • The Importance of Writing Skills - [00:54:24]
  • 3 Tech Lead Wisdom - [00:59:18]

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Louie Bacaj’s Bio
Louie Bacaj is a Software Engineer and Engineering Leader who turned Entrepreneur. Over the last decade, he has helped build multiple engineering teams and systems that scaled to millions of users. But he decided to leave that career behind for entrepreneurship.

Since quitting, he has realized that building an audience is an asset to entrepreneurship. It’s a great way to help people and to have them help him. But as an awkward engineer, he had no idea where to start. So he started writing and Tweeting his story. And everything he has learned so far.

Since starting this entrepreneurial journey in September 2021, he has built multiple SaaS apps with his brother. He created two courses that have sold over 1500 times. And he has grown a sizeable audience.

Follow Louie:

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  • LinkedIn – linkedin.com/in/louiebacaj
  • Website – louiebacaj.com
  • Small Bets – smallbets.com

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Episode: Evo DK #172 - Making UX Relevant For Products Where Desirability Isn't Priority
Pub date: 2024-07-02

Join host Sean Thompson as he explores the importance of UX for products where desirability isn’t the main focus. Featuring insights from Sophia Maria Seitz-Rasmussen of DHI, Shilpi Sinha of LEGO, and Martin Kerttu of Novo Nordisk, this episode delves into how strategic UX research and design can significantly improve functionality and user satisfaction. Learn how these experts apply UX principles to enhance less glamorous products, driving digital transformation and user-centered design.

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Episode: Evo DK #179 - Thriving In Leadership - Mastering Work-Life Harmony For Success Without Burnout
Pub date: 2024-07-15

Join host Connor Leyland in exploring strategies for thriving in leadership and achieving work-life harmony. In this episode, he engages with Benjamin Hinnum, Value Management Officer at Demant; Yuri Lits, Digital Delivery Director at VELUX; and Brendan Puli, a Freelance Software Engineer and CIO Leadership Consultant. Discover insights on overcoming burnout, mastering leadership challenges, and optimizing digital delivery in today's dynamic work environments. Whether you're in management, technology, or consulting, this discussion offers practical advice for sustainable success.

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Episode: 143. Adopting a VC Mindset: How to Achieve More by Thinking, and Communicating, Like a Venture Capitalist
Pub date: 2024-05-21

In choosing who to date, what job to pursue, or how to invest our money, most people are just looking for a reason to move forward. But according to Professor Ilya Strebulaev, we should be looking for something else: a reason to bail.

"The smartest venture capitalists ask a very different question from what most of us ask," says Strebulaev. Instead of asking “‘Why should we invest?’, venture capitalists approach every new opportunity with [the] question: Why should we not proceed?” This contrarian mindset is at the heart of Strebulaev's new book The Venture Mindset, which reveals how the strategies of top VCs can help anyone make sharper decisions.

In this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, Strebulaev joins host Matt Abrahams to discuss how the venture mindset can help anyone — investor or not — weigh alternatives, make decisions, and move forward without looking back.

Episode Reference Links:

  • Ilya Stebilaev: Website
  • Stanford Profile: Website
  • Ilya’s Book: The Venture Mindset
  • Venture Capital Initiative
  • Article Ilya & Alex Dang wrote: 3 Things VCs Do That Can Help You Land Your Dream Job After Getting Laid Off
  • Ilya’s co-teacher for his Venture Capital class: Brian Jacobs
  • Ep.41 Speak Like a Founder: How Successful Entrepreneurs Communicate to Their Teams YouTube / Website
  • Ep.56 Lean Messaging: How Simple Messages Really Stick YouTube / Website

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Chapters:

(00:00:00) Introduction

Host Matt Abrahams introduces guest Ilya Strebulaev, founder of the GSB's Venture Capital Initiative and professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business.

(00:00:53) The Venture Mindset

Insights into the venture mindset as a new mental model for making smarter, quicker decisions.

(00:02:22) Embracing Failure

How venture capitalists embrace and learn from failure to achieve success.

(00:05:21) Decision-Making in Venture Capital

A unique approach to decision making based on what successful venture capitalists do.

(00:07:34) Applying Venture Principles in Personal and Professional Life

Venture mindset principles that can help individuals in job transitions and personal growth.

(00:10:05) Lessons from Teaching Venture Capital

Ilya outlines key takeaways he hopes his students learn from his class, including thinking differently and networking effectively.

(00:13:25) Passionate Communication

Using descriptive language to engage others, including mixing familiar terms with unique ones to enhance communication about passions

(00:15:29) The Final Three Questions

Ilya shares how he has grown from writing his book, a communicator he admires, and three ingredients for successful communication.

(00:18:59) Conclusion

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Podcast: Think Fast, Talk Smart: Communication Techniques (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 145. Best of: The Art of Negotiation, How to Get More of What You Want
Pub date: 2024-06-04

Whether we realize it or not, we negotiate everyday. But when we approach these situations as a win-or-lose battle, we’re already showing resistance, and setting ourselves up for difficulty. But what if you reframed the whole idea, to think of a negotiation not as a fight, but as a problem-solving exercise involving emotions?

In this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, Matt Abrahams speaks with Stanford GSB Professor Emeritus Margaret Neale about what she has learned in her decades of researching negotiation and the steps that lead to more collaborative problem-solving.

Listen as Neale shares tips on how to approach negotiations with intention, and what strategies can help us more easily communicate our wants and needs. She is the coauthor of Getting (More of) What You Want: How the Secrets of Economics and Psychology Can Help You Negotiate Anything, in Business and in Life.

Episode Reference Links:

  • Stanford Profile: Margaret Ann Neale
  • Maggie’s Book: Getting (More of) What You Want
  • Original Episode: Ep.15 The Art of Negotiation: How to Get More of What You Want Website / YouTube

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Chapters:

(00:00:00) Introduction

Host Matt Abrahams introduces guest Maggie Neale, the Adams Distinguished Professor of Management Emerita at Stanford GSB

(00:01:22) Definition of Negotiation

Negotiation as collaborative problem-solving, emphasizing mutual benefit over adversarial tactics

(00:04:28) Planning and Preparation

Strategies for preparing for negotiations, including understanding alternatives and setting a reservation price.

(00:08:41) Structuring Negotiation Messages

Structuring negotiation messages, including the concept of chunking multiple issues together.

(00:10:17) Role of Emotion in Negotiation

How different emotions influence thinking and the importance of managing emotions in negotiation.

(00:11:31) Best Communication Advice

Maggie shares her best communication advice, a communicator she admires, and ingredients for successful communication.

(00:14:34) Conclusion

Think Fast, Talk Smart is a podcast produced by Stanford Graduate School of Business and hosted by Matt Abrahams. Each episode provides concrete, easy-to-implement tools and techniques to help you hone and enhance your communication.

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Podcast: Think Fast, Talk Smart: Communication Techniques (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 146. Self-Talk Refresh: Change Your Internal Dialogue to Communicate Better with Others
Pub date: 2024-06-11

Stress can get in the way of our communication with others. To manage our stress, psychologist Jenny Taitz says, we first need to adjust the conversations that we have with ourselves.

Taitz is an assistant clinical professor in psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of several books, including Stress Resets: How to Soothe Your Body and Mind in Minutes. According to her, much of the stress we experience is self-created through negative thought patterns and harsh self-criticism. “We're doing this to ourselves all the time,” she says. But as we become aware of these unhelpful mental loops, Taitz’ “resets” can help us disrupt them and reframe self-talk in more productive ways

In addition to changing our self-talk, Taitz offers tools for refreshing our communication with others. In this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, she and host Matt Abrahams explore her G.I.V.E. framework — how being gentle, interested, validating, and easy-mannered equips us for more positive conversations with ourselves and others

Episode Reference Links:

  • Jenny Taitz: Website
  • Jenny’s Book: Website
  • Communicator Jenny admires: Sharon Salzberg
  • Ep.69 Feeling Nervous? How Anxiety Can Fuel Better Communication: YouTube / Website
  • Ep.122 How to Be More Confident and Calm in Your Communication: Managing the "ABC’s" of...: Youtube

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Chapters:

(00:00:00) Introduction

Host Matt Abrahams introduces guest Jenny Taitz, a clinical psychologist and an assistant clinical professor in psychiatry at UCLA.

(00:00:51) Understanding the Stress Cycle

Explanation of the stress cycle, highlighting common mistakes in stress management.

(00:02:38) Practical Tips for Managing Stress

Advice on resetting the mind, body, and behavior to manage stress more effectively.

(00:05:50) Addressing Overthinking and Rumination

Techniques for reducing overthinking and rumination, and recognizing and redirecting unproductive thought patterns.

(00:08:45) Swapping "Why" for "How"

Benefits of changing one's internal dialogue from "why" to "how" questions, facilitating a more proactive and less stressful mindset.

(00:10:56) Communicating Empathy

Introduction to the GIVE acronym, a method to help improve empathetic communication.

(00:12:58) The Final Three Questions

Jenny shares her personal methods for managing stress, a communicator she admires, and three ingredients for successful communication.

(00:17:33) Conclusion

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Podcast: Think Fast, Talk Smart: Communication Techniques (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 147. Disrupt Yourself: How to Innovate Who You Are and Become Who You Can Be
Pub date: 2024-06-18

Innovation and disruption aren’t just for organizations. According to Whitney Johnson, we can find new possibilities for personal and professional growth — by disrupting ourselves.

As an executive coach, author, and podcaster, Johnson teaches people how to level up their lives and careers through the power of personal disruption. Her book, Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work, reveals how shaking things up enables us to break free of the constraints we might not even know we’re imposing on ourselves. “Personal disruption [is] a process of deliberate self-innovation; a decision to step back from who you are to slingshot into who you can be,” she explains.

In this Think Fast, Talk Smart episode with host Matt Abrahams, Johnson offers strategies for tailoring messages to different audiences, reveals the key ingredients for successful communication, and explains how disrupting yourself can open new doors and help you reach your full potential.

Episode Reference Links:

  • Whitney Johnson: Website
  • Whitney’s Books: Website
  • Whitney’s Podcast: Disrupt Yourself Podcast
  • Lindsay McMahon’s Podcast: All Ears English Podcast
  • Clayton Christensen’s Book: The Innovator's Dilemma
  • Ep.118 Maximizing You Personal Brand: Communicating Who You Are to Help Get What You Want YouTube / Website
  • Ep.138 Speak Your Truth: Why Authenticity Leads to Better Communication YouTube / Website

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Chapters:

(00:00:00) Introduction

Host Matt Abrahams introduces Whitney Johnson, keynote speaker and executive coach.

(00:01:25) The Concept of Disruption

The definition of disruption, and the benefits of personal disruption and self-innovation.

(00:02:48) Identifying and Leveraging Distinctive Strengths

How to identify distinctive strengths through observing frustrations, listening to compliments, and valuing inherent skills.

(00:06:11) The S Curve of Learning

The S curve model, its stages, and how it relates to personal and organizational growth.

(00:11:56) Tenacity and Tolerance in Personal Disruption

The importance of tenacity, and the ability to tolerate ambiguity and failure during the disruptive process.

(00:13:35) Encouraging Disruptive Ideas in Organizations

Strategies for leaders to foster a culture that encourages disruptive ideas and constructive dialogue within teams.

(00:17:00) The Final Three Questions

Whitney shares how she tailors her communication for varying audiences, a communicator she admires, and her recipe for successful communication.

(00:22:30) Conclusion

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Podcast: Think Fast, Talk Smart: Communication Techniques (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 148. Conviction and Compassion: How to Have Hard Conversations
Pub date: 2024-06-25

In our personal and professional lives, some conversations are harder than others. To navigate the difficulties of discussing what matters most, Professor Irv Grousbeck says we need the right balance of conviction and compassion.

At both Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford School of Medicine, Grousbeck teaches courses on managing difficult conversations. He equips students with skills to be direct while being respectful, to be strong while being warm, and to resist any urge to beat around the bush. "Directness, with respect, is essential,” he says. "So many of our students feel that if you're direct with someone, somehow that's harsh. The art of good conversation management, I think, does involve directness and respect at the same time."

In this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, Grousbeck and host Matt Abrahams explore practical tips and strategies for navigating difficult conversations, from the importance of listening and pausing, to the value of rehearsing your words in advance.

Episode Reference Links:

  • Stanford Profile: H. Irving Grousbeck
  • Irv’s Book: New Business Ventures and the Entrepreneur
  • Center for Entrepreneurial Studies | Stanford Graduate School of Business

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Chapters:

(00:00:00) Introduction

Host Matt Abrahams introduces guest Irv Grousbeck, lecturer at Stanford GSB, and co-founder and co-director of the GSB Center for Entrepreneurial Studies.

(00:01:04) Ingredients for Entrepreneurial Success

The importance of being an opportunity finder and getting comfortable with the domain you are in.

(00:02:38) Myths About Entrepreneurship

Dispelling common myths about entrepreneurs.

(00:03:30) Can Entrepreneurs Be Made?

The potential for anyone to become an entrepreneur through hard work and exposure.

(00:04:07) Challenges in Communication

The most difficult communication challenges students face and tips to handle these situations.

(00:06:19) Imposter Syndrome

Dealing with imposter syndrome and advice on how to handle and overcome it.

(00:07:38) Managing Difficult Conversations

Manage challenging communication by starting conversations effectively and using collaborative language.

(00:10:15) Role-Playing Scenario

A role-playing exercise to demonstrate how to handle a challenging conversation.

(00:17:37) The Value of Listening

The importance of listening in crucial conversations and advice on how to listen more effectively.

(00:18:58) Career Advice

Advice on career planning, emphasizing the importance of context and strategic thinking.

(00:21:57) The Final Three Questions

Irv shares what he has learned from his students, a communicator he admires, and the key ingredients for successful communication.

(00:26:02) Conclusion

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Podcast: Think Fast, Talk Smart: Communication Techniques (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 151. Get Hired: How the Right Communication Can Advance Your Career
Pub date: 2024-07-16

Whether winning over a hiring manager or winning new business, career success often hinges on how we communicate. That’s why Andrew Seaman is on a mission to help people find the words that work — to get work.

Seaman is the senior managing editor for jobs and career development at LinkedIn, and as the creator and host of the Get Hired podcast and newsletter, he helps millions hone communication skills to land the jobs they want. According to him, getting opportunities isn’t just about experience or connections, but how we frame and present our personal and professional narratives. With a standard resume, he says, “You're making them connect the dots. And people are not good at that.” Instead, he recommends crafting a story that explains where you’ve been, where you are, and where you hope to go. “Connect the dots for them,” he says, “so they're not viewing you as a person who has bounced around. They're thinking, this person has had a cohesive career.”

In this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, Seaman and host Matt Abrahams explore tools for navigating the interview process, networking on and offline, and communication strategies to get hired.

Episode Reference Links:

  • Andrew Seaman: Website
  • Andrew Seaman: LinkedIn
  • Andrew’s Podcast: Get Hired
  • Ep.118 Maximizing Your Brand: Communicating Who You Are to Help Get What You Want Website / YouTube
  • Ep.147 Disrupt Yourself: How to Innovate Who You Are and Become Who You Can Be YouTube
  • Ep.62 Best Of: Summer Learning Series, How Humor Can Be a Secret Weapon in Communication Website / YouTube

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Chapters:

(00:00:00) Introduction

Host Matt Abrahams introduces guest Andrew Seaman, Senior Managing Editor for Jobs and Career Development at LinkedIn.

(00:00:57) Importance of Online Presence

The significance of maintaining an online presence and tips on optimizing LinkedIn profiles.

(00:01:52) Posting on LinkedIn

The frequency and type of posts on LinkedIn, balancing professional and personal content.

(00:03:41) Commenting vs. Posting

Advice on adding value through comments and engaging with posts.

(00:05:12) Interview Presence

The importance of presence in interviews, sharing examples of making good and bad impressions.

(00:06:59) Recovering from Bad Impressions

The challenges and possibilities of recovering from a poor first impression in an interview setting.

(00:07:48) Interviewing from the Interviewer's Perspective

Tips for hiring managers on how to conduct effective interviews and evaluate candidates.

(00:10:25) Challenging Interview Questions

The appropriateness and benefits of challenging candidates during interviews to assess their fit and preparedness.

(00:11:44) Best Practices for Interviewees

Strategies for interviewees to prepare and effectively answer questions, using the ADD method.

(00:13:58) Handling Spontaneity in Interviews

Preparing for interviews when time is limited and the importance of flexibility and adaptability.

(00:17:17) Following Up After Interviews

Best practices for following up after an interview to leave a positive impression.

(00:19:43) Broader Career Advice

Leveraging online communities and tools for career growth, emphasizing networking.

(00:22:14) The Final Three Questions

Andrew shares his favorite response to an interview question, a communicator he admires, and three ingredients for successful communication.

(00:25:31) Conclusion

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Podcast: CXOTalk (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: The AI Imperative: New Rules of Leadership
Pub date: 2024-07-12

Join CXOTalk episode 843 to explore how AI is transforming leadership. Anthony Scriffignano (former Chief Data Scientist of Dun and Bradstreet) and Inderpal Bhandari (former Global Chief Data Officer of IBM), share their expertise on the evolving role of AI in business, the challenges of integrating new technologies, and the importance of cultural shifts within organizations. Don't miss this engaging discussion on the future of work and leadership.
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Podcast: Hardcore Soft Skills Podcast (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: How to Negotiate Your Salary: Brandon Bramley
Pub date: 2024-05-21

You and I have been on this situation. We are looking for a role, get an interview and then it's time to talk about salary expectations. Where do we even start here? How much can we ask for? What if they say no to my ask? Am I really asking for too much or too little?

My guest today will help us navigate through these scenarios so you can develop the skill of negotiation. Brandon Bramley has over 10 years of experience in negotiating salaries and currently runs The Salary Negotiator, which provides professional job offer negotiation coaching and courses. Take about 30 minute to listen to this episode and you will walk away with the confidence to ask for what you deserve. Lets listen.

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Podcast: Hardcore Soft Skills Podcast (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: How to Coach and Lead with Agility: Lyssa Adkins
Pub date: 2024-06-04

If you are a frequent listener you knoe I have had a few epsiodes about coaching on this show, especially agile coaching. I think as managers especially in the IT world, knowing that is takes a different skill set to be a good coach is essential as wel as recognize when you need a coach to help you and your team achieve great levels of performance. My guest today is an authority in the world of agile coaching, she literally wrote the book on it and was able to make that transition from a project management mindset to a coach mindset.

Lyssa Adkins is an internationally-recognized thought leader in the Agile community. She is the author of Coaching Agile Teams which has been a top ranking business bok for over a dozen years. Her current focus is improving the performance of top leadership teams through insightful facilitation and organization systems coaching. Today you will learn more about what it takes to be a good coach.

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Podcast: Hardcore Soft Skills Podcast (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: How to Become a Lean Leader: Richard Knaster
Pub date: 2024-06-11

This podcast is centered around helping you refine those skills that help you do your work in tech, and a lot of those skills center around using agile ways of working.

Today, I speak with an expert in one of those frameworks . His name is Richard Knaster and he has more than 30 years of experience in software and systems development, in roles ranging from developer to executive. Richard is the co-author of the SAFe Distilled book series.

While we did talk about this framework, the focus and lesson for us today is about becoming a new kind of leader or manager, where you focus on the big picture, on value and on connecting the dots.

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Podcast: Hardcore Soft Skills Podcast (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: People Over Processes: Yadi Caro in Arguing Agile Podcast
Pub date: 2024-06-26

Today you will be listening to another podcast Arguing Agile with Brian Orlando and Om Patel. We talked aboiut the missing patrt when it comes to implementation agile, the how to deal with the people part. That is, how improtrant is it for us to practice our soft skills to become better team members, managers, collaborators.

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Podcast: The Mob Mentality Show
Episode: Michele Sollecito on Systems Thinking: Seeing the Interactions Beyond the Parts
Pub date: 2024-07-08

Discover a transformative conversation on systems thinking with our special guest, Michele Sollecito, in this episode of the Mob Mentality Show. In "Michele Sollecito on Systems Thinking: Seeing the Interactions Beyond the Parts," Michele shares valuable insights and practical examples that will revolutionize your approach to system optimization and organizational management.

Topics Covered:

Systems Thinking:
- Seeing Systems Everywhere
- Focus on Interactions
- Person Issue vs. System Issue
- Animated Causal Loop Diagrams
- Sub-System Optimization
- System Fracturing from the Top
- Trunk Based Development (TBD)
- Benchmarking and "Copy-Paste" Pitfalls
- Defensive Posture vs. Experimentation
- Changing Core Beliefs
- Leadership and Fake Experiments
- Data vs. Emotion
- Comfortable Inefficiency
- Team Dynamics and Failure
- Culture of Continuous Improvement
- *Managing Resistance to Improvement

Software Architecture:
- Specialists vs. Generalists
- Technology Obsession
- Distributed Systems
- Coordination Strategies
- Paired Product Ownership
- Autonomy vs. Consistency?

Ensemble Programming:
- Resistance
- Paradigm Shift to Fun
- Early Adopters
- Collaboration and Virtue
- Sustainable Development
- Avoid Echo Chambers
- System Level Relationships with Mob

Don't miss this enlightening conversation that promises to transform your approach to systems thinking, software architecture, and ensemble programming. Listen and engage with Michele Sollecito's expert insights on the Mob Mentality Show!

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Podcast: No Nonsense Agile Podcast
Episode: #0104 - The Dojo with Joel Tosi and Dion Stewart
Pub date: 2024-06-14

Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson as they chat with Joel Tosi and Dion Stewart about Dojo's.

Dojo's are a six week immersive learning experience where teams learn and practice new ways of working on real work with skilled coaches. We discuss the structure and implementation of Dojos, chartering, coaching dynamics, and frequent feedback loops. We emphasize the challenges and anti-patterns that can emerge, such as treating Dojos as bootcamps or lacking stakeholder support. Finally, Joel and Dion offer insights into the future of Dojos and their potential for building capability and driving organization change.

Listen to the podcast on your favourite podcast app:

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https://agiledata.io/podcast/no-nonsense-agile-podcast/the-dojo-with-joel-tosi-and-dion-stewart/#read

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Simply Magical Data

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Podcast: No Nonsense Agile Podcast
Episode: #0106 - Transforming to the Product Model with Chris Jones
Pub date: 2024-07-19

Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson as they chat with Chris Jones from the Silicon Valley Product Group about the product operating model, emphasising the importance of cross-functional agile product teams.

He shares insights on transitioning to a product model. The value of rapid experimentation, product leadership and common pitfalls. And he discusses successful examples of product transformations at Adobe Cloud and Train Line in Europe.

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Podcast: Dreams with Deadlines (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: On the Art and Science of OKRs | Tim Herbig, Product Management Coach and Consultant at Tim Herbig
Pub date: 2023-09-19

In this episode of Dreams With Deadlines, host Jenny Herald interviews Tim Herbig, a seasoned expert on Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). They unpack the deeper facets of this management tool that's taking the corporate world by storm:

Key Things Discussed:

  • Journey with Tim as he retraces his formative years with OKRs, shedding light on the challenges of top-down implementations. Emphasizing utility over form, he makes a case for the importance of day-to-day applicability of OKRs in organizations.
  • Delve into the resistance faced by product teams towards OKRs, especially when established strategies are in place. Tim’s pragmatic approach champions the integration of OKRs with current team practices, ensuring they bring tangible value to daily operations.
  • Navigate the intricate relationship between OKRs and product strategy. With a spotlight on the essence of strategy, Tim guides listeners on making strategic choices that can be tracked effectively with OKRs, bridging the gap between grand visions and actionable metrics.

Show Notes

  • [00:00:31] Discovering OKRs: A Personal and Professional Evolution. Tim Herbig's journey with OKRs began at XING, evolving through challenges and insights. He underlines the issue of top-down OKRs without clarity and stresses their day-to-day utility.
  • [00:02:37] Bridging the Gap: Ensuring OKRs Reflect Everyday Utility and Purpose. Tim Herbig dissects the outcomes vs. outputs debate, emphasizing OKRs' bridge role between mission and daily tasks. OKRs should be flexible tools, reflecting real team tasks and challenges.
  • [00:05:44] Marrying OKRs with Established Practices: Pragmatism Over Dogma. Jenny and Tim explore why product teams resist OKRs. Tim advocates for intertwining OKRs with current practices like sprint planning, emphasizing their practical day-to-day value.
  • [00:08:56] Making Pragmatic Choices: How OKRs Bridge Product Strategy to Everyday Work. The dialogue between Jenny Herald and Tim Herbig delves deep into the intersection of OKRs and product strategy. Tim highlights recognizing strategy's essence, making impactful choices, and then tracking progress with OKRs.
  • [00:14:06] Marrying OKRs with Product Discovery: From Outcomes to Behaviors. Jenny and Tim discuss tracking team/user behaviors and predicting product success using OKRs.
  • [00:20:54] Embracing 'Better' Practices in OKRs Over 'Best' Practices. Jenny Herald and Tim Herbig delve into the nuances of better practices (adaptive and relative methods) as opposed to rigid best practices, highlighting five critical 'better practices' for effective and practical application of OKRs.
  • [00:24:11] Aligning OKRs with Organizational Capabilities and Structures. Jenny Herald prompts Tim Herbig to share insights on the challenges faced by organizations when their desired objectives do not align with their current capabilities or structures. Tim elaborates with stories that exemplify the discrepancies between organizational structures and the application of OKRs.
  • [00:28:52] Aligning the Cadence of Product Delivery with Outcomes. Jenny Herald and Tim Herbig discuss the challenge of synchronizing the cadence of product delivery with the desired outcomes. They ponder on the nuances of how teams should approach measuring meaningful progress, especially when direct results may not be immediately evident.
  • [00:30:07] The Art of Developing Leading Indicators in Product Delivery. Jenny Herald and Tim Herbig delve deeper into the concept of leading and lagging indicators in relation to key results. They discuss the challenges, conceptual considerations, and the dynamism of creating proxies and leading indicators.
  • [00:35:37] Quick-Fire Questions for Tim:
    • What is your dream with a deadline? Tim's dream with a deadline is to do a solo travel to Tel Aviv in the next two years.
    • When someone says they failed with OKRs previously and want to try again, what's your advice? Tim advises them to first clarify why they want to use OKRs in the first place.
    • What's a good reason for using OKRs? The ideal reason is to enable team autonomy and outcome thinking. A more pragmatic reason is to ensure people work on the right things and maintain strategic focus.
    • Which book largely shaped how you think? Both in general and related to OKRs. For general thinking, "Radical Acceptance" by Tara Brach influenced him the most. Regarding OKRs, he credits "Radical Focus" by Christina Wodtke and "OKRs at the Center" co-written by Natalija and Sonja.

Relevant links:

  • “Radical Acceptance,” book by Tara Brach
  • “The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change your Life and Achieve Real Happiness,” book by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
  • “Radical Focus,” book by Christina Wodtke, American businessperson and specialist in the area of design thinking, information architecture and Management Science (specializing in objectives and key results (OKR) and team productivity.)
  • “OKRs At The Center: How to use goals to drive ongoing change and create the organization you want,” by Natalija Hellesoe and Sonja Mewes
  • Linked Better Practices over Stacked Best Practices

About the Guest:Tim Herbig is a seasoned Product Management Coach and Consultant. He is passionate about helping product teams develop better practices to measure the progress of their decisions. Tim masterfully connects Strategy, OKRs, and Product Discovery. Tim has worked on solving hard business problems and driving user behaviors in diverse product contexts.

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Podcast: The Logan Bartlett Show (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: EP 110: How Eric Glyman (CEO, Ramp) Runs One of The Fastest Growing Startups
Pub date: 2024-07-12

Eric Glyman (CEO, Ramp) shared his operating playbook for leading one of the fastest-growing startups on his second appearance on the podcast. We also explored the unique ways Ramp leverages AI internally, strategies for startups to build moats in AI, and the concept of self-driving money. We concluded with one of the most profound and thoughtful discussions about hiring, motivations, and success I've ever had on the podcast. It was truly enjoyable to sit down with a seasoned portfolio founder.

(00:00) Introduction and Episode Overview

(01:03) Market Reflections and Ramp's Growth

(04:01) Artificial Intelligence in Business

(10:09) Ramp's AI Implementation: Toby the Slack Bot

(16:49) AI's Impact on Business Models and Hiring

(31:15) The Future of Organizational Structure

(31:36) The Evolution of Bookkeeping

(33:49) The Impact of Automation on Bookkeeping Jobs

(35:31) Streamlining Expense Management with Ramp

(37:00) The Concept of Self-Driving Money

(38:09) AI Integration in Ramp's Services

(39:38) Zero Touch AI and Customer Experience

(40:54) Agentic AI and Practical Applications

(49:15) Balancing Autonomy and Centralization in Organizations

(56:09) Developing New Products at Ramp

(01:04:01) Resource Allocation in Organizations

(01:05:00) Creating Conditions for Success

(01:08:37) Balancing Existing and New Products

(01:11:02) Hiring for Curiosity

(01:16:09) The Pursuit of Perfection

(01:21:21) The Joy of the Process

(01:24:37) Building a Timeless Product

(01:33:15) Conclusion and Reflections

Executive Producer: Rashad Assir

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Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode, Logan goes behind the scenes with world-class entrepreneurs and investors. If you're interested in the real inside baseball of tech, entrepreneurship, and start-up investing, tune in every Friday for new episodes.

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Podcast: Coaching for Leaders (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: 687: Getting Better at Internal Communication, with Roy Schwartz
Pub date: 2024-07-01

Roy Schwartz: Smart BrevityRoy Schwartz is co-founder and CEO at Axios HQ, the world’s first AI-powered internal communications management platform. He’s also the co-founder of Axios, the award-winning news organization known for its Smart Brevity writing style. He’s the co-author, along with Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen of Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More With Less*.

Most organizations spend way more time and strategy on external communications than internal ones. In this conversation, Roy and I discuss how your internal strategy can reduce email, save time, and create space for innovation and insight.

Key Points* An effective, internal publication via email reduces the amount of total messaging people receive. * Position one, big item in every publication. There should be a hierarchy of what’s important, since not everyone will read everything. * Keep each topic to 200 words and under 1,000 words for the entire publication. * For each topic, start with a strong, first sentence — and then provide context for why it matters. * Find a word other than “newsletter” to name a regular, internal publication. * Bring personality and smiles into internal publications. People will engage and look forward to reading. * Done well, internal publications help inform, recognize, provide accountability, and allow leaders to focus on the human aspects of communication.

Resources Mentioned Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More With Less by Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, and Roy Schwartz * Axios HQ: AI-powered newsletter software

Interview NotesDownload my interview notes in PDF format (free membership required).

Related Episodes* The Way to Make Sense to Others, with Tom Henschel (episode 518) * Getting Better at Reading the Room, with Kirstin Ferguson (episode 651) * Get People Reading What You’re Sending, with Todd Rogers (episode 666)

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Podcast: Coaching for Leaders (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: 689: How to Use AI to Think Better, with José Antonio Bowen
Pub date: 2024-07-15

José Antonio Bowen: Teaching With AIJosé Antonio Bowen has won teaching awards at Stanford and Georgetown and is past president of Goucher College. He has written over 100 scholarly articles and has appeared as a musician with Stan Getz, Bobby McFerrin, and others. He is the author of multiple books in higher education and is a senior fellow for the American Association of Colleges and Universities. He is the author with C. Edward Watson of Teaching With AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning*.

AI will change how we work, but it’s also going to change how we think. In this conversation, JosĂ© and I explore where to begin working with AI and why those who can use it will serve a critical role in shaping what’s next.

Key Points* Physical maps make you smarter than GPS, but GPS is more practical for daily use. AI isn’t inherently good or bad, but like the internet, it will change how we work. * AI will eliminate some jobs, but it will change every job. Those who can work with AI will replace those who can’t. * Rather than thinking about creativity through the lens of responses from AI, focus on bringing creativity into your prompts. * Most of the AI progress for companies is coming from non-tech folks that are figuring our how specific tasks get more efficient. * AI is very good at some things and not good at others. You’ll discover how this relates to your work by experimenting with different prompts.

Resources Mentioned Teaching With AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning by José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson * Example AI Prompts by José Antonio Bowen * The Human Side of Generative AI: Creating a Path to Productivity by Aaron De Smet, Sandra Durth, Bryan Hancock, Marino Mugayar-Baldocchi, and Angelika Reich * Moderna and OpenAI partner to Accelerate the Development of Life-Saving Treatments * The State of AI in Early 2024: Gen AI Adoption Spikes and Starts to Generate Value by Alex Singla, Alexander Sukharevsky, Lareina Yee, Michael Chui, and Bryce Hall

Interview NotesDownload my interview notes in PDF format (free membership required).

Related Episodes* Make Your Reading More Meaningful, with Sönke Ahrens (episode 564) * Principles for Using AI at Work, with Ethan Mollick (episode 674) * How to Enhance Your Credibility (Audio course)

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Podcast: Virtual Domain-driven design
Episode: Managing Domain Knowledge with Chris Simon
Pub date: 2024-03-14

From example mapping, to BDD, to DDD practices like event storming and domain storytelling, we're fortunate to have a wide range of tools for collaboratively building domain knowledge and creating models of those domains in software.

One gap that many organisations experience is the management of that domain knowledge over time. Domains evolve. Team members learn new aspects of the domain, or invent more useful models. Team members leave - taking knowledge with them, and new members join but never get the chance to participate in foundational collaborative modelling sessions.

Living documentation is a set of practices to help ensure institutional knowledge is reliable, collaborative and low-effort.

In this session, Chris will do some live domain modelling with volunteers from the audience to demonstrate a new approach to capturing domain knowledge as living documentation, and how to use open source tools like Contextive (https://contextive.tech) to help ensure the knowledge is absorbed, maintained, and relevant over time.

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Podcast: Azure DevOps Podcast (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Dan Garfield: GitOps with Kubernetes - Episode 298
Pub date: 2024-05-20

Dan Garfield is the Co-founder of Codefresh, a CI/CD platform powered by GitOps and Argo now acquired by Octopus Deploy. As the VP Open Source and Argo Maintainer, he works primarily on Argo CD and Argo Rollouts. He helped create the GitOps Working Group and Open GitOps Principles. He helped create the most popular GitOps certification with Argo CD and writes consistently about best practices for GitOps involving Security, Development processes, and scaling.

Topics of Discussion:

[2:37] Dan Garfield’s career journey and his interest in technology from a young age.

[4:17] The inspiration behind creating Codefresh.

[7:57] Going all in on Kubernetes.

[9:55] Meeting Paul, the CEO of Octopus.

[10:37] We’re still in the early days of Kubernetes.

[12:27] What’s the default choice for deploying to Kubernetes?

[15:08] The importance of unified software delivery.

[16:50] Linux native crowd adopted containers first, while .NET developers were slow to adopt due to compatibility issues.

[22:53] What does Argo CD do?

[25:04] GitOps Principles.

[29:28] Managing microservices in a dynamic infrastructure.

[32:29] Environment management, promotion workflows, and traceability.

[34:30] Where exactly the balance between Argo and CodeFresh fits in.

[35:09] GitOps Certification.

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Clear Measure, Inc. (Sponsor)

.NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer’s Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon!

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Dan Garfield LinkedIn

What is GitOps?

Learning Codefresh

GitOps Certification

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Podcast: Azure DevOps Podcast (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Ted Neward: Managing A Software Engineering Department - Episode 299
Pub date: 2024-05-27

Ted Neward is sometimes referred to as “The Dude of Software,” owing to both his remarkable (some say frightening) resemblance to the Jeff Bridges character from “The Big Lebowski,” and his ordination as a Dudeist Minister of the Church of the Latter-Day Dude, but he’s also been called the ”Dr. Gregory House of Software,” owing to his tendency to pull no punches when talking about software and how to deliver it successfully. He’s comfortable answering to either title, as well as a few others. He’s familiar with more programming languages than most people knew existed and hasn’t found one yet that he couldn’t turn into a “mission-critical” application when asked.

Topics of Discussion:

[4:36] Ted talks about building a tribe and developing a community.

[6:48] Leveraging the “who you know” network.

[7:21] Tips for keeping track of your network.

[9:44] Effective software team management.

[13:10] The importance of shifting perspective from individual success to team success.

[16:16] The component of compassion in management.

[17:53] Managers should actually want to be managers.

[18:43] Retaining employees and realizing that management skills need to be recognized and developed.

[27:02] The tipping point of needing to hire a full-fledged IT department.

[32:34] Advice for managers on the people side.

[34:08] Team success metrics, weekly one-on-ones, and building psychological safety.

[38:32] Importance of team happiness and direct communication with executives for successful software development.

[43:52] Developing the skills of leadership.

[44:39] Remembering that not all management is evil.

Mentioned in this Episode:

Clear Measure Way

Architect Forum

Software Engineer Forum

Programming with Palermo — New Video Podcast! Email us at programming@palermo.net.

Clear Measure, Inc. (Sponsor)

.NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer’s Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon!

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C# In a Nutshell

ted.neward@gmail.com

Ted Neward LinkedIn

Neward Associates

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Podcast: Azure DevOps Podcast (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Jim Leonardo: Leading Software Teams - Episode 300
Pub date: 2024-06-03

Jim has been building solutions for clients in the cloud on Microsoft Azure since 2012 and building solutions in general for 20 years or more. Now, he heads up information technology for biBerk Insurance, overseeing both software development and IT operations. Most of Jim’s experience is in consulting or enterprise with a few forays into product development.

Following the path of least resistance, Jim ended up working primarily with Microsoft tools. The tool you know is the usually best tool to use, so the Microsoft path offers less and less resistance for Jim as time goes on.

On the side, Jim is working on jimsrules.com to share experience and shaky opinions about teamwork and leadership in software development.

Topics of Discussion:

[3:33] There is a shortage of software leaders out there.

[4:22] Jim’s career progression.

[5:26] Pulling back from leadership roles.

[6:54] Recognizing the need to be hands-on and fill vacuums in leadership roles.

[8:35] Embracing T- or V-shaped development.

[11:34] If it isn’t tested, it is broken.

[16:47] Know who your customer is and what your product is.

[18:10] The Innovator’s Dilemma and the importance of asking why things are the way they are.

[21:21] No matter how much experience you have, there is something you can learn from someone with less experience.

[23:29] What we can learn from teen YouTubers.

[24:25] The 10 specific rules; Rule 77 — Minimum Viable Products (MVP) are the start, not the end of a program.

[26:26] Rule #7 about microservices.

[27:52] Applying Conway’s Law.

[33:18] Rule 37 — Automated tests are my pillow.

Rule 59 — A leader’s job is to support the team. Most org charts are upside-down.

Rule 68 — No one is a zero. They either add to the team or take away from it. The question is whether those who are taking away are growing towards a positive contribution.

Rule 74 — Keeping standards high ultimately creates a better work environment.

Rule 75 — When you prepare to teach something, you usually learn more than your potential students.

Mentioned in this Episode:

Clear Measure Way

Architect Forum

Software Engineer Forum

Programming with Palermo — New Video Podcast! Email us at programming@palermo.net.

Clear Measure, Inc. (Sponsor)

.NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer’s Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon!

Jeffrey Palermo’s Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events!

Jim Leonardo LinkedIn

Jim’s Rules

Jim’s Rules: The List

The Innovator’s Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business, by Clayton M. Christensen

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Podcast: Verbos: AI og Softwareudvikling
Episode: #55 - Vi Taler om Dansk Erhvervs AI-Koalitions 25 AI Anbefalinger
Pub date: 2024-06-05

Dansk Erhverv har samlet en AI-Koalition, som har givet 25 anbefalinger om AI rettet imod henholdsvis politik, EU, lovgivning, den offentlige sektor og virksomheder. Vi gennemgĂ„r anbefalingerne og giver vores besyv med et smil pĂ„ lĂŠben 😊

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Podcast: Verbos: AI og Softwareudvikling
Episode: #56 - Apple Intelligence, On-Device LLM’er og Fremtiden for Generativ AI med Christian Bech Nþrhave
Pub date: 2024-06-12

Apple offentliggjorde til 2024 Worldwide Developers Conference et nyt samarbejde med OpenAI og ikke mindst det, de kalder Apple Intelligence, som er Apples fĂžrste bud pĂ„ en integration af generativ AI pĂ„ deres devices. Det er et mix af Apples proprietĂŠre on-device og cloud LLM'er, samt ChatGPT til at lĂžse ekstra svĂŠre opgaver. Vi skal tale om Apple Intelligence, modellerne bag, som Apple har vĂŠret meget Ă„bne om i en researchartikel, og sĂ„ skal vi tale om, hvad vi forestiller os bliver fremtiden indenfor generativ AI đŸ€–. Og sĂ„ har vi fĂ„et ingen ringere end Christian Bech NĂžrhave i studiet til at hjĂŠlpe os med at vurdere Apple Intelligence og tage et kig ind i krystalkuglen 🔼.

Apple ML research artikel: https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/introducing-apple-foundation-models

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Podcast: Lederens Dilemma
Episode: Hvordan lukker jeg munden pÄ detaljeorienterede kollegaer?
Pub date: 2024-06-20

I denne sÊrudgave er "Lederens Dilemma" rykket til Øksnehallen, hvor BÞrsen holdt bÊredygtig summit. Foran et 200 mennesker stort publikum blev bÊredygtighedsdilemmaer behandlet af dette dygtige panel:

  • Pernille KiĂŠr SĂžrensen, ESG-chef, Lemvig-MĂŒller
  • Simon Boas Hoffmeyer, global ESG-chef, Carlsberg
  • Annemarie Meisling, selvstĂŠndig ESG-rĂ„dgiver, tidligere ESG-chef i Chr. Hansen
  • Nikolaj Sommer, vĂŠrt og chefredaktĂžr pĂ„ BĂžrsen

De giver gode rĂ„d til en ESG-chef, der kĂŠmper med kollegaer der er enormt trĂŠtte af at hĂžre om ESG. En anden ESG-leder, “Linda” arbejder med meget detaljeorienterede personer. De sĂŠtter spĂžrgsmĂ„lstegn ved alt og “Linda” spĂžrger hvordan hun kan fĂ„ dem til at stoppe med at udfordre hendes arbejde hver eneste dag.

Det er meget mere kan du altsÄ hÞre i denne sÊrudgave, der ogsÄ findes pÄ bl.a. Apple podcast og Spotify.

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Podcast: Dreams with Deadlines (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: On Creating Psychologically Safe Workplaces | Eleanor Manley, CEO and Co-Founder at Metta Space
Pub date: 2023-11-22

In this episode, Eleanor Manley, Co-Founder of Metta Space, delves into the critical issue of workplace misconduct and violence, shedding light on the startling statistics and the profound impact it has on organizations and individuals. Eleanor shares valuable insights into the importance of creating psychologically safe workplaces, the role of technology in preventing and resolving workplace misconduct, and the need for data-driven strategies to address this pervasive problem.

Key Things Discussed:

  • Creating Psychologically Safe Workplaces: Eleanor emphasizes the significance of fostering psychologically safe environments where employees can confidently report misconduct.
  • Leveraging Technology for Prevention and Resolution: Eleanor explains how Metta Space employs technology, ensuring privacy and advocating for reduced resolution times in addressing workplace misconduct.
  • Empowering Employees and Normalizing Reporting: Eleanor underscores the importance of empowering employees to report misconduct while challenging the misconception that fewer reports signify a safe workplace and discussing the complexities of addressing misconduct.

Show Notes

  • [00:00:00] Introduction to Workplace Violence and Harassment: Jenny introduces Eleanor Manley, CEO of Metta Space, discussing the complexities of defining workplace violence and harassment.
  • [00:01:46] Identifying and Addressing Workplace Misconduct: Jenny and Eleanor explore various forms of workplace misconduct, highlighting its impact and the challenges of identification.
  • [00:06:15] The Hidden Costs of Unreported Workplace Misconduct. Jenny and Eleanor discuss the financial consequences of unreported misconduct and the need for data-driven solutions.
  • [00:07:56] Understanding the Root Causes of Workplace Misconduct. They delve into reasons behind the persistence of misconduct, including zero-tolerance approaches and cultural factors.
  • [00:09:38] Legislation, Rights, and Resolution of Workplace Misconduct. Discussion on laws like POSH and the importance of swift internal resolution.
  • [00:12:21] Addressing Workplace Misconduct at the Highest Levels. Jenny and Eleanor discuss Eleanor's invitation to speak at NATO on International Women's Day. They focus on the importance of addressing workplace misconduct to retain and empower women in STEM fields, including the challenges faced by military organizations in reporting misconduct.
  • [00:13:47] The Crucial Role of Psychological Safety in Workplace Effectiveness. The role of psychological safety in workplace effectiveness and its impact on team productivity.
  • [00:15:22] Leveraging Technology for Safer Work Environments. Eleanor discusses Metta Space and technology's role in prevention, reporting, and resolution.
  • [00:20:16] Practical Steps for Creating Safe Work Environments. Jenny and Eleanor discuss practical steps that organizations and leaders can take to create safe work environments. Eleanor explains the importance of implementing clear goals and frameworks, breaking them down into pillars like prevention, reporting, and resolution. She also highlights the value of training to help employees empathize with different situations and understand the nuances of workplace misconduct.
  • [00:22:45] Empowering Employees to Speak Up and Measuring Resolution Effectiveness. The importance of empowering employees to speak up and viewing case reporting positively.
  • [00:24:27] Understanding the Distinction Between Breach of Code of Conduct and Breach of Law. Jenny and Eleanor discuss the distinction between a breach of a code of conduct and a breach of the law in the context of workplace misconduct. Eleanor explains that the majority of cases are breaches of a code of conduct, which may not necessarily require legal action. She emphasizes the importance of providing evidence gathering tools for individuals reporting misconduct to strengthen their case.
  • [00:26:29] Envisioning a Future of Safe and Empowered Workplaces. Eleanor's goal of normalizing safe workplaces with data-driven support.
  • [00:28:15] Strategies to Accelerate Resolution Time in Workplace Misconduct Cases. Strategies for organizations to reduce resolution time in misconduct cases.
  • [00:33:00] Quick-Fire Questions for Eleanor Manley:
    • What is your dream with a deadline? Normalize creating safe and empowered workplaces within all organizations through prevention, reporting, and resolution of workplace misconduct.
    • What do you appreciate most about your team? Open communication, having each other's backs, and speaking up when something feels true and right.
    • Greatest Challenge as a Leader: Lack of statistics on workplace misconduct and educating organizations about the need for data-driven approaches.
    • Metta Space’s Ideal Customer Profile: Organizations with more than 100 employees, especially those with limited HR resources.
    • Starting with Workplace Misconduct Policies: Have strong policies and employee handbooks but ensure they are living documents with constant reminders.
    • Intrinsic Motivation: Empowering more women in tech and creating safe workplaces where individuals can excel without facing misconduct.
    • Contributing Factors to Exodus from STEM: Poor managerial relationships are a significant reason for people leaving organizations.
    • Book That Shaped Your Thinking: "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell, emphasizing trusting instincts and the power of intuition.

Relevant links:

  • The U.S. Surgeon General’s Framework for Workplace Mental Health & Well-Being
  • The U.S. Surgeon General Workplace Well-Being
  • PoSH Act
  • International Women's Day 2023: NATO Presents – Innovators and Game Changers: Women in Tech Shaping the Future
  • Google’s Project Aristotle
  • “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking,” by Malcolm Gladwel

About the Guest:Eleanor Manley is the CEO of Metta Space, which helps companies prevent, report & resolve workplace misconduct. Specializing in NLP, she heads up AI, Analytics & RevOps. She has been a guest speaker at NATO and Bosch. Personally, Eleanor advocates for more women and marginalized groups to join tech, both with Metta Space’s mission and mentorship.

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Podcast: Dreams with Deadlines (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: On Tailoring Strategies for Every Industry | Kenneth Lewis, Co-Founder at OKR International
Pub date: 2023-12-12

In this follow-up episode of Dreams With Deadlines, host Jenny Herald sits down once again with Kenneth Lewis, Co-Founder of OKR International. Building on their previous discussion about performance management and OKRs, they delve into new territories, shedding light on the nuanced application of OKRs in diverse industries.

Key Things Discussed:

  • Failure as a Stepping Stone: Kenneth shares compelling stories from companies that initially struggled with OKR adoption but eventually found success. He emphasizes the importance of learning from failure and approaching OKRs with a change management mindset.
  • OKRs in Non-Tech Environments: The conversation pivots to the challenges and unique approaches required when implementing OKRs in non-tech industries. Kenneth discusses the need for context-specific strategies, balancing innovation with traditional business models, and the aspiration of non-tech companies to adopt progressive practices.
  • Sustainable Use of OKRs: Addressing the potential for OKRs to become just another management fad, Kenneth argues for a more holistic approach. He advocates for integrating OKRs with organizational rituals, focusing on purpose, and recognizing the importance of conversations and feedback alongside goal setting.

Show Notes

  • [00:00:06] The Path of Failure to Success in OKR Adoption. Kenneth Lewis shares real-world stories about companies initially struggling with OKR adoption, reflecting on their failures and learning to eventually succeed in incorporating OKRs into their operational rhythm.
  • [00:04:16] Implementing OKRs in Non-Tech Environments. Jenny and Kenneth shift to the challenges and nuances of implementing OKRs in non-tech industries. Kenneth highlights the differences in approach required for knowledge worker-based and labor-intensive non-tech companies.
  • [00:08:09] The Endurance of OKRs and Avoiding the Hype Cycle. Kenneth addresses how OKRs can be sustained beyond the initial hype. Kenneth emphasizes the importance of understanding the intent and principles of OKRs, rather than rigidly sticking to frameworks
  • [00:13:37] OKRs and Organizational Culture. Kenneth and Jenny delve into how OKRs can shape and influence organizational culture. They discuss the importance of adapting OKRs to align with the company's mission, work processes, and performance goals.
  • [00:17:14] Customizing OKRs for Maximum Effectiveness. Jenny and Kenneth explore the customization of OKRs to fit different organizations. Kenneth stresses the need to consider various factors like company size, industry, and culture to effectively implement OKRs.
  • [00:22:07] The Future of OKRs in Business. Jenny and Kenneth discuss the future of OKRs in business. Kenneth shares insights on the potential longevity of OKRs, how they can evolve, and the importance of adapting them to an organization's unique needs and aspirations.n making sense of changes and setting ambitious experiments to close gaps.

Relevant links:

  • Masters of Scale Podcast by Reid Hoffman
  • High Output Management by Andy Grove
  • Measure What Matters by John Doerr
  • “Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard” by Chip and Dan Heath
  • Conscious Business by Fred Kofman

About the Guest:Kenneth's purpose is to be that eternal flame that ignites passion and performance in others. He is the founder of Atlas Learning, an investor and advisor at Purposetrade, Grassroute, and Docmode, and a consultant with multiple firms. He's also the Co-founder of OKR International, the world’s largest OKR training, coaching and consulting company.

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Podcast: Dreams with Deadlines (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: On Scaling OKRs in a Fast-Growing Startup | Micaela Arizpe, Chief of Staff to the COO at Personio
Pub date: 2023-12-19

In this episode of Dreams with Deadlines, Jenny Herald welcomes Micaela Arizpe, Chief of Staff at Personio, to discuss the intricate challenges and strategies of scaling Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) in a rapidly growing startup environment.

Key Things Discussed:

  • Navigating Growth and Process Evolution: Micaela shares her experience joining Personio at a pivotal growth stage with around 700 employees. She details how existing structures and processes began to show signs of strain under rapid expansion, emphasizing the necessity for process evolution and revamping, especially in communication, alignment, and effectiveness.
  • Strategic Implementation and Evolution of OKRs: Delving into the role of OKRs, Micaela discusses their significance in maintaining focus, fostering autonomy, encouraging innovation, and ensuring transparency and alignment within a growing organization. She reveals how Personio adapted its OKR processes, including transitioning from simple tools like Google Sheets to more sophisticated systems, and how executive sponsorship played a vital role in the successful scaling of the OKR program.
  • Cultivating a Network of OKR Champions: An intriguing aspect of Personio's journey is the development of an OKR Champion network. Micaela highlights how empowering these champions as subject matter experts and strategic partners in various departments was crucial. She also discusses adapting the OKR processes to remote and hybrid environments, ensuring continuous alignment and collaboration across expanding teams.

Show Notes

  • [00:00:06] Challenges of Scaling in a Fast-Growing Startup: Micaela discusses the initial challenges faced by Personio as it scaled, particularly the strain on existing structures and processes. She emphasizes the importance of evolving these elements to maintain efficiency and effectiveness.
  • [00:04:16] The Role and Evolution of OKRs. Jenny and Micaela delve into how OKRs were utilized and adapted at Personio. Micaela highlights their role in focusing efforts, fostering innovation, and ensuring transparency and alignment within the growing organization.
  • [00:08:09] Adapting OKRs for Remote Work and Collaboration. Jenny and Micaela cover the transition of OKR processes to suit remote and hybrid work environments. Micaela discusses the challenges and innovations in maintaining alignment and collaboration across geographically dispersed teams.
  • [00:13:37] Principles Behind the OKR Program. Micaela reflects on whether the underlying principles of Personio's OKR program changed with scaling. She reiterates the consistent focus on core principles like focus, ownership, stretch, innovation, alignment, and transparency.
  • [00:17:14] Strategic Priorities and Departmental OKRs. Jenny and Micaela shift to how strategic priorities feed into departmental OKRs at Personio, and the importance of aligning these with operational and financial planning.
  • [00:48:00] Quick-Fire Questions for Micaela Arizpe:
    • What is your dream with a deadline? Micaela shares her personal goal of publishing a poetry book, which she achieved by presenting it as a gift to her loved ones.
    • What advice would you give folks who are scaling their OKR program? Micaela emphasizes the importance of executive sponsorship and ensuring collective commitment and involvement in the OKR process.
    • What would you say is the most impactful lesson learned, maybe even failure, if you want to share, insight you've gained from your experience in scaling OKRs at Personio? Micaela advises focusing on training a network of OKR experts rather than creating rigid rules. She highlights the importance of decentralizing expertise to avoid becoming a bottleneck in the process.

Relevant links:

  • Masters of Scale Podcast by Reid Hoffman
  • Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies by Reid Hoffman (Author), Chris Yeh (Author), Bill Gates (Foreword)

About the Guest:Through years of experience in Customer Success, strategy and business operations, Micaela has worked with C-level executives in B2B SaaS to define and operationalize strategies that drive customer value. In her current role she helped scale Personio’s OKR framework into a robust program suitable to their current size of 1800 employees and beyond.

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Podcast: The Stack Overflow Podcast (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Want to be a great software engineer? Don’t be a jerk.
Pub date: 2024-04-09

A developer discovered a backdoor in XZ, a popular open-source compression utility. Read more about the cyberattack here.

A Microsoft technical report pinpoints 54 attributes of great software engineers.

A new report from The Economist lays out how AI is changing drug development.

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Episode: Is GenAI the next dot-com bubble?
Pub date: 2024-04-23

Meta’s open-source Llama 3 model puts Meta’s AI assistant head-to-head with ChatGPT.

Stability AI laid off 10% of its workforce, the first major AI foundation model to reduce its workforce since the advent of generative AI.

Is the dot-com bubble a cautionary tale for AI enthusiasts? Listen to the episode of Marketplace from NPR.

Do LLMs support Wittgenstein’s position that “meaning is use”? That depends whether you’re talking pre or post Tractatus, of course.

TikTok wouldn’t lie to you: you really can make friends with your local crows. Eira’s proven method for befriending crows: Feed them dry cat food on a consistent schedule, so they learn you’re reliable, and watch them eat, so they grok that you are feeding them intentionally.

Stack Overflow user Arman Ordookhani received a well-deserved Lifeboat badge for telling nearly 30,000 people How to free memory in go.

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Episode: The reverse mullett model of software engineering
Pub date: 2024-05-03

If you’ve been laid off or you’re just sweating the possibility, here’s what to do.

Check out the results of our last job market survey.

Connect with Patrick on LinkedIn.

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Episode: A very special 5-year-anniversary edition of the Stack Overflow podcast!
Pub date: 2024-06-25

Cassidy reflect on her time as a CTO of a startup and how the shifting environment for funding has created new pressures and incentives for founders, developers, and venture capitalists.

Ben tries to get a bead on a new Moore’s law for the GenAI era: when will we start to see diminishing returns and fewer step factor jumps?

Ben and Cassidy remember the time they made a viral joke of a keyboard!

Ryan sees how things goes in cycles. A Stack Overflow job board is back! And what do we make of the trend of AI assisted job interviews where cover letters and even technical interviews have a bot in the background helping out.

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Episode: Happy people make better products
Pub date: 2024-07-02

Still thinking about developer happiness and productivity? Read Eira’s article about the real 10x developers among us.

Connect with Ben Borra through his website or LinkedIn.

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Podcast: AI Unraveled: Latest AI News & Trends, GPT, Gemini, Generative AI, LLMs, Prompt, AI Bedtime Stories
Episode: 🧠 Google’s digital reconstruction of human brain with AI
Pub date: 2024-07-10

🧠 Google’s digital reconstruction of human brain with AI

Google researchers have completed the largest-ever AI-assisted digital reconstruction of human brain. They unveiled the most detailed map of the human brain yet of just 1 cubic millimeter of brain tissue (size of half a grain of rice) but at high resolution to show individual neurons and their connections.

Now, the team is working to map a mouse’s brain because it looks exactly like a miniature version of a human brain. This may help solve mysteries about our minds that have eluded us since our beginnings.

Why does it matter?

This is a never-seen-before map of the entire human brain that could help us understand long-standing mysteries like where diseases come from to how we store memories. But the mapping takes billions of dollars and decades. AI might just have sped the process!

Source: https://blog.google/technology/research/mouse-brain-research

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Podcast: Virtual Domain-driven design
Episode: Soft Skills for Technical Professionals by Jacqui Read
Pub date: 2024-02-25

The strongest tech skills don’t necessarily guarantee success. To get the best from those around you—and maximize your own influence—you need to boost your tech skills with soft skills. Luckily, small changes in the way you work can produce big results. In this free webinar, Jacqui Read, author of Communication Patterns: A Guide for Developers and Architects, takes you on a whistle-stop tour of patterns and techniques to improve your visual, verbal, nonverbal, written, knowledge, and remote communication skills. You’ll learn communication soft skills tuned specifically to a technical audience, which you can easily integrate into your existing workflows for quick and transformative results. You’ll learn how to:

Use soft skills to boost your technical skills Explore visual, nonverbal, written, knowledge, and remote communication skills Integrate communication soft skills into your everyday workflow for transformative results

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Podcast: Virtual Domain-driven design
Episode: Systems Thinking Intro with Lorraine Steyn
Pub date: 2024-06-28

Systems thinking is the macro behaviour that we must understand in analyzing our world. A system always produces what it is designed to do, even if that isn't at all what we meant it to do!

Systems are self-maintaining, and contain balancing and/or reinforcing feedback loops.

We'll look at how these work, and what happens when they fail. You'll see how to apply systems thinking to the systems that are all around us.

This is an introductory talk to the world of Systems Thinking, condensed into 45 mins plus time for questions at the end.

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Podcast: HBR On Strategy (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Why Project-Based Work Fails — and How to Get It Right
Pub date: 2024-06-19

Companies of every size across the world are basing more of their work around projects, but research shows that nearly two-thirds of those efforts fail. Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez has studied projects and project management for decades. He argues that at least some of the blame for these failures lies with executives who misunderstand the fundamentals of projects and fail to dedicate enough of their time to those they sponsor. In this episode, he explains how to get better outcomes from project-based work and avoid common pitfalls.

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Podcast: HBR On Strategy (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Microsoft: A Case Study in Strategy Transformation
Pub date: 2024-07-03

In early 2015, Microsoft’s senior leaders were facing a set of difficult decisions. The firm had been struggling to innovate and grow as fast as its competitors. Now they were considering new opportunities that would yield higher growth but lower margins — like shifting away from perpetual licensing to focus on subscription sales.

Harvard Business School professor Fritz Foley studied this period of transformative change at Microsoft for a business case study he wrote. In this episode, he shares how Microsoft’s leaders analyzed different options and worked to get both investors and employees on board with new ideas about growth. He also explains how the company’s risk-averse culture evolved in order to execute such a huge transformation.

Key episode topics include: strategy, growth strategy, business models, corporate governance.

HBR On Strategy curates the best case studies and conversations with the world’s top business and management experts, to help you unlock new ways of doing business. New episodes every week.

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Podcast: Managing Managers
Episode: Episode 13: Digging your well, the Staff Engineering Manager and managing burnout with Anjuan Simmons
Pub date: 2024-01-20

Anjuan taught me a few new concepts in this chat such as the saying of digging your well and what that means, what the unusual title of Staff Engineering Manager is and also some practical tips on managing burnout, especially important for manager of managers. Listen to this episode to find out more.

Guest Biography:

Anjuan Simmons has led software development teams for over two decades, and he excels at shipping features that customers love while also managing healthy teams. Anjuan’s goal is to help everyone he meets become the best possible version of who they are meant to be.

Transcript and show notes available here: ⁠⁠⁠https://managingmanagers.tech/episodes/episode-013-anjuan-simmons/

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Podcast: Engineering Culture by InfoQ (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Avoiding Burnout and Overload Using Cognitive Systems Engineering
Pub date: 2023-08-04

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Dr Laura Maguire about how cognitive systems engineering can help manage stress and burnout in teams and organisations.Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3Kt5nVtSubscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architect
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Podcast: The Social-Engineer Podcast (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Ep. 257 - The Doctor Is In Series - Are You Overworking or Hiding From Your Emotions
Pub date: 2024-05-06

Welcome to the Social-Engineer Podcast: The Doctor Is In Series – where we will discuss understandings and developments in the field of psychology.

In today’s episode, Chris and Abbie are discussing Overworking. They will talk about the causes, symptoms and what you can do to combat it. [May 6, 2024]

00:00 - Intro

00:17 - Dr. Abbie Maroño Intro

00:47 - Intro Links

  • Social-Engineer.com - http://www.social-engineer.com/

  • Managed Voice Phishing - https://www.social-engineer.com/services/vishing-service/

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  • CLUTCH - http://www.pro-rock.com/

  • innocentlivesfoundation.org - http://www.innocentlivesfoundation.org/

04:37 - The Topic of the Day: Overworking

05:17 - Working vs Overworking

06:35 - Telltale Signs

08:47 - Keep Balanced

10:35 - Apples and Oranges

15:08 - Time for a Rest

19:52 - Do the Right Thing

21:49 - The Illusion of Control

24:58 - Bury the Bad

27:11 - Accountability of Emotions

28:58 - Lack of Boundaries

30:12 - Communication is Key!

35:58 - Tides are Turning

36:58 - Wrap Up

37:15 - Next Month: Internal Motivation

37:33 - Outro

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Podcast: Managing Managers
Episode: Episode 19: Finding a manager of managers role with Dr Claire Knight
Pub date: 2024-04-13

I really enjoyed a lot of the insights Claire shared with me in this episode - everything from getting comfortable with how other managers approach problems differently from you, the benefits of an external coach and having a physical outlet to balance out the intellectual stress and finally some insight into some of the ways that Claire runs her organisation.

Guest Biography

Dr Claire Knight is a Senior Director of Engineering; Ecosystem & Emerging Products at Netlify. She served plenty of time in the coal code mine before making the move into wrangling folks rather than just bits. With many years of engineering leadership at companies such as GitHub and Six to Start, Claire now leads many engineering teams at Netlify, defines strategy and expansion, with particular focus on the platform and SDK. Claire lives in Barkshire, UK, with her husband and three cats who from time to time also like to be involved in video calls. When not working, she likes to lift heavy things, only to put them down again and is a 2023 AWPC World Champion Powerlifter.

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Podcast: GOTO - Today, Tomorrow and the Future
Episode: Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager ‱ James Stanier & Gergely Orosz
Pub date: 2024-03-29

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
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James Stanier - Director of Engineering at Shopify & Author of "Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager"
Gergely Orosz - Writing The Pragmatic Engineer & Author of "The Software Engineer's Guidebook"

RESOURCES
Jameshttps://twitter.com/jstanier
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jstanier
https://github.com/jstanier
https://www.theengineeringmanager.com
https://www.theengineeringmanager.com/management-101/contracting

Gergely
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/gergelyorosz
https://www.pragmaticengineer.com
https://github.com/gergelyorosz

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Software startups make global headlines every day. As technology companies succeed and grow, so do their engineering departments.
In your career, you’ll may suddenly get the opportunity to lead teams: to become a manager. But this is often uncharted territory.
How do you decide whether this career move is right for you?
And if you do, what do you need to learn to succeed?
Where do you start?
How do you know that you’re doing it right?
What does “it” even mean?
And isn’t management a dirty word?

This book will share the secrets you need to know to manage engineers successfully.

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James Stanier ‱ Effective Remote Work
Gergely Orosz ‱ The Software Engineer's Guidebook
Gergely Orosz ‱ Building Mobile Apps at Scale
David Farley ‱ Modern Software Engineering
William B. Irvine ‱ A Guide to the Good Life

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Podcast: Hands-On Windows (Audio)
Episode: HOW 96: Microsoft Copilot as an App - Another Way to Use Copilot
Pub date: 2024-06-20

Microsoft has started rolling out its new Copilot experience to Insiders on the Beta and Release Preview Channels. This is the new standalone Copilot app that can be resized and moved around the screen like a regular Windows app, and this new experience is also available on Windows 11 version 24H2.

Host: Paul Thurrott

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Podcast: The Accounting Podcast (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: ChatGPT Beats Humans at Financial Statement Analysis
Pub date: 2024-06-20

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Study: ChatGPT Better at Financial Statement Analysis Than Humans

https://nysscpa.org/news/publications/the-trusted-professional/article/study-chatgpt-better-at-financial-statement-analysis-than-humans-060524

PwC to resell ChatGPT Enterprise

https://www.accountingtoday.com/news/pwc-to-become-first-official-reseller-for-openai-for-openais-chatgpt-enterprise

EY US to invest $1 billion in compensation and technology to improve the attractiveness of the accounting profession

https://www.ey.com/en_us/newsroom/2024/06/ey-us-to-invest-1-billion-in-compensation-and-technology

Change is in the air: And it is helpful.

https://www.orcpa.org/news/13ff8628-9c17-43b1-858a-148af698c818:change-is-in-the-air-and-it-is-helpful

Potential deposit shortfall in Synapse bankruptcy falls in regulatory grey area

https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights/latest-news-headlines/potential-deposit-shortfall-in-synapse-bankruptcy-falls-in-regulatory-grey-area-82041848

Apple brings ChatGPT to Siri as it debuts ‘Apple Intelligence’ at WWDC 2024

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jun/10/apple-ai-product-launch

How does Sam's Club AI work?

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/state/2024/05/02/sams-club-ai-check-receipt-exit-stores-texas-locations/73526045007/

How fake stories about IRS stimulus checks took over the internet

https://www.fastcompany.com/91138837/fake-stories-irs-stimulus-checks-flood-internet-google-news

Fact Check: Is The IRS Really Giving An $8700 Stimulus Check?

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fact-check-irs-really-giving-192246766.html

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Episode: How Interpersonal Communication Shapes Modern Workplace Success
Pub date: 2024-06-20

  • Interpersonal communication critical for career advancement and organizational success
  • Remote work highlights importance of oral, verbal, nonverbal, and listening skills
  • Effective communication linked to higher emotional intelligence and leadership potential
  • Communication proficiency boosts productivity and competitive advantage in companies

How was this episode? Overall Good Average Bad Engaging Good Average Bad Accurate Good Average Bad Tone Good Average Bad TranscriptIn the tapestry of the modern workplace, the threads of interpersonal communication weave together to form the fabric of successful careers and thriving organizations. As the world of work pivots towards remote locations and digital platforms, the art of exchanging information among people has taken on new dimensions and complexities. Interpersonal communication is not just an exchange of words; it encompasses a variety of forms—oral, verbal, nonverbal, and listening—each a critical component in the intricate dance of human interaction.The shift towards remote work has underscored the significance of these skills. Consider the findings from Harvard research indicating a twelve percentage point growth in jobs demanding effective communication and social interaction over the past thirty years, while less-social jobs have seen a decline. Indeed, the ability to communicate has become a linchpin for individual career advancement and organizational success.At its core, interpersonal communication is about the conveyance of thoughts, ideas, and feelings. It is the verbal and nonverbal exchanges that occur in team meetings, client calls, performance reviews, and even the casual conversations that spring up over lunch or during a brief encounter by the water cooler. These soft skills, nurtured from childhood, vary widely among individuals but can be honed and enhanced with deliberate practice and intention.The modern workplace demands mastery of various forms of communication. Oral communication, the realm of public speaking, phone calls, and podcasting, requires thoughtful consideration of word choice, tone, and pace. A study published in the Association for Psychological Science suggests that a person’s oral communication ability can significantly influence their perceived hireability and competence. Verbal communication, on the other hand, is the domain of the written word—emails, reports, texts, and slides—where clarity and precision are paramount, supported by a Grammarly study linking fewer grammatical errors with higher professional positions and quicker promotions.Nonverbal communication, encompassing body language, facial expressions, and even the backdrop of a video call, offers a subtle yet powerful layer to the messaging tapestry. Then there is listening, a skill often overshadowed yet foundational to true understanding and connection. Active listening requires full engagement, making eye contact, nodding, and providing verbal affirmations to show comprehension and interest.The importance of these skills cannot be overstated. Individuals with strong interpersonal communication abilities often possess higher emotional intelligence, forge connections with ease, and exhibit leadership potential. They are the linchpins of productive, engaged, and harmonious work environments. In fact, according to a Harris Interactive/Wall Street Journal survey, communication and interpersonal skills remain at the forefront of recruiter priorities, and the 2017 Corporate Recruiters Survey Report echoes this sentiment, citing listening and oral communication as the most coveted skills in potential hires.Statistics further illuminate the value of communication proficiency, with inefficiencies consuming an average of thirteen percent of an employee's day globally. High performing teams that communicate well can boost productivity by up to twenty-five percent, and companies with effective communication strategies are three and a half times more likely to outperform their competitors. With ninety-seven percent of employees believing communication impacts task efficacy, it becomes clear that the ability to engage in effective interpersonal communication is not an optional attribute but a necessity for success.As the narrative unfolds, it is evident that interpersonal communication is an indispensable force in the workplace, one that transcends the traditional office environment and extends into the digital realm. With the rise of remote work and the proliferation of digital communication tools, the power of interpersonal communication remains unwavering—a beacon guiding the modern professional towards career advancement and organizational excellence. Building upon the foundational understanding of interpersonal communication's critical role, the exploration now delves into the four pillars that uphold the structure of workplace interactions: oral, verbal, nonverbal, and listening communication. Each pillar plays a distinct yet interconnected role in shaping the dynamics of professional settings.Oral communication, the first pillar, is the spoken word in action. It is the presentations that captivate, the negotiations that persuade, and the casual conversations that build rapport. Oral communication's power lies not only in the words chosen but in the melody of the voice—the pitch, pace, and inflections that can turn a monologue into a symphony of persuasion. In the professional arena, a well-delivered speech or a confidently handled phone call can cement a person's reputation as a communicator par excellence. Moreover, research indicates that candidates who articulate their qualifications verbally are often perceived as more competent, which can translate into better job prospects.Verbal communication, the second pillar, pertains to the written word. In an age where emails and instant messaging are ubiquitous, the ability to craft clear, concise, and impactful messages is invaluable. The written word is a vessel for ideas, and its clarity dictates the smooth sailing of these ideas across the sea of corporate discourse. The nuances of written communication—from the tone of an email to the precision of a report—can greatly influence workplace efficiency and the perception of an individual’s professionalism.Nonverbal communication, the third pillar, is perhaps the most subtle yet powerful form of communication. It is the silent language of body language, facial expressions, and gestures that speaks volumes without uttering a single syllable. In a video conference, the attentive nod of a head or the openness of one's posture can foster trust and clarity. Even the choice of attire or the arrangement of a workspace in the background of a virtual call can communicate professionalism and attention to detail.The fourth and final pillar is listening, an often-underappreciated aspect of communication. Listening transcends passive hearing to become an active engagement with the speaker. It is the art of truly understanding the message conveyed and responding in a manner that validates the speaker's intent. Active listening involves maintaining eye contact, providing feedback, and asking clarifying questions. In a team meeting, for instance, active listening can lead to better collaboration as team members feel heard and understood, leading to efficient problem-solving and innovation.Together, these four pillars form the sturdy framework upon which effective interpersonal communication is built. As one navigates the professional landscape, the ability to leverage these forms of communication becomes a determinant of workplace success. The interplay between oral, verbal, nonverbal, and listening skills can enhance job prospects, facilitate workplace efficiency, and create an environment where ideas flourish and relationships thrive. Through a deeper comprehension of these pillars, individuals can refine their communication strategies, ensuring that every interaction—be it a negotiation or a network connection—resonates with clarity and purpose. Interpersonal skills transcend the realm of individual achievement and become the cornerstone of collective success in the workplace. Far beyond a mere accessory, these skills are integral to fostering a harmonious and productive environment. The symbiotic relationship between team dynamics, conflict resolution, and career progression underscores the profound impact of interpersonal prowess.In the context of team dynamics, interpersonal skills serve as the lubricant that keeps the gears of collaboration running smoothly. Effective communication ensures that team members understand their roles, responsibilities, and the collective goals they strive toward. When each member of the team can articulate ideas clearly and listen actively, the group's productivity and innovation soar. Statistics suggest that high performing teams that communicate effectively can enhance productivity by as much as twenty-five percent, showcasing the tangible benefits of strong interpersonal skills.Conflict resolution is another area where interpersonal skills prove to be invaluable. Conflicts, while inevitable in any workplace, can be addressed constructively when individuals possess the ability to navigate tense situations with empathy, active listening, and clear communication. The ability to understand different perspectives and find common ground is crucial in transforming potential discord into opportunities for growth and understanding. Interpersonal skills are the tools that allow for such transformations, mitigating the risks of prolonged disputes and fostering a culture of respect and resolution.Furthermore, the trajectory of an individual's career is often influenced by their interpersonal skills. These skills are the currency in the marketplace of career advancement, with clear communication, effective collaboration, and adept conflict resolution being highly prized attributes. Recruiters and hiring managers consistently rank interpersonal skills as top considerations when evaluating candidates. The 2017 Corporate Recruiters Survey Report confirms this trend, emphasizing the demand for listening and oral communication skills among potential hires.Moreover, the cost of communication inefficiencies cannot be ignored. An average of thirteen percent of an employee's day is consumed by such inefficiencies, indicating a significant opportunity for improvement. Organizations that recognize and cultivate strong interpersonal skills within their workforce not only enhance their efficiency but also gain a competitive edge. A company with effective communicators is three and a half times more likely to outperform its rivals, highlighting the strategic advantage of interpersonal proficiency.In sum, the importance of interpersonal skills in the workplace cannot be overstated. They are the underpinning of successful team interactions, the solution to conflict resolution, and the catalyst for career advancement. As the professional landscape continues to evolve, the ability to navigate it with interpersonal acumen will remain indispensable for individuals and organizations aiming to reach the pinnacle of their potential. In pursuit of excellence in interpersonal communication, practical strategies and actionable tips can significantly enhance one's ability to interact effectively. The cultivation of active listening, effective communication, empathy, teamwork, and conflict resolution skills is an ongoing process that can be refined through conscious effort and application.Starting with active listening, it is essential to give undivided attention to the speaker, signaling engagement through eye contact, nodding, and appropriate verbal affirmations. For example, a manager can demonstrate active listening during an employee's presentation by summarizing key points and asking relevant questions, thereby reinforcing the value of the employee's contributions and fostering a culture of mutual respect.Effective communication involves clarity and conciseness, ensuring the message is understood as intended. One can practice this by preparing for meetings with bullet points to stay on topic and by avoiding jargon that might confuse the audience. In a team setting, a project leader might use visuals to complement a verbal presentation, making complex data more accessible and engaging for all team members.Empathy, the ability to understand and share the feelings of another, is an interpersonal skill that strengthens connections and builds trust. In practice, empathy can be shown by acknowledging a colleague's challenges and offering support. For instance, if a colleague is overwhelmed with workload, offering to help or simply listening to their concerns can alleviate stress and contribute to a more supportive work environment.Teamwork and collaboration are enhanced when individuals recognize and appreciate the diverse contributions of each team member. Encouraging an open dialogue where ideas are freely shared and valued can lead to innovative solutions and a more cohesive team. An effective strategy might include regular brainstorming sessions where all team members are invited to contribute, ensuring that each voice is heard and considered.Conflict resolution skills are vital for maintaining a positive workplace atmosphere. Approaching conflicts with a calm demeanor, listening to all sides, and seeking a mutually beneficial resolution are key aspects of this skill. For instance, when two employees have a disagreement over a project approach, facilitating a discussion to explore each viewpoint and working towards a compromise can turn a potential conflict into a collaborative effort towards a shared goal.By incorporating these strategies into daily interactions, individuals can observe a marked improvement in their interpersonal relationships. Engaging in active listening, communicating effectively, demonstrating empathy, fostering teamwork, and resolving conflicts amicably are not only beneficial in isolated instances but have a cumulative effect on one's professional reputation and the overall productivity of the organization. The positive outcomes of applying these strategies are profound; they can lead to stronger relationships, more effective collaboration, and a more harmonious work environment. Encountering and overcoming challenges is an integral part of the journey to interpersonal mastery. Dealing with different personalities requires adaptability and openness. Each individual brings a unique set of traits to the table, and recognizing the value in this diversity is key. For example, when working with a detail-oriented colleague, taking the time to provide comprehensive information and thorough explanations can lead to more productive interactions and mutual respect for each other’s working style.Managing stress is another common challenge that can impede interpersonal communication. Stress can cause individuals to misinterpret messages, react emotionally, or disengage from conversations. Strategies to manage stress include practicing mindfulness, prioritizing tasks, and ensuring work-life balance. An employee facing a tight deadline might use deep-breathing techniques to maintain composure during negotiations, thereby enhancing the quality of communication and decision-making.In the realm of remote work, technology plays a pivotal role in bridging the interpersonal gap. Video conferencing tools like Zoom or Microsoft Teams enable face-to-face interaction, vital for nonverbal cues. Messaging platforms can facilitate quick, informal chats, creating a virtual water cooler environment where relationships can grow. Remote workers can leverage these tools to stay connected with their teams, ensuring that distance does not translate to disconnection.Digital etiquette is another aspect of virtual communication that demands attention. Professionalism in digital interactions is maintained by being responsive, using clear and respectful language, and being considerate of others' time and boundaries. For instance, sending concise emails with well-defined topics helps recipients quickly grasp the message's intent, while refraining from late-night communications respects colleagues' personal time.In conclusion, developing interpersonal skills in the face of diverse personalities and stress, and leveraging technology appropriately, are vital strategies for success in today's digitally connected world. By embracing these approaches, individuals can maintain professionalism in virtual communications and foster a workplace environment that thrives on effective interaction, regardless of the physical distances that may separate them.

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Podcast: Coaching for Leaders (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: 676: How to Change People’s Minds, with Michael McQueen
Pub date: 2024-04-15

Michael McQueen: MindstuckMichael McQueen has spent the past two decades helping organizations and leaders win the battle for relevance. He specializes in helping clients navigate uncertainty and stay one step ahead of change.

Michael is a bestselling author of nine books and a familiar face on the international conference circuit, having shared the stage with the likes of Bill Gates, Dr. John C. Maxwell, and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. Having formerly been named Australia’s Keynote Speaker of the Year, he has been inducted into the Professional Speakers Hall of Fame. He is the author of Mindstuck: Mastering the Art of Changing Minds*.

There’s a lot of evidence that our minds would rather feel right than be right. How then, do you influence someone when they are really convinced of their position? In this conversation, Michael and I discuss the initial steps that help in changing people’s minds.

Key Points* Our tendency is to convince to the inquiring mind, but we’ll do better if we speak to the instinctive mind first. * Help others lessen loss and maintain dignity by preserving titles, language, and symbols in things that are new. * Instead of trying making an argument, ask a question that allows the other person to listen to themselves. * Ask questions that clarify points of resistance or misunderstanding. * Speak like you’re right, listen like you’re wrong.

Resources Mentioned Mindstuck: Mastering the Art of Changing Minds by Michael McQueen

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Related Episodes* The Way to Influence Executives, with Nancy Duarte (episode 450) * Four Habits That Derail Listening, with Oscar Trimboli (episode 500) * Three Practices for Thriving in Negotiations, with William Ury (episode 669)

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Podcast: Coaching for Leaders (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: 607: How to Quit Bad Stuff Faster, with Annie Duke
Pub date: 2022-12-05

Annie Duke: QuitAnnie Duke is an author, corporate speaker, and consultant in the decision-making space, as well as Special Partner focused on Decision Science at First Round Capital Partners, a seed stage venture fund. Her previous book, Thinking in Bets, is a national bestseller. As a former professional poker player, she has won more than $4 million in tournament poker. During her career, Annie won a World Series of Poker bracelet and is the only woman to have won the World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions and the NBC National Poker Heads-Up Championship. She retired from the game in 2012. Prior to becoming a professional poker player, she was awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship to study Cognitive Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.Annie is the co-founder of The Alliance for Decision Education, a non-profit whose mission is to improve lives by empowering students through decision skills education. She is a member of the National Board of After-School All-Stars and the Board of Directors of the Franklin Institute. She also serves on the board of the Renew Democracy Initiative. Annie is the author of Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away.We’ve all heard the lie that, “Winners never quit and quitters never win.” In reality, one of the best practices to develop is how to recognize more quickly when you should quit something that’s not working. In this conversation, Annie and I discuss how to set kill criteria for yourself and frame goals in more helpful ways to know when quitting is the best answer.Key Points Kenny Rogers was right; professional poker players know that a big part of success is quitting approximately 75% of the time. “Quit while you’re ahead” is often poor advice since we tend to quit too early when good things are happening. On the contrary, we tend to quit too late when we’ve accumulated sunk cost. Determine kill criteria in advance when you’re not as likely to be swayed by the emotions of the moment. The best criteria contain both a state and a date. Find someone who loves you but doesn’t care about your feelings. Trust and permission are essential to open up these kinds of conversations. Effective goals include at least one “unless
”Resources Mentioned Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away by Annie DukeInterview NotesDownload my interview notes in PDF format (free membership required).Related Episodes How to Pivot Quickly, with Steve Blank (episode 476) The Way to Make Better Decisions, with Annie Duke (episode 499) How to Build Confidence, with Katy Milkman (episode 533)Discover MoreActivate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic.

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Podcast: You Are Not So Smart (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: 244 - Quit - Annie Duke
Pub date: 2022-10-16

I recently sat down for a live event and Q&A with the great Annie Duke to discuss her new book, Quit: The power of knowing when to walk away. This episode is the audio from that event. Quit is all about how to develop a very particular skill: how to train your brain to make it easier to know which goals and plans are worth sticking to and which are not.

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Podcast: Psychologists Off the Clock (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 293. Quit with Annie Duke
Pub date: 2023-03-08

Quitting is often viewed as a sign of failure, but in some cases, it might be the best decision. Whether it's quitting a bad habit, a job, or an unhealthy relationship, it is always important to know when to call it quits.

Annie Duke, an expert in decision-making and author of Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away, inspires us to feel empowered and proud when we choose to quit. She encourages us to embrace the freedom and opportunity that comes with knowing when to let go and move on to something better. So, let us be bold and confident in our choices to quit, and relish the journey of growth and self-discovery that follows.

Listen and Learn: * Annie’s thoughts on Tom Brady's repeated retirements * Why is there such a stigma around quitting * Defining expected value decisions * How to wisely use expected value decisions * The sunk cost fallacy and some ways that we can manage this * Asso Teller’s monkeys and pedestals tool for quitting * Growth mindset and quitting goals

Resources: * Learn more about Annie’s work on her website: https://www.annieduke.com/ * Get your copy of Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away: https://bookshop.org/a/30734/9780593422991 * Alliance for Decision Education: https://www.annieduke.com/the-alliance-for-decision-education/ * Connect with Annie on Twitter or Instagram

About Annie DukeAnnie is an author, corporate speaker, and consultant in the decision-making space, and a former professional poker player who is the only woman to have won the World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions and the NBC National Poker Heads-Up Championship. Annie’s previous book, Thinking in Bets, is a national bestseller, and her latest book Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away is, in our humble opinion, nothing short of transformative. We are here to discuss Quit today.

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Podcast: Bookworm (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 174: Quit by Annie Duke
Pub date: 2023-07-07

In a world where sticking with things is a virtue, today’s author makes the argument for knowing when to walk away. Join Joe & Mike as they attempt to get better at knowing when to hold ’em and when to fold ’em.

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Episode: Tue Feb-13-2024: Microsoft's AI Success: Closing Gap w/AWS, Gen Z's Job Anxiety, Cloud Marketplaces
Pub date: 2024-02-13

In this episode, we discuss the latest news in the tech industry. We start by highlighting Microsoft's success with its AI initiatives, including the popularity of its CoPilot AI app. The app has gained significant traction, ranking as the second most popular free app in the Apple App Store and the 12th most downloaded app in the Google Play Store. Additionally, CNBC reports that Microsoft's Azure cloud is closing the gap on Amazon Web Services (AWS) with the help of its AI growth. Analysts estimate that Azure is now about three quarters the size of AWS, compared to half its size five years ago. We also delve into a study by Indeed, which reveals that Gen Z's anxiety about AI jobs surpasses that of older generations. Finally, we discuss the importance of cloud marketplaces for IT channel success, based on a report by GTDC. Overall, this episode showcases the impact of AI in the tech industry and highlights Microsoft's advancements in this field.

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00:00 Microsoft's AI Bet Pays Off: CoPilot's Success and Azure's Growth Challenge AWS

03:51 Gen Z's AI Job Anxiety Surpasses Older Generations, Indeed Study Finds

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Podcast: Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | Career (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: This will make you a better decision maker | Annie Duke (author of “Thinking in Bets” and “Quit”, former pro poker player)
Pub date: 2024-05-02

Annie Duke is a former professional poker player, a decision-making expert, and a special partner at First Round Capital. She is the author of Thinking in Bets (a national bestseller) and Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away and the co-founder of the Alliance for Decision Education, a nonprofit whose mission is to improve lives by empowering students through decision skills education. In our conversation, we cover:

‱ What Annie learned from the late Daniel Kahneman

‱ The power of pre-mortems and “kill criteria”

‱ The relationship between money and happiness

‱ The power of “mental time travel”

‱ The nominal group technique for better decision quality

‱ How First Round Capital improved their decision-making process

‱ Many tactical decision-making frameworks

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‱ X: https://twitter.com/AnnieDuke

‱ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annie-duke/

‱ Website: https://www.annieduke.com/

‱ Substack: https://www.annieduke.com/substack/

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In this episode, we cover:

(00:00) Annie’s background

(03:53) Lessons from Daniel Kahneman: humility, curiosity, and open-mindedness

(09:15) The importance of unconditional love in parenting

(15:15) Mental time travel and “nevertheless”

(20:06) The extent of improvement possible in decision-making

(24:54) Independent brainstorming for better decisions

(35:36) Making sure people feel heard

(42:41) The “3Ds” framework to make better decisions

(44:49) Decision quality

(55:46) Improving decision-making at First Round Capital

(01:05:05) Using pre-mortems and kill criteria

(01:10:15) Making explicit what’s implicit

(01:10:55) The challenges of quitting and knowing when to walk away

(01:19:23) Where to find Annie

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Referenced:

‱ Daniel Kahneman, Who Plumbed the Psychology of Economics, Dies at 90: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/27/business/daniel-kahneman-dead.html

‱ Adversarial collaboration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adversarial_collaboration

‱ Does more money correlate with greater happiness?: https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/does-more-money-correlate-greater-happiness-Penn-Princeton-research#

‱ Income and emotional well-being: A conflict resolved: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36857342/

‱ Strategic decisions: When can you trust your gut?: https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/strategy-and-corporate-finance/our-insights/strategic-decisions-when-can-you-trust-your-gut

‱ Cass Sunstein on X: https://twitter.com/CassSunstein

‱ Dr. Becky on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drbeckyatgoodinside

‱ A framework for finding product-market fit | Todd Jackson (First Round Capital): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/a-framework-for-finding-product-market

‱ First Round Capital: https://firstround.com/

‱ Brett Berson on X: https://twitter.com/brettberson

‱ Renegade Partners: https://www.renegadepartners.com/

‱ Renata Quintini on X: https://twitter.com/rquintini

‱ Roseanne Wincek on X: https://twitter.com/imthemusic

‱ Josh Kopelman on X: https://twitter.com/joshk

‱ Bill Trenchard on X: https://twitter.com/btrenchard

‱ Linnea Gandhi on X: https://twitter.com/linneagandhi

‱ Maurice Schweitzer on X: https://twitter.com/me_schweitzer

‱ Problems with premortems: https://sjdm.org/presentations/2021-Poster-Gandhi-Linnea-debiasing-premortem-selfserving~.pdf

‱ Create a Solid Plan on How to Fail Big This Year: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesfinancecouncil/2020/02/07/create-a-solid-plan-on-how-to-fail-big-this-year/

‱ Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away: https://www.amazon.com/Quit-Power-Knowing-When-Walk/dp/0593422996/

‱ Richard Thaler on X: https://twitter.com/R_Thaler

‱ Stewart Butterfield on X: https://twitter.com/stewart

‱ Glitch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitch_(video_game)

‱ How the Founder of Slack & Flickr Turned Colossal Failures into Billion-Dollar Companies: https://medium.com/swlh/how-the-founder-of-slack-flickr-turned-failures-into-million-and-billion-dollar-companies-7bcaf0d35d66

‱ The Most Fascinating Profile You’ll Ever Read About a Guy and His Boring Startup: https://www.wired.com/2014/08/the-most-fascinating-profile-youll-ever-read-about-a-guy-and-his-boring-startup/

‱ The Alliance for Decision Education: https://alliancefordecisioneducation.org/

‱ Make Better Decisions course on Maven: https://maven.com/annie-duke/make-better-decisions

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Podcast: Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | Career (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Lessons from a two-time unicorn builder, 50-time startup advisor, and 20-time company board member | Uri Levine (co-founder of Waze)
Pub date: 2024-06-09

Uri Levine is the co-founder of Waze, the world’s largest community-based traffic and navigation app, acquired by Google for over $1 billion. He’s also founded nine other companies, been on the board of 20 companies, and advised more than 50 companies. He’s most recently the author of Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution: A Handbook for Entrepreneurs, hailed by Steve Wozniak as the “Bible for entrepreneurs.” Uri is dedicated to creating impactful startups that solve real-world problems and has seen everything from failure to moderate success to big success. In our conversation, we dig into:

‱ Why falling in love with the problem is key to startup success

‱ The phases of the startup journey and how to navigate them

‱ Why firing is more important than hiring

‱ How Waze iterated to achieve product-market fit

‱ Tactics for telling a compelling story when fundraising

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‱ Website: https://urilevine.com/

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In this episode, we cover:

(00:00) Uri’s background

(02:50) Falling in love with the problem

(09:03) Signs this is a big enough problem

(10:54) The importance of passion

(12:06) A pivot example

(14:01) Where to find startup ideas

(21:57) Finding product-market fit at Waze

(29:45) The different phases of a startup journey

(36:47) What investors don’t want to hear

(39:53) Fundraising tips

(48:02) How to make your presentations stronger

(50:32) A wild fundraising story

(53:46) Firing and hiring

(59:50) The 30-day test

(01:04:12) Understanding users

(01:12:10) Talking to the right users

(01:15:36) Lightning round

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Referenced:

‱ Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution: A Handbook for Entrepreneurs: https://www.amazon.com/Fall-Love-Problem-Solution-Entrepreneurs/dp/1637741987

‱ Waze: https://www.waze.com/

‱ Ben Horowitz on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/behorowitz/

‱ Ben Horowitz quote: https://quotefancy.com/quote/1635284/Ben-Horowitz-As-a-startup-CEO-I-slept-like-a-baby-I-woke-up-every-2-hours-and-cried

‱ Michael Jordan quote: https://www.forbes.com/quotes/11194/#:~:text=I've%20lost%20almost%20300,that%20is%20why%20I%20succeed.

‱ Steph Curry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Curry

‱ How Airbnb Used Word of Mouth to Change the Travel Industry Forever: https://truested.com/story/airbnb

‱ Space Mountain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Mountain_(Disneyland)

‱ How Netflix builds a culture of excellence | Elizabeth Stone (CTO): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-netflix-builds-a-culture-of-excellence

‱ Steve Wozniak on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wozniaksteve/

‱ Uri’s post about the conference in Guatemala with Steve Wozniak: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/uri-levine_jewishnewyear-speakers-book-activity-6980089544079486976-0ADa/

‱ Leonardo da Vinci quote: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9010638-simplicity-is-the-ultimate-sophistication-when-once-you-have-tasted

‱ Geoffrey Moore on finding your beachhead, crossing the chasm, and dominating a market: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/geoffrey-moore-on-finding-your-beachhead

‱ Nana Korobi Ya Oki: https://ikigaitribe.com/vlog/nana-korobi-ya-oki/

‱ That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea: https://www.amazon.com/That-Will-Never-Work-Netflix/dp/0316530204

‱ Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones: https://www.amazon.com/Atomic-Habits-Proven-Build-Break/dp/0735211299

‱ 8 Great Chess Apps for Beginners and Grand Masters: https://www.wired.com/story/best-chess-apps/

‱ Pontera: https://pontera.com/

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Podcast: The Beautiful Mess Podcast
Episode: Sociotechnical Maestros with Gene Kim
Pub date: 2024-05-12

Today I'm talking to Gene Kim. Over the years Gene's work has had a huge influence on me. From books he authored and co-authored including The Unicorn Project, Phoenix Project, DevOps Handbook, and Accelerate, to his advocacy and community building with the DevOps Enterprise Summit, now called the Enterprise Technology Leadership Summit.

I recently finished reading Gene's latest book Wiring the Winning Organization which he co-wrote with Steven Spear. The themes of slowification, simplification, and amplification have already started to seep into my day-to-day conversations. The book is filled with case studies, but also creative metaphors like Gene and Steven moving a couch, which is where our chat starts.

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Podcast: The Beautiful Mess Podcast
Episode: 20 Things I've Learned as a Systems (Over) Thinker (Extended Commentary)
Pub date: 2024-05-19

Back in 2022, I wrote a post called 20 Things I've Learned as a Systems (Over) Thinker—”over” was in parentheses—and I've since received so much feedback about that post. I recently re-shared it on LinkedIn and it obviously strikes a chord. And so I thought that for this episode, I would just quickly go through that list, provide a little bit of extra color, and hopefully clarify some things.

I'll be back to interviewing guests in the next episode, but I'd just like to experiment with this format and be curious what you think.

Here is the list for reference:

  • Take care of yourself. Your brain is working overtime—all the time. Practice “radical” recovery.

  • You may spend a lot longer thinking about things than most people. Pace your delivery.

  • If you go deep first, and then simplify
keep in mind that you don’t need to show all of your work.

  • Your default description of (almost) any problem will be too threatening/overwhelming.

  • Do your deepest thinking with co-conspirators (not the people you’re trying to influence).

  • Informal influence is often not formally recognized. Prepare mentally for this.

  • The people you’re trying to influence spend 98% of their day overwhelmed by business as usual.

  • Remember to also do the job you were hired to do (if you don’t you’ll be easier to discount).

  • Seek “quick wins”, but know that most meaningful things will take a while.

  • Some things take ages to materialize. It is discontinuous, not continuous.

  • Make sure to celebrate your wins. They will be few and far between, so savor the moment.

  • The people who support you in private may not be able to support you in public. Accept that.

  • Hack existing power structures—it’s much easier than trying to change them.

  • Consider becoming a formal leader. It’s harder in many ways, but you’ll have more leverage. What’s stopping you?

  • In lieu of being a formal leader, make sure to partner with people who actually “own” the area of change.

  • Watch out for imposing your worldview on people. Have you asked about what people care about?.

  • You’ll need a support network. And not just a venting network. Real support.

  • “Know when to fold ‘em”. Listen to Kenny Rogers The Gambler. Leave on your own terms.

  • Don’t confuse being able to sense/see system dynamics, with being about to “control” them. You can’t.

  • Grapple with your demons, and make sure not to wrap up too much of your identity in change

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[00:33] Take care of yourself. Your brain is working overtime all the time. Practice radical recovery.

I would basically find myself at the end of a multi day effort . I wasn't aware of just how tired I was and just how fried I was. How muddled my thoughts were. And I think part of the reason for that is if you enjoy going deep on things, and if you enjoy picking things apart, and if you enjoy analyzing things, you sometimes don't notice just how much effort that takes and how much bandwidth that takes.

And so it was important for me to try to set aside time to just completely disconnect, not jump into another thinking topic, not jump into something else that had high cognitive load, but try to strive for zero cognitive load. One of my favorite things is just watching cartoons with my son. Because I completely disconnect.

[01:29] You may spend a lot longer thinking about things and most people. Pace your delivery.

So if you've spent many hours going deep on something, you can't walk into a meeting and expect someone in three minutes to follow your thought process. It's just not going to work. You're going to have to pace your delivery to bring someone along on that journey.

And if you're good at analyzing things. If you're good at this type of systems thinking or overthinking, you can go so far in a couple hours. You can focus and go so deep. And there's no way you're going to be able to deliver all that information to someone. You have to get really really, really high level and rewind. And be super deliberate about how you deliver that information.

[02:17] If you go deep first and then simplify, keep in mind that you don't need to show all of your work.

So what I used to notice is that I would keep all of my work and the three bullets. And I would start with the three bullets and say, well, this is where I arrived at. And I felt like it was important because for some reason it's important to me to show how I got there.

So instead of just saying, here's the solution, do this. I would say let's try to unpack all the layers of this particular problem and how I arrived at this particular solution.

It turns out that that can greatly diminish the impact of the destination that you arrived at. And honestly it can open you up to all sorts of debate. It can open you up to all sorts of questions. And somehow it makes you seem less confident about what you're doing.

Now, not that I agree with any of that and I wish it could be different, but realistically you don't need to drag people through the whole mess.

[03:17] Your default description of almost any problem will be too threatening or overwhelming.

This is something I've had to come to grips with. The default detail that I want to go into on something is just going to seem threatening.

And the more I try to sugarcoat it the more weird it sounds also. So this is a tough one to come to grips with, but the important point here is understanding that the depth that you go into on something and the thoughtfulness you try to put into something and the different perspectives you try to discuss can be very threatening.

In fact, I used to think that describing something as a systemic issue was in fact less threatening. Because in some ways, by describing it that way you understood that well, there's a lot of contributing factors. There's not one person to blame here. There's a lot going on. And we're going to be able to figure this out. Or so I thought.

Realistically, when people hear systemic issue, when you don't point to one specific person or one specific situation and say, that's, what's messed up, it's actually highly threatening. So keep that in mind.

[04:24] Do your deepest thinking with co-conspirators not the people you're trying to influence.

In an ideal world, at least for me, everything would be co-designed. Everything would be a result of deeply exploring things with everyone involved. And you would arrive at the solutions that everyone believed in.

That's not the case, in many situations.

You might have other people that you're close with who are willing to go on this deeper journey to understand what the problem is. And I call those co-conspirators in this case. These are fellow system overthinkers who don't mind the ambiguity, who don't mind exploring different paths and then rewinding. Who don't mind dredging up these particular issues and looking at them from different angles.

Realistically, if you're trying to influence someone, it might be a good idea to bring them on that journey. But it might actually completely defeat your cause to bring them on that journey. So in that particular situation, if the person you're trying to influence isn't necessarily on that wavelength, and doesn't want to take that journey with you, you don't bring them along that particular journey. And you might be more influential in the long run.

[05:36] Informal influence is often not formally recognized. Prepare mentally for this.

If you're expecting the same kind of recognition that goes to people with formal influence and formal authority, you'll probably go off track. In fact, I think if you're seeking that, if you're seeking that recognition, if you're seeking to be in the limelight, if you're seeking that kind of gratitude publicly, you will be sorely disappointed. And it will probably send you off track.

So you have to prepare mentally for the fact that many of the things you do will influence informally in ways that people might not be able to immediately recognize. You might have a small number of people come up to you and say, you know, I really liked what you did there. Thank you so much. I really appreciate it. But it's not going to be this groundswell thing. You're not going to win the president's club trip to Hawaii or something with your sales team. And as long as you prepare mentally for that, I think you can be in good shape.

[06:39] The people you're trying to influence spend 98% of their day overwhelmed by businesses usual.

If you're trying to influence senior leaders you need to understand that they are really busy. This seems to be such common sense. But if you imagine that they're going to have any amount of time to go deep or as deep as you've been going on something, and appreciate all the nuances-- if you're expecting that-- you're going to be disappointed.

So you need to imagine that you are delivering the message to people who are overwhelmed. Who are under incredibly high cognitive load. Who are not necessarily in the right frame of mind to explore some kind of systemic issue.

You have to be prepared for that. Remember, you've set aside a couple hours to go deep on something. You've had all this time to do this focused work on something. This person is getting bombarded by every single person in the company. Back and forth. Everyone has a problem. Everyone is trying to sell them something. Everyone is trying to influence them. Everyone's telling them their version of what's wrong. That's the person you're trying to influence. And so you need to modify how you talk to them accordingly.

[07:53] Remember to also do the job you're hired to do. And if you don't, you'll be easier to discount.

So you might've been hired in the company to do job a. But upon arriving and because of the way you think you discover all these other problems that are probably deeper problems impacting the ability to do a. And so you go and you try to solve those particular problems.

Just be aware that if you don't do the job you are hired to do or don't work to clarify the job you were hired to do-- because maybe they didn't know the job you were supposed to do so you have to craft that role when you walk in-- when things get difficult, or if someone's looking for someone to blame, or if someone's looking for someone to say, well, I don't know what they're doing, you're going to be pretty vulnerable in that regard.

So keep that in mind.

[08:41] Seek quick wins, but know that most meaningful things will take a while.

Things don't change in companies in a matter of days or weeks, it can take years for things to change. So it's important to be realistic about the change efforts or the things you're trying to influence in your company. It's unlikely that things are going to just happen right away. So obviously enjoy the quick wins. But be prepared to play the long game with most of the things that you're working on.

[09:12] Some things take ages to materialize. It's discontinuous, not continuous.

I guess this is extending number nine to make a point that progress is also not continuous. So someone might say, well, we'll take three years, but progress towards that will be pretty incremental and every month things will get better, but even that doesn't work like that. You could be going for a year and not really see noticeable results. Maybe there's leading indicators that things are working. Maybe there's small signals that things will improve. But progress isn't always continuous. You'll often have to put in a lot of time, and then suddenly you'll see the fruits of your labor appear and then things will level off again. And then suddenly the fruits of your labor will appear again and then level off again and then probably drop again and then go up again. So just be prepared for that.

[10:02] Make sure to celebrate your wins. They will be few and far between. So savor the moment.

When something does go right, make sure to enjoy it. A lot of passionate problem solvers and systems thinkers and other folks are, are so zeroed in on the big picture and how everything is connected, that they don't give themselves the opportunity to savor the immediate wins that they have. They don't tell people about it. They don't think, Hey, maybe I'm going to take a day or two off.

They keep pressing on and on because they see the bigger nut they want to crack. And so don't forget to celebrate your wins.

[10:43] The people who support you in private may not be able to support you in public. Accept that.

So if you are an informal influencer, if you're someone who's trying to pick apart a wicked problem for people, you probably will have people thanking you for your effort.

And they might support you in private. But remember that supporting you in public is a much different proposition. It's very, very different.

And so that person who's supporting you and helping you along the way, or is a co-conspirator with things, might not be in a position to, in a public setting say, and I'm working with X to be able to influence that. They might not have that privilege and it might not be good for them to do that. So don't expect that in return.

[11:31] Hack existing power structures. It's much easier than trying to change them.

If change happens in a certain way in your company, as a result of certain power dynamics and power structures, it is so much easier to latch into those dynamics than it is to try to change that.

And so a lot of kind of deep thinkers or change agents try to upend the whole shebang. And it's very, very difficult to do that. And so, very importantly, if you see something you can hack, if you see something, you can latch your efforts on to consider that.

[12:09] Consider becoming a formal leader. It's harder in many ways, but you'll have more leverage. What's stopping you?

I've noticed this in myself. And I've noticed this in other folks who have some of these characteristics. But, it's a fear of formal leadership.

And in some cases, I think this is because they see potential abuses of power. Abuses of formal leadership. And they don't want to be that person, or they are afraid that they might commit those same things and be seen as a little bit of a sham right? Seen as a bundle of contradictions. Oh, when I wasn't a leader, I said this was broken. Then I became a leader and I became just the same people that I was railing against when I did that.

So they talk themselves out of formal leadership positions. And I guess it's important to know that, Hey, if it's not you, then it's going to be someone else. And I think that's an important consideration for many people.

[13:04] In lieu of being a formal leader, make sure to partner with people who actually own the area of change.

This is a little bit like hacking existing power structures, but basically there's people whose job title is to fix something. There's people whose job title is to improve something. And if you work separately from them, You will be seen as working in contradiction to them.

There's a reason why they have that job title and have those responsibilities. And you just don't want to end up in a battle with someone with that formal responsibility. It's much better to partner with them.

And in many cases it's much better to let them get the credit for it because they need the credit because it's part of their job description.

[13:44] Watch out for imposing your worldview on people. Have you asked about what people care about?

I've fallen into this trap so many times. I'm a raging collectivist. If it was me, we'd have, you know, 150 person retros and people self assigning to all these improvement areas and managers would be primarily coaches and wouldn't really be micromanaging these teams and the improvement stuff. It would be crazy town. Because that's me.

It's easy for me to impose that world view on other people. It's important to ask, what do they care about? How do they think the world works? How do they think change happens?

Some people imagine change is primarily a function of people's merit, about individual effort, about individual responsibility and accountability. And if you run in there like a raging collectivist, and expect them to just do what you want to do in the way you want to do it. It's not going to work.

[14:42] You'll need a support network and not just a venting network, real support.

Venting networks are groups of people who get together and just vent about the current situation. They whinge. They talk about how messed up it is, how circular it is. It's almost a spectator sport at that moment.

And at every company they have these venting networks.

However, that's not going to be enough. You need a support network. You need people who are going to listen to you, and are going to try to nudge you towards being proactive. And maybe let you do the same for them in return. Right? You're going to need a support network, not a venting network.

[15:23] Know when to fold them, listen to Kenny Rogers, The Gambler, leave on your own terms.

Pretty self-explanatory, but for your own health and wellbeing, it's often good to know when to move on. You've tried your hardest. Hopefully you did your best. You learn from, maybe, the mistakes you've made, but it's time to move on.

[15:41] Don't confuse being able to sense/ see system dynamics with being able to control them. You can't.

For people who are able to go really deep on things and who are empaths or highly sensitive people or any combination of these things, you are sensing things and seeing things that many other people don't see. However, it's super dangerous if you think, just because you can map it out, just because you can sense it just because you can describe, it means you can control those forces. You can't. Now you might be good at figuring out good places to start experimenting. You might be good at figuring out higher leverage places and lower leverage places, but just because you can see and understand something doesn't mean that you're able to just jump in and fix it.

[16:28] Grapple with your demons and make sure not to wrap up too much of your identity in change.

Huge one for me, I've fallen into this trap a bunch of times. When you self-identify with some outcome, some change outcome, and it's reflecting some deeper part of your past or how you grew up, or how you interact with people. And once those things connect together, it's very, very difficult to find a positive outcome. You'll find that it's never good enough. You'll find that you're never able to work out whatever you were trying to work out through your work and through some particular piece of change. So when you are trying to work out some of your demons through the change efforts or thinking efforts you have in a work environment, just be very careful.

I hope this format was interesting and that you found it helpful. I'll be back to interviewing guests in the next episode. Have a great day, have a great weekend. Take care of yourself.

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Podcast: The Logan Bartlett Show (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: EP 102: Armon Dadgar (HashiCorp Co-Founder) Reflects 48-Hours After Selling to IBM
Pub date: 2024-05-03

After last week’s announcement that IBM is acquiring HashiCorp for $6.4B, HashiCorp co-founder Armon Dadgar discussed a few behind-the-scenes elements of the acquisition and HashiCorp’s full journey from the early days. Armon shares some of his biggest lessons from the journey, from fundraising to community building and more.

(00:00) Intro

(01:17) Explaining HashiCorp: Simplifying Cloud Infrastructure for Enterprises

(03:24) Navigating the Acquisition: Emotions, Expectations, and the Future with IBM

(09:01) The Founding Story: Choosing the Path of a Venture-Backed Business

(10:59) Challenging Silicon Valley Wisdom: HashiCorp's Multi-Product Strategy

(17:54) The Importance of Being Pragmatic: Adapting Products to Market Needs

(32:27) Customer Trust and Commitment: The Foundation of HashiCorp's Success

(36:27) Organizational Evolution: Adapting Structure to Strategy at HashiCorp

(38:36) Exploring Product Verticals and Team Structures

(39:16) The Evolution of Product Portfolio

(40:46) Strategic Product Development and Market Fit

(41:51) Transitioning from Product Expansion to Monetization

(43:27) The Impact of Docker on Fundraising and Strategy

(50:31) Navigating the Challenges of Multi-Product Strategy

(55:33) The Significance of Branding and Product Naming

(01:00:46) Understanding User vs. Buyer Dynamics in Open Source Monetization

(01:09:17) The Founders' Journey: From University to HashiCorp

(01:16:39) Navigating Leadership and Hiring Challenges

(01:17:14) The Search for the Right Leadership: A Journey of Discovery

(01:17:57) Realizing the Need for Specialized Roles

(01:18:24) The Turning Point: Hiring Key Executives

(01:19:57) Overcoming the Ego: Embracing Change for Company Success

(01:21:18) The Final Decision: Bringing in New Leadership

(01:22:45) Reflecting on the Hiring Process and Its Impact

(01:28:27) Building a Culture of Execution and Communication

(01:50:51) The Importance of Airline Loyalty for Busy Executives

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Podcast: The Logan Bartlett Show (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: EP 104: Sam Altman (CEO, OpenAI) talks GPT-4o and Predicts the Future of AI
Pub date: 2024-05-14

On the day of the ChatGPT-4o announcement, Sam Altman sat down to share behind-the-scenes details of the launch and offer his predictions for the future of AI. Altman delves into OpenAI's vision, discusses the timeline for achieving AGI, and explores the societal impact of humanoid robots. He also expresses his excitement and concerns about AI personal assistants, highlights the biggest opportunities and risks in the AI landscape today, and much more.

(00:00) Intro

(00:50) The Personal Impact of Leading OpenAI

(01:44) Unveiling Multimodal AI: A Leap in Technology

(02:47) The Surprising Use Cases and Benefits of Multimodal AI

(03:23) Behind the Scenes: Making Multimodal AI Possible

(08:36) Envisioning the Future of AI in Communication and Creativity

(10:21) The Business of AI: Monetization, Open Source, and Future Directions

(16:42) AI's Role in Shaping Future Jobs and Experiences

(20:29) Debunking AGI: A Continuous Journey Towards Advanced AI

(24:04) Exploring the Pace of Scientific and Technological Progress

(24:18) The Importance of Interpretability in AI

(25:11) Navigating AI Ethics and Regulation

(27:26) The Safety Paradigm in AI and Beyond

(28:55) Personal Reflections and the Impact of AI on Society

(29:11) The Future of AI: Fast Takeoff Scenarios and Societal Changes

(30:59) Navigating Personal and Professional Challenges

(40:21) The Role of AI in Creative and Personal Identity

(43:09) Educational System Adaptations for the AI Era

(44:30) Contemplating the Future with Advanced AI

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Podcast: Conversations with Tyler (LS 64 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Paul Graham on Ambition, Art, and Evaluating Talent
Pub date: 2023-08-09

Tyler and Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham sat down at his home in the English countryside to discuss what areas of talent judgment his co-founder and wife Jessica Livingston is better at, whether young founders have gotten rarer, whether he still takes a dim view of solo founders, how to 2x ambition in the developed world, on the minute past which a Y Combinator interviewer is unlikely to change their mind, what YC learned after rejecting companies, how he got over his fear of flying, Florentine history, why almost all good artists are underrated, what's gone wrong in art, why new homes and neighborhoods are ugly, why he wants to visit the Dark Ages, why he's optimistic about Britain and San Fransisco, the challenges of regulating AI, whether we're underinvesting in high-cost interruption activities, walking, soundproofing, fame, and more.

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Podcast: Founders (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: #314 Paul Graham (How To Do Great Work)
Pub date: 2023-07-31

What I learned from reading How To Do Great Work by Paul Graham.


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(2:00) All you need to do is find something you have an aptitude for and great interest in.

(2:10) Doing great work means doing something important so well that you expand people's ideas of what's possible.

(4:15) How many even discover something they love to work on? A few hundred thousand, perhaps, out of billions. —How to Do What You Love by Paul Graham

(5:10) Always preserve excitingness. (Let what you are excited about guide you)

(8:15) If you're excited about some possibility that everyone else ignores, and you have enough expertise to say precisely what they're all overlooking, that's as good a bet as you'll find.

(9:15) How To Work Hard by Paul Graham

(10:05) When you follow what you are intensely interested in this strange convergence happens where you're working all the time and it feels like you're never working.

(10:20) You can't tell what most kinds of work are like except by doing them. You may have to work at something for years before you know how much you like it or how good you are at it.

(13:00) When it comes to figuring out what to work on, you're on your own.

(14:00) Lighting Out for the Territory: How Samuel Clemens Headed West and Became Mark Twain by Roy Morris Jr. (Founders #312)

(17:15) One sign that you're suited for some kind of work is when you like even the parts that other people find tedious or frightening.

(17:50) Make what you are most excited about.

(19:00) If you're interested, you're not astray.

(19:30) Against the Odds: An Autobiography by James Dyson (Founders #300)

(20:15) At each stage do whatever seems most interesting and gives you the best options for the future. I call this approach "staying upwind." This is how most people who've done great work seem to have done it.

(22:50) In many projects a lot of the best work happens in what was meant to be the final stage.

(25:00) A Mathematician’s Apology by G.H. Hardy

(26:00) Great work usually entails spending what would seem to most people an unreasonable amount of time on a problem.

(26:30) The reason we're surprised is that we underestimate the cumulative effect of work. Writing a page a day doesn't sound like much, but if you do it every day you'll write a book a year. That's the key: consistency. People who do great things don't get a lot done every day. They get something done, rather than nothing.

(27:10) Something that grows exponentially can become so valuable that it's worth making an extraordinary effort to get it started.

(27:30) Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version)

(30:00) If you don't try to be the best, you won't even be good. This observation has been made by so many people in so many different fields that it might be worth thinking about why it's true.

(36:00) Originality isn't a process, but a habit of mind. Original thinkers throw off new ideas about whatever they focus on.

(38:00) Change breaks the brittle.

(43:45) What might seem to be merely the initial step — deciding what to work on — is in a sense the key to the whole game.

(45:00) Being prolific is underrated. + Examples of outlandishly prolific people

(48:30) Just focus on the really important things and ignore everything else.

(50:30) One of the most powerful kinds of copying is to copy something from one field into another. History is so full of chance discoveries of this type that it's probably worth giving chance a hand by deliberately learning about other kinds of work. You can take ideas from quite distant fields if you let them be metaphors.

(51:30) Seek out the best colleagues.

(54:30) Solving hard problems will always involve some backtracking.

(56:30) Don't marry someone who doesn't understand that you need to work, or sees your work as competition for your attention. If you're ambitious, you need to work; it's almost like a medical condition; so someone who won't let you work either doesn't understand you, or does and doesn't care.

(57:50) The prestige of a type of work is at best a trailing indicator and sometimes completely mistaken. If you do anything well enough, you'll make it prestigious.

(58:00) Curiosity is the best guide. Your curiosity never lies, and it knows more than you do about what's worth paying attention to.

If you asked an oracle the secret to doing great work and the oracle replied with a single word, my bet would be on "curiosity."

The whole process is a kind of dance with curiosity.


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Episode: #275 Paul Graham
Pub date: 2022-11-03

What I learned from reading Paul Graham’s essays.


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[4:52] My father told me I could be whatever I wanted when I grew up, so long as I enjoyed it.

[5:49] Do what you love doesn't mean, do what you would like to do most this second.

[7:41] To be happy I think you have to be doing something you not only enjoy, but admire. You have to be able to say, at the end, wow, that's pretty cool.

[8:00] You should not worry about prestige. This is easy advice to give. It’s hard to follow.

[10:22] You have to make a conscious effort to keep your ideas about what you want from being contaminated by what seems possible.

[12:18] Whichever route you take, expect a struggle. Finding work you love is very difficult. Most people fail.

[16:46] How To Do What You Love by Paul Graham

[16:34] What Doesn’t Seem Like Work by Paul Graham

[17:16] If something that seems like work to other people doesn't seem like work to you, that's something you're well suited for.

[17:42] Michael Jordan said what looked like hard work to others was play to him. Michael Jordan: The Life by Roland Lazenby. (Founders #212) and Driven From Within by Michael Jordan and Mark Vancil. (Founders #213)

[20:53] How Not to Die by Paul Graham

[23:00] All that matters is to survive. The rest is just words. — Charles de Gaulle by Julian Jackson (Founders #224)

[24:49] You have to assume that running a startup can be demoralizing. That is certainly true. I've been there, and that's why I've never done another startup.

[27:31] If a startup succeeds, you get millions of dollars, and you don't get that kind of money just by asking for it. You have to assume it takes some amount of pain.

[28:17] So I'll tell you now: bad shit is coming. It always is in a startup. The odds of getting from launch to liquidity without some kind of disaster happening are one in a thousand.

So don't get demoralized. When the disaster strikes, just say to yourself, ok, this was what Paul was talking about. What did he say to do? Oh, yeah. Don't give up.

[28:45] Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy by Paul Graham

[30:23] If we've learned one thing from funding so many startups, it's that they succeed or fail based on the qualities of the founders.

[31:15] If you're worried about threats to the survival of your company, don't look for them in the news. Look in the mirror.

[34:10] The cheaper your company is to operate, the harder it is to kill.

[35:43] Relentlessly Resourceful by Paul Graham

[35:43] I finally got being a good startup founder down to two words: relentlessly resourceful.

[37:20] If I were running a startup, this would be the phrase I'd tape to the mirror. "Make something people want" is the destination, but "Be relentlessly resourceful" is how you get there.

[37:40] The Anatomy of Determination by Paul Graham

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[39:50] After a while determination starts to look like talent.

[42:12] Ambitious people are rare, so if everyone is mixed together randomly, as they tend to be early in people's lives, then the ambitious ones won't have many ambitious peers. When you take people like this and put them together with other ambitious people, they bloom like dying plants given water. Probably most ambitious people are starved for the sort of encouragement they'd get from ambitious peers, whatever their age.

[43:21] One of the best ways to help a society generally is to create events and institutions that bring ambitious people together. (Founders Podcast Conference?)

[45:21] What Startups Are Really Like by Paul Graham

[49:00] The Entire History of Silicon Valley by John Coogan

[49:50] Meet You In Hell: Andrew Carnegie Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America by Les Standiford. (Founders #73)

[55:08] You need persistence because everything takes longer than you expect. A lot of people (founders) were surprised by that.

[57:18] Estee Lauder was a master at doing things that don’t scale. EstĂ©e Lauder: A Success Storyby EstĂ©e Lauder. (Founders #217)

[58:45] What makes companies fail most of the time is poor execution by the founders. A lot of times founders are worried about competition. YC has founded 1900+ companies. 1 was killed by competitors. You have the same protection against competitors that light aircraft have against crashing into other light aircraft. Do you know what the protection is? Space is large.

[1:01:00] Paul on what he would do if he was strating a company today:

If I were a 22 year starting a startup I would certainly apply to YC. Which is not that surprising, since it was designed to be what I wish I'd had when I did start one. But (assuming I got in) I would not get sucked into raising a huge amount on Demo Day.

I would raise maybe $500k, keep the company small for the first year, work closely with users to make something amazing, and otherwise stay off SV's radar.

Ideally I'd get to profitability on that initial $500k. Later I could raise more, if I felt like it. Or not. But it would be on my terms.

At every point in the company's growth, I'd keep the company as small as I could. I'd always want people to be surprised how few employees we had. Fewer employees = lower costs, and less need to turn into a manager.

When I say small, I mean small in employees, not revenues.

[1:05:07] Against The Odds: An Autobiography by James Dyson (Founders #200)

[1:07:00] A Word To The Resourceful by Paul Graham

[1:08:07] We found the startups that did best were the ones with the sort of founders about whom we'd say "they can take care of themselves." The startups that do best are fire-and-forget in the sense that all you have to do is give them a lead, and they'll close it, whatever type of lead it is.

[1:09:00] Understanding all the implications of what someone tells you is a subset of resourcefulness. It's conversational resourcefulness.

[1:11:00] Do Things That Don’t Scale by Paul Graham

[1:11:00] Startups take off because the founders make them take off.

[1:16:00] The question to ask about an early stage startup is not "is this company taking over the world?" but "how big could this company get if the founders did the right things?" And the right things often seem both laborious and inconsequential at the time.

[1:16:00] Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire by James Wallace and Jim Erickson (Founders #140)

[1:21:00] The world is complicated. It is noisy. We are not going to get a chance to get people to remember much about us. No company is. So we have to be really clear about what we want them to know about us. —Steve Jobs

[1:22:00] Any strategy that omits the effort is suspect.

[1:23:00] The need to do something unscalably laborious to get started is so nearly universal that it might be a good idea to stop thinking of startup ideas as scalars. Instead we should try thinking of them as pairs of what you're going to build, plus the unscalable thing(s) you're going to do initially to get the company going.

Now that there are two components you can try to be imaginative about the second as well as the first. Founders need to work hard in two dimensions.


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Podcast: Sustainable Xagilityℱ - board & executive c-suite agility for the organization's direction of travel (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Jim Benson on "The Collaboration Equation", obeya rooms, humble hubris and building what people need
Pub date: 2023-04-03

Jim Benson is back again on the Xagility podcast. This time we talk about his book "The Collaboration Equation", lessons from billion dollar construction projects, obeya rooms, humble hubris, building what people need as well as leadership structure and unachievable KPIs. Join us on this fun and informative episode!About Jim Benson:After three decades as a business owner, team leader, and employee in both companies and government agencies, Jim found there is one key factor in every organization. They take on more than we can finish.Almost every client (individual or organizational) Jim has worked with, regardless of vertical, is overworked. Being overworked means they don’t have time to pay attention to their work, its context, or their co-workers. This fosters hasty decisions made with a lack of information. These poor decisions create re-work, unnecessary emergencies, and unrewarding working conditions.Since writing Personal Kanban and winning the Shingo Research Award, Jim has had the good fortune to: * work with Fortune 10 companies, major world governments, and the most dynamic startups * monthly keynote conferences globally * be interviewed in major publications including Time, Newsweek, Wired, LifeHacker, The New York Times, the Times of London, Inc, and Businessweek.Connect with Jim:Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimbenson/Email: jim@moduscooperandi.com Twitter: @ourfounder Website: moduscooperandi.comAbout John Coleman:John Coleman's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johncolemanagilitychef/ John Coleman's website: https://orderlydisruption.com/ Looking to get your Scrum/Agility training? Check out my courses at: https://orderlydisruption.com/collections/coursesThank you for listening.#scrum #kanban #agile #managementconsulting

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Podcast: Agility Island - for practitioners & coaches in Product Management, Lean, Agile & Scrum
Episode: Agility Island: What is Large Scale Scrum (LeSS)?
Pub date: 2022-10-07

In this episode, I take you through what Large Scale Scrum precisely consists of, including a breakdown of the sprint retrospectives, product backlog refinement, and the daily scrum. What are the advantages of scaling?

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Podcast: Agility Island - for practitioners & coaches in Product Management, Lean, Agile & Scrum
Episode: The 1 question to figure out where you are in the product life cycle
Pub date: 2023-02-11

What if I told you there is one 1 question you can ask to figure out where you are in the product life cycle?

Moreover, what if I told you figuring out where you are can tell you the kind of complexities you can expect to deal with?

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Podcast: Agility Island - for practitioners & coaches in Product Management, Lean, Agile & Scrum
Episode: What is throughput in Kanban and how do you measure it?
Pub date: 2023-04-02

Throughput is important. But what is it, how do you measure it and what role does value play?

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Podcast: Agility Island - for practitioners & coaches in Product Management, Lean, Agile & Scrum
Episode: Sizing: the Do's and Don'ts
Pub date: 2023-08-25

agile #scrum #productowner What are some of the things you should TRY and some things you should AVOID when sizing? Try these tips to take your product backlog to the next level!Articles mentioned in this episode:Monte Carlo Probabilistic Forecasting: https://medium.com/agileinsider/is-release-planning-done-in-scrum-managing-stakeholder-expectations-forecasting-c0064371ee64The product owner, product leader, product manager and the Scrum accountabilities: https://medium.com/agileinsider/the-product-owner-product-leader-product-manager-and-the-scrum-accountabilities-f9716f78c70dAbout John Coleman:John Coleman's LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/johncolemanagilitychef/John Coleman's website: ⁠https://orderlydisruption.com/⁠ Looking to get your Scrum/Agility training? Check out my courses at: ⁠https://orderlydisruption.com/collections/coursesThank you for listening.⁠#scrum⁠ ⁠#agile⁠ ⁠#productmanagement

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Podcast: Agility Island - for practitioners & coaches in Product Management, Lean, Agile & Scrum
Episode: The definition of workflow
Pub date: 2023-08-30

Workflows? How are they defined? What policies should you try on your kanban board?

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Podcast: Agility Island - for practitioners & coaches in Product Management, Lean, Agile & Scrum
Episode: Kanban Series: Classes of Service
Pub date: 2024-01-09

What are the different classes of service? Should you have classes of service? What are some other options? What does the Kanban Guide say about Classes of Service?

Tune in to this week's episode of Agility Island to find out.

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Podcast: Agility Island - for practitioners & coaches in Product Management, Lean, Agile & Scrum
Episode: Kanban Series: How to manage discovery and delivery work on a Kanban board
Pub date: 2024-01-16

This week, we delve into the key elements of a Kanban board, such as workflow definitions, cycle time, throughput, work item age, and Work-In-Progress (WIP). We break down the types of work—discovery, development, and delivery—and discuss the critical time horizons: discovering the "next best thing," developing with evidence, delivering customer-ready products, and reflecting on past releases.

Dive into the importance of avoiding backward movement on the Kanban board and explore the use of swim lanes to facilitate flexible workflow. Discover the benefits of separating discovery work items from development work items and the option of combining all elements into a single work item with subtasks.

Access the Kanban Guide in OVER 10 languages here: ⁠⁠https://kanbanguides.org/english/⁠⁠

About John Coleman:John Coleman's LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/johncolemanagilitychef/⁠⁠⁠⁠John Coleman's website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://orderlydisruption.com/⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Looking to get your Scrum/Agility training? Check out my courses at: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://orderlydisruption.com/collections/courses⁠⁠⁠⁠Thank you for listening.⁠#scrum⁠ ⁠#agile⁠ ⁠#workflow #kanban #management #kanbanguides

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Podcast: Inside the Strategy Room (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 187. Driving innovation with generative AI
Pub date: 2023-12-08

Generative AI has been the hottest technology and business topic of 2023. Everyone knows that gen AI could be important, but how do you use it to create innovation that will genuinely advance your business?

Joining us to address that question are Laura LaBerge and Matt Banholzer.

Laura is the Global Director of our Growth Strategy and Innovation practice based in our Stamford, Connecticut office. She works with clients on digitally driven innovations, strategies, and transformations. You can contact Laura on LinkedIn here.

Matt is a partner in our Chicago office who co-leads the Growth Strategy and Innovation Practice. Matt serves organizations on innovation strategy across a range of sectors, including energy, basic materials, and agriculture. You can contact Matt here.


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Podcast: Inside the Strategy Room (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 195. Why strategists should embrace imperfection
Pub date: 2024-02-09

We're joined by Charles Conn and Rob McLean, AM, the co-authors of The Imperfectionists: Strategic Mindsets for Uncertain Times.

Charles is an investor, environmentalist, and entrepreneur. He co-founded Monograph, a venture firm, and was previously CEO of the Rhodes Trust in Oxford. He is the Board Chair of Patagonia and sits on The Nature Conservancy European Council. He was the founding CEO of Ticketmaster-Citysearch and a partner at McKinsey & Company.

Rob is a Director Emeritus of McKinsey & Company, a Trustee of The Nature Conservancy in Australia and Asia, and a Director of the Paul Ramsay Foundation, Australia’s largest philanthropic foundation. He is the former Dean of the Australian Graduate School of Management. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business.

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Podcast: Business Analysis Live! (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Solving the Wrong Problem
Pub date: 2023-08-08

We discuss effective problem solving with Khethelo Malinga, who presented at the Building Business Capabilities (BBC) conference on the topic. We talk though challenges of why problem solving can be difficult and how to overcome them in organizations. We also take live questions from viewers on LinkedIn live. RESOURCES:- Book: Bulletproof Problem Solving – free access to the book and audio book for IIBA members here https://iiba.skillport.com/skillportfe/main.action?path=summary/BOOKS/146210 or you can find the book on Amazon. Do you have questions about this topic or have an idea for a different topic? Ask us a question at ⁠live@iiba.org⁠ or leave us a ⁠voice message⁠ on our podcast homepage.Business Analysis Live is hosted by:- Susan Moore, Community Engagement Manager at IIBA- Scott Bennett, Manager, Business Analysis at IIBA

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Podcast: 20 Minute Books
Episode: Bulletproof Problem Solving - Book Summary
Pub date: 2024-01-06

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Podcast: Stanford GSB: View From The Top (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Ray Dalio: Seek Out Thoughtful Disagreement
Pub date: 2019-09-03

Ray Dalio founded Bridgewater Investments, the most successful hedge fund in history. But he also made mistakes — and those mistakes helped him learn to balance audacity with humility. During a visit to Stanford Graduate School of Business, he talked about the value of a system that allows competing points of view to be heard fairly. Such a system can lead to good decisions in both business and public policy.Stanford GSB’s View From The Top is the dean’s premier speaker series. It launched in 1978 and is supported in part by the F. Kirk Brennan Speaker Series Fund. During student-led interviews and before a live audience, leaders from around the world share insights on effective leadership, their personal core values, and lessons learned throughout their career.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Podcast: Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | Career (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Twitter’s former Head of Product opens up: being fired, meeting Elon, changing stagnant culture, building consumer product, more | Kayvon Beykpour
Pub date: 2024-04-28

Kayvon Beykpour was the longest-serving head of product at Twitter and was GM of Twitter’s consumer division until the platform was acquired by Elon Musk. He originally joined Twitter in 2015 through the acquisition of his company, Periscope, the largest live video streaming platform at the time. Periscope pioneered technology that inspired Instagram Live, TikTok Live, Facebook Live, and other social networks’ expansion into video streaming. In our conversation, we discuss:

‱ The story of being let go from Twitter after Elon’s acquisition

‱ How he turned Twitter’s stagnant culture around

‱ Kayvon’s thoughts on the limitations of frameworks like Jobs to Be Done

‱ Why Periscope failed

‱ Advice for building consumer products

‱ When to copy, when to innovate

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In this episode, we cover:

(00:00) Kayvon’s background

(04:31) Getting Elon up to speed at Twitter

(11:34) The story of being let go from Twitter after Elon’s acquisition

(21:09) Changing the product culture at Twitter

(29:44) Building the “hide replies” feature

(32:02) Sacred crows, taking bold bets, and reigniting growth

(34:28) Aquihires and their impact

(42:40) Tips for successful acquisitions and staffing

(47:00) The limitations of frameworks like JTBD

(53:20) Signs you’ve gone too far with a framework

(57:44) Lessons from building Periscope

(01:00:41) Reasons why Periscope failed

(01:07:24) The challenges of implementing video at Twitter

(01:12:05) Copying ideas in good taste

(01:17:58) How to get better at building consumer products

(01:19:51) What Kayvon is building

(01:20:31) Lightning round

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Referenced:

‱ Lessons on building product sense, navigating AI, optimizing the first mile, and making it through the messy middle | Scott Belsky (Adobe, Behance): https://www.lennyspodcast.com/lessons-on-building-product-sense-navigating-ai-optimizing-the-first-mile-and-making-it-through-t/

‱ What it’s like to sell your startup for ~$120 million before it’s even launched: Meet Twitter’s new prized possession, Periscope: https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-periscope-and-why-twitter-bought-it-2015-3

‱ Walter Isaacson on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/walter-isaacson-b8b81520/

‱ Elon Musk on X: https://twitter.com/elonmusk

‱ Parag Agrawal on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/parag-agrawal-5a14742a/

‱ Jack Dorsey on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-dorsey-a43b07242/

‱ Blackboard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard_Inc.

‱ Keith Coleman on X: https://twitter.com/kcoleman

‱ Esther Crawford on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/esthercrawford/

‱ Twitter acquires Chroma Labs: https://tech.hindustantimes.com/tech/news/twitter-acquires-chroma-labs-story-aqvcRPAoYXqXJuAbefA6cN.html

‱ John Barnett on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnbarnettt/

‱ Jobs to Be Done framework: https://jobs-to-be-done.com/jobs-to-be-done-a-framework-for-customer-needs-c883cbf61c90

‱ Hot takes and techno-optimism from tech’s top power couple: https://www.lennyspodcast.com/hot-takes-and-techno-optimism-from-techs-top-power-couple-sriram-and-aarthi/

‱ Nike Is Unveiling the Kobe 11 Tomorrow Using Periscope: https://sneakernews.com/2015/12/13/nike-is-unveiling-the-kobe-11-tomorrow-using-periscope/

‱ Chris Sacca’s website: https://chrissacca.com/

‱ Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/formedia/tools/facebook-live

‱ Kevin Hart on X: https://twitter.com/KevinHart4real

‱ Clubhouse: https://www.clubhouse.com/

‱ Vine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vine_(service)

‱ Paul Davison on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davison/

‱ Rohan Seth on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohanseth/

‱ Cryptonomicon: https://www.amazon.com/Cryptonomicon-Neal-Stephenson/dp/0380788624

‱ Reamde: https://www.amazon.com/Reamde-Novel-Neal-Stephenson-ebook/dp/B004XVN0WW

‱ The Name of the Wind: https://www.amazon.com/Name-Wind-Kingkiller-Chronicle-Book-ebook/dp/B0010SKUYM

‱ Star Trek official site: https://www.startrek.com/

‱ Dune: part 2: https://www.dunemovie.com/

‱ Oppenheimer on Peacock: https://www.peacocktv.com/stream-movies/oppenheimer

‱ Tokyo Vice on Max: https://www.max.com/shows/tokyo-vice/e7d93204-7f98-4e62-ab52-6c1da053f942

‱ Devs on Hulu: https://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/devs

‱ Nick Offerman on X: https://twitter.com/nick_offerman

‱ 3 Body Problem on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81024821

‱ Perplexity AI: https://www.perplexity.ai/

‱ Particle: https://www.particle.news/

‱ Crokinole board game: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/521/crokinole

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Podcast: Founder's Journal (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Private Elon Musk Emails
Pub date: 2024-02-02

Episode 102: For today’s episode, I’m going to be reading 3 emails from Elon Musk. These emails were initially just for Tesla employees’ eyes, but were eventually made public. I think these emails not only give good insight into the way in which Elon operates as a person & operates his businesses, but I also think there are great lessons hidden within each of these emails regardless of what you think of Elon as a person.

Email 1: https://x.com/TechEmails/status/1511366496219402242?s=20

Email 2: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/01/elon-musk-reportedly-tells-tesla-workers-to-be-in-office-full-time-or-resign.html

Email 3: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/15/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-says-in-email-he-must-approve-all-hires.html

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Podcast: AdfĂŠrd
Episode: 104. Vildmark, videnskab og vanvid - med Eske Willerslev
Pub date: 2024-04-02

Husk at tilmelde dig podcastens nyhedsbrev. Det gĂžr du her: https://bit.ly/3UF8dKB
Se hele det interviewet pÄ YouTube lige her: https://youtu.be/OYB-6rZuiS4

En generÞs times inspirerende vanvid. SÄdan kan dagens episode bedst opsummeres. Og du kan godt glÊde dig.

Eske Willerslev er efter min mening et af de absolut mest interessante mennesker, vi har i Danmark. Han er en af verdens fĂžrende DNA-forskere, professor pĂ„ Cambridge og KĂžbenhavns Universitet og forfatter til flere bĂžger, bl.a. ’Jagten pĂ„ verdens ĂŠldste DNA’. Derudover stĂ„r han bag banebrydende opdagelser, er eventyrer og kan fortĂŠlle de vildeste historier fra vildmarken, fx fra dengang han var pelsjĂŠger i Sibirien.

I samtalen kommer vi bl.a. ind pÄ:
* Eskes forrykte ture i vildmarken – og hvilke ganske fĂ„ ting, du ifĂžlge Eske skal have styr pĂ„ for at kunne klare dig derude * hvordan han kombinerer en videnskabelig tilgang med anerkendelse af spiritualitet * hvilken skik fra en anden kultur, Eske helst ville importere til Danmark * historien bag, hvorfor han ikke kan lide at skĂŠre i skeletter (mere) * hvad TV-shoppen ifĂžlge Eske kan lĂŠre dig om innovation * hvordan han sĂŠlger sine ideer og fĂ„r folk med sig * hvorfor han drĂžmmer stort, men eksekverer smĂ„t.

Og sĂ„ skal du ellers bare nyde, hvordan Eske forener passion med respekt for kulturer, dyb nysgerrighed – og well, en anelse vanvid:-)

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Podcast: alphalist.CTO Podcast - For CTOs and Technical Leaders (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: #73 Will Larson // Thought Leader @ Irrational Exuberance (lethain)
Pub date: 2023-03-30

How to find the ideal CTO Role in 2023: Location, Stage, Domain, Culture and Red FlagsFocus on your CTO career in this podcast with Will Larson about leaving a CTO role, finding a new CTO role, and negotiating your compensation. Will is the thought leader behind the popular blog "Irrational Exuberance" and the book "An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management" and "Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track". Additionally, he is the former CTO of Calm who has also led teams at Uber, Digg, and Yahoo.Listen to find out:

  • How to find 🔍 the ideal CTO Role in 2023: Location 🌍, Stage, Domain, Culture đŸ€ and Red Flags đŸš©
  • Moving on from your Current CTO role 👋: When, Why and How (succession, exit options etc.)
  • What to look out for in CTO💾 compensation and options
  • Why he predicts tech salaries will decrease in the 10 years

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Podcast: StaffEng (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Will Larson (Calm)
Pub date: 2021-06-29

Please note that this episode contains brief mention of suicide.
Today's guest needs no introduction! Of course, they will get one anyway:

Will Larson is the CTO of Calm and has worked at Stripe, Uber, and Digg. He is also an author and has written two books, one of which is on Staff Engineering and serves as the inspiration for this podcast! In our conversation with Will, we discuss one of his earliest blog posts on a catastrophic launch at Digg and why he felt it was important to write about his experiences. We talk with Will about the expanding role of Staff Engineers and how that is affected by the rate of change in the field of startups and technology companies as a whole. Later, we explore the tracks of technical leadership and management within technology companies and the pros and cons of the pendulum model. Will shares what he’s learned about the skills needed for leadership positions and why working with a team of managers versus a team of engineers requires a completely different skillset. After that, we talk about Will’s career in writing and public speaking. We loved having Will on the show, so join us for engaging conversation spanning many topics from the potential for leadership in technology companies to the joy of writing!

Links

  • Will Larson on LinkedIn
  • Will Larson on Github
  • Will Larson on Amazon
  • Irrational Exuberance
  • Calm
  • Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track
  • An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management
  • Digg's v4 launch: an optimism born of necessity
  • High Output Management
  • The Engineer/Manager Pendulum

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Podcast: In Depth (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: A masterclass in engineering leadership from Carta, Stripe, Uber, and Calm | Will Larson (CTO at Carta)
Pub date: 2023-11-16

Will Larson is the CTO at Carta, an ownership and equity management platform that raised at a $7.4b valuation in 2021. Prior to joining Carta, Will was CTO at Calm, founded Stripe's Foundation Engineering org, and led Uber’s Platform Engineering people and strategy. Will also writes extensively about engineering leadership, and has authored two books in this area: Staff Engineer, and An Elegant Puzzle.

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In today’s episode we discuss:

  • How to form an engineering strategy
  • Common engineering management mistakes, and how to avoid them
  • Advice for explaining, measuring, and optimizing engineering velocity
  • Will’s nuanced approach to organizational policies
  • Why it’s sometimes counterproductive to tell someone not to micromanage

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Referenced:

  • Accelerate (book): https://www.amazon.com/Accelerate-Software-Performing-Technology-Organizations/dp/1942788339
  • Calm: https://www.calm.com/
  • Carta: https://www.carta.com/
  • DORA: https://dora.dev/
  • Good Strategy, Bad Strategy (book): https://www.amazon.com/Good-Strategy-Bad-Difference-Matters/dp/0307886239
  • JavaScript: https://www.javascript.com/
  • KAFKA: https://kafka.apache.org/
  • Minto Pyramid (framework): https://untools.co/minto-pyramid
  • Ruby on Rails: https://rubyonrails.org/
  • SPACE (framework): https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm
  • Stripe: https://www.stripe.com/

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Where to find Brett Berson:

  • Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/brettberson
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brett-berson-9986094/

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Where to find Will Larson:

  • Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/lethain
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/will-larson-a44b543/
  • Personal website/blog: https://lethain.com/
  • An Elegant Puzzle (book): https://www.amazon.com/Elegant-Puzzle-Systems-Engineering-Management/dp/1732265186
  • Staff Engineer (book): https://staffeng.com/book

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Introduction

(03:03) The nuances of taking lessons from old companies

(14:28) The value of writing down engineering principles

(17:03) How to structure a strategy document

(18:48) The 2 parts of any engineering strategy

(21:08) Advice for turning strategy into action

(23:44) Carta's unique "navigator" model

(24:50) The Hidden Variable Problem

(29:59) Explaining, measuring, and optimizing velocity

(35:28) Useful metrics for engineering orgs

(39:08) The balance between micromanagement and understanding details

(43:03) Management anti-patterns

(45:49) How to execute policies whilst managing their exceptions

(47:56) What an excellent engineering executive looks like

(53:53) How Will has evolved as an engineering executive

(56:56) How to communicate with executives

(63:18) Things that derail meetings

(66:10) How to approach presentation feedback

(67:30) A bad sign when working with direct reports

(69:13) Advice for growing as an early-career engineer

(71:11) Will's model for developing engineering teams

(74:33) Sources of inspiration for Will's views on engineering management

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Podcast: BizzPod med Christian Jensby
Episode: Claire Williams: Hvad kan vi lĂŠre af formel 1?
Pub date: 2024-01-19

Fart, spĂŠnding og motorolie pĂ„ tĂžjet. Der er temmelig langt fra det klassiske kontorjob til hverdagen som leder af et formel 1-hold. Men mĂ„ske er der alligevel noget at lĂŠre for erhvervslivet – af formel 1 og af holdsport generelt?

I dette afsnit fÄr Christian Jensby besÞg af Claire Williams, der fra 2013 til 2020 var leder af holdet Williams Racing, stiftet af hendes far Frank Williams. SÄ hvordan var det at vokse op i en formel 1-familie? Hvad betÞd det for holdet at blive bÞrsnoteret og siden solgt til en kapitalfond? Hvordan leder man et team under sÄ ekstreme forhold, som formel 1 byder pÄ? Og hvorfor er det nu flere Är siden, at Claire Williams sidst har set et formel 1-lÞb? Alt det og mere til undersÞger Christian Jensby i dette afsnit af Deloitte BizzPod.

Medvirkende:
· Claire Williams, forh. leder af Williams Racing
· Christian Jensby, vÊrt og CEO for Deloitte Danmark

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Podcast: Dreams with Deadlines (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: On the Trail of Evidence-Guided Product Success | Itamar Gilad, Product Coach and Author
Pub date: 2023-10-03

In this episode of Dreams with Deadlines, host Jenny Herald dives deep into the world of product management with guest Itamar Gilad, author of the newest book, "Evidence-Guided: Creating High-Impact Products in the Face of Uncertainty."

Key Things Discussed:

  • Evidence-Guided Product Management: Itamar emphasizes the importance of making evidence-based decisions in product management. He shares how to set clear goals and align them with company objectives, enabling teams to focus on what truly matters.
  • The AFTER Model: Itamar introduces the AFTER model—a comprehensive framework that covers Assessment, Fact-finding, Tests, Experiments, and Release Results. This model guides product managers in evaluating and testing ideas effectively, leading to better decision-making.
  • Common Mistakes with OKRs: Itamar addresses misconceptions about Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), emphasizing the need for outcome-based OKRs rather than focusing on output. He also warns against the common mistake of creating too many OKRs, which can hinder commitment and trust within teams.

Show Notes

  • [00:00:07] Introduction to "Evidence-Guided: Creating High Impact Products in the Face of Uncertainty. Jenny Herald introduces the newest book "Evidence-Guided: Creating High Impact Products in the Face of Uncertainty" by Itamar Gilad. Itamar shares the opening story of Google+ and why it was chosen to lead the book.
  • [00:03:43] The Pitfalls of Planning Waterfall in Product Development. Jenny and Itamar discuss the concept of the planning waterfall and why it's not an effective approach in product development.
  • [00:06:36] Understanding Evidence-Guided Development. Jenny and Itamar delve into the concept of evidence-guided development and explore why Itamar is so passionate about sharing this approach with the world.
  • [00:08:21] The GIST Model: A Framework for Evidence-Guided Development. Jenny and Itamar discuss the GIST model, a foundational framework in evidence-guided development, and its importance in helping organizations embrace change and innovation.
  • [00:11:22] From Idea to Reality: The Tabbed Inbox and Evidence-Based Development. Jenny and Itamar discuss the development of Gmail's tabbed inbox as an example of evidence-based development within the GIST model framework.
  • [00:18:10] Prioritizing Ideas with the Confidence Meter. Jenny and Itamar discuss the confidence level meter, a framework for prioritizing ideas based on evidence and confidence. Itamar explains how this tool helps product teams avoid investing in ideas with low confidence and guides them towards incremental development.
  • [00:24:55] Setting Evidence-Guided Goals. Jenny and Itamar discuss the importance of setting evidence-guided goals and how to choose the most important outcomes. Itamar explains why goals are crucial, regardless of whether you use OKRs or other frameworks, and emphasizes the need for both qualitative and quantitative aspects in goal setting.
  • [00:31:22] Balancing Local Optimization with a Bigger Picture. Jenny and Itamar delve into the challenge of avoiding local optimization while setting evidence-guided goals. They discuss the importance of aligning team goals with the company's overarching strategy and how metrics and impact assessments can play a role in achieving this alignment.
  • [00:37:03] Using the AFTER Model for Effective Idea Validation. Jenny and Itamar explore the AFTER model, a framework Itamar developed to help teams define steps for idea validation. The AFTER model stands for Assessment, Fact-Finding, Test Experiments, and Release Results. Itamar explains how each stage in the model contributes to the validation process, from initial idea assessment to controlled experiments and gradual product releases.
  • [00:43:58] Quick-Fire Questions for Itamar:
    • What is your dream with a deadline? Itamar's dream with a deadline is to help product people bring evidence-guided thinking into their product development process, ultimately leading to better products, higher value, and greater job satisfaction for everyone involved.
    • What do people get wrong about OKRs? People often make two common mistakes with OKRs: using them to capture a plan (output OKRs) instead of focusing on outcomes, and creating too many OKRs, which leads to lack of commitment and trust in the process.
    • When can we expect your book to be released? The target release date for Itamar's book is September 20th, with a possibility of it being released a few days later or by the end of September.
    • What would you say is the book that largely shaped how you think? Two books have significantly shaped Itamar's thinking: "INSPIRED" by Marty Cagan, which is highly influential in the product management field, and "The Lean Startup" by Eric Ries, which introduced the concept of evidence-guided development and the interplay between business and product development.

Relevant links:

  • “Evidence-Guided: Creating High-Impact Products in the Face of Uncertainty,” by Itamar Gilad
  • GIST Framework
  • ICE and The Confidence Meter
  • Wizard of Oz tests
  • Andy Grove
  • The Four Big Risks by Marty Cagan
  • “INSPIRED," by Marty Cagan
  • Idea Validation Methods
  • David J. Bland
  • "The Lean Startup" by Eric Ries

About the Guest:Itamar is a product management coach, author and speaker and the creator of a number of popular product methodologies. He held senior product management and engineering roles for two decades at Google, Microsoft and a number of startups. Itamar is the author of the book Evidence-Guided, and he publishes a popular product management newsletter.

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Episode: Frameworks for increased confidence in decision-making | Itamar Gilad (Product Coach, Google, Microsoft)
Pub date: 2023-03-05

23: For over two decades Itamar Gilad held senior product management and engineering roles at Google, Microsoft and a number of startups. At Google, Itamar led parts of Gmail and was the head of Gmail’s growth team.

Axel sits down with Itamar to discuss some of the frameworks he's been crafting through his journey and how they can help fellow Product Managers improve their practice.

We specifically dive into how frameworks can help PMs boost their confidence based on evidence and clear communication.

Where to find Itamar

  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/itamargilad/
  • Website: https://itamargilad.com/

Where to find Axel

  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/axelsooriah/

About Panash

We provide training and coaching programs to help product professionals unlock their true potential and become high performers.

You can learn more about our programs here: https://www.panash.io/

Our blog contains articles and free resources on key topics for product managers and leaders.

Check it out here: https://collection.panash.io/

Referenced in this episode:

  • The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
  • Inspired by Marty Cagan
  • Empowered by Marty Cagan with Chris Jones
  • Lean Enterprise by Jez Humble et al.
  • Lean Analytics by Alistair Croll
  • Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works by Ash Maurya
  • Value proposition canvas by Strategyzer
  • Assumption Mapping by David J. Bland
  • Itamar's resources

Show notes and highlights

(01:35)Itamar's background

(03:32)How does the MUST Framework help

(12:42)Biggest traps people fall into when crafting strategy

(18:04)Deferring the point of commitment

(22:52)GIST: a framework to bridge strategy and execution

(35:23)Using frameworks to boost confidence

(44:26)Itamar's Treasure Chest

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Episode: Evidence-based product decisions (Part 2 of 2) - Itamar Gilad on The Product Experience
Pub date: 2022-08-10

We jump right back into where we left on in part two of this series with experience product coach Itamar Gilad. We carry on discussing evidence-based decisions, and how this approach can enable teams to achieve key product goals.

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Episode: Edu: Evidence Guided Product Management-- Don't Let Your Gut Lead You Astray w/ Itamar Gilad
Pub date: 2023-06-01

Have you built products and no matter what you worked on it didn’t matter, the business metrics didn’t improve nor did the user experience? You are not alone!

Fortunately, we have special guest Itamar Gilad– Former Product Manager at Google turned startup coach, author and speaker here to help change your product mindset from data-driven to evidence-guided. Like many of you, Itamar developed and launched products that did not impact business metrics. From this, he investigated what makes the difference between successful and unsuccessful projects and how companies can repeatedly generate success.

What Itamar uncovers leads him to develop the “Product Idea Confidence Calculator”, a tool that can help your team switch mindsets and generate evidence for your product. Itamar is a true deep-thinker and this episode is sure to be thought-provoking for the entire team!

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Pub date: 2022-08-03

In part one of two of this podcast series, we spoke with experienced product expert Itamar Gilad to find out more about evidence-based decisions, ideas, and key product goals.

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Episode: #129 - GIST Framework for Building High-Value, High-Impact Products - Itamar Gilad
Pub date: 2023-04-17

“The difference of why some companies are so much more successful at producing high value, high-impact products than others comes to 4 areas of GIST (Goals, Ideas, Steps, Tasks)."

Itamar Gilad is a coach and author with over 20 years of experience in product management, strategy, and growth, and was previously a product manager at Google and the head of Gmail’s growth team. In this episode, we discussed all things about product management and how to build high-value products. Itamar first shared his journey at Google growing Gmail to 1 billion MAUs and some of his lessons learnt on managing large-scale product changes, getting users feedback, and dogfooding. Itamar then explained in-depth his GIST framework as an alternative to the product roadmap, a collection of methods and best practices for producing high-value and impactful products. He shared some challenges working with product roadmap and how teams can create better alignment instead. He also shared how we can do product prioritization better by using the ICE technique and his Confidence Meter. Towards the end, Itamar shared the different ways of how companies can conduct product experimentation and how to use the GIST board to improve the way we execute product development.

Listen out for:

  • Career Journey - [00:04:17]
  • Growing Gmail - [00:06:06]
  • Managing Large Scale Product Changes - [00:07:26]
  • Getting Feedback from a Major Product Change - [00:10:48]
  • Dogfooding - [00:15:21]
  • GIST - [00:19:10]
  • Problem with Product Roadmap - [00:27:17]
  • Creating Alignment - [00:34:22]
  • Prioritization and ICE - [00:38:02]
  • Doing Product Experimentation - [00:43:59]
  • Project & Task Management - [00:48:43]
  • 3 Tech Lead Wisdom - [00:54:39]

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Itamar Gilad’s Bio
Itamar is a coach, author and speaker specializing in product management, strategy, and growth. For over two decades, he held senior product management and engineering roles at Google, Microsoft and a number of startups. At Google, Itamar led parts of Gmail and was the head of Gmail’s growth team (resulting in 1Bn MAUs).

Itamar publishes a popular product management newsletter and is the creator of a number of product management methodologies including GIST Framework and The Confidence Meter. Itamar is based in Barcelona, Spain.

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  • LinkedIn – linkedin.com/in/itamargilad/
  • Twitter – @ItamarGilad
  • Website – itamargilad.com
  • PM resources – itamargilad.com/resources
  • Newsletter – itamargilad.com/newsletter

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Episode: Building evidence-guided products - Itamar Gilad (Google, Microsoft, IBM)
Pub date: 2023-10-11

On this week's podcast episode, product veteran Itamar Gilad joins us on the podcast to provide insights on implementing evidence-guided principles into product management. He argues that as product managers, we must be driven by evidence to find product success.

Featured Links: Follow Itamar on LinkedIn | Buy Itamar's new book 'Evidence-Guided: Creating High Impact Products in the Face of Uncertainty' | Free e-book downloads on Testing Product ideas, ICE Prioritisation, OKRs done right, and many other resources at Itamar's website | Sign-up for Itamar's 'High-Impact Product Management' newsletter | 'High-Integrity Commitments' feature at SVG | Itamar's previous episodes on The Product Experience podcast

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Episode: 57: Navigating Value Chain with Wardley Mapping insights from Ben Mosior
Pub date: 2023-10-18

Imagine having a strategic tool at your disposal that can help your business adapt, evolve, and make informed decisions.

In this podcast interview, we unravel the power of Wardley Mapping with the expert guide, Ben Mosior. The burning question we seek to answer: How can Wardley Mapping revolutionise your business strategy?

Discover how Wardley Mapping can transform your business strategy, setting you on the path to success in an ever-evolving marketplace, on this podcast with Ben Mosior. Our guest, Ben Mosior, is a Principal at Hired Thought and a recognised authority in the field of Wardley Mapping. With a wealth of experience in strategic thinking and a passion for helping an organisation thrive, Ben is the perfect person to take us on this practical journey. Show Sponsor - for your manufacturing website needs: Holdingbay https://holdingbay.co.uk Learn from the Cliff Notes on value chain mapping * 03.00 What is possible in flow? * 05:50 What can you map? * 10:30 How do we understand the value or future value of Mapping? * 10:57 Break down what the four stages look like, please? * 11:38 Looking at industry specific ... * 13:55 If additive started in stage 2 (Custom Built), where might it be going? * 15:56 The Punch Escrow by Tal M Kline * 16:09 Would we move towards or away from the initial map? * 16:48 Maps all experiments - play out what if all the things were in stage 4 (Commodity), what would now be possible in stage 2 (Custom Built)? * 20:27 Mapped outliers, can lead to the next present day, for everyone * 24:29 How do you see language and learning evolve? * Super-power reads: Delve deeper into the subject of mapping and thinking + The Reflective Practitioner by Donald Schon + Deciphering Sun Tzu by Derek M. C. Yuen + Helping: How to Offer, Give, and Receive Help by Edgar Schein

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Nikola Petruơić is a Software Engineer at theScore. He joins the show to talk about Sports Betting. He begins by sharing his experiences in the industry and how he landed his job. He dives into the concept of sports betting in the Elixir ecosystem.
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Episode: Episode #110: Mapping the Inevitability of Serverless with Simon Wardley
Pub date: 2021-09-13

Simon Wardley is a researcher for the Leading Edge Forum focused on the intersection of IT strategy and new technologies. Simon is a seasoned executive who has spent the last 15 years defining future IT strategies for companies in the FMCG, retail, and IT industries—from Canon’s early leadership in the cloud-computing space in 2005 to Ubuntu’s recent dominance as the top cloud operating system. As a geneticist with a love of mathematics and a fascination for economics, Simon has always found himself dealing with complex systems, whether in behavioral patterns, the environmental risks of chemical pollution, developing novel computer systems, or managing companies. He is a passionate advocate and researcher in the fields of open source, commoditization, innovation, organizational structure, and cybernetics.

Simon’s most recent published research, “Clash of the Titans: Can China Dethrone Silicon Valley?,” assesses the high-tech challenge from China and what this means to the future of global technology industry competition. His previous research covers topics including the nature of technological and business change over the next 20 years, value chain mapping, strategies for an increasingly open economy, Web 2.0, and a lifecycle approach to cloud computing. Simon is a regular presenter at conferences worldwide and has been voted one of the UK’s top 50 most influential people in IT in Computer Weekly’s 2011 and 2012 polls.

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The host of CFO Bookshelf bumped into Simon Wardley's writing on mapping strategy several years ago, and he couldn't put his content down.

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On this episode of the Humans of DevOps, Jason Baum is joined by Duena Blomstrom
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Episode: 156: Chris Butler on Why Meetings Are Great And Other Projects
Pub date: 2023-12-12

Welcome back Chris Butler!
My guest on this episode is Chris Butler, whom we first heard from in episode 107! It’s great to have him back, sharing some of his new projects since we last talked 18 months ago.
Chris is a self-described “chaotic good” product manager, as well as a prolific writer and speaker. His work focuses on helping product managers operate more effectively – helping teams make better, less biased decisions, and build new and innovative products. He has been a product leader at Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Cognizant, KAYAK, and Waze. He created techniques like Empathy Mapping for the Machine, Animistic Design Mapping, and Confusion Mapping to create cross-team alignment while building AI products.
I first met Chris in a product manager meetup, and then I happened to watch his amazing video on Adversarial Product Management, the topic of his previous appearance on this podcast.
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  • Concrete ways that AI might change our lives, and his futurist work with the Near Future Laboratory

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  • Wardley Mapping: An Intro To Wardley Maps (by Simon Wardley), Learn Wardley Mapping.

Welcome back Chris Butler!
My guest on this episode is Chris Butler, whom we first heard from in episode 107! It’s great to have him back, sharing some of his new projects since we last talked 18 months ago.
Chris is a self-described “chaotic good” product manager, as well as a prolific writer and speaker. His work focuses on helping product managers operate more effectively – helping teams make better, less biased decisions, and build new and innovative products. He has been a product leader at Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Cognizant, KAYAK, and Waze. He created techniques like Empathy Mapping for the Machine, Animistic Design Mapping, and Confusion Mapping to create cross-team alignment while building AI products.
I first met Chris in a product manager meetup,

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You may have heard about Project Aristotle — an effort by Google that revealed Psychological Safety as the common element in their highest-performing teams. Understanding what that is — and how we can create a culture of safety in our teams — isn’t quite as easy. We spoke with Alla Weinberg, author of A Culture of Safety, about the elements of safety, how to recognise teams that have it, and how to support the teams that don’t.

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Several years ago, Google undertook a massive two-year study on high-performing teams, calling it “Project Aristotle.” They sought to answer the question “What makes a high performing team?” After conducting over 200 interviews, they surprisingly found a top ingredient for high-performing teams was psychological safety—in fact, it was the most important ingredient in high-performing teams. Today on the podcast, we talk about how we can apply this idea to building a thriving culture at work, home, or any other place we lead.

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How do you create psychological safety for others? What are the skills of psychological safety? Today’s guest, Stephan Wiedner studied how to measure and assess psychological safety and now has a company that helps develop psychological safety skills for the workplace (Zarango.com). In this episode Stephan shares:

✔ The Google project that revealed what makes teams effective: the Aristotle Project.

✔ What is psychological safety.

✔ How do you measure psychological safety.

✔ 2 main parts to creating psychological safety.

✔ 8 important metrics for psychological safety.

✔ The first step to build psychological safety in your team or for yourself within the team.

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Episode: 109: Mehmet Baha On Psychological Safety
Pub date: 2022-05-10

The importance of psychological safety
My guest on the podcast is Mehmet Baha. He’s an expert in psychological safety, and I wanted to bring him on the podcast to share some secrets of high performing teams.
As Baha mentioned in the episode, prganizational behavioral scientist Amy Edmondson of Harvard first introduced the construct of “team psychological safety” and defined it as “a shared belief held by members of a team that the team is safe for interpersonal risk taking.”
Google discovered in a research project called Project Aristotle, that, contrary to their initial expectations, the makeup of a team had very little to do with its effectiveness. Instead, how the team members interact has a much, much bigger impact. And of all the factors they studied, psychological safety was the biggest contributor to team effectiveness.
Links

  • Mehmet Baha on LinkedIn
  • The Playbook for Engaged Employees
  • Solution Folder, Baha’s website, and the link to his free resources.
  • Amy Edmondson’s TEDx talk about psychological safety
  • My previous podcast episode on psychological safety

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The importance of psychological safety
My guest on the podcast is Mehmet Baha. He’s an expert in psychological safety, and I wanted to bring him on the podcast to share some secrets of high performing teams.
As Baha mentioned in the episode, prganizational behavioral scientist Amy Edmondson of Harvard first introduced the construct of “team psychological safety” and defined it as “a shared belief held by members of a team that the team is safe for interpersonal risk taking.”
Google discovered in a research project called Project Aristotle, that, contrary to their initial expectations, the makeup of a team had very little to do with its effectiveness. Instead, how the team members interact has a much, much bigger impact. And of all the factors they studied, psychological safety was the biggest contributor to team effectiveness.
Links

  • Mehmet Baha on LinkedIn
  • The Playbook for Engaged Employees
  • Solution Folder, Baha’s website, and

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Pub date: 2023-03-17

Wardley Mapping is a core part of our book: 'The Value Flywheel Effect'. And it's a topic that people always ask about it. It's a difficult thing to learn. We've spent many years thinking about it, stumbling around, and then practicing. So we figured we would do a quick series on Wardley Mapping.

We have spent almost 10 years mapping, give or take. For me, it has been an absolute game-changer. One thing that's come along recently is the Wardley Mapping canvas by Ben Mosior @hiredthought. It's a nice canvas with six steps on how to map. Before I started using the canvas, I used to find that maps could get big and go off in 60 different directions.

Purpose and scope are the first two steps. And then the third one is users. The fourth one is user needs. And then the fifth step is the value chain. It can be difficult to keep things abstract. And not go too deep. But it is good to be as abstract and high-level as possible, even just to start to get something down.

Once you have the value chain of the user, a need, and a couple of dependencies, that's when you then bring it across to the map. And I would usually put them in the middle of the map. Drop them all into Product, to get you started. So you've got them all in a vertical line on your map and canvas. You start moving different components from left to right. And you might work out that one of the dependencies is Commodity or Custom. And you can see how that interaction goes. That's when you start to add in dependencies because you've got more room in the map.

This is where the conversation really starts to kick into gear. And this is where people start to challenge each other's context and think about where that component belongs or what's missing from the map. So it makes for a very collaborative exercise.

If you are planning a mapping session, you need to be a good facilitator. If a participant feels something is in the wrong place. Don't say no, you're wrong. It's in the right place. You want the individual to explain why they think so. If it is something that's blatantly just them for raising the challenge. The last thing you want is an unsafe environment where nobody wants to speak.

It doesn't need to be too fancy. You might map for an hour. And if you're facilitating, five or 10 minutes off the hour, you take a couple of notes, If someone says we should move that component from x to y that's an observation, You're not committing to do it but just taking a few observations. Always just keep it simple.

So here are a couple of really good links. We talked about Ben Mosier @hiredthought. He's got a brilliant site called LearnWardleyMapping.com. Ben created the Wardley Mapping Canvas, which is on Creative Commons Open Source.

Simon's also got a couple of links. There's a site on GitHub called Awesome Wardley Maps. It is by John Grant on List.WardleyMaps.com. Simon's original book is on medium.com/wardleymaps. Simon's content is great but deep.

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Episode: Serverless Craic Ep44 Can Wardley Maps predict the future?
Pub date: 2023-04-21

Can Wardley Maps predict the future, is our topic this week.

In our last episode, we talked about Wardley Mapping. We did a 101 last time, explaining the basics.

One of the things that we say is that Wardley Mapping is a superpower that helps you predict the future. What do we mean by that? It's like a fortune teller. But it doesn't tell you when exactly something's going to happen. It's the state of mind that it puts you in. We run through a couple of examples, to demonstrate how we've done it in the past.

  1. Conversational Programming
  2. Generative AI
  3. Well-Architected
  4. Serverless
  5. CDK (Cloud Development Kit)

If you have good situational awareness, you can wait until the appropriate time. You don't have to go off and waste energy, cycles and money trying custom build something. Wait three months and you'll get what you're trying to achieve.

When you map this stuff out, you can start to think about how your sensing engine can get intel on whether these things are going to happen or not. There are lots of different ways you can do that. Like following Twitter feeds and looking at blogs. And looking at who they're hiring and following the industry experts. They're points of information that can help you see how things will evolve. To predict the way things are going to go. There are multiple levels of maturity in your map and how you think it's going move and where the evolution is going to happen.

Wardley Mapping can be used to predict the future but it's not going to give you an exact date. What it can do is give you an example of this is what it will look like if it happens. So you prepare yourself for when it does. And then when the press release comes out, you're like, boom, we're ready. We saw that coming. So it's the no 'surprise approach' to building situational awareness.

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Episode: Serverless Craic Ep45 Bringing Mapping to your Org
Pub date: 2023-05-18

Bringing mapping to your org.

We are doing a wee series on Wardley Mapping, with some practical items. The last two episodes were: 'Wardley Mapping 101' and 'Can Wardley Maps Predict the Future?'. So I thought it would be good to answer a common question: 'That's a cool technique, but how would I do that in my work?'. If you follow Simon Wardley, on Twitter, and you've started experimenting with Wardley Mapping, we tell you how you to bring Wardley Mapping to your place of work.

We talk about using the Northstar exercise to facilitate mapping. And about finding like-minded people to sit and practice with. There is a way of talking about mapping. You're better to start with the outcomes. And then see if people are interested to get back into the map, as a way of sensemaking complicated areas. It's great to make sense of something and share that thinking with peers. And once you get into that language, you open up a common way of thinking and the idea of evolution to access things you want to talk about it.

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Pub date: 2023-10-27

Developer Productivity and discussions on developers and productivity have never gone away. You heard people talking about this in the 80s and the idea of paying developers by lines of code. And it was even rubbished in the 80s as a foolish thing to do. There's a famous story about developers removing bad code from the code base and having negative numbers by the end of the week and then asking if they have to pay the company back money. It's never been a good idea. It strikes me as strange that in 2023, we are having the same discussion.

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Pub date: 2023-11-16

Team Engineering with SCORP - there are practices we do like SCORP, which is our agile way of doing well-architected in every sprint with teams. Our practices are connected to engineering excellence, looking at what you're doing and constantly improving. And HP (high performing engineering), as a way of capturing key metrics to define good engineering or architecture, and then talk about it as a team.

Even though the practices are out there, it's really just a mindset.

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Episode: Episode #128: Serverless-First Engineers and the Flywheel Effect with David Anderson
Pub date: 2022-03-14

Dave Anderson is currently a Technical Fellow with Bazaarvoice, where he focuses on product development, and technical and strategic leadership. He also is a contributor at The Serverless Edge, a blog for engineers, architects, and leaders interested in serverless, where he explores the narrative building on the new ways to create business value through software and technology.

Prior to these roles, Dave has led transformation, technical excellence, cloud adoption, fintech/insurtech strategies, technical community activity, and both participated and led several enterprise/organizational transformation efforts. His experience also includes frequent collaboration with senior executives, engineers and business sponsors. With Liberty Mutual, he designed and implemented large scale internet eCommerce systems and distributed web platforms. Operating as a tech startup within a Fortune 100 company, Dave led a period of digital disruption that put the organization ahead of the competition.

  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/davidand393
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Episode: The Value Flywheel Effect with David Anderson
Pub date: 2022-08-27

David Anderson currently works at Bazaarvoice as Technical Fellow. Before that, he was CTO leading an organizational transformation at Liberty Mutual aimed at generating more value for the clients by using serverless architectures and better ways of working. David shared his experience and lessons learned in the book "The Value Flywheel Effect" and I got the chance to hear it first-hand.

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- This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #39 - The Value Flywheel Effect with David Anderson
- Dave's recommendations: Simon Wardley (On industrialization: a technology-driven path to next generation organization), Matthew Skelton, Manuel Pais, Nick Tune, Susanne Kaiser, Jonathan Allen (Reaching Cloud Velocity), Gregor Hohpe (The Software Architect Elevator), Adrian Cockroft
- The Serverless Edge - content for engineers, architects, tech leaders, students and business leaders who are interested in adopting serverless.

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Episode: #124 - The Value Flywheel Effect - David Anderson
Pub date: 2023-03-13

“The business technology divide was apparent in many companies. The idea of the value flywheel effect is to join the business and technology goals and create this flywheel effect momentum."

David Anderson is the author of “The Value Flywheel Effect” and the co-creator of The Serverless Edge. In this episode, David described the value flywheel effect concept and its four stages: clarity of purpose, challenge & landscape, next best action, and long-term value. David also explained the importance of Wardley Mapping and how we can use it to help improve the organization’s situational awareness within the value flywheel. During our discussion about the four stages, we also discussed several important concepts, such as the North Star Framework for clarity of purpose, understanding the team’s psychological safety and sociotechnical systems landscape, serverless-first paradigm as one way for the next best action, and using the well-architected framework and sustainability as guidelines for ensuring long-term value.

Listen out for:

  • Career Journey - [00:05:39]
  • Value Flywheel Effect - [00:09:48]
  • Wardley Mapping Overview - [00:12:09]
  • Improving Situational Awareness - [00:18:04]
  • Clarity of Purpose - [00:20:51]
  • North Star Framework - [00:23:33]
  • Obsess Over Time to Value - [00:26:36]
  • Challenge and Landscape: Psychological Safety - [00:28:44]
  • Sociotechnical Systems View - [00:33:54]
  • The Next Best Action: Serverless-First Mindset - [00:36:11]
  • Code is a Liability - [00:40:33]
  • Long-Term Value: Problem Prevention Culture - [00:42:03]
  • Well-Architected Framework - [00:45:26]
  • Sustainability - [00:47:42]
  • 3 Tech Lead Wisdom - [00:50:45]

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David Anderson’s Bio
David is a technical leader who enjoys writing and speaking about the leading edge of technology. David moved to Liberty Mutual in 2007 and drove technology change and cloud adoption. As a practicing Architect with G-P, he continues to empower and enable peers on Serverless First, Well-Architected, Engineering Excellence. His new book, The Value Flywheel Effect - Power the Future and Accelerate Your Organization to the Modern Cloud was published by IT Revolution in the fall of 2022. He is based in Belfast, writes on The Serverless Edge, is the lead organizer for ServerlessDays Belfast, is a member of the Wardley Mapping community.

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Podcast: Den Agile Agenda
Episode: 1 of 3: The state of Kanban. An interview with none other than David J Anderson. First episode of three.
Pub date: 2024-02-01

This is the first episode of three in this mini-series, and I am extremely proud to present you to a very special guest. None other than David J. Anderson, the pioneer of the Kanban Method.

In this episode, you can look forward to hearing David's views on the geographic spread of Kanban, where there is most traction, and details about the Kanban adoption in the Nordics. We will also discuss the increased focus on flow, and why you would do yourself a favor if you manage capacity rather than time. Another classic we will talk about is physical boards versus software boards and much more.

Just to give you a heads up on the topics of episode 2 in this mini-series, you can look forward to hearing about the Kanban Maturity Model aka KMM, and the purpose of writing the book. You will also get exciting news about Kanban+, and David will give his answers to some of the questions that I have been asked over and over again about the higher maturity levels in Kanban, i.e., what to strive for, what is feasible, and why.

If you are interested in Kanban, you don't want to miss this mini-series, where I interview the very person who made Kanban for knowledge work one of the most used agile approaches globally.

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Podcast: Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast: Agile storytelling from the trenches (LS 48 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: From Chaos to Clarity, How A Process To Manage The Inflow Of Work to an Agile Team Transformed Their Performance | Freddie Brown Jr
Pub date: 2024-02-12

Freddie Brown Jr: From Chaos to Clarity, How A Process To Manage The Inflow Of Work to an Agile Team Transformed Their Performance Read the full Show Notes and search through the world’s largest audio library on Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website: http://bit.ly/SMTP_ShowNotes.

In this episode with Freddie, we explore the story of a team that was grappling with conflicting priorities. Freddie stepped in to shield the team and initiated a dialogue with the leadership, who were familiar with agile methodologies. The root cause of the problem seemed to be the absence of a structured process to integrate and prioritize new work that led to shifting priorities. Freddie worked with the stakeholders to create a clear process for leaders to introduce and manage new priorities effectively, without disrupting the team. This story highlights the need for clear processes that manage the “inflow” of work to the team.

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Meet Freddie Brown Jr, the Agile Genie! With a magic brain that grants your corporate wishes faster than Aladdin's lamp, he transforms chaos into strategic brilliance. He’s the genie you never knew you needed, making agile dreams come true – all with a sprinkle of humor that's truly magical! đŸȘ”đŸš€đŸ˜„

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Episode: Beyond Project Completion Metrics, The Key Metrics For Scrum Masters | Freddie Brown Jr
Pub date: 2024-02-15

Freddie Brown Jr: Beyond Project Completion Metrics, The Key Metrics For Scrum Masters Read the full Show Notes and search through the world’s largest audio library on Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website: http://bit.ly/SMTP_ShowNotes.

When it comes to defining success for Scrum Masters, Freddie invites us to go beyond conventional metrics like project completion. Key aspects include fostering collaboration, building high-performing teams, and enhancing organizational agility. Success encompasses team happiness and morale, creating a psychologically safe environment, encouraging innovation and efficiency, stakeholder feedback satisfaction, and effectively removing team impediments.

Featured Retrospective Format For The Week: Simplifying Retrospectives for Impact When it comes to Agile retrospectives, Freddie emphasizes simplicity and effectiveness. He advocates for a straightforward approach, asking the team to reflect on what went well, what didn't, and potential improvements. The process begins with an icebreaker, like expressing feelings through a picture, to ease into the session. Freddie also recommends using MURAL as a tool to facilitate this simple yet impactful retrospective format.

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About Freddie Brown Jr.

Meet Freddie Brown Jr, the Agile Genie! With a magic brain that grants your corporate wishes faster than Aladdin's lamp, he transforms chaos into strategic brilliance. He’s the genie you never knew you needed, making agile dreams come true – all with a sprinkle of humor that's truly magical! đŸȘ”đŸš€đŸ˜„

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Podcast: Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast: Agile storytelling from the trenches (LS 48 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Collaboration Over Isolated Performance, Lessons Learned as a Scrum Product Owner | Johannes Andersen
Pub date: 2024-02-19

Johannes Andersen: Collaboration Over Isolated Performance, Lessons Learned as a Scrum Product Owner Read the full Show Notes and search through the world’s largest audio library on Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website: http://bit.ly/SMTP_ShowNotes.

In this episode, Johannes shares a personal story of his struggles as a Product Owner (PO). In his early career, Johannes believed he needed to have all the answers and provide detailed requirements alone; but he quickly found that it was not so easy to define all the features by himself. This experience taught him the importance of involving the entire team in writing user stories, highlighting that collaboration, not individual effort, leads to success. Johannes emphasizes focusing on outcomes, encouraging POs to ask goal-oriented questions and to view technical solutions through the lens of their importance. He recommends resources like Mike Burrows' list of questions to foster effective communication and collaboration.

[IMAGE HERE] Recovering from failure, or difficult moments is a critical skill for Scrum Masters. Not only because of us, but also because the teams, and stakeholders we work with will also face these moments! We need inspiring stories to help them, and ourselves! The Bungsu Story, is an inspiring story by Marcus Hammarberg which shows how a Coach can help organizations recover even from the most disastrous situations! Learn how Marcus helped The Bungsu, a hospital in Indonesia, recover from near-bankruptcy, twice! Using Lean and Agile methods to rebuild an organization and a team! An inspiring story you need to know about! Buy the book on Amazon: The Bungsu Story - How Lean and Kanban Saved a Small Hospital in Indonesia. Twice. and Can Help You Reshape Work in Your Company.

About Johannes Andersen

Johannes comes from a finance and fintech background, and is now an enterprise agility maestro at a leading telco in Copenhagen! He focuses on optimizing the flow from strategy to execution, championing portfolio management with a keen eye on doing the right things, even if imperfectly. Johannes is an international speaker on product development topics.

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Episode: Disjoint Silos, The Illusion of Teamwork and How it Affects Agile Coaches’ Work | Johannes Andersen
Pub date: 2024-02-20

Johannes Andersen: Disjoint Silos, The Illusion of Teamwork and How it Affects Agile Coaches’ Work Read the full Show Notes and search through the world’s largest audio library on Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website: http://bit.ly/SMTP_ShowNotes.

In this segment, Johannes reflects on his transition from a business unit to an HR position, which initially seemed promising due to the team-based approach they embraced in HR. However, he soon discovered that the HR team lacked unity, with various small roles not functioning cohesively as a team. Tasked by his manager to enhance the HR team's effectiveness, Johannes found himself dedicating much of his time to internal issues rather than organizational improvement. The core issue was the absence of a shared goal, leading to misalignment and lack of collaboration within the team, effectively making them "disjoint silos" rather than a unified force. We discuss Vasco’s mnemonic of “One Team, One Goal” andthe importance of aligning around a single, shared goal to foster true teamwork.

Featured Book of the Week: "The Goal" by Eliyahu M. Goldratt In this segment, Johannes discusses how "The Goal" by Eliyahu M. Goldratt profoundly influenced him. Appreciating its novel-based approach, he found it uniquely effective for teaching new concepts, allowing readers to empathize with the learning process. Johannes admires the book's focus on outcomes and its clarity on defining a company's "goal," highlighting its system thinking approach as a critical aspect of understanding and solving organizational problems.

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About Johannes Andersen

Johannes comes from a finance and fintech background, and is now an enterprise agility maestro at a leading telco in Copenhagen! He focuses on optimizing the flow from strategy to execution, championing portfolio management with a keen eye on doing the right things, even if imperfectly. Johannes is an international speaker on product development topics.

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Podcast: To Be Continuous (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Ep. #56, How Much Work is Too Much Work?
Pub date: 2020-05-26

In episode 56 of To Be Continuous, Paul and Edith discuss burnout and psychological safety in the workplace, as well as differing views on the amount of hours a person should work each week.

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Podcast: Den Agile Agenda
Episode: 2 of 3: The state of Kanban. An interview with none other than David J Anderson. 2nd episode of 3
Pub date: 2024-02-15

This is the second episode of three in this Kanban mini-series, and I am extremely proud to present you with a very special guest. None other than David J. Anderson, the pioneer of the Kanban Method.

In this episode, you can among other things look forward to hearing David talk about the effort it took to write one of the most important books in the agile space, namely, the "Kanban Maturity Model" (KMM), and the purpose of writing it. You will hear what improvement gains you can expect as you move from one maturity level to the next. You will also get exciting news about Kanban+, and you will get David’s answers to some of the questions I have repeatedly been asked by students and clients about the higher maturity levels in Kanban, i.e., what to strive for, what is feasible, and why.

Just to give you a heads up on the topics of episode 3 in this mini-series, you can look forward to hearing us talk about why organizations do not "go Kanban", when there is such strong, well-documented evidence that it pays off big-time. David will talk about his work with the new book, Discovering Kanban that he published very recently. I guess you might call it a sequel to the famous Blue Book. You will also hear David’s thoughts about the future of Kanban, and last but not least you will get his recommendations on working agile in general. So, stay tuned.

If you are interested in Kanban, you don't want to miss this mini-series, where I interview the very person who made Kanban for knowledge work one of the most used agile approaches globally.

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Podcast: Wix Engineering Podcast
Episode: Coding with the CEO [Wix Engineering Podcast]
Pub date: 2021-07-26

Is good enough good enough? For years Wix engineers were building fine services, but as systems became more complex, it was taking too long to do it. The code was clean, but it took thousands of lines for each service.

It was inefficient, so Wix’s CEO & Co-Founder, Avishai Abrahami, decided to step in. He set up weekly, hands-on, coding sessions with his best developers, to chart a new path.

The goal that he set for Engineering was that a project that took months before would take days now, every program with 10,000 lines of code would now be 100. Listen to this unique story, its challenges and impact

You can also read the full transcript of this episode here: https://www.wix.engineering/post/coding-with-the-ceo-e14-full-transcript

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Podcast: Wix Engineering Podcast
Episode: The Art of Data Science [Wix Engineering Podcast]
Pub date: 2021-09-13

All data science projects are composed of the algorithm (model) and the data. While data scientists are natively focused on math and models, experience is showing them that for a data science project to succeed in real life, much more than a deep understanding of math is needed.
Gilad and Noa will take us through the journey their team went on in transforming from working with a model-centric to a data-centric approach.

In this episode of the Wix Engineering Podcast: how a data science team upgraded their AI by refocusing, changing their priorities, and creating a new workflow focusing on data.

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Podcast: Wix Engineering Podcast
Episode: FinOps to The Rescue: When Costs, Engineering and Cloud Clash [Wix Engineering Podcast]
Pub date: 2021-11-17

Every company, and everyone, uses the cloud. We use it because it’s easy, fast and cost effective. But, a lot of the time, we use it in a sub-optimal way. We could be doing better. Listen to Dvir Mizrahi tell the story of FinOps - developing a smarter and better financial engineering culture.

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Podcast: Wix Engineering Podcast
Episode: Why You Might Need a Design System [Wix Engineering Podcast]
Pub date: 2022-01-23

Over 600 changes are being pushed daily to Wix's codebase. How can we make sure that Wix still feels like Wix while maintaining our development velocity? The answer is “Design Systems”. Listen to Asaf Yonay and Liron Cohen explain more on organizing order out of chaos.

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Podcast: Wix Engineering Podcast
Episode: Be The Best At What You Do: Learning, Growth and Communities [Wix Engineering Podcast]
Pub date: 2022-10-24

It took time for Kent Dodds to not just build a following, but to develop a voice -- a unique perspective that people wanted to hear in the dev community. How did he do it? And how can you become the kind of person that other developers want to listen to?

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Podcast: alphalist.CTO Podcast - For CTOs and Technical Leaders (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: #83 - Aviran Mordo // VP Engineering @ Wix
Pub date: 2023-08-25

The Wix Guild model, Mentorship and Platform-as-a- Runtime Get inspired about architecture - that of computers and teams - in this CTO podcast with Aviran Mordo, VP Engineering at Wix. I really enjoyed talking with Aviran about both the technical nitty gritty of powering millions of websites as well as the Wix model which - unlike the Spotify model - is still in use at its flagship company over a decade later Listen to find out:

  • How the Wix model works đŸȘ—(+ hiring, personal development and communication across guilds and companies)
  • What is Platform-as-a-Runtime 🚄
  • Why most microservices đŸȘą are done wrong (and are costing you money)
  • How to encourage mentorship đŸ«¶
  • The infra that powers 7% of the web

Listen here

- Timestamps 2:10 Aviran’s Personal Journey 9:43 Wix secret sauce 12:26 Cost effective serverless environments for millions of customers. 14:58 The Wix Tech Stack 16:00 The mission to iimprove developer experience 17:00 How people do microservices wrong

21:50 Platform as a Runtime 32:00 The Wi Guild model 35:37 Aligning decisions across internal ‘companies’ 38:40 The Operational Guild Model 54:49 Improving the Guilds through Feedback + KPI of Guilds 1:00:24 Mentorship in the Org 1:06:15 Working on his networking skills

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Podcast: Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | Career (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Lessons from scaling Ramp | Sri Batchu (Ramp, Instacart, Opendoor)
Pub date: 2023-06-25

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Sri Batchu currently leads growth at Ramp, the fastest-growing SaaS business (and fintech business) in history. Previously, he led growth strategy and operations at Instacart and was one of the first 50 employees at Opendoor, where he built, scaled, and managed a variety of business teams, including analytics, sales, and pricing. During his time there, the company grew from $100M to $5B+ in revenue and to 1,500+ people. In this episode, we discuss:‱ The surprising tactics behind Ramp’s unprecedented early growth‱ A breakdown of Ramp’s current growth org and growth channels‱ Why you need to be “failing conclusively”‱ Ramp’s unique approach to metrics and measurement‱ Examples of Ramp’s “secret sauce”: a data- and technology-driven approach to everything‱ Why Sri prioritizes employee autonomy and flexibility over hours worked‱ Why team structure is a red herring for growth teams, and what Sri focuses on instead‱ How to set good North Star metrics, and why you should have more than one‱ Why Sri prefers payback periods over CAC for measuring investment ROI

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Find the full transcript at: https://www.lennyspodcast.com/lessons-from-scaling-ramp-sri-batchu-ramp-instacart-opendoor/#transcript

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Where to find Sri Batchu:

‱ Twitter: https://twitter.com/sri_batchu

‱ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sribatchu/

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‱ Newsletter: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com

‱ Twitter: https://twitter.com/lennysan

‱ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennyrachitsky/

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In this episode, we cover:

(00:00) Sri’s background

(04:07) Stats surrounding Ramp’s hypergrowth

(06:20) How Ramp set the stage for their remarkable growth

(09:19) New customers vs. customer expansion

(10:20) How Ramp has prioritized data-driven decisions

(12:12) Ramp’s growth engineering team, and how it supports the sales team

(13:41) The structure of the growth team at Ramp

(14:36) The “skunk works” team

(15:49) How Ramp maintains working at such high velocity

(19:11) How Ramp boosts morale and keeps employees engaged and excited

(21:45) How to promote hard work

(25:10) Optimizing efficiency in your growth engine

(27:28) Leveraging PR and fundraising

(29:20) Traditional media vs. newsletters and podcasts

(30:49) Building a repeatable and scalable growth process

(32:28) Examples of good North Star metrics

(37:09) Lower-level metrics

(40:30) When it makes sense to use the North Star framework

(42:03) Why Ramp doesn’t allow signups through personal emails, and how to reach out if you’re in that position

(43:11) Efficiency metrics and volume metrics

(46:49) Payback period vs. CAC for measuring ROI

(48:55) Defining payback period and contribution margin

(49:51) How to sequence growth tactics for B2B

(52:18) Experimentation and the importance of failing conclusively

(58:06) Ramp’s tool stack

(1:00:32) How to hire great people

(1:03:21) The importance of compensating employees properly

(1:06:28) The MECE framework

(1:09:21) Lightning round

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Referenced:

‱ How Ramp builds product, in Lenny’s Newsletter: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-ramp-builds-product

‱ Eight Sleep: https://www.eightsleep.com/

‱ Keith Rabois on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/keith/

‱ Packy McCormick’s article on Ramp: https://www.notboring.co/p/ramps-double-unicorn-rounds-behind

‱ Gibson Biddle’s framework: https://gibsonbiddle.medium.com/9-the-gem-model-65c89face5de

‱ DoorDash’s business model: https://businessmodelanalyst.com/doordash-business-model/

‱ Airtable: https://www.airtable.com/

‱ Mutiny: https://www.mutinyhq.com/

‱ Gokul Rajaram on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gokulr

‱ Claire Hughes Johnson on Lenny’s Podcast: https://www.lennyspodcast.com/lessons-from-scaling-stripe/

‱ MECE principle: https://productfolio.com/mece-principal/

‱ Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as If Your Life Depended on It: https://www.amazon.com/Never-Split-Difference-Negotiating-Depended/dp/0062407805

‱ Stories of Your Life and Others:https://www.amazon.com/Stories-Your-Life-Others-Chiang/dp/1101972122/r

‱ Everything Everywhere All at Once on Hulu: https://www.hulu.com/movie/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-fa320000-8cf3-46fc-8c45-df5ec67b71f2

‱ Fellow kettles: https://fellowproducts.com/

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Podcast: Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | Career (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Velocity over everything: How Ramp became the fastest-growing SaaS startup of all time | Geoff Charles (VP of Product)
Pub date: 2023-08-06

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Geoff Charles is VP of Product at Ramp—the fastest-growing SaaS startup of all time, Fast Company’s #1 Most Innovative Company in North America, and a company I believe we should all study for how they operate, execute, and hire. At Ramp, Geoff has led the product team from the early days, including the development and release of 60+ products and features in the past year alone. He has been building financial services for over a decade, and his interview in Lenny’s Newsletter quickly became one of the most widely read newsletter issues of all time. In today’s podcast, we will discuss:

‱ How velocity is at the heart of Ramp’s culture and success

‱ How writing can unlock clarity, creativity, and rapid problem-solving

‱ How to empower your product team through context sharing

‱ How to practically approach problems from first principles

‱ How Ramp approaches hiring in a unique way

‱ Suggestions for breaking into the world of product management

Listen now on Apple, Spotify, Google, Overcast, and YouTube.

Find the transcript for this episode and all past episodes at: https://www.lennyspodcast.com/episodes/. Today’s transcript will be live by 8 a.m. PT.

Where to find Geoff Charles:

‱ Twitter: https://twitter.com/geoffintech

‱ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffrey-charles/

Where to find Lenny:

‱ Newsletter: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com

‱ Twitter: https://twitter.com/lennysan

‱ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennyrachitsky/

In this episode, we cover:

(00:00) Geoff’s background

(04:49) An overview of Ramp

(06:20) The importance of velocity at Ramp

(08:50) Single-threaded goals and how to keep teams away from distractions

(13:20) Setting lofty goals

(15:17) How Ramp empowers teams

(17:37) How Geoff’s management style has evolved at Ramp

(19:55) The product design process at Ramp

(21:19) Ramp’s system for sharing feedback

(23:07) How Ramp handles bug fixes

(24:15) Advice for PMs who want to move faster

(29:29) Why velocity and impact can help protect against burnout

(32:33) Planning vs. doing

(37:54) Ramp’s strategy documents

(40:55) Finding your unique positioning

(42:46) OKRs

(44:53) The importance of first-principle thinking

(48:53) How to use writing to think through problems

(51:46) How Geoff carves out time for deep work

(54:05) How Geoff manages tasks and stays organized

(57:15) Why other roles share the PM load at Ramp

(1:00:30) PM responsibilities at Ramp

(1:01:46) Identifying A+ talent

(1:06:02) The skills Ramp looks for when hiring

(1:07:33) Advice for people wanting to break into product management

(1:10:37) Lightning round

Referenced:

‱ How Ramp builds product: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-ramp-builds-product

‱ Bill: https://www.bill.com/

‱ Expensify: https://www.expensify.com/

‱ Concur: https://www.concur.com/

‱ Coupa: https://www.coupa.com/

‱ Nicole Forsgren on Lenny’s Podcast: https://www.lennyspodcast.com/how-to-measure-and-improve-developer-productivity-nicole-forsgren-microsoft-research-github-goo/

‱ Sheryl Sandberg on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheryl-sandberg-5126652/

‱ Getting Things Done: https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Things-Done-Stress-Free-Productivity/dp/0143126563

‱ When Breath Becomes Air: https://www.amazon.com/When-Breath-Becomes-Paul-Kalanithi/dp/081298840X

‱ The Bear on Hulu: https://www.hulu.com/series/the-bear-05eb6a8e-90ed-4947-8c0b-e6536cbddd5f

‱ Whoop: https://www.whoop.com/

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Podcast: Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: AI and the 2023 Hollywood Strike with Franchesca Ramsey
Pub date: 2023-07-27

Franchesca Ramsey is an comedian, writer, actor, producer, activist, and content creator. She's also a proud Union Member of both the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) and the Writers Guild of America (WGA). She sits down with Scott to talk about the importance of unions, what it means to be a "working actor" and what we can do as consumers of media to support the strike. What does it mean to be a scab? Will AI help or hinder a creative's ability to make living?

  • https://www.sagaftrastrike.org/

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Podcast: Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: SE Radio 574: Chad Michel on Software as an Engineering Discipline
Pub date: 2023-07-27

Chad Michel, Senior Software Architect at Don’t Panic Labs and co-author of Lean Software Systems Engineering for Developers, joins host Jeff Doolittle for a conversation about treating software development as an engineering discipline. They begin by discussing the need for engineering rigor in the software industry. Chad points out that many developers lack awareness of good engineering practice and are often unaware of resources such as the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK). Among the many topics explored in this episode are design methodologies such as volatility-based decomposition and the work of David Parnas, as well as important topics such as quality, how to address complexity, designing for change, and the role of the chief engineer. This episode is sponsored by ClickSend. SE Radio listeners can get a $50 credit by following the link.

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Podcast: LeadingAgile SoundNotes: an Agile Podcast (LS 35 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Unpacking the SAFe Debate. Is it Agile or Something Else?
Pub date: 2023-04-03

People have debated whether or not SAFe is Agile for as long as it’s been around. LeadingAgile CEO, Mike Cottmeyer, joins Dave on this episode of SoundNotes to explore the roots of small team Agile and to discuss how SAFe stacks up against the ideals of the Agile Manifesto.

Contacting Mike Cottmeyer

If you’d like to contact Mike, you can reach him at:

LeadingAgile: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/mike-cottmeyer

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cottmeyer/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/mcottmeyer

Email: mike@leadingagile.com

Contacting Dave Prior

If you’d like to contact Dave, you can reach him at:

LeadingAgile: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungo

Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrsungo

Email: dave.prior@leadingagile.com

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Podcast: LeadingAgile SoundNotes: an Agile Podcast (LS 35 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: From Practices to Principles: The Right Way to Scale Agile
Pub date: 2023-06-08

Mike Cottmeyer debates ChatGPT and sits down with Dave to discuss what it really means to scale Agile. Over the course of the podcast, Mike and Dave explore the difference between Agile principles and practices, cloud migration, and what the Agile industry can learn from the US Air Force’s concept of Agile, Open, and Digital.

Contacting Mike Cottmeyer If you’d like to contact Mike, you can reach him at:

LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/mike-cottmeyer

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/cottmeyer/

Twitter: twitter.com/mcottmeyer

Email: mike@leadingagile.com

Contacting Dave Prior If you’d like to contact Dave, you can reach him at:

LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungo

Twitter: twitter.com/mrsungo

Email: dave.prior@leadingagile.com

If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to dave.prior@leadingagile.com

Interested in CSM or CSPO Training?

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Podcast: LeadingAgile SoundNotes: an Agile Podcast (LS 35 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Agile Metrics: Enabling Change with Data Modeling & Forecasting
Pub date: 2023-06-01

Our guest, Troy Magennis, has been described as a national resource in the Agile community. He’s a published author and frequent speaker on forecasting and modeling Agile projects.

Today, Troy joins us to discuss how many of the metrics the Agile industry uses actually prevent companies from achieving the change they so desperately desire. Together, we’ll explore some ways the industry gets metrics and forecasting right and where it tends to go wrong. And Troy offers a ton of insight on how you can begin thinking about the work differently to release more value more rapidly more often.

Contacting Troy Magennis If you'd like to contact Troy, you can reach him at:

Focused Objective: https://www.focusedobjective.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/troymagennis/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/t_magennis

Contacting Dave Prior If you’d like to contact Dave, you can reach him at:

LeadingAgile: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungo

Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrsungo

Email: dave.prior@leadingagile.com

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Podcast: LeadingAgile SoundNotes: an Agile Podcast (LS 35 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Are Dependencies Meant to be Managed or Broken?
Pub date: 2023-06-15

Mike and Dave sit down to have another debate with ChatGPT about dealing with dependencies in Agile. Mike asserts that dependencies kill Agility and that they’re meant to be broken. ChatGPT says that it’s all about managing dependencies and that while dependencies may limit Agility, they can also foster collaboration and synergy.

The debate quickly rolls into a conversation about dealing with legacy technical debt and business capability modeling and how we need to focus on minimizing dependencies in all aspects of the business, not just at the team level. Dave even gets Mike to start talking about his latest thinking on composable enterprises and what executives need to know about software architecture.

Contacting Mike Cottmeyer If you’d like to contact Mike, you can reach him at:

LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/mike-cottmeyer

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/cottmeyer/

Twitter: twitter.com/mcottmeyer

Email: mike@leadingagile.com

Contacting Dave Prior If you’d like to contact Dave, you can reach him at:

LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungo

Twitter: twitter.com/mrsungo

Email: dave.prior@leadingagile.com

If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to dave.prior@leadingagile.com

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Podcast: LeadingAgile SoundNotes: an Agile Podcast (LS 35 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Exploring Kanban in an Enterprise Environment
Pub date: 2023-07-20

Join us for today’s podcast where we dive into the world of Kanban and Agile methodologies to unravel the thought process behind large organizations who want embrace Kanban. If you’re considering Kanban, or you’re currently grappling with workflow challenges, this video will equip you with some Kanban strategies to help you seamlessly implement and optimize Kanban in a dynamic enterprise environment.

Contacting Tom Furland If you’d like to contact Mike, you can reach him at:

LeadingAgile: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/tom-furland/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tfurland/

Email: tom.furland@leadingagile.com

Contacting Dave Prior If you’d like to contact Dave, you can reach him at:

LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungo

Twitter: twitter.com/mrsungo

Email: dave.prior@leadingagile.com

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Podcast: Agile for Humans with Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: FYAM: Exploring Time to Market (T2M) Cycle Time
Pub date: 2023-05-11

FIXING YOUR AGILE METRICS - INTRODUCTION TO TIME TO MARKET - CYCLE TIME

⏩ Join Ryan and Todd for a Scrum.org course: https://buytickets.at/agileforhumansllc

Todd and Ryan also co-authored a book - Fixing Your Scrum: Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems.

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Podcast: Agile for Humans with Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: YDS: How Does a Scrum Team Handle Unplanned Work?
Pub date: 2023-05-19

Todd and Ryan address a question about handling unplanned work that is not measured in Sprint planning and affects a team's predictability in meeting Sprint goals. They recommend holding back capacity back in Sprint planning to account for the unplanned work and plan realistically rather than at 100% capacity. They suggest cutting capacity in half if about half of the work in a Sprint is unplanned. They also caution against equating predictability with maintaining the same velocity or throughput and recommend measuring unplanned work transparently and gathering data on it.

⏩ Join Ryan and Todd for a Scrum.org course: https://buytickets.at/agileforhumansllc

Todd and Ryan also co-authored a book - Fixing Your Scrum: Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems.

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Podcast: Coding Blocks (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Team Leadership, TUIs, and AI Lawsuits
Pub date: 2023-07-23

In this episode, we’re talking about the history of “man” pages, console apps, team leadership, and Artificial Intelligence liability. Also, Allen’s downloading the internet, Outlaw has fallen in love with the sound of a morrvair, and Joe says TUI like two hundred times as if it were a real word.

See all the show notes at https://www.codingblocks.net/episode214

News * Thanks for the reviews! + itunes: michael_mancuso * DevFest Florida is a community-run one-day conference aimed to bring technologists, developers, students, tech companies, and speakers together in one location to learn, discuss and experiment with technology. (devfestfl.org)

What are (were?) man pages? * “man” is a command-line “pager” similar to “more” or “less” that was designed specifically to display documentation – ahem, “manuals” * “man” pages would show you documentation for many apps in a (mostly) consistent manner that was available offline * Do people still use them? * People would print these out in the 70’s and beyond! * How do you create a man page? (allthings.how) * Uses an old markup language named “roff” * Install to the proper location, typically /usr/man/man: (tldp.org)

Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time (amazon) How to Lead a Team (Anti-Patterns edition) Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time (amazon)

  • Hire Pushovers
  • Ignore Low Performers
  • Ignore Human Issues
  • Be Everyone’s Friend
  • Compromise the Hiring Bar
  • Treat Your Team Like Children

Terminal UIs * A new frontier in programming? * The Good: + Keep your hands on the keyboard! + Easily install on remote servers + Often built by devs for devs + Low overhead + Purpose-built for their purposes (as opposed to IDE extensions) + Looks ancient * The Bad: + Looks ancient + Scriptability + Each has it’s own learning curve

Examples: * K9s (github) * Lazygit (github) * Lazydocker (github) * Spotify TUI:(github)

Meta AI * Meta has been making serious strides in AI with LLAMA and
it’s open source! Does that make them any more or less liable for the information? Does “publically available information” change things

Resources we like * Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time (amazon) * List of awesome TUIs (github.com) * AI at Meta (ai.meta.com) * Download the AI Model (ai.meta.com)

Tip of the Week * Want to learn something new while also making your life easier? Why not try writing a TUI!? Here’s an article that will kindly introduce you to terminal user interfaces, libraries like “Clap”, “TUI”, and “Crossterm” that people are using to write them, and
you can get some XP with Rust while you’re at it! (blog.logrocket.com) * Are you looking to upgrade your Kubernetes cluster? Check for API problems first! * Are you a browser tab fiend? Did you know you can reload all your tabs simultaneously with a simple shortcut? (groups.google.com) * No more nasty wiring jobs, get yourself to the hardware store website and pick up some wire and splicing connectors. Keep things nice, tidy, and organized. (wago.com) + Similar but not as good (no lever) (homedepot.com) * Matt’s Off-road recovery channel is amazing if you’re into cars or
 beautiful-sounding things. * Are you tired of manually correlating logs and events? No more! Check out the Open Telemetry project for your distributed tracing and analytics needs! (opentelemetry.io)

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Podcast: The New Stack Podcast (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Cloud Is Under Attack. How Do You Secure It?
Pub date: 2023-07-28

Building and deploying applications in the cloud offers significant advantages, primarily driven by the scalability it provides. Developers appreciate the speed and ease with which cloud-based infrastructure can be set up, allowing them to scale rapidly as long as they have the necessary resources. However, the very scale that makes cloud computing attractive also poses serious risks.

The risk lies in the potential for developers to make mistakes in application building, which can lead to widespread consequences when deployed at scale. Cloud-focused attacks have seen a significant increase, tripling from 2021 to 2022, as reported in the Cloud Risk Report by Crowdstrike.

The challenges in securing the cloud are exacerbated by its relative novelty, with organizations still learning about its intricacies. The newer generation of adversaries is adept at exploiting cloud weaknesses and finding ways to attack multiple systems simultaneously. Cultural issues within organizations, such as the tension between security professionals and developers, can further complicate cloud protection.

To safeguard cloud infrastructure, best practices include adopting the principle of least privilege, regularly evaluating access rights, and avoiding hard-coding credentials. Ongoing hygiene and assessments are crucial in ensuring that access levels are appropriate and minimizing risks of cloud-focused attacks.

Overall, understanding and addressing the risks associated with cloud deployments are vital as cloud-native adversaries grow increasingly sophisticated. Implementing proper security measures, along with staying up-to-date on runtime security and avoiding misconfigurations, are essential in safeguarding cloud-based applications and data.

Elia Zaitsev of CrowdStrike joined TNS host Heather Joslyn for this conversation on the heels of the release of their Cloud Risk Report.

Learn more from The New Stack about cloud security and CrowdStrike:

Cloud-Focused Attacks Growing More Frequent, More Brazen

5 Best Practices for DevSecOps Teams to Ensure Compliance

What Is DevSecOps?

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Podcast: Supertanker
Episode: Det bĂŠredygtige arbejdsliv
Pub date: 2023-05-01

Mange af os ER vores arbejde, men hvad sker der, nĂ„r sparerunder, omorganiseringer, chefskift og krav om Ăžget tempo alligevel fĂ„r os til at falde som fluer med stress og depression? Supertanker-vĂŠrt Carsten Ortmann har selv vĂŠret igennem en tur, hvor overblikket rĂžg, energien forsvandt, tristesse og opgivenhed fyldte mere end begejstring. Hvad skete der lige dĂ©r? Medvirkende: Malene Friis Andersen Psykolog, phd., gĂŠsteforsker i stress og ledelse og Niels ÅkerstrĂžm Andersen professor i offentlig og politisk ledelse pĂ„ CBS. TilrettelĂŠgger og vĂŠrt: Carsten Ortmann. (Sendt fĂžrste gang 1. maj).

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Podcast: The Psychology Podcast (LS 64 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The Journey of Leadership || Alisa Cohn
Pub date: 2023-06-15

Today we welcome Alisa Cohn to the podcast. Alisa is an executive coach who has worked with C-suite executives at prominent startups such as Venmo, Etsy, and The Wirecutter, as well as Fortune 500 companies such as Microsoft, Google and Pfizer. Her clientele also includes leaders from around the world, including the first female minister of the transition state of Afghanistan and the former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka. She is the author of From Start-up to Grown-up, which won the 2022 Independent Press Award, and the creator and host of a podcast of the same name.

In this episode, I talk to Alisa Cohn about the journey of leadership. Before we can guide others, Alisa believes we need to lead ourselves first. There are days when we don’t feel up to the task, but Alisa gives us practical advice on how to show up on those difficult days. Drawing on her coaching experience with executives, she shares with us that even the most successful entrepreneurs experience imposter syndrome and negative self-talk—but these can be overcome with the right management tools.

Website: www.alisacohn.com/

Twitter: @AlisaCohn

Topics

02:59 What is executive coaching?

06:17 What makes a great master coach?

09:45 Managing your self

15:33 Combat negative self-talk

18:12 Deal with imposter syndrome

26:33 Leadership is an unnatural act

30:59 The co-founder prenup

33:23 The journey of entrepreneurship

36:42 Three questions for productive meetings

39:17 From Start-up to Grown-up Podcast

42:25 Lead yourself

45:18 The experiences of different leaders

53:04 Alisa’s leadership journey

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Podcast: Agile Uprising Podcast (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Doing "No" Better with Andy Cleff
Pub date: 2023-02-26

Do you have a feeling that your team/system/organization is capable of much higher performance than you are currently experiencing?

Could the solution be as simple as learning to do “no” better!?

Listen in as Andy Cleff ponders:

  • The Problem With "Yes"
  • Consequences of Status Quo
  • Decisions vs Relationships
  • Working with Trade-Offs
  • The "No" Repertoire

And building an action plan backlog for doing no better!

Links to Things Mentioned on the show

  • Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & Flow by Dominica DeGrandis
  • Essentialism by Greg McKeown
  • Focus is about saying no, Steve Jobs
  • Path To Agility for achieving business outcomes and lasting change
  • Real Flow: Break the Burnout Cycle and Unlock High Performance in the New World of Work by Brandi Olson
  • The Resource Utilization Trap Henrik Kniberg
  • Multiple WIP vs One Piece Flow Example Henrik Kniberg
  • The Efficiency Paradox Niklas Modig
  • There's A Meeting For That Ryan Ripley
  • Leadership is Language David Marquet
  • Redwork and Blue Work David Marquet
  • Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency by Tom DeMarco
  • Beyond Budgeting by Bjarte Bogsnes
  • How to Avoid Groupthink David Marquet
  • A Scientific Guide to Saying “No”: How to Avoid Temptation and Distraction by James Clear
  • Embracing Dissent
  • Dissent Cards
  • To Quote Hamlet T-shirt

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Podcast: Agile Uprising Podcast (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Organizing Toward Agility with Jeff Anderson
Pub date: 2023-03-05

This week we sit down AGAIN with author Jeff Anderson to review the completed version of his book Organizing Toward Agility. We discuss the importance of organizational design in trying to enact change in an organization, along with many other ideas from his book. Enjoy!

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Podcast: Agile Uprising Podcast (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: And So We Meet Again
with Evan Unger
Pub date: 2023-03-12

What percentage of your and your teams’ total working time is spent in meetings?

What proportion of those are really good uses of everyone’s time?

What if businesses could eliminate meaningless and/or unproductive meetings?

Listen in as co-hosts Andy Cleff and Marc Story chat with Evan Unger, a world-class fixer for the mess that are meetings, explore the power of facilitation: the missing sauce.

Contact Information * https://www.linkedin.com/in/evan-unger-6553597/ * terischwartzassociates.com/virtual/

References Mentioned * Meetings Are Miserable: That Atlantic * The Surprising Impact of Meeting-Free Days * Lencioni: Death by Meeting * Lencioni: The Advantage * Kim Scott: Radical Candor

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Podcast: Agile Uprising Podcast (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Triune Brain: Myth or Fact?
Pub date: 2023-03-26

Are we humans at the mercy of hard-wired circuits buried deep in the animalistic parts of our brains or are we the architects of our own experience?

In this episode, Andy Cleff shares his research on the Triune Brain theory and some surprising facts.

Links

  • Your Brain Is Not an Onion With a Tiny Reptile Inside Joseph Cesario
  • Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain Lisa Feldman Barrett
  • How Gut Bacteria Are Controlling Your Brain Miriam Frankel and Matt Warren
  • Feed Your Microbes - Nurture Your Mind John Cryan, TEDxHa'pennyBridge
  • The embodied brain: towards a radical embodied cognitive neuroscience Julian Kiverstein and Mark Miller

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Episode: The Fragile Manifesto
Pub date: 2023-04-02

Join Andrew Leff, Troy Lightfoot and Andy Cleff as they make a pilgrimage to The Lodge at Snowbird, UT. There they discover some amazing artifacts that date back to circa 2001. This episode is graciously sponsored by Wellington Dowd. His framework, the Foundation Utilizing Core Knowledge To Actualize Realistic Delivery, is a multi-level phase-gated process to roll out "the agile" to your organization WITHOUT ACTUALLY CHANGING ANYTHING!

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Episode: OMG AgileGPT?
Pub date: 2023-04-09

It seems like EVERYONE is talking about ChatGPT, and large language models, and that it's going to replace everything...but will it really? Join us this week as we sit down to discuss what potential impacts these tools will have on the agile industry and the agile job family. Enjoy!

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Episode: Death of the Product Roadmap? - W/Colleen Johnson CEO of ProKanban.org
Pub date: 2023-04-24

This week Co-hosts Troy Lightfoot and Chris Murman sit down with special guest Colleen Johnson, CEO of ProKanban.org, and discuss an interesting topic, "Death of the Product Roadmap." Colleen makes a case for moving away from traditional roadmaps to utilizing portfolio Kanban at scale to achieve agility at all levels of an organization.

TLDL: The idea of a roadmap is not bad, but the most common forms and uses of roadmaps are speculative, deterministic, and prescriptive. All things that are not suited for a world full of unknowns.

BOOKS:

  • ProKanban.org
  • Optimal Operating Capacity (WIP Limits???)
  • Colleen's Product Owner Summit Keynote on Product Roadmaps
  • Scaling with Portfolio Kanban
  • Free Resources

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Episode: Seeing Money Clearly with Dan Doiron
Pub date: 2023-05-21

This week we sit down with Dan Doiron to discuss his new book, Seeing Money Clearly: Using Throughput Accounting to Understand and Manage Knowledge-Work. We discuss the different types of capacities, why buying capacity should always be a last resort, and how common cause variation will be a software team's undoing. Enjoy!

Slides to support today's conversation

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Episode: Applying Research To SAFe Arguments With Chistiaan Verwijs
Pub date: 2023-06-04

Discord members Niklas Kari, Mike Caddell, and Janel Lanza welcome fellow agilist Christiaan Verwijs to discuss his recent article on a data-driven approach to discussing SAFe. It's everyone's favorite framework to bash and blame for the issues in our work, and often the arguments are based on anecdotal evidence.

So, when someone decided to do some extensive research on the topic, it got our attention and we wanted to hear more.

Verwijs outlined the research method, how the questions were adapted over time to respond to research participants, and how it's been received so far in the community. Team autonomy is a big part of the data set, as is the reception and reaction of the C-suite.

We're not really sure if the data proves one way or another that SAFe is truly bad. Ultimately, it will likely confirm whatever opinion you have. However, it is vitally important to base impressions on various frameworks on more than emotional evidence. This was an interesting discussion of how.

Related articles in the pod:

  • In-Depth: Is SAFeÂź Really That Bad? | by Christiaan Verwijs | The Liberators | Medium
  • A Theory of Scrum Team Effectiveness | ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
  • 5 Colour Thinking and Change Management | CMI
  • Good or Bad? Hard to Say. - Campbell Leadership Solutions

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Episode: Your Prioritization is $%#! w/ Troy Lightfoot and Jay Hrcsko
Pub date*: 2023-06-11

In this week's episode, co-hosts Jay Hrcsko and Troy Lightfoot discuss the fallacies of prioritization and other agile-related practices that need rethinking including the cost of delay, WIP, release planning, forecasting, and more. This episode contains follow-along images which can be found below.

If you like this episode and want to attend an upcoming class on these topics, Troy is running a 4-night class about Flow metrics and Forecasting in July which can be found here. AU Listeners can get 20% off with promo code "AgileUprising"

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Episode: Deliberately Developmental Organizations with Andy Flemming (Re-release)
Pub date: 2023-06-18

From the archives: Join Andy Flemming and Andy Cleff as they discuss An Everyone Culture: Deliberately Developmental Organizations.

DDO’s create an unusual kind of environment, one that tolerates — even prefers — making one's failures, risks, and weaknesses public so that colleagues can support each other in the process of overcoming them.

There's a wonderful congruence with Modern Agile principles:

  • Make People Awesome
  • Make Safety a Prerequisite
  • Experiment & Learn Rapidly
  • Deliver Value Continuously

Guest contact information * https://www.facebook.com/waytogrowinc/ * https://twitter.com/WaytoGrowINC * https://www.linkedin.com/company/way-to-grow-inc/

Websites mentioned during the show * www.waytogrowinc.com * http://flashpoint.gatech.edu/

Book - An Everyone Culture * https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01BO2ITX2

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Episode: We're All Wrong About Little's Law w/Troy Lightfoot and Andy Cleff
Pub date: 2023-06-25

In this week's episode, co-hosts Andy Cleff and Troy Lightfoot discuss the misconceptions about Little's law, the differences between what Dr. Little created and what is often taught, and how Little's Law can be useful in practice today by understanding the five underlying assumptions. This episode contains follow-along images which can be found below.

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Episode: In Defense of Taylorism
Pub date: 2023-07-02

Every great man has a great enemy, every great movement a great antagonist. For "agile" that antagonist is typically attributed to Frederick Winslow Taylor, and his book Scientific Management...but SHOULD he be? This week we host a discussion between two people who actually took the time to READ the book, to try and answer the question: "Is the problem Taylorism...or how we're taught to INTERPRET it?" Enjoy!

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Episode: Creative Problem Solving using Framers and Claude Shannon
Pub date: 2023-07-09

This week's episode started out as a discussion of the book Framers by Ken Cukier et al. but then we went off into all sorts of heuristics for approaches to creative problem solving, and we landed with Claude Shannon's hints for Creative Thinking. Enjoy! If you enjoyed this episode, please give us a review, a rating, or leave comments on iTunes, Stitcher or your podcasting platform of choice. It really helps others find us. Much thanks to the artist from who provided us our outro music free-of-charge! If you like what you heard, to find more music you might enjoy! If you’d like to join the discussion and share your stories, please jump into the fray at our We at the Agile Uprising are committed to being totally free. However, if you’d like to contribute and help us defray hosting and production costs we do have a . Who knows, you might even get some surprises in the mail!

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Episode: Monte Carlo: A Matter of Life And Death w/Prateek Singh and Troy Lightfoot from ProKanban.org
Pub date: 2023-07-16

In this week's episode, Troy Lightfoot and Prateek Singh from ProKanban.org discuss techniques used in other industries used to help people save lives, and money, and even develop artificial intelligence. They cover what can be used in planning for product development to bring more accurate forecasts with a real understanding of risk to help companies make better decisions on a continuous basis. Links: ProKanban.org If you enjoyed this episode, please give us a review, a rating, or leave comments on iTunes, Stitcher or your podcasting platform of choice. It really helps others find us. Much thanks to the artist from who provided us our outro music free-of-charge! If you like what you heard, to find more music you might enjoy! If you’d like to join the discussion and share your stories, please jump into the fray at our We at the Agile Uprising are committed to being totally free. However, if you’d like to contribute and help us defray hosting and production costs we do have a . Who knows, you might even get some surprises in the mail!

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Episode: Manage Process Over People?
Pub date: 2023-07-30

This week we discuss the recent blog post by David Heinemeier Hansson titled "Manage process before people." While that sounds completely INSANE as a gut reaction...is he onto something? Tune in and find out! Enjoy! If you enjoyed this episode, please give us a review, a rating, or leave comments on iTunes, Stitcher or your podcasting platform of choice. It really helps others find us. Much thanks to the artist from who provided us our outro music free-of-charge! If you like what you heard, to find more music you might enjoy! If you’d like to join the discussion and share your stories, please jump into the fray at our We at the Agile Uprising are committed to being totally free. However, if you’d like to contribute and help us defray hosting and production costs we do have a . Who knows, you might even get some surprises in the mail!

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Episode: Kodsnack 535 - Let's make something number one, with Cliff Hazell
Pub date: 2023-07-25

Recorded at the Øredev 2022 developer conference, Fredrik chats with Cliff Hazell about connecting the whole organization as it grows, priorities, and more.

Don’t just sit around in your room and think about horses. Talking across silos and departments, all without overloading everyone with meetings? Learn to surf rather than trying to control the ocean. Make good changes and enable flexibility without making process out of everything.

Just making something top priority and finishing it can get you so much more done, rather than trying to make everything number one, or think forever about which thing to prioritize.

How is something we are doing actually moving us toward our goals?

Wrapping up by discussing combining doing good work with taking responsibility for our impact on the team, the company, and the world. It’s not that you either can do good or make money.

Finally, related to one of Øredev’s keynotes , Fredrik admits his annoyance at the fact that deadlines can be a good thing.

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Links * Cliff Hazell * Cliff on Linkedin * Cliff’s Øredev 2022 presentation - Beyond copy paste agile - building the missing links between strategy and operations * Design by committe * Flight levels * Agile coaching * Priority buckets * Always time for tea - Allan Kelly’s keynote from Øredev 2022

Titles * Similar to the problems of product development * Figured out in the proper places * Between the functions * Should I be thinking about that problem? * You assume that you are the user * Understand horses * Talk across that silo * Control the waves * There’s a swell coming * Coach of coaches * You only have one thing, and it’s wrong * Let’s make something number one * Getting the right people to talk to the right people

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Episode: Rewind: Square's Rohini Pandhi on spotting and solving customer problems
Pub date: 2023-07-27

Rohini Pandhi has been a product manager at early-stage startups all the way up to publicly traded companies. Now a Product Lead at Square, Rohini sits down with Intercom Senior Product Manager Michelle Fitzpatrick to share her tips for staying close to customers, parsing feedback and prioritization at scale.

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Episode: Honeycomb CTO Charity Majors on Code Rewrites, Acquisitions, Observability, and Team Performance
Pub date: 2023-04-14

Charles Humble talks to Honeycomb CTO and co-founder Charity Majors. They talk about her experience at Parse: re-writing Parse in Go, and her lessons from Parse’s acquisition and shut-down by Facebook. They also discuss Scuba, why Charity went from CEO to CTO at Honeycomb, places where dashboards make sense, and how to think and talk about technical team performance.

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Podcast: Topchefernes strategi med Niels Lunde
Episode: Niels Lunde: Mine aha-oplevelser i forÄret (3)
Pub date: 2023-07-24

ForÄret 2023 var nogle hidsige mÄneder i erhvervslivet, men hvad lÊrte vi undervejs? Niels Lunde fortÊller i en lille sommerserie om de tre iagttagelser som gjorde det stÞrste indtryk pÄ ham i forÄret, og hvor han fik noget at tÊnke over.

Seriens tredje afsnit er en status pÄ fÊnomenet kunstig intelligens: SÄdan tÊnker tech-nÞrderne og sÄdan ser erhvervslivets topchefer pÄ den nye teknologi - og pÄ tech-platformene.

03.12: Tech-nþrderne er begejstrede 


09.10: 
 de danske topchefer er afventende. Og nysgerrige

15.43: Ja, tech-platformene ER en kritisk vigtig udfordring for traditionelle virksomheder.

Kilder:

Podcast: On with Kara Swisher.

Podcast: Lex Fridman Podcast.

Producer: Peter-Emil Witt.

FÄ Niels Lundes nyhedsbrev: Tilmelding pÄ borsen.dk/nyhedsbreve.

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Podcast: Transformator
Episode: Uge 26: SÄdan kan GPT-4 hjÊlpe dig i dit arbejde. Situationsrapport fra spÊghuggerangrebene ved Portugals kyst.
Pub date: 2023-06-30

VĂŠrt: Henrik Heide

Medvirkende:

Erik David Johnson, AI-specialist, Delegate

Thomas Djursing, journalist, IngeniĂžren

Klip: SĂžren Rask Petersen

I denne uges Transformator skal vi have en aktuel beretning fra Portugals kyst hvor spÊkhuggerne for alvor er blevet et problem. I havnebyen Faro pÄ Algarvekysten ligger IngeniÞrens journalist Thomas Djursing med sin sejlbÄd, mens to flokke af spÊkhuggere gÄr lÞs pÄ rorene pÄ de bÄde, der sejler forbi. Thomas fortÊller om sin strategi for den videre sejlads, som bl.a. involverer sÊkke med sand til at smide i vandet.

Men fÞrst skal det hande om, hvordan kunstig intelligens som Chat GPT-4 kan gÞres til et nyttigt redskab i det daglige arbejde. It-virksomheden Delegate er gÄet hele vejen og bruger GPT-4 i alle firmaets processer, lige fra generering af testdata til programmering og kreative processer som at skrive tekster og brainstorming.

AI-specialist Erik David Johnson har gennem mange Är forsket i analytisk sprogfilosofi og avanceret AI programmering, og i ugens episode kommer han bl.a. ind pÄ de nyeste vÊrktÞjer til GPT-4, f.eks. til programmering, og de kommende versioner af sprogmodellen, der mÄske fÄr multimodalitet, sÄ de ogsÄ kan tolke pÄ billeder.

Links Erik David Johnsons blogindlÊg pÄ Version2

Desperate sejlere forsvarer sig mod spĂŠkhuggere med fyrvĂŠrkeri og sand

Podcast: Thomas Djursing fortĂŠller i Transformator om sine ideer til, hvordan han kan narre spĂŠkhuggerne

Video: Ocean Race-sejlere angribes af spĂŠkhuggere ved Gibraltar

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Episode: The One Skill Leaders Need Today (from Radical Candor)
Pub date: 2023-07-25

Candor and compassion at work are more important (and more difficult to cultivate) than ever.

On this special bonus episode, host Muriel Wilkins joins the Radical Candor podcast to help answer a listener question: should a manager try to change an employee’s interpersonal behavior? She and Radical Candor’s Amy Sandler and Kim Scott also discuss how to meet the demands of leading in a hybrid environment.

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Episode: Building minimum lovable products, stories from WeWork and Airbnb, and thriving as a PM | Jiaona Zhang (Webflow, WeWork, Airbnb, Dropbox)
Pub date: 2023-07-02

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Jiaona Zhang (JZ) is a product leader with a strong background in consumer products and extensive hiring and management experience. She is currently SVP of Product at Webflow as well as a lecturer at Stanford, where she teaches a graduate-level course on product management. Before Webflow, JZ was Head of Product for the Homes Platform at Airbnb and has also led product teams at Airbnb, WeWork, and Dropbox. In today’s episode, we discuss:

‱ Building a “minimum lovable product” rather than a minimum viable product

‱ How to create better roadmaps through storytelling

‱ Top lessons from Dropbox, Airbnb, WeWork, and Webflow

‱ The importance of setting ambitious OKRs

‱ JZ’s first 90 days playbook: how to succeed in a new role

‱ Advice for early-career PMs

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Find the transcript at: https://www.lennyspodcast.com/building-minimum-lovable-products-stories-from-wework-and-airbnb-and-thriving-as-a-pm-jiaona-zhang-webflow-wework-airbnb-dropbox/#transcript

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Where to find Jiaona Zhang:

‱ Reforge: https://www.reforge.com/managing-your-pm-career

‱ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jiaona/

‱ Website: https://www.jiaonazhang.com/

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In this episode, we cover:

(00:00) JZ’s background

(04:22) Common mistakes new PMs make

(06:44) Why Airbnb Plus didn’t work out, and takeaways from that experience

(10:51) Executing big dreams step-by-step

(13:45) The right way to push back against founders

(16:54) Minimum lovable product vs. minimum viable product

(20:53) What makes a product lovable

(22:20) Advice on roadmapping and prioritization

(28:04) Tips for new PMs to accelerate their career

(29:16) JZ’s top skills and how they have evolved over her career

(31:37) Designing crisp OKRs

(36:09) Lessons from WeWork

(43:01) Winning the first 90 days at a new company

(48:34) Why trust is crucial

(51:48) High-level lessons from Dropbox, Airbnb, WeWork, and Webflow

(56:38) The one piece of advice that transformed JZ’s career

(58:39) Lightning round

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Referenced:

‱ Mike Lewis on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikelewis/

‱ “What working at Figma taught me about customer obsession,” VP of Product Sho Kuwamoto: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/what-working-at-figma-taught-me-about

‱ WeWork: https://www.wework.com/

‱ WeCrashed on AppleTV+: https://tv.apple.com/us/show/wecrashed/umc.cmc.6qw605uv2rwbzutk2p2fsgvq9

‱ Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days: https://www.amazon.com/Sprint-Solve-Problems-Test-Ideas/dp/150112174X

‱ The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You: https://www.amazon.com/Making-Manager-What-Everyone-Looks/dp/0735219567

‱ Tress of the Emerald Sea: A Cosmere Novel: https://www.amazon.com/Tress-Emerald-Sea-Brandon-Sanderson/dp/1250899656/

‱ Arcane on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81435684

‱ Snoo: https://www.happiestbaby.com/

‱ Midjourney: https://www.midjourney.com/

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Episode: How to ask the right questions, project confidence, and win over skeptics | Paige Costello (Asana, Intercom, Intuit)
Pub date: 2023-07-09

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Paige Costello is a beloved product leader with a reputation as a remarkable coach and mentor. She is currently the Head of Core Product at Asana, where she leads the group responsible for Asana’s web, desktop, and mobile apps. Prior to that role, she served as the Director of Product at Intercom and, before that, as a Group PM at Intuit, where she kickstarted her product career through their renowned APM program. In today’s episode, we discuss:

‱ The unique product development process at Asana and how it’s evolved

‱ The double-diamond framework

‱ Conscious leadership training, and why every Asana employee learns it

‱ How to demonstrate confidence and earn trust from skeptics

‱ Why curiosity and openness may be the most important PM competencies

‱ How to give feedback using impact statements

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Find the full transcript at: https://www.lennyspodcast.com/how-to-ask-the-right-questions-project-confidence-and-win-over-skeptics-paige-costello-asana-intercom-intuit/#transcript

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Where to find Paige Costello:

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‱ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paigecostello/

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In this episode, we cover:

(00:00) Paige’s background

(04:38) What Paige is responsible for at Asana

(06:04) The evolution of Asana’s product development process

(09:10) Planning frequency

(11:26) Examples of areas and metric tracking at Asana

(12:46) The double-diamond process and how it’s applied at Asana

(16:53) Asana’s office-centric hybrid work culture and the future of WFH

(21:45) How to garner trust and win over skeptics

(24:45) Why you should befriend researchers

(26:17) How to exude confidence

(29:03) The 3Es framework

(33:43) Advice for early-career PMs

(38:43) Paige’s latest pillars strategy

(40:05) AI at Asana

(41:50) Lessons from Paige’s time at Intuit

(45:53) Challenges new PMs face

(48:55) Challenges Paige has faced in her career

(52:39) Paige’s skill-focused career philosophy

(55:43) Lightning round

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Referenced:

‱ Use This Equation to Determine, Diagnose, and Repair Trust: https://review.firstround.com/use-this-equation-to-determine-diagnose-and-repair-trust

‱ About conscious leadership at Asana: https://wavelength.asana.com/workstyle-simple-shift/

‱ The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership: A New Paradigm for Sustainable Success: https://www.amazon.com/15-Commitments-Conscious-Leadership-Sustainable/dp/0990976904

‱ Intuit: https://www.intuit.com/

‱ Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love:https://www.amazon.com/INSPIRED-Create-Tech-Products-Customers/dp/1119387507

‱ The Blind Assassin: https://www.amazon.com/Blind-Assassin-Novel-Margaret-Atwood/dp/0385720955

‱ The Alchemist: https://www.amazon.com/Alchemist-Paulo-Coelho/dp/0062315005

‱ The Diplomat on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81288983

‱ Fire of Love on Disney+: https://www.disneyplus.com/movies/fire-of-love/1hC7erRfsl3B

‱ Poe: https://poe.com/

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Episode: M&A, competition, pricing, and investing | Julia Schottenstein (dbt Labs)
Pub date: 2023-07-13

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Julia Schottenstein is a product lead at dbt Labs, a data transformation company, and an active angel investor in data and infrastructure startups. She first got excited about dbt in 2019 when she was a VC at NEA and decided to make the leap from investor to operator by joining dbt Labs. She also co-hosts the dbt Labs Analytics Engineering Podcast, a show about data trends that impact analytics engineers’ work. In today’s episode, we discuss:

‱ Advice for founders hoping to improve their M&A outcome

‱ How to strategically think about competition

‱ How to determine your paid features and have willingness-to-pay conversations

‱ Why Julia lives by “worse is better” and “tech debt is a champagne problem”

‱ Lessons from dbt Labs

‱ What PMs can learn from investors

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Find the full transcript at: https://www.lennyspodcast.com/ma-competition-pricing-and-investing-julia-schottenstein-dbt-labs/#transcript

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Where to find Julia Schottenstein:

‱ Twitter: https://twitter.com/j_schottenstein

‱ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julia-schottenstein-25424318/

‱ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4BKMMeVXk4jJnAQSqGSJvE

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In this episode, we cover:

(00:00) Julia’s background

(04:15) How Julia went from VC to working in product at dbt Labs

(08:24) Four things Julia uses to evaluate a company’s potential

(11:10) How to identify whether or not you have product-market fit

(12:05) Distribution strategies

(13:11) M&A strategies

(15:54) Lessons from the Transform acquisition

(18:01) Competitive values at dbt

(20:25) Keys to dbt’s success

(26:35) An offsite exercise Julia used to help her team internalize upcoming changes

(29:32) Determining what features are included in open source

(31:56) Pricing and willingness to pay

(33:34) Lessons from dbt Labs’s first pricing change

(36:33) Whether or not to be public about selling your startup

(40:08) How to utilize connections during acquisitions

(44:57) How to communicate selling your company

(46:33) M&A market forecast

(47:28) Values at dbt Labs

(50:14) Lessons from working with strongly opinionated users

(52:02) The importance of shipping, learning, and iterating

(54:08) How VC skills translate into product

(57:03) Lightning round

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Referenced:

‱ dbt Labs: https://www.getdbt.com/

‱ Tristan Handy on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tristanhandy/

‱ dbt Labs acquires Transform to enhance Semantic Layer tool: https://www.techtarget.com/searchbusinessanalytics/news/365530993/DBT-Labs-acquires-Transform-to-enhance-Semantic-Layer-tool

‱ Snowflake: https://www.snowflake.com/en/

‱ Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid: https://www.amazon.com/G%C3%B6del-Escher-Bach-Eternal-Golden/dp/0465026567

‱ Red strings training clip from Ted Lasso: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVe3Iwy10MA

‱ Monetizing Innovation: https://www.amazon.com/Monetizing-Innovation-Companies-Design-Product/dp/1119240867

‱ Madhavan Ramanujam on Lenny’s Podcast: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/the-art-and-science-of-pricing-madhavan#details

‱ Pricing survey: https://www.qualtrics.com/marketplace/vanwesterndorp-pricing-sensitivity-study/

‱ Hunter Walk’s blog post about publicly selling your startup: https://hunterwalk.com/2023/05/13/the-acquihire-market-for-early-stage-startups-is-ice-cold-one-better-strategy-announce-youre-for-sale/

‱ Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World: https://www.amazon.com/Range-Generalists-Triumph-Specialized-World/dp/0735214506/

‱ The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life: https://www.amazon.com/Snowball-Warren-Buffett-Business-Life/dp/0553384619/r

‱ Sam Walton: Made in America: https://www.amazon.com/Sam-Walton-Made-America/dp/0553562835

‱ Succession on HBO: https://www.hbo.com/succession

‱ In Depth podcast: https://review.firstround.com/podcast

‱ dbt community Slack: https://www.getdbt.com/community/join-the-community/

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Podcast: Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | Career (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: LinkedIn’s product evolution and the art of building complex systems | Hari Srinivasan (LinkedIn)
Pub date: 2023-07-16

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Hari Srinivasan is VP of Product at LinkedIn Talent Solutions, where he oversees LinkedIn Recruiter, LinkedIn Jobs, and LinkedIn Learning. He’s also a frequent guest lecturer at Stanford University. Previously, he served as the CEO and founder of We Created It, which was acquired by LinkedIn in 2014. Hari has a passion for building products, with experience ranging from creating the first U.S. hybrid SUV to developing a No. 1 app and writing a beloved children’s book. In today’s episode, we discuss:

‱ LinkedIn’s unique business model and org structure

‱ How to optimize your LinkedIn experience and improve your chances of getting a PM role

‱ How to adapt to a skills-first talent market

‱ The story of Hari’s failed first product review, and how he pivoted for success

‱ Strategies for building and maintaining complex systems

‱ How to get into product management

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Find the full transcript at: https://www.lennyspodcast.com/linkedins-product-evolution-and-the-art-of-building-complex-systems-hari-srinivasan-linkedin/#transcript

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Where to find Hari Srinivasan:

‱ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hsrinivasan1/

‱ Website: https://www.mindofhari.com/

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‱ Newsletter: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com

‱ Twitter: https://twitter.com/lennysan

‱ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennyrachitsky/

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In this episode, we cover:

(00:00) Hari’s background

(05:04) How Twitter brought Lenny and Hari together

(06:32) LinkedIn’s positive evolution, and what they did right

(10:14) Specific changes that made LinkedIn’s feed more interesting

(11:12) Understanding the algorithm and what kinds of content perform best

(12:21) The talent solution product

(15:46) The shift to skills-first hiring, and how LinkedIn changed their approach

(20:24) The open-to-work signal, and the newly released open-to-internal-work signal

(22:13) The PM talent landscape, and tips for landing a PM role

(24:55) How to optimize your LinkedIn profile to get noticed by recruiters

(28:38) Hari’s first product review at LinkedIn

(30:38) LinkedIn’s North Star, and how to operationalize the North Star at any company

(33:24) LinkedIn’s members-first value

(35:32) Building and maintaining complex systems

(38:09) The RAPID framework and the Five-Day Alignment framework

(39:51) What LinkedIn looks for in new hires

(40:51) The latest innovations at LinkedIn

(43:16) LinkedIn Learning

(45:00) Hari’s product management course

(48:19) Advice for people hoping to get into product management

(50:40) How to level up your PM skills

(51:57) Hari’s creative side projects

(55:02) Lightning round

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Referenced:

‱ Tweet from TheCuriousPM: https://twitter.com/zatin_jatin/status/1658616200560254978?s=20

‱ The Curious PM on Twitter: https://twitter.com/zatin_jatin

‱ Decision-making at LinkedIn: https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2018/03/scaling-decision-making-across-teams-within-linkedin-engineering

‱ LinkedIn Learning: https://www.linkedin.com/learning

‱ Thinking in Systems: https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Systems-Donella-H-Meadows/dp/1603580557

‱ Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow:https://www.amazon.com/Tomorrow-novel-Gabrielle-Zevin/dp/0593321200

‱ An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us: https://www.amazon.com/Immense-World-Animal-Senses-Reveal/dp/0593133234

‱ Star Wars on Disney+: https://www.disneyplus.com/brand/star-wars

‱ Case 63 on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4c9ZKaFtEKweSYOlYvxfvp

‱ E.T. on Tubi: https://tubitv.com/movies/607451/e-t-the-extra-terrestrial

‱ BriteBrush: https://www.amazon.com/BriteBrush-Interactive-Smart-Toothbrush-featuring/dp/B07VLL8QH4

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Episode: The 10 traits of great PMs, how AI will impact your product, and Slack’s product development process | Noah Weiss (Slack, Foursquare, Google)
Pub date: 2023-07-23

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Noah Weiss is Chief Product Officer at Slack, where he leads all aspects of the product organization, including the self-service SMB business, the team that launched huddles and clips, and the search and machine-learning teams. Prior to Slack, Noah served as SVP of Product at Foursquare. He started his career at Google, leading the structured data search team and working on display ads. In today’s episode, we discuss:

‱ The top 10 traits of great PMs

‱ How “complaint storms” helped Slack teams foster empathy

‱ How Slack’s product team is approaching AI

‱ “Comprehension desirability” and other key factors leading to Slack’s success

‱ Why you should be customer-aware but not customer-obsessed

‱ Important areas of growth for both new PMs and senior PMs

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Find the transcript at: https://www.lennyspodcast.com/the-10-traits-of-great-pms-how-ai-will-impact-your-product-and-slacks-product-development-process/

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Where to find Noah Weiss:

‱ Twitter: https://twitter.com/noah_weiss

‱ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/noahw/

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‱ Newsletter: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com

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In this episode, we cover:

(00:00) Noah’s background

(04:22) Noah’s advice on new parenthood

(07:23) Lessons learned from leading product at Foursquare

(11:33) Advice for working with strongly opinionated founders

(14:14) Thinking of involvement on a U-shaped curve

(16:53) Principles at Slack

(19:32) Implementing ML, AI, and LLMs in meaningful ways

(25:11) How Slack structures AI teams

(26:59) Complaint storms and how they help foster empathy

(30:01) Slack’s approach to prioritization

(32:26) How delight is baked into the DNA of Slack

(34:41) How Slack thinks about competition

(38:04) Building a culture that takes big bets

(41:40) Rituals at Slack

(44:51) How Slack unlocked new levers of growth and revived their self-serve business

(52:01) Slack’s early success and the factors that made them successful

(58:08) Slack’s pilot programs for testing new features

(1:02:03) Noah’s famous blog post: “The 10 Traits of Great Product Managers”

(1:10:15) Book recommendations to improve your writing

(1:12:30) Managing up and the importance of data fluency

(1:14:54) The most important skills to improve as an early-career PM and as a senior PM

(1:17:16) Lightning round

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Referenced:

‱ Emily Oster: https://emilyoster.net/

‱ Dennis Crowley: https://denniscrowley.com/

‱ Stewart Butterfield on Twitter: https://twitter.com/stewart

‱ Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability: https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Make-Think-Revisited-Usability/dp/0321965515

‱ Gustav Söderström on Lenny’s Podcast: https://www.lennyspodcast.com/lessons-from-scaling-spotify-the-science-of-product-taking-risky-bets-and-how-ai-is-already-impacting-the-future-of-music-gustav-soderstrom-co-president-cpo-and-cto-at-spotify/

‱ Seth Godin: https://seths.blog/

‱ Noah’s blog post on the 10 traits of great PMs: https://medium.com/@noah_weiss/10-traits-of-great-pms-a7776cd3d9cd

‱ Five Dangerous Myths about Product Management: https://medium.com/@noah_weiss/five-dangerous-myths-about-product-management-d1d852ed02a2

‱ Paul Graham: http://paulgraham.com/

‱ Ben Horowitz on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bhorowitz

‱ On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft: https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Memoir-Craft-Stephen-King/dp/1982159375

‱ On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction: https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Well-Classic-Guide-Nonfiction/dp/0060891548

‱ Nobody Wants to Read Your Sht: And Other Tough-Love Truths to Make You a Better Writer*: https://www.amazon.com/Nobody-Wants-Read-Your-Tough-Love/dp/1936891492

‱ Several Short Sentences About Writing: https://www.amazon.com/Several-Short-Sentences-About-Writing/dp/0307279413

‱ Paige Costello on Twitter: https://twitter.com/paigenow

‱ Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs: https://www.amazon.com/Creative-Selection-Inside-Apples-Process/dp/1250194466

‱ The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail: https://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Dilemma-Technologies-Management-Innovation/dp/1633691780

‱ Radical Candor: https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Candor-Revised-Kim-Scott/dp/1250258405

‱ Leadership: In Turbulent Times: https://www.amazon.com/Leadership-Turbulent-Doris-Kearns-Goodwin/dp/1476795924

‱ Succession on HBO: https://www.hbo.com/succession

‱ The Bear on Hulu: https://www.hulu.com/series/the-bear-05eb6a8e-90ed-4947-8c0b-e6536cbddd5f

‱ Nanit: https://www.nanit.com/

‱ Snoo: https://www.happiestbaby.com/products/snoo-smart-bassinet

‱ Uppababy: https://uppababy.com/

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Episode: The ultimate guide to A/B testing | Ronny Kohavi (Airbnb, Microsoft, Amazon)
Pub date: 2023-07-27

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Ronny Kohavi, PhD, is a consultant, teacher, and leading expert on the art and science of A/B testing. Previously, Ronny was Vice President and Technical Fellow at Airbnb, Technical Fellow and corporate VP at Microsoft (where he led the Experimentation Platform team), and Director of Data Mining and Personalization at Amazon. He was also honored with a lifetime achievement award by the Experimentation Culture Awards in September 2020 and teaches a popular course on experimentation on Maven. In today’s podcast, we discuss:

‱ How to foster a culture of experimentation

‱ How to avoid common pitfalls and misconceptions when running experiments

‱ His most surprising experiment results

‱ The critical role of trust in running successful experiments

‱ When not to A/B test something

‱ Best practices for helping your tests run faster

‱ The future of experimentation

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Where to find Ronny Kohavi:

‱ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ronnyk

‱ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronnyk/

‱ Website: http://ai.stanford.edu/~ronnyk/

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In this episode, we cover:

(00:00) Ronny’s background

(04:29) How one A/B test helped Bing increase revenue by 12%

(09:00) What data says about opening new tabs

(10:34) Small effort, huge gains vs. incremental improvements

(13:16) Typical fail rates

(15:28) UI resources

(16:53) Institutional learning and the importance of documentation and sharing results

(20:44) Testing incrementally and acting on high-risk, high-reward ideas

(22:38) A failed experiment at Bing on integration with social apps

(24:47) When not to A/B test something

(27:59) Overall evaluation criterion (OEC)

(32:41) Long-term experimentation vs. models

(36:29) The problem with redesigns

(39:31) How Ronny implemented testing at Microsoft

(42:54) The stats on redesigns

(45:38) Testing at Airbnb

(48:06) Covid’s impact and why testing is more important during times of upheaval

(50:06) Ronny’s book, Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments: A Practical Guide to A/B Testing

(51:45) The importance of trust

(55:25) Sample ratio mismatch and other signs your experiment is flawed

(1:00:44) Twyman’s law

(1:02:14) P-value

(1:06:27) Getting started running experiments

(1:07:43) How to shift the culture in an org to push for more testing

(1:10:18) Building platforms

(1:12:25) How to improve speed when running experiments

(1:14:09) Lightning round

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Referenced:

‱ Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments: A Practical Guide to A/B Testing: https://experimentguide.com/

‱ Seven rules of thumb for website experimenters: https://exp-platform.com/rules-of-thumb/

‱ GoodUI: https://goodui.org

‱ Defaults for A/B testing: http://bit.ly/CH2022Kohavi

‱ Ronny’s LinkedIn post about A/B testing for startups: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ronnyk_abtesting-experimentguide-statisticalpower-activity-6982142843297423360-Bc2U

‱ Sanchan Saxena on Lenny’s Podcast: https://www.lennyspodcast.com/sanchan-saxena-vp-of-product-at-coinbase-on-the-inside-story-of-how-airbnb-made-it-through-covid-what-he8217s-learned-from-brian-chesky-brian-armstrong-and-kevin-systrom-much-more/

‱ Optimizely: https://www.optimizely.com/

‱ Optimizely was statistically naive: https://analythical.com/blog/optimizely-got-me-fired

‱ SRM: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ronnyk_seat-belt-wikipedia-activity-6917959519310401536-jV97

‱ SRM checker: http://bit.ly/srmCheck

‱ Twyman’s law: http://bit.ly/twymanLaw

‱ “What’s a p-value” question: http://bit.ly/ABTestingIntuitionBusters

‱ Fisher’s method: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%27s_method

‱ Evolving experimentation: https://exp-platform.com/Documents/2017-05%20ICSE2017_EvolutionOfExP.pdf

‱ CUPED for variance reduction/increased sensitivity: http://bit.ly/expCUPED

‱ Ronny’s recommended books: https://bit.ly/BestBooksRonnyk

‱ Chernobyl on HBO: https://www.hbo.com/chernobyl

‱ Blink cameras: https://blinkforhome.com/

‱ Narrative not PowerPoint: https://exp-platform.com/narrative-not-powerpoint/

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Episode: How to measure and improve developer productivity | Nicole Forsgren (Microsoft Research, GitHub, Google)
Pub date: 2023-07-30

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Dr. Nicole Forsgren is a developer productivity and DevOps expert who works with engineering organizations to make work better. Best known as co-author of the Shingo Publication Award-winning book Accelerate and the DevOps Handbook, 2nd edition and author of the State of DevOps Reports, she has helped some of the biggest companies in the world transform their culture, processes, tech, and architecture. Nicole is currently a Partner at Microsoft Research, leading developer productivity research and strategy, and a technical founder/CEO with a successful exit to Google. In a previous life, she was a software engineer, sysadmin, hardware performance engineer, and professor. She has published several peer-reviewed journal papers, has been awarded public and private research grants (funders include NASA and the NSF), and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Computerworld, and InformationWeek. In today’s podcast, we discuss:

‱ Two frameworks for measuring developer productivity: DORA and SPACE

‱ Benchmarks for what good and great look like

‱ Common mistakes to avoid when measuring developer productivity

‱ Resources and tools for improving your metrics

‱ Signs your developer experience needs attention

‱ How to improve your developer experience

‱ Nicole’s Four-Box framework for thinking about data and relationships

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Where to find Nicole Forsgren:

‱ Twitter: https://twitter.com/nicolefv

‱ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolefv/

‱ Website: https://nicolefv.com/

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‱ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennyrachitsky/

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In this episode, we cover:

(00:00) Nicole’s background

(07:55) Unpacking the terms “developer productivity,” “developer experience,” and “DevOps”

(10:06) How to move faster and improve practices across the board

(13:43) The DORA framework

(18:54) Benchmarks for success

(22:33) Why company size doesn’t matter

(24:54) How to improve DevOps capabilities by working backward

(29:23) The SPACE framework and choosing metrics

(32:51) How SPACE and DORA work together

(35:39) Measuring satisfaction

(37:52) Resources and tools for optimizing metrics

(41:29) Nicole’s current book project

(45:43) Common pitfalls companies run into when rolling out developer productivity/optimizations

(47:42) How the DevOps space has progressed

(50:07) The impact of AI on the developer experience and productivity

(54:04) First steps to take if you’re trying to improve the developer experience

(55:15) Why Google is an example of a company implementing DevOps solutions well

(56:11) The importance of clear communication

(57:32) Nicole’s Four-Box framework

(1:05:15) Advice on making decisions

(1:08:56) Lightning round

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Referenced:

‱ Chef: https://www.chef.io/

‱ DORA: https://dora.dev/

‱ GitHub: https://github.com/

‱ Microsoft Research: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/

‱ What is DORA?: https://devops.com/what-is-dora-and-why-you-should-care/

‱ Dustin Smith on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dustin-smith-b0525458/

‱ Nathen Harvey on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathen/

‱ What is CI/CD?: https://about.gitlab.com/topics/ci-cd/

‱ Trunk-based development: https://cloud.google.com/architecture/devops/devops-tech-trunk-based-development

‱ DORA DevOps Quick Check: https://dora.dev/quickcheck/

‱ Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations: https://www.amazon.com/Accelerate-Software-Performing-Technology-Organizations/dp/1942788339

‱ The SPACE of Developer Productivity: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3454124

‱ DevOps Metrics: Nicole Forsgren and Mik Kersten: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3182626

‱ How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business: https://www.amazon.com/How-Measure-Anything-Intangibles-Business/dp/1118539273/

‱ GitHub Copilot: https://github.com/features/copilot

‱ Tabnine: https://www.tabnine.com/the-leading-ai-assistant-for-software-development

‱ Nicole’s Decision-Making Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wItAODkhZ-zKnnFbyDERCd8Hq2NQ03WPvCfigBQ5vpc/edit?usp=sharing

‱ How to do linear regression and correlation analysis: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/linear-regression-and-correlation-analysis

‱ Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters: https://www.amazon.com/Good-Strategy-Bad-difference-matters/dp/1781256179/

‱ Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life: https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Your-Life-Well-Lived-Joyful/dp/1101875321

‱ Ender’s Game: https://www.amazon.com/Enders-Game-Ender-Quintet-1/dp/1250773024/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0

‱ Suits on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/70195800

‱ Ted Lasso on AppleTV+: https://tv.apple.com/us/show/ted-lasso

‱ Never Have I Ever on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/80179190

‱ Eight Sleep: https://www.eightsleep.com/

‱ COSRX face masks: https://www.amazon.com/COSRX-Advanced-Secretion-Hydrating-Moisturizing/dp/B08JSL9W6K/

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Podcast: To Agility And Beyond
Episode: Episode 69 - HR skal ind i kampen, hvis vi skal lykkes med agile
Pub date: 2023-06-30

Det er budskabet fra Anne Engholm, People Business partner i BESTSELLER Tech.
Hun fortÊller i dagens episode om, hvordan man har vendt HR-processerne pÄ hovedet. Blandt andet bestemmer teams nu selv, hvordan de skal kompetenceudvikles for at kunne levere pÄ produkternes roadmap. Man har ogsÄ afskaffet karrierestigerne - og sÄ har man eksperimenteret lÊnge med at finde balancepunktet for en ny rolle, nemlig People Leaderen, hvis vigtigste rolle er at have en snor i medarbejderens trivsel.

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Podcast: Inside Intercom (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Preparing your CS team for the age of AI: Hear the latest thoughts from leaders in the space
Pub date: 2023-06-01

Advances in AI and automation are reshaping customer service—and keeping up is critical to any support team’s success.

Join Intercom’s VP of Customer Support Declan Ivory, along with Rati Zvirawa, Senior Group Product Manager for Fin, along with our special customer guest speaker Geronimo Chala, Chief Client Officer at Rebag, to learn how to:

  • Prepare your support teams to work seamlessly with AI and automation
  • Set customer expectations for interacting with AI
  • Optimize your knowledge base for AI bots like Fin
  • Ensure proper security and compliance

Transcript: https://www.intercom.com/blog/podcasts/preparing-your-cs-team-for-the-age-of-ai-hear-the-latest-thoughts-from-leaders-in-the-space/

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Episode: From science fiction to reality: Exploring the potential of LLMs
Pub date: 2023-06-08

In this episode, our Senior Director of Machine Learning Fergal Reid joins Emmet Connolly, our VP of Product Design, to delve into the impact and revolutionary potential of AI – it’s a fascinating conversation that touches on a lot of the broader, existential issues raised by this incredible new tech.

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8W6YqDsjhg

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Episode: Adapting to the AI revolution in CS: Discussing our 2023 AI report
Pub date: 2023-06-22

In our latest report n - The State of AI in Customer Service 2023, we dive into the top five trends transforming customer service. From preparing a seamless implementation of AI that can drive the customer experience to guiding your team through the transition — this may be a time of concerns and challenges, but it's also one ripe with opportunities. The sooner you get in, the greater chance to win a competitive edge. And that’s why today, we’ve invited three people to join us on the podcast to share some insights on navigating this new AI landscape and successfully integrating it into your own support strategy:

  • Samuel Miller, Customer Support Operations at Dental Intelligence
  • Ruth O'Brien, Director of Customer Support at Intercom
  • John O'Hara, Director of Customer Experience at Logikcull

They’ll talk about the current state of AI and automation in customer service, real-world examples of successful adoption, and strategies for reaping its benefits and overcoming challenges.

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Podcast: 24 spÞrgsmÄl til professoren (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Hjernen er et orkester
Pub date: 2023-05-29

Hjernen skal forstÄs som et komplekst system af netvÊrk, der svinger sammen i koordineret rytme og takt.

Den overordnede ‘melodi’ former vores bevidsthedstilstand, fortĂŠller hjerneforsker Ole Jensen, der forklarer, hvordan hjernesygdomme mĂ„ske kan behandles med pĂ„virkning af den indre rytme.

24 spÞrgsmÄl til professoren er stÞttet af Carlsbergfondet.

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Podcast: 24 spÞrgsmÄl til professoren (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Aben under jakkesÊttet - status og hierarkier pÄ arbejdspladsen
Pub date: 2023-06-19

Chefen skal ikke vÊre din coach, men derimod sikre bÊredygtige hierarkier pÄ arbejdspladsen.

Erhvervspsykolog Troels Gottlieb forklarer, hvordan arven fra primaterne fÄr os til at jage status, men samtidig vÊre meget bevidste om rimelighed. Og hvordan det spiller ind pÄ stress.

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Episode: Vidner husker alt for dÄrligt
Pub date: 2023-06-14

Vidner spiller en afgÞrende rolle i retssager, men sÄ vidt jeg ved fra forskning i hukommelse, er det langt fra sikkert, vi husker korrekt om ret mange ting. Hvad gÞr vi med den dÄrlige hukommelse, nÄr menneskers skÊbne stÄr pÄ spil? GÊst: Psykolog og seniorforsker ved center for selvbiografisk hukommelsesforskning ved Aarhus Universitet og sÊrligt interesseret i vidnepsykologi Trine Sonne. TilrettelÊgger: Christoffer Heide HÞyer. VÊrt: Svend Brinkmann.

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Podcast: Level-up Engineering (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Managing Workplace Stress via Breathing Techniques
Pub date: 2023-04-12

Interview with Alan Watkins, CEO and Founder of Complete. He talks about managing workplace stress through breathing techniques and overcoming our animal instincts.

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Podcast: Make Things That Matter (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Rob Walling: The SaaS playbook and gut intuition
Pub date: 2023-03-27

The SaaS Playbook will shave years off your learning curve if you want to build a SaaS. Rob Walling is a serial entrepreneur and the internet godfather of indie SaaS businesses who has built six companies and has been a long-standing voice in creative, independent paths into product building and entrepreneurship since 2010.

Links & resources mentioned

  • Book: The SaaS Playbook

  • Back the Kickstarter

  • Startups for the Rest of Us podcast & MicroConf YouTube

  • TinySeed

  • MicroConf

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Related episodes:

  • Rob Walling (ep28): Build a great business and let that be enough

  • DJ DiDonna: Navigating sabbaticals and career breaks

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People & orgs:

  • TinySeed

  • MicroConf

  • Dr Shelly Walling

  • Justin Jackson - choosing a market

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Books:

  • The SaaS Playbook

  • The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Keeping Your Sh*t Together

  • Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup

  • The Zen Founder Guide to Founder Retreats

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Other resources:

  • MicroConf

  • IndieHackers

  • The 5PM idea validation framework

  • Survivorship bias

  • Stair step method of bootstrapping

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Podcast: Make Things That Matter (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Mike Saloio: Leadership, meditation, ego, and ubuntu
Pub date: 2023-04-11

Mike Saloio is the CEO and cofounder of Huddle, a startup that brings together fractional swat teams of expert builders to help startups generate real momentum on their most important projects within a week.

This is a candid conversation about leadership and how our egos, sense of identity, and personal practices shape our company cultures. In particular, I think you’ll find practical benefit from our discussion about decoupling the concepts of morality and integrity to have healthier team dynamics.

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  • Mike Saloio - Twitter, LinkedIn

  • Huddle

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Related episodes:

  • Barry Brown: Work as a pathway of transformation

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People & orgs:

  • Steph Golik (cofounder)

  • TechStars

  • EXPA

  • Rick Rubin

  • Alfred Adler

  • Ray Dalio

  • Russell Simmons (+ meditation book)

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Books and media:

  • The Courage To Be Disliked

  • Article - Polarities

  • Polarity Management (book)

  • Success Through Stillness

  • Rick Rubin book

  • Huddle launch article

  • The Playbook

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Other resources:

  • Ikigai

  • “You must become somebody before you become nobody”

  • Ubuntu

  • Transcendental Meditation

  • Four minute mile effect - Bannister effect

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Podcast: Make Things That Matter (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Adam Thomas: Operationalizing product strategy
Pub date: 2023-05-17

Adam Thomas is a coach that helps product teams operationalize strategy so they spend more time focused on building the right products and less time fighting fires.

In this conversation, we discuss Adam's decision making framework, Survival Metrics, which helps product teams make better decisions and avoid both sunk costs and loss aversion. We talk about:

  • how to earn the trust of our counterparts and be better internal collaborators

  • how to make our strategy a living, breathing thing

  • key product leadership responsibilities that extend past product work

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Links & resources mentioned:

  • Send episode feedback on Twitter @askotzko , or via email

  • Adam Thomas: website, LinkedIn, Twitter

  • Adam’s Maven workshop: Survival Metrics

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Related episodes:

  • Melissa Perri: Product strategy and the missing middle

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Books and media:

  • Good Strategy, Bad Strategy

  • The Crux

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Other resources:

  • Warhammer 40K

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Timestamps:

[00:01:48] War gaming shaped product strategy

[00:03:22] Warhammer 40K

[00:07:11] Michael Jordan's Winning Shot

[00:11:22] The whole person equation

[00:14:15] Emotions in the workplace

[00:17:54] Survival metrics

[00:23:08] Implementing survival metrics

[00:27:26] Trust issues in product development

[00:30:05] Internal value exchange

[00:34:33] Being "Product Led" is Misleading

[00:36:26] Using survival metrics consistently

[00:39:23] Focusing on important outcomes

[00:45:12] Complying with regulations in finance

[00:46:19] Data privacy officer importance

[00:50:13] Questions to ask yourself

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Podcast: Make Things That Matter (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Donna Lichaw: The leader's journey
Pub date: 2023-05-30

Donna Lichaw is an executive coach for unconventional leaders, and the author of the newly-released book The Leader’s Journey.

Donna brings a background in design and product to her executive coaching and helps unconventional leaders take control of the story to drive impact for themselves and within their teams. We go deep on:

  • how to handle managing our own stories in healthy conflict

  • creating psychological safety

  • what it looks like to “give yourself an A” so you feel freed up to invent new possibilities

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Links & resources

  • Send episode feedback on Twitter @askotzko , or via email

  • Donna Lichaw: website, LinkedIn, Twitter

  • Donna’s new book: The Leader’s Journey

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Related episodes:

  • Mike Saloio: Leadership, meditation, ego, and ubuntu

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People & orgs:

  • Neuroleadership Institute

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Books:

  • The Art of Possibility

  • Rethinking Positive Thinking

  • The Upside Of Your Dark Side

  • Nonviolent Communication

  • Radical Candor

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Other resources:

  • Donna’s toolkit

  • The SCARF model (psych safety)

  • 3F model

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Podcast: Product Thinking (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 121: Answering Questions About How to Deal with Development Teams and Leaders and Balance Product Strategy, Bug Fixes, and Minor Improvements
Pub date: 2023-05-31

In this Dear Melissa segment, Melissa Perri answers subscribers’ questions about dealing with technology teams and leaders and how to balance the team's effort between the things that are the focus of your current product strategy, bug fixing, and minor improvements.

Q&A:
* Q: I recently joined a startup company as the first and only product manager. The CTO and tech leads believe I'm responsible for feeding the developers with work items. They're often telling me things like looking at the backlog. I'm afraid that some of the developers won't have anything to do next sprint or the sprints ahead. I'm tasked with plenty of discovery work to do, which takes a lot of time. At the same time, given the early stage of the company, there is no large backlog of tech items to be used as fillers for sprints. Therefore, developers remain with no valuable items to take. And I am pointed to as the guy who doesn't do discovery fast enough, which results in not enough items in the backlog.

Therefore, I have two questions. What is the best way to communicate that my job is not to feed the developers but to work on the product strategy by defining the right problems to solve and their solutions so that we can achieve customer and business value? Have you seen such a situation in the companies you worked in? Have you seen such situations in the companies you worked at or consulted? How do they tackle the issues so that product managers can focus on thorough discovery rather than becoming user story factories for the sake of keeping developers busy?
* A: This is a pretty common misconception in some companies, but there's a back-and-forth here. You have to supply the developers with work, but that doesn't mean that it all comes down to you. The developers need to be thinking through things as well. So I guess my first question for you is, since you are a startup and you do need to work on that product strategy, which I totally get, do you have a vision for the product yet? How far along are you? If it's super early days, I understand that there's not really going to be a concrete vision. But if you've got some momentum, some customers, usually you're getting enough feedback requests. You're doing that discovery work you talked about. You can start to put together a good product vision and product strategy that should keep the developers busy for quite some time.

So I would work with the head of technology in this case and start to talk to them about what you're doing and what you could prioritize for the developers and how you're working on that vision or that strategy so that you can start to break it down and have a lot more work for them to do in early days.

It could be that you have too many developers for the stage you're at because you're not ready to build something big yet. After all, you haven't done the product strategy work or figured out what needs to go on two. You may have just not done that product strategy or vision work. But you're big enough where it needs to be done, and it needs to be done quickly. So I would encourage you to do the discovery, do it well, but make sure that you're doing it promptly and scoping out and communicating with the developers as much as possible so that they know what's coming like involving your developers in the strategy work so that they can see what's coming up and they can start to make decisions about it.

  • Q: I'm a new product manager at a small company, and my main concern is the effectiveness of our head of technology and the development team. I work closely with them as a product manager and also product owner, and occasionally a Q&A tester. Our primary challenge is a significant amount of technical debt that needs to be addressed. This complexity requires the attention of more experienced developers, particularly when working on larger projects. The current development team was quickly brought in to handle bugs and urgent issues but I believe they are no longer capable of meeting project deadlines. We have been experiencing a high turnover rate, which disrupts the continuity of our work.

Developers start in stories or projects but are let go or resigned shortly after forcing them to pick up where they left off. We have been experiencing a high turnover rate, which disrupts the continuity of our work. Developers start in stories or projects that are let go or resign shortly after forcing others to pick up where they left off. Unfortunately, the expectations and deadlines remain unchanged. The team makes little effort to learn the systems and relies heavily on discussions with me before starting any user story. As a result, our last large projects exceeded deadlines by two to five months, and I had to postpone three projects to the next quarter. I find myself being blamed for these delays as if it's my sole responsibility to provide clear acceptance criteria and requirements in the user story.
The head of technology often compliments my user stories. But when something goes off track, the blame shifts to me to clarify. I put a lot of effort into creating detailed documentation, including links, screenshots, mockups, acceptance criteria, and even videos when necessary. Despite these efforts, I continue to be blamed and overruled by the head of technology. This toxic dynamic makes it challenging for me to navigate the situation effectively. What can I do?
* A: So what I'd say is, how do you make the problems that you're experiencing more transparent using data. Can you start to show things like velocity from the development team flow? I would try to track flow and show where the pitfalls are. I had to do this at one company. Once we mapped it out, we could not figure out why things were not being shipped right. And we mapped out how long it took from an idea to get to release, and we broke it down into each step.

And we tracked the time on one of those projects to show people where the bottlenecks were. And we found that it went into a big black hole of design, and it came back six months later. And then we would continue working on it, and then the design would come and disrupt it and keep changing it.

When we showed the leaders got involved and they were like, Oh, well, we have to change this process. Let's figure out what's going on with design and dive in deeper. So maybe say, I know we've had some bad delays. I'm proposing that we try something new. Let's try maybe mapping and tracking our flow of work right from the time that I have the acceptance criteria mocked up to the time that it takes the developers to start working on it all the way through release and then try to figure out and identify where the bottlenecks are.

If you have that transparency that helps give you some ammo back to the head of technology, but also to the leaders that will help you manage up and start to point out that this is not really all your fault. This is the development team's fault now. Also, you don't want to approach this, though, as it's a me versus them thing, which is totally what the head of technology is doing to you, and that's not fair. But that's not gonna win you any battles to say no, it's not me and like start all these fights, so you have to go to them and figure out how to get them to agree. So you have to go and say, Hey, I think we can work way better as a team member, and I want to make sure that the things that happened with our projects in the past don't happen again.

  • Q: My question is how to balance the team's effort between the things that are the focus of your current product strategy, bug fixing, and small improvements that are either feedback from our customers or small things that teams want to improve. Ideally, I feel like if we are more focused on the first, we would make the most progress toward our product and business outcome. But doing small improvements might never get picked. Should we save those small improvements as things that teams can do after they just finished a bug initiative?
  • A: I think here we need to look at the definition of a small improvement because sometimes something fast can have a huge impact. So I think you're gonna need to quantify all these things back to the metrics that matter and the overarching goals. And that's why these things are important. And it's important to know what you're trying to do to move the needle. So look at the goal for your product launches. Look at what you want to measure from a metric and then go back and say, How much will these new product things versus these small improvements versus the bug fixes actually contribute back to those goals. You might have a couple, you might have a customer satisfaction type thing. You might have a retention-type thing.

And at the end of the day, all of what I just said retention adoption. All of these things relate back to business metrics. They relate back to business value like retention is a quantifiable thing. How much money can we save? Can you start to break these down into what's going to move the needle for your area of the product and the business? And then you're gonna look at those small improvements and go, Hey, you know what? That was fast. So I thought it was small just because of a time thing, but actually, it's gonna help.

So don't think about little as a time thing. Think about it as a margin for value improvement, and that's how you prioritize it. So I always advocate dedicating some time to bug fixes. You definitely need to do that instability of your platform. But again, that's like a retention metric. So you're gonna have to remember that now you want to figure out what that should be in your organization.

Resources:
Melissa Perri on LinkedIn | Twitter

MelissaPerri.com | CPO Accelerator

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Podcast: Product Thinking (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 122: Mastering the Art of Product-Led Growth: Effective Strategies for a Self-Selling Product
Pub date: 2023-06-07

In this episode of Product Thinking, Melissa Perri talks with Wes Bush, CEO of ProductLed. They explore the art of product-led growth and share effective strategies for building a product that sells itself.

Wes Bush is the renowned author of "Product-Led Growth: How To Build a Product That Sells Itself." He asserts that, over the past several years, the way we buy software has undergone a transformative shift. Businesses must lead with their product and allow potential customers to experience its value firsthand.

Product-Led Growth provides the framework for businesses to adapt to this new era of customer-driven decision-making. It's not just a trend or buzzword but an actionable business strategy that enables companies to succeed in this new business landscape. With Wes Bush's guidance and expertise, businesses can learn to build products that sell themselves and position themselves for long-term success.

You’ll hear Melissa and Wes talk about:
* Product-led growth as a strategy where the product serves as the primary means of acquiring, engaging, retaining, and monetizing users. In this approach, every part of the business leverages the product to achieve its objectives. * When it comes to monetization, the key precursor is building a product that can sell itself. This can be achieved by providing users with a super valuable experience that enables them to derive value on their own. In many cases, this leads to users wanting more of the product and being willing to upgrade. * In fact, in self-serve apps, this product-led monetization is quite common. To facilitate this process, it's important to minimize any friction in the user's experience, ensuring a smooth and seamless transition toward the monetization stage. * There is a common misconception that a product-led approach requires a fully self-serve experience from the very beginning. However, this belief is not entirely accurate. The key idea behind a product-led strategy is to make it easy for potential customers to recognize the value of your product with minimal hurdles. * There is a common misunderstanding about the complexity involved in product-led growth. Some people assume that it's simply a matter of offering free trials and giving newcomers access to everything on your platform. However, this oversimplification overlooks the nuances of the approach. * Rather than focusing solely on these tactics, the key is to emphasize the rapid demonstration of your product's value to users. By encouraging users to engage with your product as quickly and effectively as possible, you can facilitate its adoption and promote sustainable growth.

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Resources:
Wes Bush on LinkedIn | Twitter

ProductLed | Product-Led Growth Book

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Podcast: Product Thinking (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 124: How Integral Are Tough Skills For the Development of Project Managers?
Pub date: 2023-06-21

In this episode of Product Thinking, Melissa Perri talks with Glen Stoffel and Caryn Fried, the Co-Founders of Camp4. They talk all about tough skills for project managers such as emotional intelligence; how to deal with stakeholders; how to communicate with the rest of your team; as well as some great facilitation techniques so that you can get the work done!

Both Glen and Caryn are the Co-Founders of Camp4, an organization bringing together the world’s leading sales practitioners to advise and accelerate the growth of the next generation of Salesforce innovators. Glen is also the Co-Founder of Think it Done, and previously held leadership roles at Bluewolf, an IBM company. Caryn is both the Co-Founder and CEO at Camp4, and Co-Founded Think it Done with Glen before leaving in 2020.

The two have worked together closely for years and we can’t wait for you to hear their stories and gain some super actionable insights into project management and team facilitation.

You’ll hear Glen and Caryn talk about:
Tough skills are absolutely essential for the success of sales and running projects. Glen says that what really differentiated people during the training process for running projects was how they operated once they got in the room. How were they interacting with stakeholders? What skills were they putting forward? How easily and effectively could they influence people to get things done? * Some people really struggle with soft skills, however Glen and Caryn prefer to call them ‘tough skills’. With so many technological platforms available to make us quicker and more efficient, there is* a massive gap in the process: the human side. As soon as you involve actual people in whatever sales or project management process you have, that’s when tough skills need to show up. You need to figure out how to help those on your team align, agree, collaborate, be critical thinkers and be empathetic, amongst various other skills. * The one thing that a lot of businesses aren’t investing enough time in is facilitation. Oftentimes, strong product people have great visions and immovable opinions; they can see where the dots connect and have a great vision for how their customer and employees’ experience is going to work, but they can get caught in the trap of control, rather than collaboration. If you’re an executive in an organization, it’s your collaborative skills that are the most important part of getting your ideas across. * Your team doesn’t have to agree on the end solution, but if you can get them to agree and align on how they’re going to get there, then that’s how you make sure it’s done in their language. Try taking a brainstorming approach to things with them, get a bunch of ideas together and figure out a way to get them all to mesh in a strategic way. * When dealing with someone who’s a little more hostile to the end goal and is more focused on their own goals, you have to take some extra time to try and build a bridge with that person; don’t just jump to an impulsive anger, it’s all about navigating a personality.

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Resources:
Glenn on LinkedIn

Caryn on LinkedIn

Camp4

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Podcast: Topchefernes strategi med Niels Lunde
Episode: Cees ’t Hart: Carlsberg-topchefens formel
Pub date: 2023-06-06

Carlsbergs topchef Cees ’t Hart har sagt op, og forlader bryggeriet i lĂžbet af sommeren. Den hollandske topchef kom til et presset Carlsberg i 2015, og Niels Lunde er nysgerrig: Hvordan lykkedes det at skabe en ny energi i en trĂŠt organisation? Hvordan fik Cees ’t Hart rykket Carlsberg ud af en lĂ„st position?

NĂ„r man taler med interne kilder, sĂ„ stikker tre ledelsesmĂŠssige initiativer ud. Her sĂŠtter Cees ‘t Hart sine egne ord pĂ„ de tre initiativer. HĂžr ogsĂ„ om hans syn pĂ„ tidens uforudsigelighed og pĂ„ kritikken af Carlsbergs forretning i Rusland.

07.18: Carlsberg i 2015: I en finansiel og mental spĂŠndetrĂžje.

12.36. FĂžrste initiativ: Bruddet med forgĂŠngeren.

17.07. Andet initiativ: Nye spilleregler i Top 60: ”At beholde en dĂ„rlig performance i en ledelse er et dĂždskys for succes.”

28.04. Tredje initiativ: Udnyt historien - arven fra brygger J. C. Jacobsen.

36.50. Om tidens sÄrbarhed og robusthed.

41.10: Om kritikken af bryggeriets svĂŠre exit fra Rusland.

Producer: Arjuna Alexander Kolkur SĂžrensen.

FÄ Niels Lundes nyhedsbrev: Tilmelding pÄ borsen.dk/nyhedsbreve.

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Podcast: Semaphore Uncut
Episode: Susanne Kaiser on Wardley Mapping
Pub date: 2023-05-02

How companies move during changes can determine their success, but also nurture eventual failure. 

Listen to the full episode or read the transcript at https://semaphoreci.com/blog/susanne-kaiser-wardley-mapping

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Podcast: Not another podcast
Episode: 4-dages arbejdsuge | Pernille Garde Abildgaard | Not Another Afternoon vol 2
Pub date: 2023-05-30

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Podcast: Not another podcast
Episode: Ikke-hierarkisk og frisĂŠttende ledelse | Christian Alvang Jespersen | Not Another Afternoon vol 2
Pub date: 2023-05-30

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Podcast: Coaching Real Leaders (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How Do I Lead My Team without Strategic Direction from the Top?
Pub date: 2023-04-24

He leads a team at a large global organization and gets positive feedback on their work. But he’s having trouble leading his team amid conflicting priorities and without direction from his senior leaders. Host Muriel Wilkins coaches him through how he can help his team have organizational impact, with or without more clarity from above.

Further reading:

  • When Managing Through Ambiguity, Develop a Clear Vision
  • How To Lead Through Ambiguity
  • 5 Reasons Your Employees Don’t Understand Your Company’s Vision
  • How to Teach Leaders to Navigate Complexity

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Podcast: Coaching Real Leaders (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How Do I Set the Right Pace To Meet Our Strategic Goals?
Pub date: 2023-06-05

She loves the work she does and has effectively managed her career to gain increased responsibility over time. She’s recently started managing managers for the first time and is struggling to find the right pace to help her organization reach long-term strategic goals, amid some short-term uncertainty. Host Muriel Wilkins coaches her through setting goals and timelines for the long term.

Further reading:

  • How to Manage Managers
  • Get Your Team to Do What It Says It’s Going to Do
  • How to Make Progress on Your Long-Term Career Goals

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Podcast: Coaching Real Leaders (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How Do I Move Forward from a Career Setback?
Pub date: 2023-06-19

He experienced early success and a fast promotion at his organization, but then things started to shift. Now, there have been leadership changes, and his scope of responsibilities has changed, making him feel like his career is backsliding. Host Muriel Wilkins coaches him through how he can reframe the situation and prioritize what he wants from his career going forward.

Further reading:

What Great Managers Do

How to Handle a Demotion at Work

15 Warning Signs Your Job Isn’t The Right Fit For You

How to Figure Out What You Want Next in Your Career

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Podcast: De Agile RĂždder - en podcast om agilitet i praksis
Episode: 28: Kom ud til brugerne - og stjĂŠl fra folkeskolen
Pub date: 2023-04-25

Rie Thyssen er en slags agilt KinderĂŠg*: Hun er bĂ„de Scrum Master, UX’er og folkeskolelĂŠrer. MĂ„ske synes du ikke, det sidste lyder super-agilt, men tro os, nĂ„r vi siger, at vi alle kan lĂŠre noget af folkeskolelĂŠrerne!

Rie fortÊller fx om konceptet lÊringskroge, og om hvorfor det kan give mening at se teamet som en 3. klasse, der stÄr pÄ tÊer. Vi tager ogsÄ UX-brillerne pÄ, nÄr Rie argumenterer stÊrkt for at komme HELT ud til brugerne. Og sÄ taler vi selvfÞlgelig om, hvad Scrum kan gÞre godt for.

.* Forklaring til jer, der er for unge til at kende den legendariske Kinder-reklame

LINKS:

  • Studie-selfie med Rie
  • Rie pĂ„ LinkedIn
  • Karate Kid - Wax on, wax off
  • Episoden med Mike Cohn, hvor vi ogsĂ„ linker til Karate Kid: Hvad ER agilitet egentlig?
  • Bogen, som Rasmus ikke kunne huske hvad var for Ă©n: “The Scrum Fieldbook: A Master Class on Accelerating Performance” af J.J. Sutherland
  • Ordbogen
  • deagilerĂždder.dk
  • Rasmus pĂ„ LinkedIn
  • Line pĂ„ LinkedIn - og pĂ„ lineh.dk

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Podcast: De Agile RĂždder - en podcast om agilitet i praksis
Episode: 29: Personlig produktivitet - burde vi tale om dét i teamet?
Pub date: 2023-05-09

Vi taler enormt meget om, hvordan vores teams arbejder, nÄr vi arbejder agilt. Men hvorfor taler vi aldrig om, hvordan vi hver isÊr arbejder, nÄr vi forsÞger at lÞfte vores del af teamets arbejde? Personlig produktivitet er stort i USA, men nÊsten ingen taler om det herhjemme. I stedet har vi vÊg-til-vÊg-mÞder, fyldte indbakker, og distraherende chat-kanaler. Ingen lader til at tage stilling til, hvornÄr vi egentlig har tid og ro til at rykke pÄ de opgaver, som vi er blevet assignet.

Sammen med tech-formidler og podcaster, Anders HÞeg Nissen, sÊtter vi fut i samtalen om personlig produktivitet. Anders beskÊftiger sig nemlig ikke kun med tech generelt, men ogsÄ med hvordan teknikken kan hjÊlpe produktiviteten pÄ vej. Vi kommer vidt omkring fra timeblocking - eller som Anders foretrÊkker at kalde det, kalenderkasser - over prioritering og hele vejen til meditation.

Der er med andre ord fuld plade pÄ produktivitets-nÞrderiet i denne episode.

BONUS: Bog-anbefalinger om personlig produktivitet

  • Anders: ‘Deep Work’ af Cal Newport - ‘Atomic Habits’ af James Clear - ‘Tiny Habits’ af B.J. Fogg
  • Rasmus: ‘The Productivity Project’ af Chris Bailey
  • Line: ‘Indistractable’ af Nir Eyal - ‘A World Without Email’ af Cal Newport (hvor han introducerer ‘The Hyper Active Hive Mind’)

LINKS

  • Studie-selfie med Anders
  • Se Line blive overrasket live on camera
  • podlab.dk - Anders’ podcast-firma
  • ahnissen.dk - Anders’ anden web-eksistens
  • Anders pĂ„ Mastodon - og LinkedIn
  • Work.flow - Anders' podcast om, hvad vi laver, og hvordan vi gĂžr det
  • Anders’ blog-indlĂŠg om kalenderkasser
  • Screenshots af Anders’ og Lines timeblocks
  • Lines blog-indlĂŠg om timeblocking 

  • 
 og om personlig Scrum: Scrum dig selv: Bliv mere effektiv med personlig scrum
  • Okay, det er lettere at linke til personligproduktivitet.dk, hvor du kan finde alle Lines blog-indlĂŠg om, well, you’ve guessed it: Personlig produktivitet!
  • LinkedIn-opslaget, hvor Line spurgte: “Should agile care about how YOU work?”
  • System 1 og 2 - artikel hos Scientific America om Kahnemans teori
  • Ordbogen
  • deagilerĂždder.dk
  • Rasmus pĂ„ LinkedIn
  • Line pĂ„ LinkedIn

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Podcast: De Agile RĂždder - en podcast om agilitet i praksis
Episode: 31: Ægte agilitet kréver ledere, der kan lide mennesker
Pub date: 2023-06-20

Agilitet skal leves - og det skal komme indefra! Louise Sparf har arbejdet i tech i en hulens masse Ă„r, og hun har vĂŠret topleder i bĂ„de det private og det offentlige. Det betyder, at hun har set masser af projekter fejle, ogsĂ„ de agile - i hvert fald de projekter, der har fĂ„et “agil pĂ„ flaske”.

Men hvad hulen betyder det, at vi skal “leve det”? Og at det skal “komme indefra”? Louise forklarer, at det er noget med at gĂžre det sĂ„ enkelt som muligt, at gĂžre det i det smĂ„ - og sĂ„ rent faktisk at gĂžre det og ikke bare sige det.

Dét krÊver, at vi fÄr nogle andre ledere - hele vejen op til toppen og i bestyrelsen. Her skal vi have ledere, der gÄr meget op i mennesker og knap sÄ meget op i regneark og rapporteringer.

LINKS:

  • Tip os om gĂŠster her☝
  • Studie-selfie med Louise
  • Louise pĂ„ LinkedIn
  • Restart Agile - Louises ene virksomhed
  • Make Work Meaningful - Louises anden virksomhed
  • Louises bog, Lederskabet I Balance
  • Frederic Lalouxs bog, Reinventing Organizations
  • SĂ„ hold dog op med at kalde dem for blĂžde kompetencer! - Line har blogget om det problematiske i at se dem som blĂždt, fluffy flĂždeskum
  • Ordbogen
  • deagilerĂždder.dk
  • Rasmus pĂ„ LinkedIn
  • Line pĂ„ LinkedIn - og pĂ„ lineh.dk

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Podcast: Engineering Enablement by Abi Noda (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Bringing the product management discipline to platform teams | Russ Nealis (Plaid)
Pub date: 2023-03-29

As product lead, Russ Nealis has been focused on introducing the discipline of product management in the Developer Foundations organization. This episode discusses the reasons why PMs are currently uncommon in platform organizations, examples of when having a PM has been helpful, and more.

Discussion points:

  • (1:23) Russ’s role at Plaid
  • (2:49) Why platform product managers are uncommon
  • (3:28) Backgrounds to look for when hiring a platform PM
  • (4:58) Deciding whether to hire a platform PM
  • (6:20) Signs that bringing in a Product Manager would be beneficial
  • (9:16) How Russ personally became a platform PM
  • (12:15) Whether a platform PM is a career path
  • (14:55) Articulating the business impact a platform PM has
  • (18:56) Challenges Plaid’s platform team has faced without a PM
  • (19:19) Symptoms of a need for product management in an internal-facing team
  • (30:15) Whether Twilio had platform PMs
  • (31:22) Example projects where PMs have been crucial
  • (34:12) How the book “Ask Your Developer” influenced Twilio’s engineering culture
  • (36:13) Getting started with introducing a product management discipline to an organization
  • (38:33) Org structure and where platform PMs may report
  • (40:00) Career ladder for platform PM when reporting to engineering leadership
  • (41:20) Being product-led or technology-led
  • (43:14) How technical skills may help when in a platform PM role

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Mentions and links:Follow Russ on LinkedIn
Episode 7 with Will Larson - related to why it’s difficult to find Platform PMs
Episode 27 with Jean-Michel Lemieux - related to the percentage of investment that should be put towards platform investments
The Build Trap by Melissa Perri
Ask Your Developer by Jeff Lawson

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Podcast: Engineering Enablement by Abi Noda (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: From DORA to SPACE to DevEx | A special episode with Laura Tacho and Abi Noda
Pub date: 2023-05-16

In this episode, Abi is interviewed by Laura Tacho about the new paper he co-authored with Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Dr. Margaret-Anne Storey, and Dr. Michaela Greiler. Abi and Laura discuss the pitfalls of some of the common metrics organizations use, and how the new paper builds on prior frameworks such as DORA and SPACE to offer a new approach to measuring and improving developer productivity.

Discussion topics:

  • (2:20) Laura’s background
  • (3:59) Laura’s view on git metrics
  • (11:05) What developer experience (DevEx) is
  • (14:37) How the authors came together for this paper
  • (18:55) How DORA and SPACE are different
  • (22:38) Limitations of DORA metrics
  • (24:43) Employing the DORA metrics at GitHub
  • (27:47) What the SPACE framework is
  • (30:44) Whether to use DORA or SPACE or both
  • (33:54) Limitations of the SPACE framework
  • (37:29) The need for a new approach
  • (38:46) What the new DevEx paper solves
  • (40:13) The three dimensions of developer experience
  • (40:54) Flow state
  • (43:10) Feedback loops
  • (43:52) Cognitive load
  • (44:51) Why developer sentiment matters
  • (47:58) Using both perceptual and workflow measures
  • (50:59) Examples of perceptual and workflow measures
  • (54:05) How to collect metrics
  • (59:47) How other companies are measuring and improving developer experience
  • (01:02:56) Advice for earlier-stage or growing organizations

Resources for learning more about the DevEx framework:

Read the new paper on ACM Queue

Read Abi’s announcement about the new paper

Read how top companies measure developer productivity

Connect with Abi and Laura

Sign up for Laura’s course, Measuring Development Team Performance

Connect with Laura on LinkedIn or Twitter

Connect with Abi on LinkedIn or Twitter

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Podcast: Engineering Enablement by Abi Noda (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Platform teams vs enabling teams | Manuel Pais (Team Topologies)
Pub date: 2023-06-07

Manuel Pais delves into one of the concepts covered in his book “Team Topologies”: platform and enabling work. Manuel shares how he views the strategy behind when and how to invest in platform or enabling work. This conversation also goes into each type of work in more detail, covering topics such as measuring cognitive load and where platform engineering may be heading in the future.

  • (2:13) How enabling teams and platform teams are different
  • (10:28) What it looks like for a team to own both platform and enabling work
  • (17:04) How to deliver enabling work in an organization
  • (22:28) Whether enabling teams should be temporary
  • (30:10) Platform team anti-patterns
  • (47:10) Measuring cognitive load

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Podcast: Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | Career (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Lessons on building product sense, navigating AI, optimizing the first mile, and making it through the messy middle | Scott Belsky (Adobe, Behance)
Pub date: 2023-05-18

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Scott Belsky is an entrepreneur, author, investor, and currently Adobe’s Chief Strategy Officer and EVP of Design and Emerging Products. He founded Behance, an online platform for creative professionals to showcase and discover work, and served as CEO until its acquisition by Adobe. Scott is an early advisor and investor in several businesses at the intersection of technology and design, including Pinterest, Uber, Warby Parker, Airtable, and Flexport. He is also the author of two nationally bestselling books and founded 99U, a publication and conference focused on productivity in the creative world. In today’s episode, we discuss:

  • How to strengthen your product sense

  • Why you should only do half the things you want

  • What it takes to build a successful consumer product

  • Why you are probably underinvesting in onboarding

  • The future of AI and how to prepare for it

  • Advice for founders and PMs who are feeling stuck

  • Why resourcefulness will take you further than resources

  • Adobe’s current priorities and their exciting path ahead

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Find the transcript for this episode and all past episodes at: https://www.lennyspodcast.com/episodes/. Today’s transcript will be live by 8 a.m. PT.

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Where to find Scott Belsky:

‱ Twitter: https://twitter.com/scottbelsky

‱ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottbelsky/

‱ Blog: https://www.implications.com/

‱ Website: www.scottbelsky.com/

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In this episode, we cover:

(00:00) Scott’s background

(04:50) Why Scott shifted roles at Adobe

(08:29) Advice for PMs looking to build product sense

(10:43) The first mile

(13:18) How to develop more empathy

(16:33) How to build consumer products that work

(20:42) Scott’s philosophy that you should “only do half the things you want to do”

(26:15) Scott’s optimism about how the world will look in five years with AI

(29:44) How AI will impact product teams

(32:55) How the PM role will change as a result of AI

(35:09) How Adobe is leveraging AI tools

(36:59) What the term “golden gut” means

(38:15) Advice for PMs to stay ahead of the new AI trends

(41:02) How to start writing more

(41:49) The messy middle

(47:03) What Scott looks for as an angel investor

(50:16) Why resourcefulness will take you further than resources

(52:41) Adobe’s current priorities and the path ahead

(54:58) Lightning round

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Referenced:

‱ Adobe: https://www.adobe.com/

‱ Behance: https://www.behance.net/

‱ Casey Winters on Lenny’s Podcast: https://www.lennyspodcast.com/thinking-beyond-frameworks-casey-winters-pinterest-eventbrite-airbnb-tinder-canva-reddit-grubhub/

‱ Crafting The First Mile Of Product: https://medium.com/positiveslope/crafting-the-first-mile-of-product-7ed25e8f1027

‱ Shishir Mehrotra on Lenny’s Podcast: https://www.lennyspodcast.com/the-rituals-of-great-teams-shishir-mehrotra-coda-youtube-microsoft/

‱ Scott’s tweet on only doing half the things you want to do: https://twitter.com/scottbelsky/status/1441469886975279109?s=20

‱ Matt Mochary on Lenny’s Podcast: https://www.lennyspodcast.com/how-to-fire-people-with-grace-work-through-fear-and-nurture-innovation-matt-mochary-ceo-coach/

‱ Adobe Firefly: https://www.adobe.com/sensei/generative-ai/firefly

‱ Howie Liu (CEO at Airtable): https://www.linkedin.com/in/howieliu/

‱ ChatGPT: https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt

‱ The Messy Middle: Finding Your Way Through the Hardest and Most Crucial Part of Any Bold Venture by Scott Belsky: https://www.amazon.com/Messy-Middle-Finding-Through-Hardest/dp/0735218072

‱ Adobe Express: https://www.adobe.com/express

‱ Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making by Tony Fadell: https://www.amazon.com/Build-Unorthodox-Guide-Making-Things/dp/0063046067

‱ Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey on Netflix: https://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/Cosmos-A-Spacetime-Odyssey/80004448

‱ Vinod Khosla’s prediction: https://futurism.com/80-of-it-jobs-can-be-replaced-by-automation-and-its-exciting

‱ Queue: https://www.queue.co/

‱ Tome: https://tome.app/

‱ Kevin Kelly on The Tim Ferriss Show: https://tim.blog/2014/08/29/kevin-kelly/

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Podcast: Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | Career (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Lessons from scaling Spotify: The science of product, taking risky bets, and how AI is already impacting the future of music | Gustav Söderström (Co-President, CPO, and CTO at Spotify)
Pub date: 2023-05-21

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Gustav Söderström is the Co-President and Chief Product and Technology Officer at Spotify. He is responsible for Spotify’s global product and technology strategy, overseeing the product, design, data, and engineering teams. Prior to Spotify, he founded 13th Lab, a startup that was later acquired by Facebook’s Oculus. He also served as the Director of Product and Business Development for Yahoo Mobile and founded Kenet Works, a company focused on community software for mobile phones, which was acquired by Yahoo in 2006. In today’s episode, we discuss:

‱ How Spotify structures product teams to promote freedom of thought

‱ Lessons on thinking long-term and navigating negative feedback

‱ Why Gustav started a podcast and what he’s learned

‱ How AI has impacted the work PMs, engineers, and designers do within Spotify

‱ AI-generated music and its impact on artists

‱ What’s next for Spotify and Spotify Podcasting

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Find the full transcript at: https://www.lennyspodcast.com/lessons-from-scaling-spotify-the-science-of-product-taking-risky-bets-and-how-ai-is-already-impacting-the-future-of-music-gustav-soderstrom-co-president-cpo-and-cto-at-spotify/#transcript

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Where to find Gustav Söderström:

‱ Twitter: https://twitter.com/GustavS

‱ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gustavsoderstrom/

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‱ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennyrachitsky/

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In this episode, we cover:

(00:00) Gustav’s background

(04:08) The various roles Gustav has occupied at Spotify

(06:54) Why Gustav launched a podcast and what he learned

(12:37) How PMs and product teams should think about AI

(21:23) AI-generated music

(26:19) Will AI continue to be a magic trick for products?

(28:27) How Spotify organizes product teams

(34:33) How Spotify operationalized autonomy

(35:45) Why Spotify uses a centralized model for structuring their organization

(43:34) The big bet Spotify took with redesigning its interface, and what they learned

(57:26) How they tested their hypothesis before launch

(1:02:35) Gustav’s “10% planning time” methodology

(1:03:53) How to bring energy and clarity to your work

(1:08:07) How to systematize deep thinking

(1:10:29) The peeing-in-your-pants analogy

(1:11:38) Thoughts on how the Swedish culture is portrayed in Succession

(1:13:30) What’s next for Spotify and Spotify Podcasting

(1:15:52) Lightning round

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Referenced:

‱ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/

‱ Daniel Ek: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-ek-1b52093a/

‱ Spotify: A Product Story podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/3L9tzrt0CthF6hNkxYIeSB

‱ Spotify’s AI DJ: https://newsroom.spotify.com/2023-02-22/spotify-debuts-a-new-ai-dj-right-in-your-pocket/

‱ Avicii: https://avicii.com/

‱ DALL-E: https://openai.com/product/dall-e-2

‱ Stable Diffusion: https://stability.ai/

‱ Midjourney: https://www.midjourney.com/

‱ Brian Chesky: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianchesky/

‱ Succession on HBO: https://www.hbo.com/succession

‱ FjĂ€llrĂ€ven: https://www.fjallraven.com/us/en-us

‱ 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy: https://www.amazon.com/7-Powers-Foundations-Business-Strategy

‱ Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor: https://www.amazon.com/Charlie-Munger-Tren-Griffin

‱ The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity: https://www.amazon.com/Mystery-Aleph-Mathematics-Kabbalah-Infinity

‱ Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime: https://www.amazon.com/Something-Deeply-Hidden

‱ Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution: https://www.amazon.com/Helgoland-Making-Sense-Quantum-Revolution

‱ The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World: https://www.amazon.com/The-Beginning-of-Infinity

‱ The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes—and Its Implications: https://www.amazon.com/The-Fabric-of-Reality

‱ The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes: https://www.amazon.com/The-Case-Against-Reality-audiobook/dp/B07VL5TCVF/ref=sr_1_1

‱ Gödel’s Proof: https://www.amazon.com/G%C3%B6dels-Proof-Ernest-Nagel

‱ The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Solving the Mystery of Life: https://www.amazon.com/Demon-Machine-Information-Solving-Mystery

‱ Halt and Catch Fire on Apple TV: https://tv.apple.com/us/show/halt-and-catch-fire/umc.cmc.5s15r46uj0wx044tipm2zoh88

‱ Duolingo: https://www.duolingo.com/

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Podcast: Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | Career (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Storytelling with Nancy Duarte: How to craft compelling presentations and tell a story that sticks
Pub date: 2023-06-01

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Nancy Duarte is the CEO of Duarte Inc. and has helped create over 250,000 presentations for influential business leaders across the globe, including Apple, TED, the World Bank, and Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. She’s also written six best-selling books, and her TED talk has garnered over 3 million views. She regularly contributes to HBR, MIT-Sloan, and Forbes, and her books are essential reading in leading business schools worldwide. In today’s episode, we discuss:

  • Why empathy is at the heart of everything Nancy does

  • Why you’re presenting more often than you think

  • Tactics for creating interesting presentations and telling better stories

  • The concept of a “torchbearer leader” and why it’s important

  • Strategies for overcoming stage fright and nerves

  • Tips for communicating and presenting remotely

  • How Nancy landed Apple as a client and what she learned

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Where to find Nancy Duarte:

‱ Twitter: https://twitter.com/nancyduarte

‱ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nancyduarte/

‱ Website: https://www.duarte.com/

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In this episode, we cover:

(00:00) Nancy’s background

(03:25) The insane number of presentations Nancy has helped create

(04:52) The most memorable presentation of Nancy’s career, and what it taught her

(07:04) The lasting impact of working with Al Gore

(09:00) How Nancy landed Apple as a client

(11:44) How working with Apple informed future presentations

(16:22) 3 things to remember when creating a deck

(17:33) The importance of empathy

(20:29) Empathy in action

(22:40) Why internal presentations are so high-pressure

(23:09) Signs you’re doing a good job making the audience the hero of the story

(25:38) The structure of great talks

(28:08) Lessons from great historical speeches

(30:02) You’re presenting more often than you think

(32:07) How Nancy uses this story structure in her marriage

(35:00) The framework What is? What could be? What is the ideal bliss?

(36:07) The importance of visuals

(41:12) Slide-making principles (titles, organization, and more)

(45:46) The Minto Pyramid Principle

(48:02) Think and plan before diving into software

(50:00) The Duarte process for crafting presentations

(53:18) How remote work has influenced the way we communicate and present

(55:46) Strategies for overcoming stage fright and nerves

(1:01:10) The concept of “torchbearer leaders” and why it’s important

(1:04:54) The surprising truth about informal vs. formal production quality

(1:07:37) Examples of PMs telling great stories

(1:11:49) Lightning round

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Referenced:

‱ Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth: https://algore.com/library/an-inconvenient-truth-dvd

‱ Apple’s Think Different campaign: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sMBhDv4sik

‱ The Secret Structure of Great Talks (Nancy’s TED talk): https://www.ted.com/talks/nancy_duarte_the_secret_structure_of_great_talks

‱ The Structure of Great Talks graphic: https://www.google.com/search?q=nancy+duarte+ted+talk+great+story+up+and+down+like+teeth&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi2hoCZmJH_AhVXATQIHb1KC2AQ0pQJegQIBxAB&biw=1512&bih=838&dpr=2#imgrc=5Jei-bDCXe2qQM

‱ I Have a Dream speech by Martin Luther King Jr.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP4iY1TtS3s

‱ The Minto Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing, Thinking and Problem Solving: https://www.amazon.com/Minto-Pyramid-Principle-Writing-Thinking

‱ The Minto Pyramid Principle and the SCR Framework,by Lenny: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/minto-pyramid-principle-scr

‱ Illuminate: Ignite Change Through Speeches, Stories, Ceremonies, and Symbols: https://www.amazon.com/Illuminate-Through-Speeches-Stories-Ceremonies

‱ Marshall Ganz: https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/marshall-ganz

‱ Brian Chesky: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianchesky/

‱ Airbnb’s Snow White storyboards: https://uxdesign.cc/how-airbnb-proved-that-storytelling-is-the-most-important-skill-in-design-15d04ac71039

‱ The Writer’s Journey: https://www.amazon.com/Writers-Journey-Anniversary-Mythic-Structure

‱ Business Proposal: https://asianwiki.com/Business_Proposal

‱ Writer: https://writer.com/

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Podcast: Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | Career (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Moving fast and navigating uncertainty | Jeremy Henrickson (Rippling, Coinbase)
Pub date: 2023-06-04

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Jeremy Henrickson is Rippling’s SVP of Product, responsible for scaling their product and design team across three continents. Previously, as Chief Product Officer at Coinbase, he oversaw 10x growth of the product and engineering organization and transformed a scrappy startup into a global cryptocurrency platform with tens of millions of users. He began his career at Apple in the 1990s and holds a BS and MS in computer science from Stanford. In today’s episode, we discuss:

‱ Strategies for sustaining focus and momentum at scale

‱ The case against MVPs

‱ The problem with frameworks

‱ “Compound startups” and how this influences Rippling’s product development process

‱ Advice for founders wanting to move faster

‱ Why you don’t understand your product unless you’re “in the weeds”

‱ Hiring practices at Rippling and how young PMs can build fruitful careers

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Find the transcript for this episode and all past episodes at: https://www.lennyspodcast.com/episodes/. Today’s transcript will be live by 8 a.m. PT.

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Where to find Jeremy Henrickson:

‱ Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeremyhenricks

‱ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremyhenrickson/

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‱ Twitter: https://twitter.com/lennysan

‱ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennyrachitsky/

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In this episode, we cover:

(00:00) Jeremy’s background

(03:24) What it was like leading product teams at Coinbase during the crypto boom

(05:25) How Jeremy kept teams focused and the biggest challenges he faced at Coinbase

(07:35) Advice for going through intense periods at work

(08:52) Maintaining velocity at scale

(12:07) An example of small teams with clear missions

(14:29) A model for building products

(18:03) Jeremy’s thoughts on MVPs (minimum viable products)

(22:26) Designing for the most complex use case first

(23:17) What a compound startup is and how it works at Rippling

(27:09) Rippling’s unique culture of fast decision-making

(28:14) Rippling’s leadership values

(32:13) Advice for cultivating fast-decision-making teams

(33:44) How deep-level thinking and working on the ground helped Rippling expand to other countries

(38:42) Why product leaders need to be right

(40:42) How Rippling decided where to expand to first

(42:29) The case for expanding internationally before you think you’re ready

(45:32) Why Jeremy isn’t a huge fan of frameworks

(48:08) The differences between building product at Rippling and Coinbase

(52:49) How Jeremy hires PMs at Rippling

(58:29) Advice for junior PMs

(1:00:19) Lessons from working with a founder who has strong opinions about what the product should be

(1:02:15) Lightning round

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Referenced:

‱ Coinbase: https://www.coinbase.com/

‱ Ethereum: https://ethereum.org/en/

‱ Parker Conrad on Twitter: https://twitter.com/parkerconrad

‱ Rippling: https://www.rippling.com/

‱ Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I’d Known Earlier: https://www.amazon.com/Excellent-Advice-Living-Wisdom-Earlier/dp/0593654528

‱ Matt MacInnis on Twitter: https://twitter.com/stanine

‱ Rippling’s leadership principles: https://www.rippling.com/life

‱ Airbnb cereal story: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/18/airbnb-ceo-says-he-wooed-first-investors-with-boxes-of-cereal.html

‱ Guidewire: https://www.guidewire.com/

‱ Jira: https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira

‱ Kyle Boston on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KyleB

‱ Quicksilver (book one of the Baroque Cycle series:) https://www.amazon.com/Quicksilver-Baroque-Cycle-Vol-1/dp/0060593083/r

‱ Consider Phlebas (book 1 of The Culture series): https://www.amazon.com/Consider-Phlebas-Culture-Iain-Banks/dp/031600538X/

‱ The Last of Us on HBO: https://www.hbo.com/the-last-of-us

‱ The Game on Paramount+: https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/the-game-2021/

‱ Tenet: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6723592/

‱ Corsair H60 CPU cooler: https://www.amazon.com/CORSAIR-Hydro-Liquid-Cooler-Radiator/dp/B00A0HZMGA

‱ Focal Bathys headphones: https://www.amazon.com/Focal-Over-Ear-Bluetooth-Headphones-Cancelation/dp/B0B93YKQT3

‱ Pandemic: https://www.amazon.com/Z-Man-Games-ZM7101-Pandemic/dp/B00A2HD40E

‱ Gloomhaven: https://www.amazon.com/Cephalofair-Games-CPH0201-Gloomhaven/dp/B01LZXVN4P

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Podcast: Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | Career (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Building a long and meaningful career | Nikhyl Singhal (Meta, Google)
Pub date: 2023-06-11

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Nikhyl Singhal is VP of Product at Meta, overseeing teams building messaging, groups, stories, and the main Facebook feed. Before that, he served as the Chief Product Officer at Credit Karma and held various leadership roles at Google, leading teams on Google Photos and Google Hangouts. Nikhyl was also co-founder of three startups, including SayNow and Cast Iron Systems, which were acquired by Google and IBM, respectively. Alongside his successful career, he is passionate about coaching and mentoring, sharing his knowledge through the Skip podcast, newsletter and CPO community. In this episode, we discuss:

‱ Finding your North Star and building a long and meaningful career

‱ Why your superpower may actually be holding you back

‱ Wisdom for aspiring product managers in the early stages of their career

‱ Reasons you aren’t getting promoted, and advice on what to change

‱ How to avoid short-term thinking early in your career and how to become a better manager long-term

‱ Signs you work at an “ex-growth” company and that it’s time to leave

‱ Signs the IC path is a reasonable pursuit

‱ The importance of finding a community

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Where to find Nikhyl Singhal:

‱ Twitter: https://twitter.com/nikhyl

‱ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikhyl/

‱ Newsletter: https://theskip.substack.com/

‱ Podcast: https://www.skip.community/

‱ Skip CPO Community: https://www.linkedin.com/company/skip-community-for-cpos/

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‱ Newsletter: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com

‱ Twitter: https://twitter.com/lennysan

‱ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennyrachitsky/

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In this episode, we cover:

(00:00) Nikhyl’s background

(04:37) Nikhyl’s mentoring approach during critical periods of change

(07:07) The power of long-term career planning

(10:36) The value of gaining varied experiences rather than merely collecting logos on your resume

(12:52) The unique benefits of working at a “MAGMA” company

(14:50) Ex-growth companies and the impact of 0% interest rates

(20:19) Signs your company may be struggling to find the right product-market fit

(21:32) When you should stay at an ex-growth company

(22:34) Early career advice for product managers

(25:25) Mid-career strategies for promotion

(29:47) Summarizing the 4 reasons you may not be getting promoted

(30:15) The value of authentic feedback

(33:29) Tactical tips for getting better feedback

(34:46) Addressing management challenges in tech

(39:50) Opportunities for those who prefer the IC path

(45:25) How to become a better manager through community building

(47:40) Nikhyl’s community, The Skip

(51:27) Lenny’s Slack community

(52:54) Late-career advice and identifying skills that need reshaping

(57:07) Why it’s so important to listen to contradictory feedback

(59:45) Nikhyl’s “superpower” and “shadow”

(1:02:20) Mental health challenges and the third act of your career

(1:08:44) Examples of North Star metrics in the third act of your career

(1:12:20) Lightning round

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Referenced:

‱ Annie Pearl on Lenny’s Podcast: https://www.lennyspodcast.com/behind-the-scenes-of-calendlys-rapid-growth-annie-pearl-cpo/

‱ The Skip podcast episode about ex-growth companies: https://www.skip.community/should-i-join-or-leave-an-x-hypergrowth-company/

‱ Jules Walter on Lenny’s Podcast: https://www.lennyspodcast.com/leveraging-mentors-to-uplevel-your-career-jules-walter-youtube-slack/

‱ Skip Community for CPOs on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/skip-community-for-cpos/

‱ Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers: https://www.amazon.com/Crossing-Chasm-3rd-Disruptive-Mainstream/dp/0062292986/

‱ Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box: https://www.amazon.com/Leadership-Self-Deception-Getting-Out-Box/dp/B07H3G1KCN

‱ Rise on Disney+: https://www.disneyplus.com/movies/rise/6Yv1uRnw2uAJ

‱ Arc browser: https://arc.net/

‱ Josh Miller (CEO of The Browser Company) on Lenny’s Podcast: https://www.lennyspodcast.com/competing-with-giants-an-inside-look-at-how-the-browser-company-builds-product-josh-miller-ceo/

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Podcast: Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | Career (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Building high-performing teams | Melissa Tan (Webflow, Dropbox, Canva)
Pub date: 2023-06-18

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Melissa Tan is an advisor, investor, and growth expert. She’s worked with fast-growing startups like Dropbox, Canva, Grammarly, and Miro, and for the past 2.5 years has been the Head of Growth at Webflow. There, she led the company's self-service business across Product, Marketing, and Growth, in addition to leading the charge on pricing and packaging. Prior to Webflow, she was Head of Growth for Dropbox’s B2B product, where she played a pivotal role in propelling their growth. In today’s episode, we discuss:

‱ Attributes of high-performing teams

‱ Tips for developing talent and seeking a mentor

‱ How to create a strong culture of ownership

‱ Frameworks for hiring PM and growth talent

‱ Common pitfalls companies face when implementing growth strategies

‱ Lessons from scaling Dropbox

‱ The DACI framework for increasing team velocity

‱ How to actually embrace first-principles thinking

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Where to find Melissa Tan:

‱ Twitter: https://twitter.com/melissamtan

‱ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissamtan/

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‱ Newsletter: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com

‱ Twitter: https://twitter.com/lennysan

‱ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennyrachitsky/

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In this episode, we cover:

(00:00) Melissa’s background

(04:12) What’s next for Melissa

(06:45) Lessons learned from Dropbox

(11:49) When to add sales to product-led products and vice versa

(14:28) Managing people with a people-focused and results-oriented approach

(17:14) An example of people-focused leadership

(20:26) The importance of talent development and why Melissa invests in it

(22:26) Tips for finding a mentor

(24:58) Specific questions to ask when you are interviewing for a role

(27:49) Companies Melissa has worked with

(28:33) Attributes of high-performing teams

(31:38) Creating a sense of ownership among team members

(34:36) Building a team-first culture

(36:54) Avoiding burnout by knowing your limits

(39:24) Developing talent and unlocking potential within your organization

(42:45) Melissa’s hiring practices and what she looks for in a product manager

(44:40) The exact interview sequence Melissa utilizes

(49:58) Common pitfalls when creating growth teams

(53:43) “Flying formation” and the DACI framework

(56:48) Who should own revenue

(58:19) When to invest in growth

(1:01:06) What to look for in your first growth hire

(1:04:35) When it’s appropriate to hire an advisor

(1:06:19) First-principles thinking

(1:09:50) Lightning round

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Referenced:

‱ Jiaona Zhang on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jiaona/

‱ Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead: https://www.amazon.com/Lean-Women-Work-Will-Lead/dp/0385349947

‱ Tim Ferriss: How to Find a Great Mentor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVo1aZCyfO4

‱ Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity: https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Candor-Revised-Kick-Ass-Humanity/dp/1250235375/

‱ How to Monetize a Freemium Business: https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/how-to-monetize-a-freemium-business

‱ DACI framework: https://www.productplan.com/glossary/daci/

‱ Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't: https://www.amazon.com/Leaders-Eat-Last-Together-Others/dp/1591848016/r

‱ The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself: https://www.amazon.com/Untethered-Soul-Journey-Beyond-Yourself/dp/1572245379/

‱ The Four Agreements: https://www.amazon.com/Four-Agreements-Practical-Personal-Freedom/dp/1878424319

‱ Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty on HBO: https://www.hbo.com/winning-time-the-rise-of-the-lakers-dynasty

‱ ChatGPT: https://chat.openai.com/

‱ Webflow: https://webflow.com/

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Podcast: To Agility And Beyond
Episode: Episode 68 - Giv mig et O. Giv mig et K. Giv mig et R. Hvad siger det?
Pub date: 2023-04-12

I dagens episode stiller vi skarpt pÄ OKR sammen vores kollega Kresten Banke. Kresten er produktdreng i verdensfirmaet og har arbejdet med OKR i mange Är. Sammen gennemgÄr vi hvad OKR egentlig er, hvad det kan og ikke kan, og hvad det krÊver at fÄ succes med OKR. Spoiler alert: Det er ikke organisatorisk trylledrik men krÊver sund produkttÊnkning, disciplin og hÄrdt arbejde. Kresten har samtidigt et skÞnt horn i siden pÄ agile og isÊr Scrum. SÄ lyt med.

🔗 Links* Kresten Banke pĂ„ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/krestenbanke/ * Measure What Matters (John Doerr): https://bit.ly/416Qoa3 * Radical Focus 2 (Christina Wodtke): https://bit.ly/3mpomYc

đŸ‘©đŸŒđŸ‘šđŸŒ Dine vĂŠrter* Find Katrine Hald Kjeldsen pĂ„ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katrinekjeldsen/ * Find Ole Rich Henningsen pĂ„ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olerichhenningsen/ * Skriv til os pĂ„ hej@toagilityandbeyond.dk. Feedback, kommentarer og forslag modtages med kyshĂ„nd. Se mere her: www.toagilityandbeyond.dk

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Podcast: WLEI - Lean Enterprise Institute's Podcast (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: How Entrepreneurs Use Lean to Drive Sustainable Growth: a Conversation with Matt May and Pablo Dominguez
Pub date: 2023-04-18

While Lean can trace its direct roots to the production system launched by Toyota more than 50 years ago, its timeless appeal translates into immediate practical countermeasures in a surprising number of situations. What A Unicorn Knows, a terrific new book by authors Matt May and Pablo Dominguez, proves this by presenting a comprehensive application of lean principles that couldn’t be more timely. Join us for their conversation with WLEI host Tom Ehrenfeld for a wide-ranging exploration of the deep relevance of lean for growing companies today.

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Podcast: WLEI - Lean Enterprise Institute's Podcast (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Embracing Regret for Better Living: A WLEI Podcast with author Dan Pink
Pub date: 2022-04-27

Regret, the pervasive and often toxic emotional mess most of us invariably experience, need not be so painful, says best-selling author Dan Pink. In fact, his new book The Power of Regret counsels readers to deliberately view regret as a process that can be examined in a way to help us all lead better lives. This WLEI podcast with host Tom Ehrenfeld explores how Pink came to this conclusion and explores parallels between his approach to processing regret and Lean’s mindful approach to framing problems for continuous improvement.

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Podcast: WLEI - Lean Enterprise Institute's Podcast (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Creating a System to Achieve Ambitious Goals: A WLEI Podcast
Pub date: 2022-10-28

Lean veteran Billy Taylor, author of the new book The Winning Link: A Proven Process to Define, Align, and Execute Strategy at Every Level, discusses with WLEI Host Tom Ehrenfeld how to cultivate "extreme leadership" as a means of building a cohesive and top-tier organization.

Bill shares a "connected operating system" that, he says, helps people and organizations define and achieve ambitious goals. He learned and developed this approach through decades of success at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.

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Podcast: Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | Career (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: An inside look at how Miro builds product: Lessons on outmaneuvering competitors, team structure, product quality, and moving fast | Varun Parmar (CPO of Miro)
Pub date: 2023-04-20

Brought to you by Miro—A collaborative visual platform where your best work comes to life | Braintrust—For when you needed talent, yesterday | Linear—The new standard for modern software development

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Varun Parmar is the Chief Product Officer of Miro and has over two decades of experience in the tech industry. Prior to joining Miro, Varun held executive positions as Chief Product Officer at Box and Syncplicity (acquired by Dell EMC) and spent six years in product management at Adobe. He also co-founded Doculus, which was later acquired by Box. In today’s episode, we discuss:

‱ The importance of empathy and how to foster it

‱ The “AMPED” structure for cross-functional product teams

‱ How to move fast and stay ahead of the competition

‱ Powerful product and design rituals

‱ How Miro acquired their first 1,000 users

‱ How Miro successfully added a sales motion

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Find the full transcript at: https://www.lennyspodcast.com/an-inside-look-at-how-miro-builds-product-lessons-on-outmaneuvering-competitors-team-structure-product-quality-and-moving-fast-varun-parmar-cpo-of-miro/#transcript

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Where to find Varun Parmar:

‱ Twitter: https://twitter.com/vparmar230

‱ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vparmar/

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‱ Twitter: https://twitter.com/lennysan

‱ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennyrachitsky/

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In this episode, we cover:

(00:00) Varun’s background

(04:08) How Miro operates as a cross-cultural product team

(07:22) How applying empathy helped Miro build Miro Talktrack

(11:51) What makes Miro stand out

(17:08) Miro’s AMPED structure

(22:57) The benefit of having product marketing as a part of the cross-functional team

(25:24) How competition affects growth and product strategy

(31:43) Why speed is so important and how to improve it

(34:21) How Miro ensures that their products meet quality standards

(37:19) How to remove blockers

(47:22) Miro’s product development process

(53:34) How OKRs work at Miro

(55:55) The product stack at Miro

(1:01:20) Big bets vs. maintenance and bug fixes at Miro

(1:03:44) The “three horizons” framework

(1:04:30) The importance of accountability

(1:10:46) How Miro got their first 1,000 users

(1:12:33) Other growth levers at Miro

(1:15:53) Adding a sales motion

(1:18:08) Miro AI, and new updates and enhancements coming soon

(1:20:12) Lightning round

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Referenced:

‱ Miro: https://miro.com/

‱ Miro Talktrack: https://help.miro.com/hc/en-us/articles/7825622973330-Miro-Talktrack-board-recordings-BETA-

‱ The design sprint: https://www.thesprintbook.com/the-design-sprint

‱ Jake Knapp on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jake-knapp/

‱ Miroverse: https://miro.com/miroverse/

‱ Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity: https://www.amazon.com/Amp-Unlocking-Hypergrowth-Expectations-Intensity/dp/1119836115

‱ Reinforcement learning: https://towardsdatascience.com/reinforcement-learning-101-e24b50e1d292

‱ Jira: https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira

‱ Confluence: https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence

‱ Coda: https://coda.io/

‱ Looker: https://www.looker.com/google-cloud/

‱ Productboard: https://www.productboard.com/

‱ Three horizons framework: https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/strategy-and-corporate-finance/our-insights/enduring-ideas-the-three-horizons-of-growth

‱ Capterra: https://www.capterra.com/

‱ Elena Verna on Lenny’s Podcast: https://www.lennyspodcast.com/elena-verna-on-how-b2b-growth-is-changing-product-led-growth-product-led-sales-why-you-should-go-freemium-not-trial-what-features-to-make-free-and-much-more/

‱ Barbra Gago on Lenny’s Podcast: https://www.lennyspodcast.com/category-creation-and-brand-building-barbra-gago-pando-miro-greenhouse-culture-amp/

‱ FIFA World Cup template: https://miro.com/miroverse/fifa-world-cup-2022-editable-bracket-diagrams/

‱ When Breath Becomes Air: https://www.amazon.com/When-Breath-Becomes-Paul-Kalanithi/dp/081298840X/

‱ Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone: https://www.amazon.com/Hit-Refresh-Rediscover-Microsofts-Everyone/dp/0062652508/

‱ Ted Lasso on AppleTV+: https://tv.apple.com/us/show/ted-lasso/

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Podcast: Hidden Forces (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: How Our Brains Model Reality & the True Nature of the World | Iain McGilchrist
Pub date: 2023-03-13

In Episode 300 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Dr. Iain McGilchrist. Most people know Dr. McGilchrist for having authored “The Master and His Emissary” a book about what we popularly refer to as “the Divided Brain” and its role in the making of the modern world.

It is Dr. McGilchrist’s view that we have systematically misunderstood the nature of reality, because we have depended on the aspect of our brains that is most adept at manipulating the world in order to bend it to our purposes. It’s the same part of our brains that is most proficient at constructing models or representations of the world and doubling down on them even in the face of falsifying evidence.

In the conversation that follows you will learn how the brain is divided into two hemispheres: the left hemisphere, which is designed to help us apprehend the world and thus manipulate and control it, and the right hemisphere, which is designed to help us comprehend the world — to see it for all that it is in its richness, nuance, and glory.

The problem, according to McGilchrist, is that the very brain mechanisms which succeed in simplifying the world so as to make it more responsive to our ambitions for power and control have become the primary obstacles to our understanding of it. The consequences of this imbalance can be seen all around us in our ecosystems, our systems of government, our economies, and within the fabric of our very own societies. The rise of narcissism, paranoia, our obsession with categories and discrete identities, the rise in depression, the policing of language, and the panopticon of surveillance and control are all symptoms in Iain’s eyes of the tyranny of the left-hemisphere made manifest in the world around us.

The first hour of our conversation is devoted primarily to understanding the physiology of the divided brain and how to recognize each hemisphere’s contribution to the synthesized world-picture that we call reality. In the second hour, which is available to premium subscribers, we examine the various ways in which the dominance of the left-hemisphere is manifesting itself in society, as well as the deeper philosophical questions that have concerned humanity since time immemorial. We look at the ‘stuff’ of which the cosmos is made – time, space, motion, matter, and consciousness, – as well as why we might see it as divine in nature. We also explore its apparent paradoxical nature—a paradox that McGilchrist suggests has generally resulted from the clash between the ways in which the right and left hemispheres construe reality.

This was an absolutely wonderful conversation and despite some of the audio challenges that we dealt with on Demetri’s end of the microphone, we are confident that you will walk away from it with a sense of enlightenment, inspiration, and perhaps, even a new perspective on the world and our place in it.

You can subscribe to our premium content and gain access to our premium feed, episode transcripts, and Intelligence Reports (or Key Takeaways) at HiddenForces.io/subscribe.

If you want to join in on the conversation and become a member of the Hidden Forces genius community, which includes Q&A calls with guests, access to special research and analysis, in-person events, and dinners, you can also do that on our subscriber page. If you still have questions, feel free to email info@hiddenforces.io, and Demetri or someone else from our team will get right back to you.

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Podcast: Hidden Forces (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: How to Think About the Current Moment in A.I. | John Borthwick
Pub date: 2023-04-10

In Episode 307 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with the founder and CEO of Betaworks, John Borthwick about the current moment in artificial intelligence. In John’s first appearance on the podcast in 2017, Demetri and he spoke about the challenges and opportunities present in the field of A.I. and how we could progress technologically into an immersive future of superintelligence and simulation without losing touch with our humanity. The incredibly rapid adoption of ChatGPT has caused both Demetri and John to revisit these questions and whether that immersive future that they spoke about then has finally arrived.

How we would even know if it has and what the appropriate response to the current moment is for the public, for companies investing in this technology, and for governments seeking to regulate and exploit it is the subject of the episode’s second hour, which is available to premium subscribers.

You can subscribe to our premium content and gain access to our premium feed, episode transcripts, and Intelligence Reports (or Key Takeaways) at HiddenForces.io/subscribe.

If you want to join in on the conversation and become a member of the Hidden Forces genius community, which includes Q&A calls with guests, access to special research and analysis, in-person events, and dinners, you can also do that on our subscriber page. If you still have questions, feel free to email info@hiddenforces.io, and Demetri or someone else from our team will get right back to you.

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Episode Recorded on 04/06/2023

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Podcast: Smart Friends (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: #061 How CEOs Build with AI - Sean Devine of XBE
Pub date: 2023-04-04

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Topics:

(5:04) - Setting the stage: Sean’s company & programming background

(20:38) - Part 1: Individual Contributor AI Applications: ChatGPT 4

(44:23) - Part 2: Product Improvement AI Applications

(1:11:40) - Part 3: Organizational expectations post-implementation

(1:21:26) - What resources would you recommend for people to learn more about AI tools?

(1:22:55) - How do you view the landscape of your company given the advancement of AI?

(1:26:50) - Will this cause margins to increase?

(1:30:21) - How do you feel about the potential risks of AI?

(1:36:14) - How helpful was your technical background in implementing AI?

(1:39:24) - Where can people find you online?

(1:40:07) - IF YOU ARE AN ELIGIBLE BACHELOR SEEKING A SMART & ENERGETIC WOMAN, LISTEN TO THIS SECTION

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Podcast: Topchefernes strategi med Niels Lunde
Episode: Sam Altman: Hvis du vil forstÄ Chat GPT, sÄ mÄ du ogsÄ forstÄ en 37-Ärig nÞrd i hÊttetrÞje
Pub date: 2023-04-14

Mens vi alle forsÞger at forstÄ, hvad Chat GPT kan, sÄ er spÞrgsmÄlet:

Hvad er det for et menneskeligt livssyn, der stÄr bag Chat GPT? Hvem er Sam Altman, der er leder af Open AI? Hvordan tÊnker han? Hvad vil han opnÄ, og hvordan ser han pÄ den teknologi, som han er med til at udvikle? ForstÄr han den bekymring, som mange mennesker har i forhold til det, som han har gang i?

Niels Lunde ser nÊrmere pÄ fÊnomenet Sam Altman, der er leder af Open AI, som har sendt Chat GPT ud pÄ markedet.

Kilder:

Sam Altman: ”Moore’s Law for Everything”.

Podcast: The Ezra Klein Show.

Podcast: On with Kara Swisher.

Podcast: Lex Fridman Show.

Redigeret af Arjuna Alexander Kolkur SĂžrensen.

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Podcast: Freakonomics Radio (LS 83 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Why Are There So Many Bad Bosses? (Ep. 495 Replay)
Pub date: 2023-03-16

People who are good at their jobs routinely get promoted into bigger jobs they’re bad at. We explain why firms keep producing incompetent managers — and why that’s unlikely to change.

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Podcast: 25 minuter (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: #193: AI, ChatGPT och teknologisk utveckling
Pub date: 2023-01-16

Vi pratar om AI; artificiell intelligens som ChatGPT och dess eventuella pÄverkan under den inte alltför avlÀgsna framtiden.

Vilka anvĂ€ndningsrĂ„den finns? Är det en hype? Vilka kommer gynnas mest? Vad kan detta leda till pĂ„ 1 Ă„r? PĂ„ 5-10 Ă„r? Och nĂ„gra praktiska tips.

Snart startar vÄrens klasser i Finanskursen. Det finns ett grundpaket för sjÀlvstudier, ett pluspaket med direkt interaktion och ett mer avancerat anpassat för företag och deras analytiker. Kunskap om analys och vÀrdering Àr extra viktigt i turbulenta tider. Kolla in Finanskursen.se om du hÄller pÄ med investeringar.

Tips & resurser frÄn avsnittet:

  • Testa OpenAi ChatGpt om du inte redan gjort det.
  • LĂ€r dig grunderna av ett programmeringssprĂ„k pĂ„ en mĂ„nad med hjĂ€lp av ChatGPT.
  • Skapa en automatisk pĂ„minnelse i din kalenderapp att söka efter nya AI-verktyg var tredje eller sjĂ€tte mĂ„nad. Det hĂ€nder saker fort och om lyckas hitta ett verktyg som Ă€r anvĂ€ndbart sĂ„ Ă€r det vĂ€rdefullt. SĂ€rskilt om det Ă€r gratis.

    • Finns bra resurser pĂ„ Product Hunt.
  • Dataset: Finns pĂ„ OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, TowardsAI. GĂ„r att googla för fler

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Podcast: LeadingAgile SoundNotes: an Agile Podcast (LS 35 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Maximizing the Value of Agile Metrics
Pub date: 2022-11-09

During Transformation, we need a way to measure its performance and improvements to the organization so that leaders continue to support the initiative. Metrics need to be used to help teams get better over time and drive the right kinds of outcomes that leadership is looking for.

In this episode, Mike Cottmeyer shares his insights into different Agile metrics and what are the right ones that give leaders what they need to make the necessary changes to the system and improve overall performance.

Contacting Mike CottmeyerIf you’d like to contact Mike you can reach him at:

LeadingAgile: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/mike-cottmeyerLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cottmeyer/Twitter: https://twitter.com/mcottmeyerEmail: mike@leadingagile.com

Contacting Dave PriorIf you’d like to contact Dave you can reach him at:

LeadingAgile: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungoTwitter: https://twitter.com/mrsungoEmail: dave.prior@leadingagile.com

If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to dave.prior@leadingagile.com

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Podcast: LeadingAgile SoundNotes: an Agile Podcast (LS 35 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Using Intention-Driven Communication
Pub date: 2023-01-13

There’s a layer to communication that is most important for understanding: intention. It’s the most often overlooked aspect because it’s hard to decipher if people are saying what they mean or if you actually understand what they’re saying.

By hunting for a shared understanding of intention, you can more deeply understand what people are saying and why. If you aren’t aligning on intent, you could be missing the mark, which can be detrimental, especially in a business environment.

In this episode of SoundNotes, Dave and Mike explore how improving communication can translate into an Agile work environment, personal relationships, and the benefits that better communication provides to individuals and groups of people.

Contacting Mike CottmeyerIf you’d like to contact Mike you can reach him at:

LeadingAgile: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/mike-cottmeyerLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cottmeyer/Twitter: https://twitter.com/mcottmeyerEmail: mike@leadingagile.com

Contacting Dave PriorIf you’d like to contact Dave you can reach him at:

LeadingAgile: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungoTwitter: https://twitter.com/mrsungoEmail: dave.prior@leadingagile.com

If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to dave.prior@leadingagile.com

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Podcast: Thoughtworks Technology Podcast (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Low-code/no-code platforms: The 10% trap and the limits of abstractions
Pub date: 2022-12-01

Low-code and no-code development platforms have been heralded in recent years as a solution to engineering talent gaps and as a trend that will properly democratize technology, allowing even non-coders to build applications from scratch. However, despite the marketing rhetoric, such platforms pose considerable challenges: how do they fit alongside existing development projects? To what extent do they enable or restrict our ability to build the kinds of software we want and need?

In this episode of the Technology Podcast, Neal Ford and Mike Mason are joined by Scott Shaw and Xu Hao to discuss the state of play in the world of low-code and no-code. They explore the different types of platforms that have emerged in the space and ask what organizations need to consider before they invest time, energy and money in integrating them.

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Podcast: Thoughtworks Technology Podcast (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Six key technology trends for 2023
Pub date: 2023-01-26

It's often said that technology moves quickly, but the decisions we make about it can have long-term consequences. That's why identifying these trends — and understanding what they mean — matters. At Thoughtworks we do that with our Looking Glass report. Our most recent edition was published at the end of 2022; it provides a useful framework for thinking through the major shifts that look set to happen across the industry in 2023.

In this episode of the Technology Podcast, regular hosts Mike Mason and Ken Mugrage take the guest seats to talk to Neal Ford about the six key trends in the latest Looking Glass. They explain why they were chosen before diving deeper into a selection of some of the most hotly debated trends that feature in the report, such as metaverse and Web3.

  • Explore the latest Looking Glass: https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/looking-glass
  • Read Mike Mason's metaverse article (co-written with Barton Friedland) https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/articles/metaverse-practical-review

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Podcast: Thoughtworks Technology Podcast (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: How to tackle friction between product and engineering in scale-ups
Pub date: 2023-02-09

As an organization matures and grows, silos will inevitably emerge. That can pose problems, particularly in the relationship between product and engineering functions — friction can slow growth and make delivering at speed much more challenging than it was previously.

In this episode of the Technology Podcast, Thoughtworks CTO Rebecca Parsons is joined by colleagues Rick Kick (Head of Application and Platform Transformation in the Enterprise Modernization team for Thoughtworks North America) and Kennedy Collins (Head of Product and Design for the North America Central Market), alongside Anthony Maitz of Pariveda, to discuss how to manage the various frictions and tensions that can emerge as organizations scale. They cover a wide range of tactics and strategies to improve alignment between product and engineering, and offer an insight into what can actually be done to address a common scale-up growing pain.

Read Rick and Kennedy's article discussed in the episode: https://martinfowler.com/articles/bottlenecks-of-scaleups/03-product-v-engineering.html

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Podcast: Agile for Humans with Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Breaking the SAFe: Why Did SAFe Break the Product Owner Role?
Pub date: 2023-03-10

⏩ Join Ryan and Todd for a Scrum.org's course: https://buytickets.at/agileforhumansllc

đŸ”„ This Professional Scrum online training course introduces you to the principle of facilitation and gives you a fast path to Scrum Event facilitation and certification. This is the best first step you can take down your path to facilitation mastery! Professional Scrum Trainers Todd Miller and Ryan Ripley built this course to help those interested in Facilitation get up and running quickly using the principles, techniques, and practices of successful facilitation.

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Professional Scrum Trainers Todd Miller and Ryan Ripley built this course to help those interested in Scrum get up and running quickly using the Framework. They've partnered with Daria Bagina from ScrumMastered to bring practical materials and guides to the course.

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Podcast: Agile for Humans with Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Breaking the SAFe: Deconstructing PI Planning
Pub date: 2023-03-21

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Podcast: Agile for Humans with Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Breaking the SAFe: Ken Schwaber's "UnSAFE at any Speed" Post
Pub date: 2023-03-21

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Podcast: Agile for Humans with Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Breaking the SAFe: Reviewing Marty Cagan's Site on SAFe and Scaling Agile
Pub date: 2023-03-21

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Podcast: Software Engineering Daily (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Kubernetes Cost Management with Matt Ray
Pub date: 2023-02-11

As companies move more and more workloads to the cloud, cost management in the cloud is becoming critically important. Modern application development methodology increasingly involves moving to service and microservice architectures enabled by the cloud and kubernetes is the backbone of this modern infrastructure trend. Managing costs of kubernetes clusters is therefore becoming increasingly important. Kubecost is the company focused on giving visibility into kubernetes resources, allowing you to reduce your overall kubernetes based infrastructure spend. OpenCost is an open-source project by Kubecost and supported by a few other partner companies. Matt Ray is Senior Community Manager at OpenCost and he joins us today.

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Podcast: Software Engineering Daily (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Surviving ChatGPT with Christian Hubicki
Pub date: 2023-02-24

ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence language model developed by OpenAI. It is part of the GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) family of models, which are designed to generate human-like text based on input prompts. ChatGPT is specifically trained to carry out conversational tasks, such as answering questions, completing sentences, and engaging in dialogue. It has been pre-trained on a large corpus of text data and fine-tuned on specific tasks to improve its performance. As a result, ChatGPT can generate responses that are often coherent, relevant, and natural-sounding.

Christian Hubicki is an Assistant Professor in the Robotics Department at Florida State University. He joins us today to discuss ChatGPT and its implications. We also discussed the future of Artificial Intelligence in general.

This show is hosted by Sean Falconer. Sean is the Head of Developer Relations and Marketing @Skyflow. Follow Sean at @seanfalconer

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Podcast: ADFÆRDSLEDELSE
Episode: #78 FĂ„ Det Til At Ske med SĂžren Obed Madsen og implementering som oversĂŠttelse
Pub date: 2023-03-20

At fĂ„ noget til at ske med sammen med og gennem andre i organisatoriske forandringsprogrammer er ikke noget, der sker af sig selv. Faktisk lykkedes vi kun med at realisere og opnĂ„ 20-30% af de strategiske mĂ„l, vi sĂŠtter os for at opnĂ„. Hvis vi havde den succesrate pĂ„ andre omrĂ„der, ville vi straks ĂŠndre tilgang til vores praksis. I denne episode dykker vi ned i implementeringens dybe brĂžnd af tvĂŠrfaglige forskningsindsigter og praksiserfaringer for at blive klogere pĂ„, hvordan man kan forstĂ„ implementeringens hvad og hvordan. Ordet implementering dukker op i 1908. Begrebet ‘implement’ er kendt fra det 15. Ă„rhundrede og refererer til brugen af vĂŠrktĂžj til at udfĂžre en opgave. Det engelske ord execute har vĂŠret kendt siden det 14. Ă„rhundrede, og ordet betyder gennemfĂžrelse, udfĂžrelse og henrettelse, hvilket mĂ„ siges at signalere en vis form for handlekraft. Begge begreber kommer fra fransk, og betyder hvordan man udfĂžrer noget i praksis. SĂ„dan lyder det i bogen, som dagens gĂŠst er forfatter til. Nemlig dig, SĂžren Obed Madsen. Velkommen til dig SĂžren. Vi skal tale om din nye bog med den korte titel: Implementering - mellem snak og handling. Du har lovet os at indvie os i, hvordan implementering kan opfattes, bestemmes og forstĂ„s bĂ„de som meta-disciplin og som praksis.

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Podcast: Software Process and Measurement Cast (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: SPaMCAST 741 - Flow Metrics In Planning, A New Product Owner, Essays and Conversations
Pub date: 2023-02-05

Planning is an important component of getting work done. Planning is not, however, creating and delivering work. Minimizing the amount of time spent planning but not under planning is almost mind-numbingly difficult. Flow metrics are tools to maximize the value of planning while minimizing the time spent on planning. Over the next few entries in the Software Process and Measurement Blog, we will explore several examples of using flow metrics in planning.

We also have a visit from Susan Parente who brings her Not A Scrumdamentalist column to the podcast. Susan provides guidance on navigating environments that are not pristinely agile in a pragmatic fashion.

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Chapter 13 of Badass Agile Coaching: The Journey from Beginner to Mastery and Beyond is titled Badass Pair-Coaching. Over the years I have had many opportunities to participate in pair coaching, although fewer over the past few years. I miss pair coaching; it pushes me to expand my horizons and up my game. What about you?

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Jorgen Hesselberg returns to the podcast to discuss the efficacy of assessments in helping to guide an agile journey. Assessments are a tool to help coaches coach and to answer the question of where are we in our journey toward being more agile.

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Podcast: Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 551: Vidal Graupera on Manager 1-1 with Direct Reports
Pub date: 2023-02-15

Vidal Graupera, an Engineering Manager at LinkedIn, speaks with SE Radio’s Brijesh Ammanath about the importance of managers' one-on-one meetings with direct reports. They start by considering how a 1:1 meeting differs from other meetings...

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Podcast: Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Will ChatGPT help them write? with John Warner
Pub date: 2023-02-16

John Warner is the author of "Why They Can't Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay" and six other books on writing. He's the editor of McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and the Biblioracle. John is also a professor of creative writing but most recently he's becoming concerned that Artificial intelligence can crank out passable student essays in seconds. What are we going to do? Is ChatGPT the end of writing assignments?

  • In order to help instructors deal with the existence of ChatGPT without making its existence omnipresent in the classroom, or capitulating to a surveillance and detection approach, John has developed a new, self-paced digital course: Teaching Writing in an Artificial Intelligence World.
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Podcast: Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Being a Teenager in 2023 with Zenzo Hanselman
Pub date: 2023-03-16

This week it's Scott and Zenzo Hanselman: a father-son tech talk. He chats with his son Zenzo, a curious and creative teenager, about the latest trends and topics in technology. From AI to VR, from gaming to social media, from coding to culture, Scott and Zenzo will explore the world of tech from their different perspectives and experiences. 

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Podcast: .NET Rocks! (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Inflection Point of Large Language Models with Grant Barrett
Pub date: 2023-03-09

ChatGPT, BingAI, and Google Bard are the latest examples of large language model machine learning - are we at an inflection point in technology? Carl and Richard talk to Grant Barrett of A Way with Words about the power of these new technologies to solicit reactions from many folks, including many tech journalists. Grant talks about how language conveys a sense of intelligence even when there is none to be had and the problems created by those assumptions. It is still the early days for these chatbots - will they rapidly improve or fade into another AI winter?

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Podcast: Making Sense with Sam Harris (LS 82 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: #312 — The Trouble with AI
Pub date: 2023-03-07

Sam Harris speaks with Stuart Russell and Gary Marcus about recent developments in artificial intelligence and the long-term risks of producing artificial general intelligence (AGI). They discuss the limitations of Deep Learning, the surprising power of narrow AI, ChatGPT, a possible misinformation apocalypse, the problem of instantiating human values, the business model of the Internet, the meta-verse, digital provenance, using AI to control AI, the control problem, emergent goals, locking down core values, programming uncertainty about human values into AGI, the prospects of slowing or stopping AI progress, and other topics.

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Podcast: Merge Conflict (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 348: ChatGPT Comes to the Command Line
Pub date: 2023-03-06

Frank builds a command line interface for ChatGTP with .NET!

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Podcast: Merge Conflict (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 350: Multimodal GPT-4
Pub date: 2023-03-20

It is time for some lightning topics and we go big on AI with GPT-4, infused ChatGPT everywhere, and we answer your questions from the past few months! Oh... and Sauna... and SVB discussion!

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Podcast: The New Stack Podcast (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: What’s the Future of Feature Management?
Pub date: 2022-11-29

Feature management isn’t a new idea but lately it’s a trend that’s picked up speed. Analysts like Forrester and Gartner have cited adoption of the practice as being, respectively, “hot” and “the dominant approach to experimentation in software engineering.”

A study released in November found that 60% of 1,000 software and IT professionals surveyed started using feature flags only in the past year, according to the report sponsored by LaunchDarkly, the feature management platform and conducted by Wakefield Research.

At the heart of feature management are feature flags, which give organizations the ability to turn features on and off, without having to re-deploy an entire app. Feature flags allow organizations test new features, and control things like access to premium versions of a customer-facing service.

An overall feature management practice that includes feature flags allows organizations “to release progressively any new feature to any segment of users, any environment, any cohort of customers in a controlled manner that really reduces the risk of each release,” said Ravi Tharisayi, senior director of product marketing at LaunchDarkly, in this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast.

Tharisayi talked to The New Stack’s features editor, Heather Joslyn, about the future of feature management, on the eve of the company’s latest Trajectory user conference. This episode of Makers was sponsored by LaunchDarkly.

Streamlining Management, Saving MoneyThe participants in the new survey worked at companies of at least 200 employees, and nearly all of them that use feature flags — 98%— said they believe they save their organizations money and demonstrate a return on investment.

Furthermore, 70% said that their company views feature management as either a mission-critical or a high-priority investment.

Fielding the annual survey, Tharisayi said, has offered a window into how organizations are using feature flags. Fifty-five percent of customers in the 2022 survey said they use feature flags as long-term operational controls — for API rate limiting, for instance, to prioritize certain API calls in high-traffic situations.

The second most common use, the survey found — cited by 47% of users — was for entitlements, “managing access to different types of plans, premium plans versus other plans, for example,” Tharisayi said.

“This is really a powerful capability because of this ability to allow product managers or other personas to manage who has access to certain features to certain plans, without having to have developers be involved,” he said. “Previously, that required a lot of developer involvement.”

Experimentation, Metrics, Cultural ShiftsLaunchDarkly, Tharisayi said, has been investing in and improving its platform’s experimentation and measurement capabilities: “At the core of that is this notion that experimentation can be a lot more successful when it's tightly integrated to the developer workflow.”

As an example, he pointed to CCP Games, makers of the gaming platform EVE Online, which serves millions of players.

“They were recently thinking through how to evolve their recommendation engine, because they wanted this engine to recommend actions for their gamers that will hopefully increase their ultimate North Star metric,” its tracking of how much time gamers spend with their games.

By using LaunchDarkly’s platform, CCP was able to run A/B tests and increase gamers’ session lengths and engagement. ”So that's the kind of capability that we think is going to be an increasing priority,” Tharisayi said.

As feature management matures and standardizes, he said, he pointed to the adoption of DevOps as a model and cautionary tale.

”When it comes to cultural shifts, like DevOps or feature management that require teams to work in a different way, oftentimes there can be early success with a small team,” Tharisayi said “But then there can be some cultural and process barriers as you're trying to standardize to the team level and multi-team level, before figuring out the kinks in deploying it at an organization-wide level.”

He added, “that's one of the trends that we observed a little bit in this survey, is that there are some cultural elements to getting success at scale, with something like feature management and the opportunity as an industry to support organizations as they're making that quest to standardize a practice like this, like any other cultural practice.”

Check out the full episode for more on the survey and on what’s next for feature management.

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Podcast: The New Stack Podcast (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Platform Engineering Benefits Developers, and Companies Too
Pub date: 2023-01-18

In this latest episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, we delve more deeply into the emerging practice of platform engineering. The guests for this show are Aeris Stewart, community manager at platform orchestration provider Humanitec and Michael Galloway, an engineering leader for infrastructure software provider HashiCorp. TNS Features Editor Heather Joslyn hosted this conversation.

Although the term has been around for several years, platform engineering caught the industry's attention in a big way last September, when Humanitec published a report that identified how widespread the practice was quickly becoming, citing its use by Nike, Starbucks, GitHub and others.

Right after the report was released, Stewart provided an analysis for TNS arguing that platform engineering solved the many issues that another practice, DevOps, was struggling with. "Developers don’t want to do operations anymore, and that’s a bad sign for DevOps," Stewart wrote. The post stirred a great deal of conversation around the success of DevOps.

Platform engineering is "a discipline of designing and building tool chains and workflows that enable developer self service," Stewart explained. The purpose is to give the developers in your organization a set of standard tools that will allow them to do their job — write and fix apps — as quickly as possible. The platform provides the tools and services "that free up engineering time by reducing manual toil cognitive load," Galloway added.

But platform engineering also has an advantage for the business itself, Galloway elaborated. With an internal developer platform in place, a business can scale up with "reliability, cost efficiency and security," Galloway said.

Before HashiCorp, Galloway was an engineer at Netflix, and there he saw the benefits of platform engineering for both the dev and the business itself. "All teams were enabled to own the entire lifecycle from design to operation. This is really central to how Netflix was able to scale," Galloway said. A platform engineering team created a set of services that made it possible for Netflix engineers to deliver code "without needing to be continuous delivery experts."

The conversation also touched on the challenges of implementing platform engineering, and what metrics you should use to quantify its success.

And because platform engineering is a new discipline, we also discussed education and community. Humanitec's debut PlatformCon drew over 6,000 attendees last June (and Platform 2023 has just been scheduled for June). There is also a platform engineering Slack channel, which has drawn over 8,000 participants thus far.

"I think the community is playing a really big role right now, especially as a lot of organizations' awareness of platform engineering is just starting," Stewart said. "There's a lot of knowledge that can be gained by building a platform that you don't necessarily want to learn the hard way."

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Podcast: The New Stack Podcast (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Port: Platform Engineering Needs a Holistic Approach
Pub date: 2023-01-25

By now, almost everyone agreed platform engineering is probably a good idea, in which an organizations builds an internal development platform to empower coders and speed application releases. So, for this latest edition of The New Stack podcast, we spoke with one of the pioneers in this space, Zohar Einy, CEO of Port, to see how platform engineering would work in your organization. TNS Editor Joab Jackson hosted this conversation.

Port offers what it claims is the world's first low code platform for developers.

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With Port, an organization can build a software catalogue of approved tools, import its own data model, and set up workflows. Developers can consume all the resources they need through a self-service catalogue, without needing the knowledge how to set up a complex application, like Kubernetes. The DevOps and platform teams themselves maintain the platform.

Application owners aren't the only potential users of a self-service catalogues, Einy points out in our convo. DevOps and system administration teams can also use the platform. A DevOps teams can set up automations "to make sure that [developers are] using the platform with the right mindset that fits with their organizational standards in terms of compliance, security, and performance aspects."

Even machines themselves could benefit from a self-service platform, for those who are looking to automate deployments as much as possible.

Einy offered an example: A CI/CD process could create a build process on its own. If it needs to check the maturity level of some tool, it can do so through an API call. If it's not adequately certified, the developer is notified, but if all the tools are sufficiently mature than the automated process can finish the build without further developer intervention.

Another possible process that could be automated would be the termination of permissions when their deadline has passed. Think about an early-warning system for expired digital certificates. "So it's a big driver for both for cost reduction and security best practices," Einy said.

Too Many Choices, Not Enough CodeBut what about developer choice? Won't developers feel frustrated when barred from using the tools they are most fond of?

But this freedom to use any tool available was what led us to the current state of overcomplexity in full-stack development, Einy responded. This is why the role of "full-stack developer" seems like an impossible, given all the possible permutations at each layer of the stack.

Like the artist who finds inspiration in a limited palette, the developer should be able to find everything they need in a well-curated platform.

"In the past, when we talked about 'you-build-it-you-own-it', we thought that the developer needs to know everything about anything, and they have the full ownership to choose anything that they want. And they got sick of it, right, because they needed to know too much," Einy said. "So I think we are getting into a transition where developers are OK with getting what they need with a click of a button because they have so much work on their own."

In this conversation, we also discussed measuring success, the role of access control in DevOps, and open source Backstage platform, and its recent inclusion of paid plug-ins. Give it a listen!

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Podcast: The New Stack Podcast (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Feature Flags are not Just for Devs
Pub date: 2023-02-02

The story goes something like this:

There's this marketing manager who is trying to time a launch. She asks the developer team when the service will be ready. The dev team says maybe a few months. Let's say three months from now in April. The marketing manager begins prepping for the release.

The dev team releases the services the following week.

It's not an uncommon occurrence.

Edith Harbaugh is the co-founder and CEO of LaunchDarkly, a company she launched in 2014 with John Kodumal to solve these problems with software releases that affect organizations worldwide. Today, LaunchDarkly has 4,000 customers and an annual return revenue rate of $100 million.

We interviewed Harbaugh for our Tech Founder Odyssey series on The New Stack Makers about her journey and LaunchDarkly's work. The interview starts with this question about the timing of dev releases and the relationship between developers and other constituencies, particularly the marketing organization.

LaunchDarkly is the number one feature management company, Harbaugh said. "Their mission is to provide services to launch software in a measured, controlled fashion. Harbaugh and Kodumal, CTO, founded the company on the premise that software development and releasing software is arduous.

"You wonder whether you're building the right thing," Harbaugh said, who has worked as both an engineer and a product manager. "Once you get it out to the market, it often is not quite right. And then you just run this huge risk of how do you fix things on the fly."

Feature flagging was a technique that a lot of software companies did. Harbaugh worked at Tripit, a travel service, where they used feature flags as did companies such as Atlassian, where Kodumal had developed software.

"So the kernel of LaunchDarkly, when we started in 2014, was to make this technique of feature flagging into a movement called feature management, to allow everybody to build better software faster, in a safer way."

LaunchDarkly allows companies to release features however granular an organization wants, allowing a developer to push a release into production in different pieces at different times, Harbaugh said. So, a marketing organization can send a release out even after the developer team has released it into production.

"So, for example, if, we were running a release, and we wanted somebody from The New Stack to see it first, the marketing person could turn it on just for you."

Harbaugh describes herself as a huge geek. But she also gets it in a rare way for geeks and non-geeks alike. She and Kodumal took a concept used effectively by develops, transforming it into a service that provides feature management for a broader customer base, like the marketer wanting to push releases out in a granular way for a launch on the East Coast that is pre-programmed with feature flags in advance from the company office the previous day in San Francisco.

The idea is novel, but like many intelligent, technical founders, Harbaugh's journey reflects her place today. She's a leader in the space, and a fun person to talk to, so we hope you enjoy this latest episode in our tech founder series from The New Stack Makers.

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Podcast: The New Stack Podcast (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Generative AI: Don't Fire Your Copywriters Just Yet
Pub date: 2023-02-09

Everyone in the community was surprised by ChatGPT last year, which a web service responded to any and all user questions with a surprising fluidity.

ChatGPT is a variant of the powerful GPT-3 large language model created by OpenAI, a company owned by Microsoft. It is still a demo though it is pretty clear that this type of generative AI will be rapidly commercialized. Indeed Microsoft is embedding the generative AI in its Bing Search service, and Google is building a rival offering.

So what are smaller businesses to do to ensure their messages are heard to these machine learning giants?

For this latest podcast from The New Stack, we discussed these issues with Ryan Johnston, chief marketing officer for Writer. Writer has enjoyed an early success in generative AI technologies. The company's service is dedicated to a single mission: making sure its customers' content adheres to the guidelines set in place.

This can include features such as ensuring the language in the copy matches the company's own designated terminology, or making sure that a piece of content covers all the required topic points, or even that a press release has quotes that are not out of scope with the project mission itself.

In short, the service promises "consistently on-brand content at scale," Johnston said. "It's not taking away my creativity. But it is doing a great job of figuring out how to create content for me at a faster pace, [content] that actually sounds like what I want it to sound like."

For our conversation, we first delved into how the company was started, its value proposition ("what is it used for?") and what role that AI plays in the company's offering. We also delve a bit into the technology stack Writer deploys to offer these services, as well as what material the Writer may require from their customers themselves to make the service work.

For the second part of our conversation, we turn our attention to how other companies (that are not search giants) can get their message across in the land of large language models, and maybe even find a few new sources of AI-generated value along the way. And, for those public-facing businesses dealing with Google and Bing, we chat about how they should they refine their own search engine optimization (SEO) strategies to be best represented in these large models?

One point to consider: While AI can generate a lot of pretty convincing text, you still need a human in the loop to oversee the results, Johnston advised.

"We are augmenting content teams copywriters to do what they do best, just even better. So we're scaling the mundane parts of the process that you may not love. We are helping you get a first draft on paper when you've got writer's block," Johnston said. "But at the end of the day, our belief is there needs to be a great writer in the driver's seat. [You] should never just be fully reliant on AI to produce things that you're going to immediately take to market."

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Podcast: Agile Uprising Podcast (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Pseudo-Science, Cultism & Eugenics With Dave Snowden
Pub date: 2023-01-01

Hosts Andy Cleff, Ben Au-Yeung, Serge Marten, and Jay Hrcsko chat with Dave Snowden about Spiral Dynamics, Integral Theory, and Metamodernism.

We explore thru a Boxian lens "All models are wrong, but some are useful."

Are these effective tools for organizations to gain new perspectives on themselves?

Are there other potentially better ways to journey in complex adaptive systems?

Contact Information * http://cognitive-edge.com/contact/ * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-snowden-2a93b/ * Twitter: https://twitter.com/snowded

Website * http://cognitive-edge.com/

Books/Articles/Videos * https://cynefin.io/index.php/Publications_by_Dave_Snowden * Triopticon Storyboard v2

Events * http://cognitive-edge.com/events/

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Episode: Creating Agile Organizations with Cesario Ramos
Pub date: 2023-01-15

Process. Practices. Principles. But what about org structure? This week we sit down with Cesario Ramos, one of the authors behind Creating Agile Organizations: A Systemic Approach to discuss the importance of organizational design and how it directly impacts the odds of success when trying to perform any type of large-scale organizational change, especially an agile transformation. Cheers!

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Episode: Should I Take This? - Okaloa Flowlab
Pub date: 2023-01-29

The concept of flow is vital to truly adopting business agility and yet it is notoriously difficult to convey...there has to be an easier way. What about a game?

This week we're joined by irregular regular Sarah Baca to discuss the Okaloa Flowlab simulation game and how it teaches flow, and we're also joined by the creators of the game itself, Arlette Vercammen and Patrick Steyaert! Enjoy!

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Episode: Expanding Your Horizons
Pub date: 2023-02-12

This week we get together to talk about...STUFF. Specifically, amongst the panel we discuss what are we reading/watching/listening to that have NOTHING to do with "the agile", and how they've impacted our behaviours, mindsets, and how we approach our work as coaches and agents of change. Hopefully you find something you enjoy! Enjoy!

BOOKS:

  • From Contempt to Curiosity - Caitlin Walker
  • Leadership is Language - David Marquet
  • Quit - Annie Duke
  • Thinking in Bets - Annie Duke
  • Wanting - Luke Burgis
  • Salem's Lot - Stephen King
  • Framers - Kenneth Culkier
  • Lucifer Principle - Howard Bloom
  • The Status Game - Will Storr
  • Sapiens - Noah Harari
  • Anti-Fragile - Nicholas Taleb
  • Range - David Epstien
  • Ant Encounters - Deborah Gordon
  • The Moral Molecule - Paul Zak
  • The Hard Thing About Hard Things - Ben Horowitz

PODCASTS: * The Radical Candor podcast * Infinite Loops * The Jim Rutt Show * Unlearn - Barry O'Rielly * Remote Work - Lisette Sutherland * Hidden Forces

CONTENT: * Ribbonfarm, Venkatesh Rao * Balaji Srinivasan

OTHER HONORABLE MENTIONS * Trung Phan - Twitter and newsletter, https://trungtphan.com/, @TrungTPhan * ORSC - Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching - https://crrglobal.com

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Episode: The No.1 Thing Killing Your Delivery
Pub date: 2023-02-19

In this week's episode, host Troy Lightfoot details the number one thing he thinks impacts teams' and organizations' ability to deliver quickly and predictably. Troy uses a combination of story telling and visualization linked below to explain. Feel free to follow along!

Follow Along:

  • Cycle Time Scatterplot
  • Kingda Ka
  • Passes
  • Aging Work In Progress Chart
  • Kanback Pocket Guide

Resources:

  • ProKanbanTraining.com for classes
  • Actionable Agile Metrics for Predictability Book

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Podcast: The Tim Ferriss Show (LS 81 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: #647: Mark Manson — The Path to 'The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fck,' The Ups (and Downs) of Success, The Craft of Writing, Personal Reinvention, How to Build a Lean Team, Protecting Boundaries, Decompressing with Fiction, and More
Pub date*: 2022-12-30

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Mark Manson (@IAmMarkManson) is a three-time #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fck* as well as other titles. His books have sold nearly 20 million copies worldwide and have reached number one in more than a dozen countries.

Since 2008, he has written articles at MarkManson.net, one of the largest personal-development blogs in the world, with more than a million monthly readers. In 2023, a feature film about him and his work will be released in theaters by Universal Pictures. See SubtleArtMovie.com for more details, and click here for the trailer.

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[07:02] Difficult changes and modified default behaviors.

[10:22] Be careful what you wish for.

[12:14] How Mark’s feature film deal came to be.

[15:55] The teamwork that makes Mark’s dream work.

[20:26] Sourcing talent.

[24:45] How Mark knew he’d found the right agent.

[28:36] From Entropy to F*ckery.

[47:21] Learning the subtle art of strategic F-bombing.

[56:31] Prioritizing health maintenance.

[1:04:04] Co-authoring a book with Will Smith.

[1:11:34] In a post-slap world, what should we know about the real Will Smith?

[1:16:36] How Will Smith depends on and interacts with his team.

[1:18:41] Setting the course for the next few years.

[1:22:51] How Mark says no to financially tempting projects he doesn’t want to do.

[1:31:02] The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck‘s cover story.

[1:33:39] Why Mark is pivoting to video production rather than podcasting.

[1:37:46] What can we expect from Mark’s future video trajectory?

[1:42:56] Staying relevant and creatively fulfilled in a crowded market.

[1:44:56] The software Mark uses to compose a book.

[1:46:10] Recommended reading,

[1:56:51] Parting thoughts.

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Podcast: The Tim Ferriss Show (LS 81 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: #653: Elan Lee, Co-Creator of Exploding Kittens — How to Raise Millions on Kickstarter, Deconstructing Mega-Successes, Secrets of Game Design, The Power of Positive Constraints, The Delights of Craftsmanship, and The Art of Turning Fans into Superfans
Pub date: 2023-02-02

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Elan Lee (@elanlee) is the co-creator and chief executive officer of Exploding Kittens, a leading gaming and entertainment company. Under his leadership, Exploding Kittens has expanded its portfolio to nearly 30 different games with more than 20 million games sold in more than 50 countries since its founding in 2015.

Before founding Exploding Kittens, Lee was the chief design officer at Xbox Entertainment Studios, where he led the Interactive Entertainment Portfolio. Prior to that, he was the founder and chief creative officer of Fourth Wall Studios and co-founder of 42 Entertainment. He began his career at Microsoft Games Studios as a lead designer on the original Xbox.

Lee has won a Primetime Emmy for the series Dirty Work; Game Innovator of the Year for Exploding Kittens; a Peabody Award for the world’s first alternate reality game, The Beast; and an IndieCade Trailblazer Award for a distinguished career in interactive entertainment, among others.

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[06:00] Poetry For Neanderthals and collaborating with creative cohorts.

[16:41] Kitty Test Pilots and core gameplay loops.

[22:21] Crowdfunding, alternate reality games, and internet archaeology.

[25:54] Matthew Inman and The Oatmeal millions.

[32:18] The perils of operating faster than the speed of Gmail.

[34:06] Converting casual fans into superfans.

[34:51] What not to do when your Kickstarter goes better than expected.

[36:51] The budget of production needs to fit the fun.

[43:01] Does size matter?

[44:44] From direct-to-consumer sales to being featured in big box stores.

[47:07] Building a game from scratch quickly.

[52:26] Guiding principles.

[56:37] Foundational game recommendations for beginners.

[1:05:10] Is Settlers of Catan the game you think it is?

[1:07:35] Lessons learned from game design veteran Jordan Weisman.

[1:08:50] If you built Jar Jar Binks’ neck, they practically let you run the place.

[1:11:38] If you can’t rock the vote, then clothe the vote.

[1:15:35] Other practical Jordanisms.

[1:16:55] Steven Spielberg and The Beast.

[1:23:19] Hate playing Candy Land with your kids? Design new games with them.

[1:28:02] Growing Exploding Kittens from a game into a company.

[1:32:56] International shipping nightmares.

[1:36:13] Why an open-door policy had to be shut.

[1:38:27] Employees and their roles.

[1:41:50] Milestones.

[1:43:06] When big asks get big results.

[1:47:18] Investor expectations.

[1:52:15] What kind of retirement does someone who makes fun for a living envision?

[1:56:07] Dance partners, algorithm defiance, and other parting thoughts.

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Podcast: Engineering Culture by InfoQ (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Hiring and Retaining Great People in the New World of Working
Pub date: 2023-02-06

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Sarah Hawley of Growmotely about employing and retaining people in the remote and hybrid working world.Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3JN6VtUSubscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: https://www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=architectnl Upcoming Events:QCon London https://qconlondon.com/?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=qlondon23 March 27-29, 2023QCon New Yorkhttps://qconnewyork.com/?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=qny23 June 13-15, 2023QCon San Francisco:https://qconsf.com/?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=qsf23 Oct 2-6, 2023Follow InfoQ:- Mastodon: https://techhub.social/@infoq - Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq- Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8- Instagram: @infoqdotcom- Youtube: www.youtube.com/infoqWrite for InfoQ- Join a community of experts.- Increase your visibility.- Grow your career.https://www.infoq.com/write-for-infoq/?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=writeforinfoq

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Podcast: Engineering Culture by InfoQ (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: How to Become an Effective Communicator as an Engineer
Pub date: 2023-03-10

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Neil Thompson of teachthegeek.com about how to build great communication skills as a technologist.Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3mEZuvlSubscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: https://www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=architectnl Upcoming Events:QCon London https://qconlondon.com/?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=qlondon23 March 27-29, 2023QCon New Yorkhttps://qconnewyork.com/?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=qny23 June 13-15, 2023QCon San Francisco:https://qconsf.com/?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=qsf23 Oct 2-6, 2023Follow InfoQ:- Mastodon: https://techhub.social/@infoq - Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq- Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8- Instagram: @infoqdotcom- Youtube: www.youtube.com/infoqWrite for InfoQ- Join a community of experts.- Increase your visibility.- Grow your career.https://www.infoq.com/write-for-infoq/?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=writeforinfoq

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Podcast: Engineering Culture by InfoQ (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Becoming a Great Engineering Manager and Balancing Synchronous - Asynchronous Work
Pub date: 2023-03-20

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to James Stanier, Director of Engineering at Shopify and Track Host at QCon San Francisco for the Remote and Hybrid Work: What’s Next track, about what makes a great engineering manager, nurturing culture with 14000 remote workers and deliberately balancing synchronous and asynchronous work.Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/40l2V9aSubscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: https://www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=architectnl Upcoming Events:QCon London https://qconlondon.com/?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=qlondon23 March 27-29, 2023QCon New Yorkhttps://qconnewyork.com/?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=qny23 June 13-15, 2023QCon San Francisco:https://qconsf.com/?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=qsf23 Oct 2-6, 2023Follow InfoQ:- Mastodon: https://techhub.social/@infoq - Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq- Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8- Instagram: @infoqdotcom- Youtube: www.youtube.com/infoqWrite for InfoQ- Join a community of experts.- Increase your visibility.- Grow your career.https://www.infoq.com/write-for-infoq/?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=writeforinfoq

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Podcast: Great Leadership With Jacob Morgan (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How Warby Parker Co-Founder Dave Gilboa Balances the Art and Science of Looking at the Future
Pub date: 2023-01-30

Dave Gilboa is the co-founder and co-CEO of Warby Parker. An online retailer of glasses, sunglasses, and contact lenses which was founded in 2010. Today Warby Parker is a publicized traded company with a market cap of almost $2 billion and over 3,000 employees.

In today’s discussion we look at the importance of values and vision in growing and running a business, how to turn an idea into a product or service, and how Dave sets personal and professional goals. Subscribers to Leading the Future of Work + will also get a bonus episode where Dave talks about how to create trust, the importance of vulnerability, and the one hack he uses to stimulate creative ideas.


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Episode: Why And How You Need To Set Boundaries At Work
Pub date: 2023-02-01

There's an old saying: Good fences make for great neighbors.

If you didn't have fences, there would be no boundaries, and your neighbors could come over whenever they wanted.

You need to set up those similar types of fences in your organization.

Setting up fences is healthy both at work and in your personal life.

It allows you to protect your time and figure out the things you should be working on.

One strategy for setting boundaries is to ponder and write down the answers to these questions:

  1. What are your goals?

  2. What projects and tasks do you enjoy doing?

  3. What projects or tasks really drain you?

  4. What times during the day do you feel most productive?

  5. What do you need to do during the day to feel most fulfilled?

  6. What are your biggest distractions?

  7. What do you want your day to look like?


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Podcast: Great Leadership With Jacob Morgan (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: What’s the Single Most Important Thing Companies Do? Tom Peters Says Hire Good People
Pub date: 2023-02-06

Today’s guest is Tom Peters, author of many best-selling books including In Search of Excellence, Extreme Humanism, and his newest book, Tom Peters’ Compact Guide to Excellence. Tom was also on the first list of “100 most powerful people in Silicon Valley” from 1965 to 2000 and in 2017, he received the Thinkers50 Lifetime Achievement Award. He also served in the Navy, worked at The White House, and has a Ph.D. from the Stanford School of Business. But most importantly, Tom Peters has a Ph.D in “putting people first.”

In today’s episode Tom talks about the two people who most influenced who he is and why, his thoughts on Jack Welch and Elon Musk in terms of leadership, why shareholder value is the wrong way of thinking about business, and if leaders today are giving more of themselves to their people than they did years ago.


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Podcast: Great Leadership With Jacob Morgan (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How To Increase Your Value as a Leader
Pub date: 2023-02-08

As a leader, giving your team the answers is tempting.

Everybody comes to you for guidance and feedback.

But the best results come from not giving your team the answer, even if you know it.

If you keep giving them answers and finding the solutions for your team, you’ll become a decision-making bottleneck.

When that happens, your impact as a leader gets diminished considerably.


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Episode: When To Start Leadership Training for Your Employees
Pub date: 2023-02-15

Everybody needs leadership training.

Most people become leaders in their mid to late 20s or early 30s. However, most people don't get any kind of formal leadership training until their late 30s and perhaps early 40s.

They have to figure out how to become leaders because nobody taught them how to. This is one of the biggest things we need to fix.

Give everyone in your company access to leadership training and development programs. You are arming these individuals with tools and resources that can positively impact your business, customers, and team members.


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Podcast: Great Leadership With Jacob Morgan (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: What A Bad Leader Can Do to Your Organization
Pub date: 2023-02-22

Have you ever thought about what a toxic leader does to your organization?

Toxic leaders literally kill the people who work for them!

A study by the University of Manchester looked at 1200 participants to explore the impact of bad leaders.

They found people who worked for a toxic boss had lower satisfaction, and those who worked for a narcissistic or psychopathic boss were more likely to experience clinical depression.

The scariest part is that toxic bosses’ behaviors, attitudes, and values spread inside of organizations like wildfire! Meaning, everybody around those leaders starts to behave the same way.

And suddenly, you wake up one day and realize your entire organization is disengaged, nobody wants to be there, your productivity goes down, and one day your business might even cease to exist altogether.

These leaders have low self-awareness and empathy. There should be no place in the corporate world for toxic people, especially toxic leaders.


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Podcast: Great Leadership With Jacob Morgan (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Impact of a Great Leader
Pub date: 2023-03-01

What is the impact of a great leader inside of your company?

When you work for a great leader, you feel like you can do anything.

In fact, a study ‌by Zenger Folkman found that great leaders can double company profits. Not only does this help the employees, but it also helps your organization as a whole from a financial perspective.

When you work for a great leader, their behaviors, attitudes, and values will spread inside your organization.


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Podcast: Great Leadership With Jacob Morgan (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Connecting the Dots: How Guy Kawasaki Turns Serendipity into Seizing the Moment
Pub date: 2023-03-06

Guy Kawasaki is the chief evangelist of Canva and the creator of the Remarkable People podcast. He is an executive fellow of the Haas School of Business (UC Berkeley), and adjunct professor of the University of New South Wales. He was the chief evangelist of Apple where he worked directly with Steve Jobs and a trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation and he’s the author of 15 books including his most recent one called Wise Guy.

In today’s episode Guy shares why he always seems happy, what it was like to work Steve Jobs and what he learned from him, the importance of serendipitous events and why you should take advantage of them, and if today’s workforce is just getting lazy and soft.


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Podcast: Great Leadership With Jacob Morgan (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Unleashing the Power of Trust: Jeff Raider, Co-Founder of Harry's on Fostering Strong Employee & Customer Connections
Pub date: 2023-03-13

Today’s discussion is with Jeff Raider who’s the co-founder and co-CEO Harry's and also the co-founder of Warby Parker. Harry’s is a 1,000 person CPG company which offers everything from razors to face care, body care, and hair care for men and women. One of the things I found fascinating about Jeff is that he helped start not one, but two very successful companies over the past decade and I wanted to understand why and how he did it.

In today’s discussion we talk about balancing short term success with long-term growth, how to earn the trust of your customers, what it takes to turn an idea into something real, and why it’s so crucial for employees to have a connection to what the company does.


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Podcast: Great Leadership With Jacob Morgan (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Why You Need To Practice The Powers Of Ten As A Leader
Pub date: 2023-03-15

Do you practice the powers of ten as a leader?

A few years ago, I interviewed the CEO of IDEO, Tim Brown, and asked him about the characteristics and qualities leaders need to possess.

He told me that one of the things he believes is most valuable for a leader is the idea of practicing the powers of 10.

As a leader, you need to be able to both zoom in and zoom out.

You need to be able to get involved in the micro when needed, but at the same time, you also need to be able to zoom out and see the big picture.

Often, leaders are good at one or the other, or they're not good at either. But as a leader, you need to be good at both.


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Episode: The Key to Attracting and Retaining Talent
Pub date: 2023-03-22

Imagine working in an organization where employee experience is prioritized. A workplace with a thriving culture, advanced technology, and an inspiring physical space designed for your comfort and productivity. Isn’t that great?

Organizations can create environments where people genuinely want to work by focusing on three key areas. Don’t miss this insightful episode that dives into these essential components for a successful workplace. Listen now and start making a positive impact within your organization.


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Podcast: Finding Mastery (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Coaching With A People-First Philosophy | Donnie Ecker
Pub date: 2023-02-22

Baseball America’s MLB Coach of the Year, Donnie Ecker, shares his heart-forward approach to coaching and leadership.

Donnie Ecker is a highly respected and accomplished Major League Baseball (MLB) coach who is entering his second season as bench coach and offensive coordinator for the Texas Rangers.

Before his tenure with the Rangers, Donnie was recognized as Baseball America’s 2021 MLB Coach of the Year when he helped lead the San Francisco Giants to a franchise record 107 wins and 241 home runs. However, this is not a conversation about baseball.

Donnie’s expertise is in biomechanics and analytics – but it’s his people-first philosophy and ability to help his players work from the inside out that makes his coaching style so powerful and effective. I love how he’s navigated the tension between taking care of himself and taking care of those around him. Best of all, it’s forged in a great life story. Donnie has skills that we can all learn from and try to implement in our own lives – in business, sport, in our communities, or in our families.

So, whether you're a baseball fan, a coach, a business leader, or someone looking to level up your own performance, I think you’re really going to love this conversation with Coach Donnie Ecker.


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Podcast: Conversations with Tyler (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Brad DeLong on Intellectual and Technical Progress
Pub date: 2023-02-22

Brad DeLong, professor of economics at UC Berkley, OG econ blogger, and Tyler’s Harvard classmate, joins the show to discuss Slouching Towards Utopia, an economic history of the 20th century that’s been nearly thirty years in the making.

Tyler and Brad discuss what can really be gleaned from the fragmentary economics statistics of the late 19th century, the remarkable changes that occurred from 1870-1920, the astonishing flourishing of German universities in the 19th century, why investment banking allowed America and Germany to pull ahead of Britain economically, what enabled the Royal Society to become a force for progress, what Keynes got wrong, what Hayek got right, whether the middle-income trap persists, his favorite movie and novel, blogging vs. Substack, the Slouching Towards Utopia director’s cut, and much more.

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Podcast: The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: #158 Aaron Dignan: Change The Way You Work
Pub date: 2023-02-07

What if you could change the way your company operates, even if you’re not the CEO? Aaron Dignan believes it’s possible, and in this episode he’s offering a wealth of insights into how organizations are run, the perils of stagnant bureaucracy, and all the various hurdles keeping us from doing our best work.

As the founder of The Ready - a global organizational transformation and coaching practice - Dignan helps companies large and small adopt new forms of self-organization and dynamic teaming. He’s worked with clients such as American Express, Microsoft, Citibank, Hyatt, Johnson & Johnson, Airbnb, and Sweetgreen. He’s also an active angel investor who helps build partnerships between the startups and end-ups he advises. Dignan is also the author of Brave New Work, co-host of the Brave New Work podcast and founder of Murmur.

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Episode: #160 TKP Insights: Leadership
Pub date: 2023-02-28

In the third installment in a series of episodes, The Knowledge Project curates essential segments from five guests revolving around one theme: leadership. This episode helps put a unique definition on leadership and examines whether or not good leaders are context-dependent, the differences between a great leader and an average leader, how great leaders should balance feedback, the difference between being right and doing right, a playbook for managing teams, and the importance of radical candor. The guests on this episode are author Jim Collins (Episode 61, 110), author and leadership expert Jennifer Garvey Berger (Episode 43), co-founder of the Admired Leadership Institute Randall Stutman (Episode 96), the President and COO of Athletic Greens Kat Cole (Episode 117), the former CEO of Ford Alan Mulally (Episode 151), and co-founder of the Conscious Leadership Group Diana Chapman (Episode 130). --

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Podcast: Schmidt List - Inspiring Leaders (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Tips for a Successful Job Search
Pub date: 2023-02-12

Looking for a job can be challenging, but it can be a lot easier with the right tips. In this episode, Juliet Fox shares her top tips for finding a job that's perfect for you. From understanding your skills to tailoring your resume, these tips will help you stand out from the crowd and land the position of your dreams!

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Episode: So You Want to be a Manager?
Pub date: 2023-02-21

It's not an easy job, but it can be gratifying. A recent study found that over 60% of people aspire to lead others one day. But what does it take to jump from individual contributor to manager?

In this episode, Scott Brown and I discuss the skills and traits you need to be a successful manager.

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Podcast: Schmidt List - Inspiring Leaders (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Where Did Agile Go Wrong?
Pub date: 2023-02-28

Agile is a popular process for helping teams operate efficiently and quickly. As time has passed, though, something has gone amiss in implementing this process.

This episode exposes where we went wrong and how we can course-correct these mistakes to get Agile back on track. We'll explore how changes in mindset can improve the outcome of any work process, reaching even greater levels of accomplishment than they had initially promised.

Join David Snodgrass and me as we dig deeper into this profoundly beneficial project management system to discover what exactly has gone wrong and how it can be vaulted past into renewed performance potential.

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Podcast: Kodsnack
Episode: Kodsnack 513 - Maskiner som ger feedback till maskiner, med Martin Mazur
Pub date: 2023-02-21

Martin Mazur kommer pÄ Äterbesök och snackar low code och AI:s möjligheter med Fredrik. Martin tror inte att AI kommer att ta nÄgons jobb inom överskÄdlig tid, men det Àr intressant att fundera över vilken pÄverkan det faktiskt kommer att ha med nya verktyg av olika slag.

Low code-plattformars fördelar och nackdelar. OsÀkerhet och risk för inlÄsning och hur den kan vÀxa framöver?

Martin tÀnker sig att förÀndringen blir att vi kan fokusera mer av vÄr tid pÄ att lösa det som Àr unikt för vÄrt problem och det vi bygger, och mindre pÄ att lösa omkringliggande problem pÄ vedertagna sÀtt.

AI som programmeringskompis.

Som avslutning kommenterar Fredrik tvĂ„ veckor senare lite av vad som hĂ€nt sedan avsnittet spelades in - med “AI” i Bing och annat kĂ€nns det som tveksamheterna blivit fler kring dagens teknik, Ă„tminstone bland utvecklare. Det Ă€r inget som sĂ€ger nĂ„gonting mot det vi diskuterade i resten av avsnittet, snarare ytterligare en intressant aspekt att fundera över. Kommer verktygens anvĂ€ndning för sĂ„dant de faktiskt klarar av att fĂ„ sig en knĂ€ck av att man försöker anvĂ€nda dem till en massa saker de inte passar för?

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LĂ€nkar * Martin * Tidigare avsnitt med Martin * Øredev * Cliff Hazell * NDC * Martins presentation pĂ„ Øredev 2022 - The leader’s leap * 504 - avsnittet innan jul med Fredrik och Tobias om Chatgpt och annat * Chatgpt * T-kompetens * Copilot * Grady Booch - The entire history of software engineering is about rising levels of abstraction * CD * En snabbare hĂ€st * Prompt engineers * Stable diffusion * Midjourney * Unqork - low code-plattform * Noodl - low code-plattform * Wix * Squarespace * Shopify * Boost - C++-bibliotek som fortfarande finns * Amazons Honeycode - low code-verktyg * Rubber ducking * Resharper * Introduktionspresentationen av Ruby on Rails * CRUD * The expanding dark forest of generative AI * Markovkedja * Idiocracy * Copy.ai * Lex * Surviving the machine apocalypse - Martins förelĂ€sning frĂ„n 2018 - maskinerna kommer inte att ta över * Microsoft bygger in “AI” i Bing * Googles Bard ska in bredvid Googles sökning * BonuslĂ€nk: Mediumtext om huruvida Chatgpt Ă€r början pĂ„ slutet för utvecklare

Titlar * Hörts pÄ mikrofon * Ett stort mingelparty * Verktyg Àr bra i sig * Assisterad utveckling * UpptÀcka lösningar * NÄgon mÄste ju skapa innovation * Folk som Àr bra pÄ att prata med AI * Maskinen pÄ andra sidan * Avancerad version av rubber ducking * Maskiner som ger feedback till maskiner * Nya nivÄer av abstraktion * Man tillför osÀkerhet * AI som programmeringskompis * Min lilla programmeringsassistent * Den som konsumerar algoritmen * En fair dystopi för internet * En vÀldigt avancerad markovkedja * Parförfattande * Inte ingenting kommer att hÀnda

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Podcast: Kodsnack
Episode: Kodsnack 514 - Ordet "frivilligt" stryks, med Jan Jonsson
Pub date: 2023-02-28

Jan Jonsson, VD pÄ Mullvad, besöker podden och berÀttar om Chat control, ett EU-direktiv som om det införs kommer att göra det obligatoriskt att övervaka allt du sÀger i alla kommunikationstjÀnster pÄ nÀtet. Ja, det lÄter tyvÀrr inte mindre galet ju mer man talar om det heller. Jan berÀtter vad Chat control Àr, vad som kommer att hÀnda om det införs, och vad man bör göra innan september 2023 dÄ det ska röstas om i EU.

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LÀnkar * Jan * Mullvad * 419 - tidigare avsnitt med utvecklare pÄ Mullvad * Jans debattartikel * Chat control 1 * Chat control 2 * Apples tillbakadragna lösning för att söka efter barnpornografiskt innehÄll (med en tekniskt sund lösning i botten) * Spionlagen * FRA-lagen * Ylva Johansson * April-RFC:n med nya nyckelord * Videon Fredrik sÄg - On the dangers of stochastic parrots: can language models be too big?

Titlar * En lag som redan finns * Ordet “frivilligt” stryks * Scope creep, höll jag pĂ„ att sĂ€ga * 157 Ă€ndringsförslag * “Bör” Ă€r ju jobbigt * Massövervakningsmaskin * Processer, rutiner, och kontroll * Inte ett bra spĂ„r * En guldgruva av dumheter

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Podcast: Kodsnack
Episode: Kodsnack 515 - Lösa riktiga problem för riktiga mÀnniskor, med Erik BrÀnnström
Pub date: 2023-03-07

Erik BrÀnnström gÀstar podden och berÀttar om hur det Àr att jobba med Ruby on rails pÄ 2020-talet. Vi diskuterar hur det Àr att jobba med en lÄnglivad kodbas i Rails, hur Rails i sig hÀngt med i utvecklingen, och hur utvecklingstrenderna sjÀlva pÄ sistone nÀstan verkar svÀnga lite Ät Rails hÄll. TÀnker man pÄ att man arbetar i Rails? Finns det saker som skaver? PÄverkar Ruby och Rails hur man tÀnker och skriver i andra sprÄk? Vi diskuterar ocksÄ hur mycket Javascript man vill eller behöver skriva i Rails, en frÄga dÀr svaret varierat mycket bara under senaste Äret.

Ett viktigt meddelande: Spelsylten Àr tillbaka med sin Ättonde omgÄng! Tema denna gÄng Àr rymd och/eller skatt. LÀs mer och gÄ med hÀr!

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LÀnkar * Kodsnacks Ättonde spelsylt * Kodsnacks Slack * Erik * Erik var med i podden Under utveckling för ganska lÀnge sedan * Planima * Ruby on rails * Shopify * CRUD * PHP * Laravel * Django * Create React app * MVC * Active record * Matz - Yukihiro Matsumoto - Rubys skapare * Metaprogrammering i Ruby * Monkey patching * Javabeans * Play-ramverket * Hibernate * Service objects * Active support * PORO - plain old Ruby object * Sinatra * Keyword arguments * Implicit return * Hotwire * Livewire * Rspec * Mocha

Titlar * Det kÀnns som att du har varit med i podden * Hets-peaken * Ruby-rÀv * Bygga vanliga webbtjÀnster * Inte sÄ unikt lÀngre * Samma saker ungefÀr lika enkelt * TÀnket har spridit sig * Det gör sitt jobb * Det ska vara hÀrligt * Lösa riktiga problem för riktiga mÀnniskor * Bara vanlig Ruby * Idiomatisk railskod * Gör bara ett vanligt Ruby-objekt * Rubymentaliteten * Det gamla sÀttet att göra saker * Ta tillbaka saker till servern * Det ska vara enkelt * Det Matz förutsatte sig * Det dÀr Àr ingen spik, det Àr en vas

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Podcast: Kodsnack
Episode: Kodsnack 517 - Tre mÄnader utan lön, med Ingo Junefjord
Pub date: 2023-03-21

Ingo Junefjord berÀttar om hur det Àr nÀr ens jobb gÄr i konkurs. Vad hÀnde i Ingos fall, vad gör man nÀr man plötsligt inte fÄr lön, och hur Àr det att jobba under en konkursförvaltare? NÀr kan man börja andas normalt igen?

Var inte mer lojal mot arbetsgivare Àn de Àr mot dig.

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LĂ€nkar * Ingo * Tidigare avsnitt med Ingo * ASDF avsnitt 70 * Johan Öbrink * Zenterio * Statlig lönegaranti * Cookie clicker * StĂ€mningen efter konkursen * Breakit om konkursen * FTX-kraschen * Enron

Titlar * Vi vill kunna spela Netflix pÄ den hÀr * Förmiddagen den 25 juni * Vi har inte betalat lön idag * Betalt för förtroendet * DÄ har jag vÀl ingen lojalitet kvar * Generera vÀrde till konkursboet * Tre mÄnader utan lön * Tid att titta pÄ dokumentation * Det spelades en del Cookie clicker * Tre surrealistveckor * Plötsligt inte bara obetald utan ocksÄ arbetslös * Fortfarande uppsagd och arbetslös * Lojalitet rÀcker dit kontraktet gÄr

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Podcast: Inside Intercom (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: AI in the designer's toolbox: Shaping the future with ChatGPT
Pub date: 2023-02-07

In today’s episode, Intercom's Emmet Connolly, VP of Product Design, Molly Mahar, Staff Product Designer in the Machine Learning team and Gustavs Cirulis, Senior Principal Product Designer sit down for a conversation about large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, and how they will shape the role of a product designer in the years to come.

Transcript: https://www.intercom.com/blog/podcasts/product-design-ai-chatgpt/

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Podcast: Inside Intercom (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Hi, Robot: Intercom interviews ChatGPT
Pub date: 2023-02-23

This week we sat down to have a conversation with OpenAI's ChatGPT – our first-ever synthetic guest. ChatGPT remained composed, professional, surprisingly witty, and nothing less than fascinating.

And no offence to all our amazing human guests over the years, but we were very excited to find out what this particular interviewee had to say for itself. From its famous hallucinations to what it talks about when out in a bar with some of its fictional AI pals like HAL 9000, ChatGPT was (mostly) happy to discuss it all.

Transcript: https://www.intercom.com/blog/videos/intercom-interviews-chatgpt/

For the purposes of this podcast we gave ChatGPT a bit of presentational assistance – bringing its answers to life with the help of Murf's audio generation. But the answers, insights and sentiments are all ChatGPT's.

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Podcast: Inside Intercom (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The GPT effect: A new era of customer service
Pub date: 2023-03-09

To dig a little deeper into the business use cases of GPT we're joined by Ethan Kurzweil, Intercom board member and Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, Fergal Reid, our own Director of Machine Learning, Krystal Hu, VC and Startups Reporter at Reuters and Talia Goldberg, Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners.

They ask is this wave of innovation any different from past waves? Will it transform the way we work and the way businesses interact with customers and prospects? Can it spark a new generation of startups?

Transcript: https://www.intercom.com/blog/videos/the-gpt-effect-a-new-era-of-customer-service/

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Podcast: Inside Intercom (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Conversation starter: A chat about our groundbreaking new AI chatbot
Pub date: 2023-03-14

The world of AI is moving fast, and here at Intercom, we're helping set that pace. Today, we're delighted to introduce Fin, our new chatbot powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Intercom’s proprietary machine learning technology and fine-tuned for customer support.

In today's episode of the podcast, Intercom Co-founder and CSO Des Traynor and our Director of Machine Learning, Fergal Reid, sit down to discuss our new AI chatbot, how we built it, what it does, and what the next steps look like for this remarkable breakthrough.

Learn more about Fin, Intercom's new AI chatbot, here: https://www.intercom.com/blog/videos/meet-intercoms-new-ai-chatbot/

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Podcast: Knowledge at Wharton (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Will Salary Transparency Become Standard?
Pub date: 2023-02-06

Wharton’s Matthew Bidwell thinks the slew of new salary transparency laws sweeping the nation will help advance pay equity, although it may not raise salaries overall.

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Podcast: The .NET Core Podcast (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Empathy, Sympathy, and Compassion For Our Users
Pub date: 2023-03-17

Remember: you can also always follow the show on Twitter @dotnetcoreshow, and the shows host on Twitter @podcasterJay or visit our Contact page.

Welcome to season 5 of the award-winning .NET Core Podcast! Check that link for proof.

Hello everyone and welcome to THE .NET Core Podcast. An award-winning podcast where we reach into the core of the .NET technology stack and, with the help of the .NET community, present you with the information that you need in order to grok the many moving parts of one of the biggest cross-platform, multi-application frameworks on the planet.

In this episode you’ll gain insight into the development of software from a humanitarian perspective. Hear from Jamie, who shares his experiences and skills to ensure his software works for his users. Learn how to design platforms with empathy, sympathy, and compassion in mind to make the world a better place and improve user experience. With resources such as case studies and interviews with people in the tech industry, there’s always something new and exciting to learn. Tune into The .NET Core Podcast today and become a part of the revolution!

The full show notes, including links to some of the things we discussed and a full transcription of this episode, can be found at https://dotnetcore.show/episode-118-empathy-sympathy-and-compassion-for-our-users/ Useful Links from the episode:

  • Programming Ethics on Wikipedia
  • IEEE Code of ethics
  • Ethics in the Software Development process on Springer
  • The countercultural revolution
  • The Cuban Missile Crisis
  • TMRC
  • Geek chic
  • Yamaoka Tesshu
  • Sengoku Jidai
  • My CPD logs
  • Empathy vs Sympathy: Which one are you?
  • Sword of Damocles
  • The scientific method
  • Zawinski's Law
  • Episode 48 - Rockstar with Dylan Beattie
  • The Rockstar programming language
  • the Law Society
  • Colourblind Awareness
  • Key information and statistics on sight loss in the UK from the Royal National Institute of Blind People
  • How blind people see the world
  • Accessibility laws and policies
  • Retail Leadership with Steve Worthy
    • The Law of Intuition
  • Overton Window
  • Charles Limb - To be Creative Don’t Think So Hard
  • Pych2Go on Empathy vs Sympathy
  • Simon Sinek on Understanding Sympathy
  • Nasty, Brutish, and Short by Scott Hershovitz
  • How to be Perfect - Michael Schur
  • any book by Dr. BrenĂ© Brown
  • Think Again by Adam Grant
  • Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - Steven Levy
  • The Friendly Orange Glow - Brian Dear

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Podcast: 24 spÞrgsmÄl til professoren (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Chatbotternes triumf - eller hvad?
Pub date: 2023-01-23

Kunstig intelligens er ikke menneskehedens endeligt, men kan vÊre et redskab til at skÊrpe vores egen kreativitet. Datalog Ole Winther udvikler kunstig intelligens til medicinsk forskning og fortÊller, hvordan de dataÊdende algoritmer kan assistere bÄde lÊger og medicinalindustri.

24 spÞrgsmÄl til professoren er stÞttet af Carlsbergfondet.

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Podcast: 24 spÞrgsmÄl til professoren (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Motivationens mĂŠrkelige psykologi
Pub date: 2023-02-20

Hvorfor kan vi ikke tage os sammen til at motionere, nÄr vi egentlig gerne vil? Fordi vi er motiveret pÄ den forkerte mÄde, fortÊller motionsforsker Cecilie ThÞgersen-Ntoumani. Motivation er en sammensat stÞrrelse og den skal have en sÊrlig kvalitet for at virke. HÞr hvordan du endelig kommer i gear til det du gerne vil, men ikke gÞr.

24 spÞrgsmÄl til professoren er stÞttet af Carlsbergfondet.

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Podcast: At The Table with Patrick Lencioni (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 165. Not For Non-Profit
Pub date: 2023-03-01

There are for-profit business and there are non-profit businesses. This week, Pat, Cody, Tracy and Beau question why these two types of organizations are operated so differently, and discuss how they could both learn a thing or two from each other.

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Podcast: At The Table with Patrick Lencioni (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 166. Work Harder at Resting
Pub date: 2023-03-08

It's not sleep, it's not vacation, and it doesn't have a screen. This week, the team discusses the most common misconceptions about rest, and why we need to be intentional about spending our time doing things that truly replenish our energy.

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Podcast: At The Table with Patrick Lencioni (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 167. The Never-Ending Meeting
Pub date: 2023-03-15

Despite how a 'never-ending meeting' might sound, progressive meetings are our favorite. This week, the team discusses the efficacy of progressive meetings, and why bringing new people into the room is one of the best ways to refine any idea or project.

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Podcast: At The Table with Patrick Lencioni (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 168. Horseshoe Decision Making
Pub date: 2023-03-22

Why are we so dependent on data when it comes to making decisions? This week, Pat, Cody, Tracy and Beau make the distinction between the science of measurement and the art of judgment, and the benefits of "close enough".

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Podcast: Dev Interrupted (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Solving the Enduring Pain of Authorization w/ Aserto’s Co-founder & CEO, Omri Gazitt
Pub date: 2023-02-28

Whether you're at a startup, enterprise, or something in between, authorization and access control are likely major pain points for your team.

This week on Dev Interrupted we talk to Omri Gazitt, co-founder and CEO of Aserto. Omri joins us to chat about the future of authorization, how to handle access control on your team, and how to avoid the toil and tech debt often associated with access control.

Show Notes

  • From Aserto's blog: Why multi-tenant SaaS applications need real access control from day 1
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Podcast: Dev Interrupted (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Team Topologies: Organizing Business & Technology Teams w/ authors Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais
Pub date: 2023-03-21

Effective software teams are essential for any organization to deliver value continuously and sustainably. But how do you build the best team organization for your specific goals, culture, and needs?

That's the question posed by authors Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais in their highly-acclaimed book, Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow.

On this week's episode of Dev Interrupted, we revisit Dan's 2021 conversation with Matthew and Manuel. Since first airing, their book has received broad recognition for its step-by-step advice, approach to team patterns and interactions, and compelling analysis of the communication pathways that lead to organizational success.

We think this episode is as relevant today as it was when it was released - and we hope you agree!

Show Notes:

  • Learn more at teamtopologies.com
  • Check out the Team Topologies Academy: https://academy.teamtopologies.com
  • Register for the Dev Interrupted Live Stream on April 4th and 5th.

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Podcast: Level-up Engineering (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Building and Running Teams That Prioritize Innovation
Pub date: 2023-03-08

Interview with Morgan Teachworth, VP of Engineering at Cisco Meraki. He shares valuable insights on building and managing innovation-oriented teams.

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In this interview we're covering:

  • Defining innovation
  • Encouraging innovation at work
  • Building teams that prioritize innovation
  • Common pitfalls when focusing on innovation

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Podcast: Make Things That Matter (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: 5 Takeaways from a week with some of the world's best product coaches
Pub date: 2023-01-10

Five things I (re)learned from spending a week with SVPG + some of the best product coaches in the world.

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Related episodes

‱ #60 DJ DiDonna: Navigating sabbaticals and career breaks

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People & orgs

‱ Marty Cagan & SVPG

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Books

‱ The Thin Book of Trust

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Other resources mentioned

‱ Vision example: SpaceX

‱ Vision example: Microsoft productivity

‱ Vision example: Apple’s Knowledge Navigator

‱ Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

‱ Original agile manifesto

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Podcast: Make Things That Matter (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Sahil Lavingia: Independent Thinking + Pricing Changes at Gumroad
Pub date: 2023-01-25

Sahil Lavingia has had an epic journey as an entrepreneur: he dropped out of college to become employee #2 at Pinterest and then went on to found Gumroad, one of the largest platforms for creators to sell their work and earn a living online. After the company failed to meet its VC-driven growth timeline and almost died, Sahil had to lay everyone off and build it back up into the resilient, streamlined, and fully distributed company it is today.

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Links & resources mentioned:

‱ Send episode feedback on Twitter @askotzko , or via email

‱ Sahil Lavingia: Gumroad, Twitter, personal site

‱ Book: The Minimalist Entrepreneur

‱ “Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company”: essay + talk

‱ Sahil’s early stage investment fund

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Related episodes:

‱ #42 ARM: A mental model for fulfilling work

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People & orgs:

‱ Gumroad

‱ USC

‱ Patreon

‱ BandCamp

‱ Substack

‱ Daniel Vassallo tweet about money he’s made Gumroad

‱ Paul Graham: “You've found market price when buyers complain but still pay.”

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Books:

‱ The Minimalist Entrepreneur

‱ Essentialism

‱ Only the Paranoid Survive

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Other resources:

‱ How Gumroad is run: No Meetings, No Deadlines, No Full-Time Employees

‱ Video: Gumroad Q4 2022 board meeting - where pricing change was announced

‱ “Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company”: essay + MicroConf talk

‱ What is a transformer model (AI)?

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Podcast: Make Things That Matter (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Bob Moesta: Prototyping to learn & applying JTBD theory
Pub date: 2023-02-07

Bob Moesta is one of the pioneers of Jobs To Be Done (JTBD) theory, which has fundamentally changed the way we think about building products and discovering what progress people actually need and want from the products they hire.

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LINKS & RESOURCES MENTIONED

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Bob Moesta: The Rewired Group, LinkedIn, Twitter

Bob’s books and podcast Learning to Build Demand-Side Sales 101 Jobs to be Done Handbook The Circuit Breaker podcast

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RELATED EPISODES:

April Dunford: Find your power in the market through positioning

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PEOPLE & ORGS:

W. Edwards Deming

Clayton Christensen

Genichi Taguchi

Willie Hobbs Moore

Tim Davis

Claire Sullentrope

April Dunford

Ryan Singer

Basecamp

Intercom

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BOOKS:

Learning to Build

Competing Against Luck

Grit

Introduction to Quality Engineering

Orthogonal Arrays and Linear Graphs

Shape Up

How Will You Measure Your Life?

Never Split the Difference

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OTHER RESOURCES:

Orthogonal arrays

Magic squares

L9 prototype

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Podcast: Make Things That Matter (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Petra Wille: Building a community of practice
Pub date: 2023-02-28

Petra Wille is a product leadership coach and the author of Strong Product People, my go-to book for the people development side of being a product leader. In this conversation, we dive deep into why and how a community of practice can level up your team and save training budget.

You can also read this episode here.

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Petra Wille:

‱ Website

‱ Twitter @loomista

‱ LinkedIn

‱ Book: Strong Product People

‱ Conference: Product at Heart

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Related episodes:

‱ Amy Edmondson: Building teams where people feel safe

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People & orgs:

‱ Robert Kegan

‱ Tolingo (translation company)

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Books:

‱ Strong Product People

‱ An Everyone Culture

‱ The Culture Map

‱ Selling the Dream

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Other resources:

‱ Product Communities of Practice: Everything You Need to Know

‱ Dan Pink - Autonomy, mastery, purpose

‱ The (product) cultural iceberg

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Podcast: Make Things That Matter (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Double click on the love
Pub date: 2023-03-07

What do you do when one of your top three KPIs is stagnant, and the product isn't growing? A micro case study in debugging retention and unlocking growth.

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LINK: DEEPER DIVE PIE CHART: https://tinyurl.com/2lyjalyp

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Podcast: Hacking the Org
Episode: Syntasso COO Paula Kennedy on Platform Team Responsibilities, Patterns and Anti-patterns
Pub date: 2023-03-03

Charles Humble talks to Paula Kennedy about the rise of platforms.  They discuss platform definitions; common anti-patterns and how to guard against them at both a team and organisational level; proving the value of a platform team to the business; setting up a platform team; lessons learned from Pivotal; and the Syntasso product.

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Podcast: Product Thinking (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Answering Questions About Product Strategy Audits, Offering Professional Services, and Staying or Leaving a Product Job
Pub date: 2023-03-08

In this Dear Melissa segment, Melissa Perri answers subscribers’ questions about how to do a product strategy audit, offering professional services to one-off clients, and how to choose whether to stay on at the company in a new capacity.

Q: What steps, processes and resources would you recommend for conducting a product strategy audit? I'm considering a new role in product strategy, and I think the best place to start is a comprehensive review of the current strategy to the extent that it exists and how our product plans align with it.

A: That is the best place to do a product strategy audit, but you have to hit it from two sides. This is what I do when I go in to do a product strategy audit.

Q: One of our clients requires a custom SSO integration with a good amount of complexity. The client is expecting us to deliver it as professional services. They are paying for it, so they want a clear Gantt chart project plan and a project manager that can deliver on time, on scope, and on budget. I don't have technical project managers on my team, only product managers who are more discovery oriented and are used to building products, not as a service. I don't have enough professional service work to hire a project manager to be fully dedicated to this kind of work. 
Any tips on how to handle this situation in the short term? While we can't hire someone specific for this role, how should we share roles and responsibilities between product tech and customer service?

A: I feel like there's some underlying problems that I'm picking out of this that are not just related to roles and responsibilities. Here’s how I would deal with this issue.

Q: I'm a team lead in a three person business intelligence team for a small company. We're currently undergoing a merger into a much larger enterprise with over 8000 staff. I'm seeing indicators that the product people in the larger enterprise have little interest involving me in product discovery and strategy, which areas of the previous environment that I really enjoyed. One stated they judge me as one of their technical people, which I interpret as they don't see a place for me in product discovery and direction. I believe I need to decide if I want to be a purely technical resource or find another job where I'm more welcome at the product discovery and strategy table. Are you able to give me any advice on navigating this situation?

A: I'm slightly mad that all of these product managers are completely dismissing you, and you are a fantastic resource. This is crazy. So here's the thing. Business intelligence is a critical skill. They might not understand what you actually do. So let's start with that


Resources

Melissa Perri on LinkedIn | Twitter

MelissaPerri.com | CPO Accelerator

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Podcast: Product Thinking (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Breaking Down Today’s Machine Learning Technology with Christina Pawlikowski
Pub date: 2023-03-15

Melissa Perri is joined by Christina Pawlikowski, a teaching fellow at Harvard and co-founder of Causal, to help demystify machine learning and AI on this episode of Product Thinking. Christina discusses language models, the different types of machine learning, how they can be used to solve problems, and the importance of good data and ethical considerations when using machine learning algorithms. Christina Pawlikowski is a teaching fellow at Harvard University and co-founder of Causal, a company that helps businesses make better decisions with causal inference.

You’ll hear Melissa and Christina talk about:

  • How machine learning is essentially creating an algorithm or a model that can make good predictions based on data. There are three types of machine learning: supervised learning, unsupervised learning, and reinforcement learning. Good training data is crucial for machine learning algorithms to be effective.
  • When considering using machine learning, it's important to ask questions about things like how complex the decision that needs to be made is, whether the model has to produce a definitive answer, how high the stakes are, and how quickly the answer needs to come back.
  • Ethical considerations are important when feeding data into a machine-learning model, especially when making decisions with high stakes.
  • GPT-3 and Chat GPT are examples of language models that use neural nets to generate predictions about what word or sentence comes next based on probabilities. The accuracy of a machine learning model is only as good as the quality of the data that is fed into it.
  • When incorporating ML into a product, it's important to plan for scenarios where the model is wrong and to consider ethical considerations such as false positives and false negatives.
  • Data scientists play a crucial role in assembling and cleaning training data, building and testing the model, and deploying it in production. The process may involve collaboration with machine learning engineers or other teams.
  • The cadence of working on machine learning is different from working on traditional UX-focused teams, with more downtime and exploratory time upfront. Slack time is important for data scientists and machine learning engineers to keep up with new techniques, write papers, and attend conferences.
  • Artificial general intelligence is probably further off than we think, and AI alignment is an important field to prevent any negative outcomes.

Resources:

Christina Pawlikowski on LinkedIn | Twitter

Casual Labs

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Podcast: Product Thinking (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Answering Questions About Slow Product Development, the Difference Between SMEs and PMs, and Working With a Customer Success Team
Pub date: 2023-03-22

In this Dear Melissa segment, Melissa Perri answers subscribers’ questions about how to respond when people say product development doesn't go fast enough, getting the business to understand that subject matter experts are not the same as PMS, and how to work with a customer success team.

Q: I have often heard 
 stakeholders saying, ‘Product development doesn't go fast enough. Your product team spends too much time thinking; can we do less thinking and more doing?’ This usually comes from tech leaders who are more used to IT as a service, and salespeople who always feel we are one feature away from winning our new client. I have learned that trying to evangelize about product discovery is usually a lost battle. 
Sometimes discovery, once done, looks obvious and when we avoid the risk, it's hard to prove. 
Also, sometimes product people get too deep into discovery, try to validate too many hypotheses. 
What do you think here?

A: This is a great question and something I do run into a lot with companies. I have also been in the position where people are like, ‘Oh, we don't need discovery or we don't need to do that.’ I have realized over time that there is a balance. Here's one thing that might actually help you in this situation.

Q: How do you shift the business perspective when they tend to view a subject matter expert as the ideal product manager? As such, the primary value they want is to write contextualized stories for the scrum team. They don't have knowledge of the rest of the discipline and don't want teammates that can go outside that box. That role is typically reserved for the business general manager who is the true CEO of the product

A: People don't really understand the role of a product manager and in your case, it sounds like they are definitely operating like product owners and not full product managers. A lot of times people think that product management is like 100% subject matter expertise. 
Product managers do need to have some subject matter expertise, but they don't need to have all of it. Here’s what I think you should do.

Q: My company operates in the B2B space and has grown a lot in a short space of time. In the early days, the product team had daily contact with our customers and dealt with all kinds of customer requests and feedback apart from commercial queries, which were handled by an account management team. As we scaled, the company has created a customer success function, as we recognize that product couldn't handle all inquiries from customers. The customer success team is great and provides fantastic insights on our customers and their needs. However, it can sometimes be difficult to tell where to draw the line and responsibilities of the teams. What is the best way for us to work together collaboratively but with clear distinction of responsibilities?

A: Customer success is the nature of a growing team. You'll always have some kind of customer success, sales team, account management, all that wonderful stuff in a B2B space as you grow. And those teams are actually gold. You know why? Because they deal with all the customer inquiries, all the questions that you can't deal with as you start to scale and as you come up with more and more things that you need to build. Here’s what I would do to solidify the team, so everyone knows what is and isn’t their responsibility.

Resources

Melissa Perri on LinkedIn | Twitter

MelissaPerri.com | CPO Accelerator

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Podcast: Topchefernes strategi med Niels Lunde
Episode: Lego: Topchefens to-do liste
Pub date: 2023-03-08

Genudgivelse: Lego kom med et nyt rekordregnskab tirsdag i denne uge, og i den anledning genudgiver vi optagelsen med topchefen Niels B. Christiansen fra i sommer.

Hvad er det for en tankegang, der ligger bag Legos nye succes? Niels B. Christiansen har vÊret topchef i Lego siden 2017, hvor Lego var i en mindre krise efter mange Är med hÞj vÊkst.

HĂžr Niels B. Christiansen, Lego:

06.50: Om salgskanaler, digitalisering og Metaverse.

22.00: Om Supply Chain og kompleksitet.

30.37: Om bĂŠredygtighed og ESG

39.21: Om uforudsigelighed som en New Normal.

47.55. Om hans forelÞbige lÊre af Ärene i Lego.

Afsnittet blev sendt fĂžrste gang 29. juni 2022.

Producer: Peter-Emil Witt.

FÄ Niels Lundes nyhedsbrev: Tilmelding pÄ borsen.dk/nyhedsbreve.

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Podcast: Topchefernes strategi med Niels Lunde
Episode: Kina: Den nye trussel, som dansk erhvervsliv ikke vil tale om, og mÄske heller ikke forstÄr
Pub date: 2023-03-13

Hvis Kina vÊlger at sende vÄben til Ruslands krig i Ukraine, hvad sker der sÄ? ForstÄr dansk erhvervsliv forskellen pÄ Þkonomi og geopolitik?

Niels Lunde taler med sin chef, Bjarne Corydon, ansv. chefredaktÞr og adm. direktÞr pÄ BÞrsen. De to har en fÊlles iagttagelse fra Impact-konferencen, som BÞrsen holdt sammen med McKinsey & Co. forleden.

Mens forholdet mellem USA og Kina forvĂŠrres nĂŠsten dag for dag, sĂ„ holder erhvervslivet fast i sit kendte syn pĂ„ Kina – at Kinas Ăžkonomi er sĂ„ stor, at uanset hvad, sĂ„ er danske virksomheder simpelthen nĂždt til at vĂŠre til stede i Kina. MĂ„ske med nogle begrĂŠnsninger, javel, men i realiteten har erhvervslivet ikke noget valg.

Over for det synspunkt tÄrner en ny geopolitisk virkelighed sig op, som erhvervslivet ikke har lyst til at tale om, og mÄske heller ikke forstÄr.

Niels Lunde og Bjarne Corydon forsĂžger at sĂŠtte de to synspunkter op imod hinanden.

Bonus: Carlsbergs topchef Cees ’t Hart forlader bryggeriet. Niels Lunde giver sit bud pĂ„, hvordan det lykkedes for den hollandske topchef at skabe ny energi i en trĂŠt organisation.

  • 02.42: Kina: Det Ăžkonomiske synspunkt vs. det geopolitiske synspunkt.
  • 10.15: Kina: For og imod de to synspunkter.
  • 16.52: Kina: Vi har brug for at tale om det her.
  • 25.36: Carlsberg: Et kig i Cees ’t Harts vĂŠrktĂžjskasse.

Producer: Arjuna Alexander Kolkur SĂžrensen.

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Podcast: Topchefernes strategi med Niels Lunde
Episode: Ny Carlsberg-topchef: Et kompromislÞst syn pÄ ledelse
Pub date: 2023-03-17

Genudgivelse: Jacob Aarup-Andersen blev torsdag udnĂŠvnt til kommende topchef i Carlsberg. I den anledning genudgiver vi optagelsen med Jacob Aarup-Andersen fra 2021.

Hvem er Carlsbergs nye topchef? Hvordan ser han pĂ„ ledelse? Hvordan ser han pĂ„ sammenhĂŠngen i en virksomhed mellem at have et overordnet formĂ„l og sĂ„ en kommerciel forretning? Hvordan kommunikerer han? Kort sagt: Hvad er det for en leder – der nu er pĂ„ vej til bryggeriets nye hovedkontor pĂ„ Valby bakke i KĂžbenhavn?

Jacob Aarup-Andersen, adm. direktÞr i ISS, svarer pÄ de spÞrgsmÄl her i samtalen, som er en optagelse fra hans besÞg i BÞrsen Executive Club i 2021.

”Hvis du bringer en rigtig stjerne ind pĂ„ et omrĂ„de, sĂ„ er det ikke et spĂžrgsmĂ„l om du fĂ„r 20 pct. mere. Du fĂ„r fem gange eller ti gange mere. Du fĂ„r signifikant mere ud af det”, siger Jacob Aarup-Andersen.

Han siger ogsÄ:

”Jeg har meldt ud, at vi vil vĂŠre verdens bedste til det vi gĂžr, sĂ„ er du ogsĂ„ nĂždt til at have verdens bedste spillere pĂ„ dit hold.”

Afsnittet blev udgivet fĂžrste gang 15. april 2021.

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Podcast: Topchefernes strategi med Niels Lunde
Episode: Vincent Clerc: Fremtidens A. P. MĂžller-MĂŠrsk
Pub date: 2023-03-21

Niels Lunde taler med Vincent Clerc, ny topchef for A. P. MÞller-MÊrsk. Vincent Clerc fortÊller om sin aha-oplevelse pÄ mÞdet med sine stÞrste kunder i det interne Strategic Customer Council, hvor han opdagede, at MÊrsk-ledelsen havde undervurderet kundernes behov.

HÞr om den nye topchefs bud pÄ fremtidens A. P. MÞller-MÊrsk.

08.47: Vincent Clercs nye forstÄelse af kunderne og hans interne strategiske vÊrktÞj, det sÄkaldte Strategic Flywheel.

22.32: Truslen fra tech-virksomhederne, og de fire differentiatorer, der skal vinde kampen mod tech.

29.27: Hvordan ser Vincent Clerc pÄ kunstig intelligens, og hvor dyb en forstÄelse af teknologi bÞr en moderne leder have?

36.23: Geopolitik er rykket op dagsordenen og spĂŠndingerne mellem USA og Kina vokser. Er det en trussel eller en mulighed for MĂŠrsk?

41.43: Vincent Clerc har vĂŠret Ăžverste leder siden 1. januar. Hvad har han lĂŠrt og hvilke kriterier brugte han da han sammensatte sin ledelsesgruppe?

Producer: Peter-Emil Witt.

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Podcast: Semaphore Uncut
Episode: Bart de Water on Building Robust Resilient Systems
Pub date: 2023-03-07

Building resilient systems is crucial in ensuring that applications can keep functioning even while facing unexpected failures and disruptions. In fact, designing systems that can bounce back quickly and effectively is essential for long-term success. 

Listen to the full episode or read the transcript at https://semaphoreci.com/blog/bart-de-water

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Podcast: Transformator
Episode: Uge 11: GPT4 udfordrer Google og mĂžrklĂŠgger datagrundlaget. Resistente bakterier i antibiotika. SĂ„ meget ved TikTok om dig.
Pub date: 2023-03-17

VĂŠrt: Henrik Heide

Medvirkende: Therese Moreau, Liv Bjerg Lillevang og Peter Christian Bech-Nielsen, politisk redaktÞr pÄ IngeniÞren og Version2

Klip: SĂžren Rask Petersen

Denne uges Transformator handler om tre bekymrende tendenser. Da det amerikanske forskningslaboratorium OpenAI i tirsdags lancerede sin nyeste deep learning-model, GPT-4, blev de udsat for hĂ„rd kritik, og den medfĂžlgende tekniske rapport blev kaldt »grinagtig«, fordi den manglede grundlĂŠggende tekniske informationer bag den nye multimodale model. Med andre ord er dens datagrundlag og tekniske specifikationer en ‘black box’, hvilket ikke rimer med ordet ‘Open’ i firmanavnet.

13 danske patienter er blevet smittet med multiresistente bakterier efter at have indtaget antibiotikummet Dicillin. Meget tyder pÄ, at forureningen skyldes mangelfuld rengÞring, men hvordan kunne det ske?

Efter advarsler fra Forsvarets Efterretningstjenestes Center for Cybersikkerhed om faren for kinesisk spionage slettes der nu TikTok-apps pÄ livet lÞs blandt politikere, i ministerier m.v. Men hvad er det egentlig for informationer, TikTok indsamler om sine brugere?

LinksOpenAI lancerer GPT-4

Forskere, udviklere og erhvervsfolk revser OpenAIs GPT4-lancering: »Der er ingen mÄde at validere det pÄ«

TikTok-klip med forfalskede prĂŠsidentstemmer

Nyt i Dicillin-sagen: Gelatine i kapsler er nÊppe Ärsag til smitte med resistente bakterier

SSI finder flere patienter: Resistensgenerne fra tilbagekaldt antibiotika har spredt sig

Radar: Folketinget frarÄder brug af TikTok pÄ alle devices

Tidligere spionchef: Vi skal have fuld adgang til TikToks kildekode

Wired: Senator Warner Wants US Spies to Justify a TikTok Ban

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Podcast: AdfĂŠrd
Episode: 83. Krisekommunikation for begyndere og letþvede – med Thomas Mandrup
Pub date: 2022-11-29

Husk at tilmelde dig podcastens nyhedsbrev. Det gĂžr du her: https://bit.ly/3UF8dKB
Se hele det rÄ interview pÄ YouTube lige her: https://youtu.be/MehMhEkONfQ

”Design jeres virksomheds kollaps.” SĂ„dan lyder et af de mange konkrete rĂ„d til krisekommunikation, du fĂ„r i dagens episode.

Det bliver bÄde brugbart og oplÞftende (trods emnet 
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Til at hjÊlpe os har vi nemlig kontaktchef og seniorrÄdgiver i kommunikationsbureauet Publico, Thomas Mandrup. Han er ekspert i, hvordan man kommunikerer i en krise, og hvordan man forbereder sig pÄ den.

Du bliver klogere pÄ:

  • Hvad en krise egentlig er – og hvordan den definition har ĂŠndret sig drastisk i de senere Ă„r
  • Hvilke brancher der er mest udsat for kriser
  • Hvordan man helt konkret forbereder sig pĂ„ krisen
  • Hvilke to lag en krise bestĂ„r af (inkl. virkelige eksempler)
  • Hvorfor gode og ordentlige virksomheder kan komme til at lave dĂ„rlig krisekommunikation
  • Hvilken store fejl mange begĂ„r, nĂ„r vi stĂ„r i begyndelsen af en krise
  • Hvad man gĂžr, nĂ„r krisen har lagt sig, sĂ„ man bliver klogere af den.

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Podcast: AdfĂŠrd
Episode: 86. LĂŠr at tĂŠnke lige sĂ„ godt som Svend – med professor Svend Brinkmann
Pub date: 2023-03-21

Hey, husk at tilmelde dig podcastens nyhedsbrev. Det gÞr du her: https://mortenmunster.com/podcasts/ Ellers gÄr du jo glip af ekstrasiden med bl.a. Svends boganbefalinger 


I dag taler jeg med Svend Brinkmann om kunsten at tĂŠnke bedre.

Vi kommer forbi alt muligt. KrÊnkelsesdebatten, kontroversiel IQ-forskning og smarte pÄfund pÄ hoteller i Tyskland. Og sÄ fÄr du ogsÄ svaret pÄ, hvad Svend helst ville Êndre i det offentlige system, og hvad han forventer at fortryde allermest pÄ sit dÞdsleje.

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Podcast: All TWiT.tv Shows (Audio) (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Windows Weekly 782: A Hazy Shade of Winders
Pub date: 2022-06-22

Windows Defender, Microsoft Viva, GitHub Copilot

Windows

  • New Windows 11 Insider Build Brings OneDrive Information
  • Microsoft Gets Ready to Roll Out Search Highlights on Windows 11
  • Xiaomi Launches its First Windows on ARM 2-in-1 PC

Microsoft 365 & Cloud

  • Microsoft launches Defender for Individuals for Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscribers
  • Microsoft's Viva Sales: A new companion app that works with many CRM systems (not only Microsoft's)
  • Microsoft to curtail some of its facial recognition capabilities in the name of 'Responsible AI'
  • From Nvidia to IKEA: Here's who's joining the Metaverse Standards Forum

Dev

  • GitHub Copilot, Microsoft's AI pair-programming service, is generally available
  • The Directions on Microsoft Briefing | Directions on Microsoft

Xbox

  • Xbox Cloud Gaming to Get Mouse and Keyboard Support on PC
  • Microsoft Warns About Supply Shortages for Xbox Controllers
  • Far Cry 5 is Coming Soon to Xbox Game Pass
  • Microsoft's Xbox App on PC Adds a Performance Indicator

Tips and Picks

  • Tip of the week: Learn about the new features in Windows 11 22H2
  • App pick of the week: Reading apps
  • Enterprise pick 1 of the week: Microsoft's Secured Core comes to IoT devices
  • Enterprise pick 2 of the week: Don't be fooled: Patch Tuesday isn't going away
  • Beer pick of the week: Torch & Crown Rainbows Everywhere

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley, and Paul Thurrott

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Check out Mary Jo's blog at AllAboutMicrosoft.com

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Podcast: GeekWire (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: The new Microsoft Bing, and how AI is changing the web
Pub date: 2023-02-11

Yusuf Mehdi is a Microsoft veteran of more than 31 years, who has been involved in the development and launch of some of the company's biggest products, including Windows 95 and Windows 11, the Xbox One console, and past versions of Microsoft's search engine. He's currently the corporate vice president and consumer chief marketing officer.

He spoke with GeekWire's Todd Bishop on the Microsoft campus on Tuesday, a few hours after introducing the new Bing search engine and an updated version of Microsoft's Edge browser with a sidebar that uses AI to generate and analyze web content.

Topics of the discussion include the potential impact of AI search on content creators, Google's preemptive response to Microsoft's announcement, the precautions Microsoft is taking to prevent another "Tay" moment, and both the capabilities and limitations of this new generation of AI.

The new Bing, along with an updated version of Microsoft’s Edge browser, are available in a limited preview, with a wait-list for those who want to try the AI search and web copilot as they roll out more broadly.

Related Coverage

  • Arguing with AI: My first dispute with Microsoft’s brilliant and boneheaded Bing search engine
  • Microsoft reveals new search engine and browser with AI ‘copilot,’ escalating battle with Google

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Podcast: Techmeme Ride Home (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Thu. 03/16 – We’re A Long Way From Clippy
Pub date: 2023-03-16

For the first time ever, I had to delay producing this show so I could watch and cover and AI product announcement. Let me tell you about how Microsoft is bringing GPT-4, to basically all their most famous apps with Copilot. Looks like the potential for a TikTok ban is getting really real. And why folks are suddenly turning on OpenAI.

Sponsors:

  • Overtired Podcast

Links:

  • Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot — your copilot for work (Microsoft)
  • Microsoft 365 gets a host of new AI-powered features (TechCrunch)
  • U.S. Threatens Ban if TikTok’s Chinese Owners Don’t Sell Stakes (WSJ)
  • OpenAI co-founder on company’s past approach to openly sharing research: ‘We were wrong’ (TheVerge)
  • Payments giant Stripe raises $6.5 billion at a $50 billion valuation (Axios)

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Podcast: Fiasko
Episode: Mads Nþrgaard: “Det er sjéldent, at jeg tager store chancer”
Pub date: 2023-01-26

Modedesigner Mads NĂžrgaard er gĂŠst i det nyeste afsnit af ‘Fiasko’, hvor han fortĂŠller om sin pligtfĂžlelse, og hvordan hans mangel pĂ„ dristighed har gjort, at de store fiaskoer er udeblevet - pĂ„ godt og ondt.

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Podcast: De Agile RĂždder - en podcast om agilitet i praksis
Episode: 26: Super-agil uden agile metoder - gĂžr det The Lunar Way
Pub date: 2023-03-07

Kan man vĂŠre agil uden at bruge ordet ‘agil’ - og uden at bruge konkrete, agile metoder? Er det overhovedet lovligt? Svarene er ja og ja og ja. Manden der svarer er BjĂžrn Hald SĂžrensen. Han er Head of Technology hos Lunar, der bĂ„de er en digital bank og en digital scale up - og sĂ„ er de mega-agile.

Vi taler med BjÞrn om, hvordan i alverden man styrer en finansvirksomhed med smÄ 600 medarbejdere uden at have hverken fÊlles metode eller fÊlles alignment. Vi kan allerede nu afslÞre, at det er noget med at gÞre alle teams reelt selvkÞrende, holde dem sÄ stabile som muligt og i Þvrigt lÞse problemerbe i takt med at opstÄr - hvis de ellers er omfattende nok.

NÄhja, fik vi nÊvnt, at Lunar i gennemsnit har 250 releases - om dagen? Det er med andre ord tid til at lytte og blive meget, meget misundelig.

BONUS-OPLYSNING - De fire team-typer fra Team Topology, som BjĂžrn taler om:

  • Stream-aligned team: aligned to a flow of work from (usually) a segment of the business domain
  • Enabling team: helps a Stream-aligned team to overcome obstacles. Also detects missing capabilities.
  • Complicated Subsystem team: where significant mathematics/calculation/technical expertise is needed.
  • Platform team: a grouping of other team types that provide a compelling internal product to accelerate delivery by Stream-aligned teamsKilde: https://teamtopologies.com/key-concepts

LINKS TIL SHOWNOTES:

  • Studie-selfie med BjĂžrn
  • BjĂžrn pĂ„ LinkedIn
  • BjĂžrn pĂ„ Twitter
  • Lunar pĂ„ nettet
  • Lunars Tech-blog, hvor du ogsĂ„ kan finde Talks
  • Team Topologies
  • SĂŠsonstart om, hvad agilitet er - og hvor Mike Cohn er med
  • Hvis du ikke ved, hvem Mike Cohn er
  • Ordbogen
  • deagilerĂždder.dk
  • Rasmus pĂ„ LinkedIn
  • Line pĂ„ LinkedIn - og pĂ„ lineh.dk

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Podcast: Topchefernes strategi med Niels Lunde
Episode: McKinsey & Co.: Her er et strategisk kompas til fremtiden
Pub date: 2023-03-01

Vi lever i en uforudsigelig tid, og meget tyder pĂ„ at vi er pĂ„ vej ind i en ny ĂŠra. Et historisk opbrud. Vi har oplevet tre ĂŠraer siden den anden verdenskrig. Den fĂžrste ĂŠra var ”efterkrigstiden” (1945-1971) med en kraftig vĂŠkst, den anden var ”koldkrigs-ĂŠraen” (1971-1989) med oliekriser og politiske spĂŠndinger, og den tredje var ”globaliserings-ĂŠraen” (1989-2019) med internet og ny Ăžkonomisk vĂŠkst.

Hvordan ser den nye ĂŠra ud?

Bþrsen og McKinsey & Co. holdt onsdag en félles konference, hvor blandt andre den tidligere leder af ECB, Mario Draghi og statsminister Mette Frederiksen deltog. McKinsey & Co. havde som oplég til konferencen lavet analysen ”Danmark i morgen”, og Niels Lunde taler med rapportens hovedforfatter, partner Jens Riis Andersen.

06.47: Derfor klarer de store, gamle danske virksomheder sig sÄ godt. OgsÄ i den globale konkurrence.

15.32: De fire globale krĂŠfter som danske virksomheder kan udnytte.

40.21: Ti mulige vĂŠkstplatforme for danske virksomheder og for Danmark.

Producer: Peter-Emil Witt.

FÄ Niels Lundes nyhedsbrev: Tilmelding pÄ borsen.dk/nyhedsbreve.

Lés den nye rapport ”Danmark i morgen” her: https://www.mckinsey.com/danmark-i-morgen

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Podcast: Forever Employable Stories
Episode: Incredible Content Creation with John Cutler
Pub date: 2021-12-14

John Cutler is a product evangelist, coach, and Head of Product Education at Amplitude. As an accomplished writer, John has an amazing ability to create, record, and produce content at an incredible rate. He is passionate about wrangling complex problems and answering the why with qualitative and quantitative data.

John joins Jeff Gothelf to share how he uses all the knowledge he’s obtained to build a bigger and broader following, all in service of staying forever employable. He talks about his professional journey and discusses tips for creating content.

You’ll hear John and Jeff Gothelf talk about:

  1. John’s journey from dropping out of college and attempting a video game company to product evangelism.
  2. How John started writing about product management.
  3. Advice for creators interested in monetizing their content.
  4. What John draws inspiration from, and why you don’t need to be massively inspired to create.
  5. Laying the foundations to give yourself options.
  6. Asking your employer for adjustments or accommodations, rather than leaving your job.
  7. The coolest stage John has ever been on, between his stint as a musician and his job as a speaker.

Resources

Jeff Gothelf on LinkedIn | Twitter

JeffGothelf.com

John Cutler on LinkedIn

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Podcast: Forever Employable Stories
Episode: What We Learned in Season 2!
Pub date: 2022-03-08

As the season comes to an end, Jeff Gothelf recalls the thought-provoking and inspirational conversations he shared with his prolific guests. Successful individuals from a variety of industries pulled back the curtains on their experiences and exposed secrets to success that elevated them personally and professionally. Tune in for more insights and road maps to becoming forever employable when Jeff Gothelf returns in Season 3!

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Podcast: Forever Employable Stories
Episode: Playing the Long Game with Dorie Clark
Pub date: 2022-01-25

Dorie Clark has twice been named one of Thinkers50’s Top 50 Business Thinkers in the World and is ranked the world’s best communication coach. She is an executive member of various organizations. Dorie is a contributor at Harvard Business Review, Entrepreneur Media, and Fast Company, as well as an instructor at LinkedIn. She is also host of Better, a weekly LinkedIn Live interview show for Newsweek.

Dorie joins Jeff Gothelf to talk about building a personal brand with your recognized expertise. She shares stories of her professional journey and gives insights from what she has learned along the way that made her forever employable.

You’ll hear Dorie and Jeff Gothelf discuss:

  1. Dorie’s forced transition out of journalism, and the evolution of the world of work.
  2. How Dorie got her first book deal.
  3. Dorie’s experience of how sustained effort and commitment gets your foot in the door.
  4. What success looks like as an author.
  5. The pros and cons of getting a publisher versus self-publishing.
  6. How to tell when your expertise has been recognized.
  7. Creating the outcomes we want by putting thought behind our decisions.

Resources

Jeff Gothelf on LinkedIn | Twitter

JeffGothelf.com

Dorie Clark on LinkedIn | Twitter

DorieClark.com

The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World

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Podcast: Brainfluence (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Dorie Clark on The Long Game
Pub date: 2022-03-09

Dorie Clark joins us today on Brainfluence discuss her new book, The Long Game and to explain why a long-term strategy is essential to help us achieve our goals in life. In this era of instant gratification, it’s hard to wait until a business strategy works or the results of practice start showing results. But, Dorie notes, success is a product of long-term consistency for example, a one-percentage daily improvement (as James Clear explained in Atomic Habits). This approach requires you avoid frequent changes. Rather, you must keep going and stick to a strategy that works for you.

Creating mental space is essential on your path to success. If you stuff all your hours with work, not heeding the long-term implications of constant jam-packed days, you will never know if you’re heading where you want to.

Listen to today’s conversation as Dorie and Roger discuss many more topics, including why you must create room for whitespace in your calendar and how to do that even if you don’t have schedule flexibility. Show page with video and text versions, resources, etc.: https://www.rogerdooley.com/dorie-clark-long-game/

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Podcast: Thinkers & Ideas (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: The Long Game with Dorie Clark
Pub date: 2022-05-17

Dorie Clark teaches executive education at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business. She is the author of 5 books including Entrepreneurial Youand Reinventing You. Clark has been named one of top 50 business thinkers by Thinkers50.

In her latest book The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term WorldClark explains how almost anything is attainable through small, methodical steps taken day by day. She urges her readers to optimize for interesting, as a first step in discovering one’s passion, suggesting that if one keeps optimizing their choices for things that feel interesting, it begins to carve a path to reaching something purposeful.

Clark suggests three core arguments to achieve long term success and purpose, including creating white space; the act of opening ones mind to new opportunities, focus where it counts; the ability to decided which goals are the right ones, and, lastly, keeping the faith; the act of deploying strategic patience and sustaining effort in the face of adversity.

Joining Martin Reeves, Chairman of BCG Henderson Institute, Clark dives deeper into the challenges of long-term thinking and finding one’s purpose through everyday steps forward.


About the BCG Henderson Institute

The BCG Henderson Institute is the Boston Consulting Group’s think tank, dedicated to exploring and developing valuable new insights from business, technology, economics, and science by embracing the powerful technology of ideas. The Institute engages leaders in provocative discussion and experimentation to expand the boundaries of business theory and practice and to translate innovative ideas from within and beyond business. For more ideas and inspiration, sign up to receive BHI INSIGHTS, our monthly newsletter, and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

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Podcast: The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Long Game With Dorie Clark
Pub date: 2022-11-21

How can we shift our mindset to thinking about a long-term creative career? What can we do now that will make our future selves happy? Dorie Clark gives some ideas for playing the long game.

In the intro, sell books directly on TikTok Shop [The Guardian]; Plan for author success in 2023 [K-lytics webinar, 1 Dec]; PDF workbooks for authors [CreativePennBooks.com]

This podcast is sponsored by Kobo Writing Life, which helps authors self-publish and reach readers in global markets through the Kobo eco-system. You can also subscribe to the Kobo Writing Life podcast for interviews with successful indie authors.

Dorie Clark is a best-selling author, keynote speaker, executive educator, film director and producer for a multiple Grammy-winning jazz album. Her books include Entrepreneurial You, Reinventing You, and The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World, which we're talking about today.

You can listen above or on your favorite podcast app or read the notes and links below. Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below.

Show Notes

  • How to balance your time as a multi-passionate creator
  • Learning how to say no in order to reach your goals
  • Figuring out what your goals are
  • Practicing long-term thinking in your author career
  • What can you can do now to make your future self happy?
  • How your (non-fiction) book can open up other business opportunities
  • The strategy behind deciding what to write
  • Adapting to changing technology — the potential impact of generative AI
  • Marketing the same book for the next 5 years

You can find Dorie Clark at DorieClark.com

Image generated by Joanna Penn with Midjourney

Transcript of Interview with Dorie ClarkJoanna: Dorie Clark is a best-selling author, keynote speaker, executive educator, film director, and producer for a multiple Grammy-winning jazz album. Her books include Entrepreneurial You, Reinventing You, and The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World, which we're talking about today. So welcome, Dorie.

Dorie: Joanna, I'm so glad to be here. Thank you.

Joanna: Now, I'm excited to talk about this. But I want to ask you first, because as I was looking at your bio, I'm like, ‘oh, my goodness, you are such a multi-passionate creator,' and a lot of people listening are as well. And you've got this visual art thing, the music thing, writing, teaching, speaking.

How do you balance your time between everything you do and prioritize?Dorie: Well, one of the concepts that I actually talked about in my latest book, The Long Game, is 20% time. It was actually originally created by the company 3M, that's famous for its sticky notes. They had something called 15% time.

And then Google popularized a related concept of 20% time. And the idea was that they would encourage their employees to spend up to 20% of their time on basically more speculative projects, things that were outside the scope of their official responsibilities.

Now, the caveat, of course, is that a lot of Google employees, even though theoretically they're encouraged, don't actually do it because they are too busy, you know, like all of us.

In theory, this is something that is part of the company DNA. And that's how Google News was created, that's how Gmail was created, is people just exploring things and trying new stuff that seems interesting.

And so in The Long Game, I really beat the drum that I think it's important for all of us to proactively choose to do this. Whether we work for ourselves or whether we work at a more traditional job, finding pockets of time, you know, maybe it's 20%, maybe it's 5%, who knows.

To invest in something that is outside the norm of what we are “supposed to be doing” I think is really valuable, both for keeping us engaged and creative, and also pushing the envelope on something that might be the next big thing. So I really actively try to invest my 20% time in things like directing of film or writing musicals or things like that.

Joanna: But even just with what you're doing — I mean, obviously, a lot of people listening have a day job, whatever they do as a day job, and writing is their 20% time. So it's normally the thing people do that's separate, where with you and I, it's part of our professional career. But you have a teaching job, I think, and you're a speaker and all these other things.

So it's almost like, yeah, there's that extra bit, but even within what we have to do as part of our normal job, how do you balance your time? Because a lot of people worry about how do they create ‘from scratch' time? And then how do you get the business stuff done, basically?

Dorie: Yes, yes, absolutely.

It's always the balance between the long-term vision of where we want to go and the short term of just feeling the press of the things that are on us. Whether it's all the messages in our inbox or all the meetings or things we have to get through, and I empathize in a big way. I had nine meetings yesterday. That is extremely suboptimal. That is not how I want my days to be, but occasionally a day ends up being that way.

But I know that for me personally, I try to put safeguards around it. And I think that in a lot of ways, a problem that many of us fall into, especially if you're a person who is competent, who can get a lot of things done, you tend to want to get a lot of things done. And if there's a request, you want to say yes and do it.

So I actually have been really pretty vigilant in recent years about trying to put up guardrails. Occasionally, you might proactively decide, alright, I'm going to overrule it in this particular instance.

I've had variations in the past depending on what my particular goal is, but it might be that I will not work past 7 pm, let's say. I'm ceasing all activity, just as a forcing function. And the interesting thing is that much like writing a sonnet causes you to be more creative because you want to say a certain thing, and you're like, “well, damn, how do I see that in iambic pentameter?”

If you actually have a rule for yourself, whether it's, ‘I'm not taking meetings on Friday,' or ‘I'm only going to work until 7pm and not a drop later,' whatever it is, it often forces you to triage in a way that can actually be helpful, I think.

Joanna: Now, I like that. And you mentioned safeguards there and guardrails, I like that. But then another thing, I mean, you're obviously incredibly competent at everything you do too.

And what I find difficult, and I think a lot of people find difficult with their creative projects, is saying no to work after 7pm is one thing, but what if you have all these ideas? How do you know what to say no to, whether it's those other people's requests for a great speaking gig or something, or your own ideas? Because if we set these guardrails, we only have the limited time to achieve these things.

It's easy to say no to bad options, but how do we say no to the good things?Dorie: Yes, yes. I totally hear that. Because most people are smart enough, unless they're super codependent, they're smart enough to say no to bad things, right?

The problem comes where there's just like too many good things. I mean, in some ways, it's a good problem to have. Like, ‘oh, too many good options,' you know, cry me a river. But the truth is, we can't do them all.

So one of the one of the things that I talk about in The Long Game, because the truth is, if you want to be a long-term, strategic thinker, if you want to actually accomplish these important long-term goals, whether it is writing a book or getting a book to market, or whatever your variation is, you actually do need to clear room upstream in order to make that a possibility.

So learning to say no and learning to prioritize is incredibly important because otherwise you're never going to even have the bandwidth to remotely get close to your goal if your schedule is completely filled with dross and dreg.

So, as a result, I've spent a lot of time thinking about this, and one of the interesting frameworks that I share in The Long Game, was actually something popularized by Derek Sivers, who's an author and an entrepreneur.

Joanna: And he's been on the show, too.

Dorie: Oh, I love it amazing. Yeah, he talks about the sort of ‘hell yes or no' paradigm. So meaning, if it's not a “hell yes!” then you should be saying no to it.

But I think that what is perhaps less explored that I think is important to tease out, is that the problem that that solves is the problem that actually bedevils most of us, which is this sort of medium-good options, right?

Because the trouble, again, is not saying no to bad things. It's the sixes and the sevens, and maybe even the eights, on a scale of 10, where we're like, “well, I don't really want to do it, but it could be good because of blah, blah, blah.”

I mean, even this morning, I got an email first thing this morning from a friend of mine, and she's been asked to help put together a panel of speakers for a conference. And it's going to be in Nashville, which is a cool place to go, and she wants to know what I do it. It was going to be a pretty low fee, but I'd get to hang out with her, and she was probably going to invite some of our other friends. So it's one of these things where you're like, oh, there's some good, there's some bad.

In the past, I probably would have erred on the side of saying yes to it.

But this is very much a place where we have to revert back to —

What's our North Star here? What are we aiming at? And in my case, I really made a strong commitment that post-pandemic, once we were sort of getting a little bit more normalized, I realized that I did not want to slip back into the practices that I had done before where I was just like wantonly traveling all the time.

I realized that it had really exhausted me. And certainly I wanted to be traveling more than I was during the pandemic, which was not at all. But I also did not want to go back to giving 35 to 50 speeches on the road per year, which is my average for a number of years before that.

So I decided that the better part of valor is cut it out. And so I wrote back to her right away, and I was like, thank you so much, but I'm going to need to pass on this. Because I realized the biggest attraction is like the opportunity to hang out with her. And there's a lot of other ways that I could do it that didn't involve me flying somewhere and spending a weekend for a few thousand bucks.

Joanna: Yes, it's interesting. And I really appreciated you sharing that in the book about your burnout. I mean, you basically were having burnout from all of that and performing while sick. Very impressive, but also like, oh, my goodness.

It's interesting, I mean, in the book, you talk about needing this white space to even think about the long term. And it's almost like, you mentioned in that talk, things happen that we need that short-term cash sometimes and so we do these things.

In that white space, when you have that white space, let's think that people do, maybe they go to a cafe or maybe they can get away from the house to have that white space.

What should they be asking themselves in order to try and think about what they might want for that North Star, as you mentioned?

What are some of your practices to help figure out what you want?Dorie: Thank you, Joanna. I'm eager to answer that, but actually, if you don't mind, I want to turn the question back on you for a minute because you are someone who's really a polymath.

I mean, you have this business and this podcast around helping people learn to be successful writers, you have written like a ginormous number of books yourself and in multiple genres and things like that.

So I would love to just hear a little bit more about how you personally think about prioritization and fitting the different pieces together?

Joanna: But I'm interviewing you, Dorie!

But no, I mean, I do that. I have a lot of journals, I'm sitting here with about 40 journals. So, I think by writing, so for me, I have to go somewhere and I write. And then what's interesting is I'll look back at a journal from a decade ago.

I did this recently, I looked at 2012. I had like three diaries or journals from 2012, and I went through them all. And what was interesting is so much that I journaled about has now happened. And so a lot of it, for me, is that ideation, I guess.

It does help me to read books like yours, and why I wanted to speak to you was because I listened to the audiobook when I was in New Zealand at Christmas. So I listen to things and then I journal, that's basically how I think about it. And I'll come back to the future stuff in a minute. But now, throwing it back to you.

Dorie: Yes, all right. Well, thank you. I appreciate that. And that's great to hear and to learn about your process. But I think that as we think about what questions we should be asking ourselves, or how to really just begin to structure this exercise, I think there's a few starting points.

The first one is really super big picture. A lot of times people do have a sense of what they'd like to accomplish or where they'd like to go.

But what I've often found in having written a book about long-term thinking, I think a lot of people are hesitant to own it in some ways. What I often hear is, “oh, well, I'm not really sure how to do long-term thinking,” or “I can't do long-term thinking because I'm not sure how I would accomplish it.”

I really want to take that and push back on it because I think in a lot of ways, the whole point of long-term thinking is to be thinking about things that we have no idea how to do. It would be so incredibly presumptuous, and I daresay just flat out incorrect, to imagine that anyone can perfectly envision over a big goal — let's say it's 20 years, 10 years, even five years — precisely the steps necessary to do something.

I mean, the world is changing so fast, there's so many flaps of the butterfly wings, or what have you, we really just can't predict. And so I think it's fine, it's great, to have goals that you have no idea how you're going to accomplish them.

That's the point of living for the next 20 years is to figure out how to do it, but you don't have to have it figured out today. So I think that sometimes it's just honoring the sort of gut sentiment that you have today. That's one piece.

Another which I always like to encourage people to do, and sometimes they're afraid to go here because it feels really weird but is to examine who you are jealous of. If we tone it down, we can say, who do you admire? But frankly, something that's even more helpful is like, no, who are you jealous of?

Who is it out there in the world, whether it's someone you know or a famous person, where you're like, oh my god, I wish I could have their life?And you can peel it back. What is it about it? Is it that they have really succeeded in a particular genre? Is it that, oh my gosh, I'd really love to be interviewed on this particular NPR show or this BBC show? That's sort of a bucket list goal.

Or maybe it's some aspect of their lifestyle, like, wow, I wish I could live in the country and not have to commute to a day job, or whatever it is.

We often have trouble envisioning things until we see someone else doing it. And so seeing what's causing the tripwire in your brain of like, ‘wow, I wish that could be me, I wish I could do that' is really useful evidence for yourself. It's the trail of breadcrumbs that enables you to figure out what would be compelling for you.

And then finally, something that I am always a really big fan of is trying to analyze what is the thing that if you did it now would make everything else easier.

Is there something that could be a kind of foundational activity that will enable all the kinds of downstream things that you hope to have happen?

Oftentimes, for me, for instance, with the clients that I work with, people come in and often their starting point is that they want to write a book, which that was the case for me too. I wanted to write a book because I wanted to write a book. That has just been my goal since I was a kid.

But the truth is, if you do certain other steps before writing the book, and in the case of authors or executives or entrepreneurs that I work with, it is writing for high-profile business publications.

If you do that before you write the book, it makes everything downstream easier, including getting the book deal, including being able to publicize the book when it's out, including landing interviews of the people you want to interview for your book, et cetera, et cetera.

So that's often a sort of first domino that I think can be useful. And so asking yourself what is that first domino is not a bad question to ponder.

Joanna: Yeah, I completely get that. And as you said, if you did it now, would it make everything easier?

And I was just thinking there —email list. Starting an email list early, I started mine in 2008.

By starting my email list back then, it makes it far easier to sell books now. You've got one as well, right? I mean, we have to do some of these things knowing that there'll be nobody on our list, or no one listening to our podcast, or nobody knows who we are now.

But if we don't start it now, it's that whole planting a tree thing, right? If you haven't done it yet, you've got to do it today.

Dorie: Yeah, you're so right, Joanna. I mean, most people who are writing books, they don't want to grow an email list. There's like literally zero people in the world for whom growing an email list is the dream that they've held in their heart. It's the instrumental thing that we have to do.

But yet, to your point, it is something that if you work on it now, like future you in five years is going to be like, wow, thanks for doing that. That was really awesome. Good job.

So I'm always very interested in the question of ‘what is it that we can do that will please future you?'Joanna: That's a great way of doing it. I mean, there's so many things like fitness and health and stuff like that. But that's why it's so hard.

I mean, there's some psychology studies out there where they age people, they artificially age you and show you a picture of you when you're like 65, and then say, “would you like to put money into your pension, little 22 year old?” And far more people put money into a pension when they can look at a physically aged version of themselves. It’s just human brains just find that hard, right?

Dorie: Yeah, I mean, studies have shown that essentially people view their future self as literally a different person. So it's like, well, who cares? You know, who's that jerk?

Joanna: Yeah, I'll probably be dead! People say that too. And I'm like, but what if you're not?

Dorie: Exactly.

Joanna: I wanted to ask you about publishing, in particular, because the book is the long game and long-term thinking, and yet publishing itself has this kind of ridiculous model focused on bestseller lists, on spike sales — traditional publishing in particular, independent publishing is different — but this sort of idea that if you don't sell lots in the first month or so, you're not successful.

So how can authors, in particular, think about the ‘long game' of a creative career when there's so much focus on short term spikes/launches/lists?Dorie: Well, I think this is a really important question. Because you're right, there is such an unhealthy focus and emphasis on bestseller lists.

And it's interesting, because even in the popular imagination, if people think you're good or if they somehow think you have stature, they will often call you a best-selling author, whether you are or not, which is interesting. I mean, I know you actually are.

I've now done four books, three of them, my first three books, were not bestsellers. I mean, I wish they were, but as you know, it's very hard to have a best seller. Because all it means is that you have been able to sell a certain threshold, let's call it generally a minimum of 5000, sometimes depending on the list, 10,000 or 15,000, within a given calendar week. And if you don't do that, no matter how well your book does over time, you are not in fact a best-selling author.

I'm not talking about Amazon bestsellers, which as we know, can be gamed up the wazoo, but I'm talking about the more official lists. Finally, my recent book, The Long Game, was able to be a Wall Street Journal bestseller. But that was a process of about a decade of brand building and list building to enable me to reach the point where I was able to do that.

But it's really interesting, because for a long time, people were like, she's a best-selling author. And I have to be like, actually, technically, no. It is really interesting. But I think you're exactly right. I mean, it depends in the end, of course, why you are writing the book.

If you are a businessperson, which again, primarily the group of authors that I'm working with are entrepreneurs or executives. In general, yes, they want to write a great book. Yes, they would like it to be a bestseller.

Ultimately, the goal is typically that they want it to drive business or to drive professional opportunities for them. And so if that's the goal, it's really important to look beyond the bestseller status.

I mean, yeah, it's a nice piece of social proof, but you want to continue promoting this book on an ongoing basis.

It becomes your calling card, it becomes the thing that that draws people to you. And however much money you make from the book, it is almost guaranteed, you know, aside from just a tiny, tiny slice of the population, that you will make much more money on the back end of your book, rather than the front end.

So rather than money from people literally buying your book, if you were a businessperson, you'll make a lot more from the speeches, from the consulting engagements, from the coaching engagements, etc., that result from inquiries that are driven by your book. So keeping that in mind is a really important perception shift.

Joanna: Yes, and I think this is really important. And I often stress there are multiple streams of income that business and entrepreneurial writers have. You mentioned their speaking, and I know you're a high-profile speaker, often on big stages.

Do you feel that more highly paid speaking gigs become easier if you have a traditionally published book? Or do you think these conferences and events are open to independent authors or self-published authors?

Dorie: I think with speaking, as with all aspects of publishing, the difference between commercially published and self-published or hybrid is eroding every day. I mean, it used to be a decade ago when I first published my first book, Reinventing You. It was a really stark difference in terms of how it was perceived, in terms of the cache. It was really important to be commercially published.

Now, there are so many people who have chosen for a variety of reasons, many of which the reason is not that they couldn't cut it with a commercial publisher, which is how it used to be viewed.

Instead, they're proactively making the choice to be self-published or hybrid-published because they want a faster release schedule, or because they want higher royalty rates, or they have a niche audience where it's really important for them to publish a book in terms of establishing market credibility, but a mainstream publisher wouldn't be interested because they think it's too small of an audience, you know, whatever it is.

I think that the distance has really diminished. And so yeah, it probably is still a little helpful to have a commercially published book when it comes to speaking, but I think that the distinction is much less.

And I think that if you are someone who is a self-published or hybrid published author, and you have other forms of social proof as well, to validate that you are a legitimate expert or legitimate professional in your field, then I don't see any problems at all in terms of landing fairly high profile speaking engagements.

Joanna: I was at a WIRED conference the other week, and every speaker had a book, and every book was traditionally published. Which I kind of find hilarious, because WIRED is supposed to be a future-focused publication, but they are actually traditional publishing. It's really funny.

But I also wanted to ask you, because you do write quite a bit in the book about your own book process and getting published and some of those challenges, and obviously, again, you have lots of ideas.

How do you decide on a nonfiction topic to write about, in terms of tips for people listening who either want a traditional publishing deal, or they want to focus the book more as like a business card, or as the beginning of an entrepreneurial thing?

How do you decide what book you're going to write? Or is it just what you ‘feel' like writing?Dorie: Well, I'll answer the question two ways. One way is the way that I would advise people to do it, which is if you want to be hyper strategic, I have not always been hyper-strategic myself, but if that is your goal, then ideally you want to tie the book content as closely as possible to the services that you provide.

So the ideal thing, which of course does not always happen, but in our dream world, it is you write a book, somebody reads the book, they say, “oh my god, this is exactly what I need. I need to reach out right this minute and hire this person to do this thing for me that she has written about.”

So if you can kind of create that, where the book touches on the themes where you help people and the thing you're talking about is exactly what you do, then that's the best pathway. It's just kind of 200-300 pages of indoctrinating somebody into trusting you and knowing that whatever service you're providing is exactly what they need.

So that's a great way to think about it if you're somebody who, for instance, runs a consultancy or something like that. What I have personally done is a little bit different, but I think still interesting and valuable, although perhaps less immediately remunerative.

I wrote books that were the things that I wanted to learn about. So I used it as kind of a learning and research project. Specifically, I'm talking about my book Stand Out and in Entrepreneurial You.

Reinventing You was a book that I wrote because I had written a blog post for Harvard Business Review about it. And essentially, that was the post that caught on, and there just opened up an opportunity for me and I seized it. So I was happy to write a book about it, but I didn't really need to write a book about it.

Stand Out was a book about me trying to understand how someone becomes a thought leader in their industry, because that was what I was attempting to do. And I wanted to have an excuse to interview a lot of really smart people about their journey.

And then Entrepreneurial You is a book that I wrote, again, for my own knowledge and benefit, because I wanted to answer the question, how do you monetize thought leadership?

Once you've gained a certain level of respect in an industry, what can you do to create multiple revenue streams and really be able to leverage the value of the brand that you've created?

So I wrote Entrepreneurial You to answer that question and to have the opportunity to connect with a lot of smart people on that. And then The Long Game was a little bit different. It was not so much that I wanted to learn something per se, but it was something that I was rolling around in my head. And it was a philosophical question that I wanted to ponder and I thought might be helpful to other people.

Joanna: Yes, I write because I want to either learn something entirely, or just codify what I've learned about something.

I was getting loads of questions about podcasting and audiobooks a few years ago, so I wrote a book on audio books and podcasting so that it answered all the questions. But I'm like you too, it's kind of curiosity driven.

I did want to come to your questions in the book, and I'm pretty obsessed with the future of creativity, so this question in the book has really resonated with me, which is:

What are my hypotheses about the future, and how do they inform my actions today? So I wondered about what are some of yours. So given that we're thinking about the long game and you mentioned before how fast things are changing.

So what are some of your hypotheses? And how were you changing your actions?

Dorie: Well, I'll start by answering the question, actually, with a past hypothesis of mine that relates to publishing. So about a decade ago when I was getting started, I landed my contract for my first book in 2011. I had a hypothesis that the commercial book publishing industry was going to completely collapse within a decade.

I recognized that at that time, as we were discussing, there was still a branding value to having a commercially published book. And I thought, okay, if I've got this contract now, and I'm able to leverage the value of a mainstream publisher, I need to take advantage of that. Because eventually, that's no longer going to be an advantage.

I think that's largely playing out, although it's not that publishing has collapsed per se, but I think it is true that the difference between hybrid and traditional, just most people don't care. They don't know, they don't even see it, you know. So I decided, as a result of that hypothesis, that I was going to write as many books as I could, as quickly as I could, in order to take advantage of that toehold that I had achieved before it collapsed.

And so as a result, I really went on a writing spree. And I published three books within basically a four-year period. 2013 was Reinventing You, 2015 was Stand Out, 2017 was Entrepreneurial You. And I then slowed down the pace.

And so four years later, 2021, I wrote The Long Game. My plan for myself, my strategy has now changed.

I am intending to promote The Long Game for five years. So I have vowed not to come out with another business book until at least 2026 because I really want to be riding this wave.

My actions were very deliberately based around a hypothesis that it was important for me to leverage the advantage that I had managed to attain in breaking in with a commercial publisher, and just creating as much IP as I could as quickly as I could.

Now, I feel like four books in and it's a little bit like diminishing returns, like I don't need to be pumping things out the same way anymore. But I do think it was actually pretty helpful to me early in my career to just create a lot of stuff so that I had a lot of stuff to talk about.

Joanna: So looking ahead, for example, I know the metaverse can be a dirty word for some people, but as a speaker, I find it very interesting. I mean, after we finish recording you do these LinkedIn live things, and like we're all used to doing online presentations and stuff. But let's face it, they're a bit crap. But doing the other thing, going and speaking in a stadium or a theater or whatever, is tiring and all that.

So virtual reality, to me, seems like it may well have a really good application for speaking, education, learning, that kind of thing. And it probably is a decade off, right.

So what are your thoughts on how you might adapt to coming technological changes?Dorie: The thing, Joanna, that really has been fascinating me lately is less so the metaverse, I mean, I agree with you and I agree with Mark Zuckerberg that eventually it's going to be a thing. But quite clearly, it's not a thing this minute. I think it's probably not going to be a thing next year either. It is a long-term play.

But AI is really interesting to me, in particular, GPT-3, and DALL-E as well.

Joanna: We've done shows on both of those things. So yeah, people know what they are. Yeah. I'm glad you're interested in those. Yeah, amazing stuff, right?

Dorie: It is so interesting. And to the point about what is a competitive advantage you have and being mindful where that advantage might erode. Something that I think is both interesting and concerning, is that AI pretty well can — and I mean, give it another year or two and I think it will really, really can — write all the articles for us.

It used to be a few years ago, it was like, oh, you know, AI is taking the job of like a reporter because it could take scoreboard statistics from like a baseball game and write up an article based on the data of what happened in the baseball game. You know, okay, great, that's easy.

But now you can basically say, “hey, GPT-3, can you write a blog post in the voice of Joanna Penn, talking about the five top mistakes that rookie writers make?” And it will do it better than you.

Joanna: Oh, yes, it can totally do that. Absolutely. And also you, I mean, you're the same. Both of us have put out a lot of content over more than a decade. So it probably could just write in our voices.

Dorie: Yeah. 100%. And so on one hand, I feel like there is an advantage in the sense that “I” could create a lot more content. Because I've done the sort of groundwork of putting my voice out there, GPT-3 can kind of take it and run with it and create something that is “mine.” I say an air quotes, but it's not really mine, because like anybody can create that. So I don't really know how that's going to play out.

There was an observation back in the 70s by a Carnegie Mellon professor, that in a world where information is abundant, something else becomes scarce.

And that thing is attention. And that has played out a lot over the past 50 years. And so the question that I always like to ponder, which I don't yet know the answer to, is —

When the ability to write high-quality articles quickly becomes abundant, what is the thing that becomes scarce? Something will, and that's the thing that's going to be valuable. That's the thing that's getting monetizable. But we have to figure out what that is.

Joanna: Yes, I think we're already at the point where curation is so important. And this show, for example, a lot of people will be listening to your interview, but also a lot of people come along just for the introduction, where I curate the news, and a lot of its AI news as well in the creative sphere. And so the curation of the massive amount of information out there is important.

But I totally agree with you, and to me, it's also not despairing about technology, but taking advantage of technology as a lever and using it for our creative purposes. So for example, the image that will go on this blog post that accompanies the podcast is generated by Midjourney, which you probably know is AI art generation.

So instead of stock photos, which I've used for more than a decade, I now generate each post myself because I find it super fun. So it's incorporating AI into our creative work rather than running away from is my thought.

Dorie: Yes, absolutely. And of course, there were recent headlines about the guy who won an art competition with his Midjourney art, and the scandal of, oh my goodness, did he “really do it?” You know, what does it mean for art if you're able to tell an AI to do something and then it does it. And it's rather philosophical, right?

Like if you're an artist who has assistants that help you with welding a sculpture, we've sort of determined that like, okay, well, they did it because they told them what to do. But somehow, we're still feeling different about AI. So watching those things play out and shake out, I think is really going to be fascinating.

Joanna: And then one final question, because we're almost out of time. But you mentioned that you're going to promote The Long Game for five years, which I think is brilliant. You've got this great book, so promote it.

What are you doing for book promotion and marketing?Dorie: Absolutely. Well, certainly around the launch, I mean, I did do all the maniacal things that that one does. A million podcasts, in my case, for the last three books that I've done, I've managed to do about 160 podcasts a piece for each of the three launches. So over the past, I'm going to call it about eight years, I've done over 700 podcasts. So there's a lot of them.

But a mistake I think that I made was that in past launches I became so burned out from doing 160, as you can imagine, I mean, like yap, yap, yap. Like you think you're the most boring person in the world after that. It's like no more, I can't take it. So after those launches, I just like stopped for like a year, I'm just like, no, I'm done, I'm done. I can't do any podcasts.

What I've decided to do is, you know, you have to keep fanning the flame, so one thing that I am doing is I have committed to do two podcasts per week, basically over the five year period, which I think is a reasonable pace that I can maintain without making myself insane. And so continuing that, but also just being mindful.

Instead of like rushing to write the next book or rushing to the next thing, it's continuing to do things like write articles and try to place them in high-profile publications that deal with the themes in The Long Game around long-term thinking and strategic thinking and things like that. It's continuing to give talks about it.

I mean, essentially, the biggest thing is just not writing another book so that I'm not competing with myself and stepping on my toes about like, well, here's another thing I could do.

Joanna: That's brilliant. I think that's going to give people a lot to think about.

So where can people find you and your books and everything you do online?Dorie: Joanna, thank you so much. So the new book is called The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World. And if folks want to learn more about me and get a bunch of free articles and resources and things like that, my website is DorieClark.com.

And you can actually download a free strategic thinking self-assessment based on The Long Game that helps you apply the principles of strategic thinking to your own life and career and your writing career at DorieClark.com/TheLongGame.

Joanna: Brilliant. Well, thanks so much for your time, Dorie. That was great.

Dorie: Thank you. Great speaking with you.

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"We’re a mission-driven team that wants to serve the environment and businesses as well. We’re looking at business impact and expertise, so we like to hire engineers who have the required skill set of climate modeling, remote sensing, machine learning and platform engineering and who also resonate with our mission.

There’s an increased drive across junior and mid-level engineers to work in a climate-related field and to use technology to combat the climate crisis. There has never been a better time to get into the field of climate, and it benefits both parties. The companies are very lucky to have access to this kind of talent, and engineers who want to work in this field can choose from a lot of jobs recently."

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Podcast: Product Thinking (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Answering Questions About Working with Product Owners, the Future of Product Management, and Educating Your CEO
Pub date: 2023-02-22

In this Dear Melissa segment, Melissa Perri answers subscribers’ questions about how product managers and product owners should work together, product management trend predictions and what the future of product might look like, and what to do when your CEO is misdirecting blame toward product management.

Q: You've been involved in product management for a while, and I would love to see where you feel the evolution of product management is headed.

A: I think it's really hard to talk about where PM is going because it's still not fully functioning in many companies yet
I'll tell you some of the trends that I am seeing, though.

Q: My organization is scaling, and now we have product managers and product owners. How should we work together?

A: You know that I’m not a fan of the split of product managers and product owners- here’s why.

Q: Our CEO is putting the blame on product management because not as much as we want is being delivered. How can we change the perception that product management is the cause without throwing our devs under the bus?

A: We're going to start from a place of everybody is trying their best. You need to educate the CEO about what the problems are, and you need to do that as a united front. Here’s how to do that.

Resources

Melissa Perri on LinkedIn | Twitter

MelissaPerri.com | CPO Accelerator

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Podcast: Semaphore Uncut
Episode: Adib Saikali on Protecting Your Software Development Workflow
Pub date: 2023-02-07

Continuous Integration (CI) pipelines enable software development teams to build and test code quickly and efficiently. However, the need for robust security measures becomes increasingly important.

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Podcast: Semaphore Uncut
Episode: Alan Page on Testing: From Past to Future
Pub date: 2023-02-21

Software testing has undergone a significant transformation in recent years. It has evolved from being an isolated, time-consuming activity performed at the end of the development cycle, to an integrated and ongoing process tied to customer success. Various factors have driven this shift, including the rise of agile development methodologies and the need for faster and more efficient testing processes.

In this episode, we’ll explore, alongside Unity VP of Engineering Services Alan Page, the evolution of software testing and its impact on the software development industry, and discuss how testing practices have changed the way software is built and delivered.

Listen to the full episode or read the transcript at

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Podcast: Coaching Real Leaders (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How Do I Adapt My Leadership Style as My Team Grows?
Pub date: 2022-11-14

He’s had fast success in a sales-driven industry and enjoys leading his expanding team. But as his responsibilities grow, he needs to learn how to delegate to his team more and empower his direct reports. Host Muriel Wilkins coaches him through how to adapt his leadership style as his team grows.

Further reading:

  • Adapt Your Leadership Style to Your Situation
  • How to Develop Your Leadership Style
  • As Your Team Gets Bigger, Your Leadership Style Has to Adapt
  • What Makes a Great Leader?

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Episode: How Do I Overcome My Disillusionment with the Executive Team?
Pub date: 2022-11-28

He sees himself as a servant leader and enjoys building and supporting his teams. But over time, he’s seen behavior from more senior leaders that he doesn’t always agree with, and it’s making him feel disengaged at work. Host Muriel Wilkins coaches him through how he can respond when executives don’t model the company’s values.

Further reading:

  • Employees Are Sick of Being Asked to Make Moral Compromises
  • 6 Ways to Disagree with Senior Management
  • When You Have to Carry Out a Decision You Disagree With
  • Check Yourself Before You Disagree with Senior Management
  • Dealing with Disappointment

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Episode: How Do I Ask for Help?
Pub date: 2022-12-12

She’s carved out a unique role for herself, which she loves, but worries that the pace of work is unsustainable. As she thinks about the next step in her career, she realizes that it will require her to lean on the help of others — something she’s not used to doing. Host Muriel Wilkins coaches her through how to get the support she needs to move forward in her career.

Further reading:

  • To Take Charge of Your Career, Start by Building Your Tribe
  • How to Ask for Help at Work
  • The Best Leaders Aren’t Afraid to Ask for Help

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Podcast: Byen forfra
Episode: Taber du pusten pÄ storrumskontoret?
Pub date: 2022-09-14

Er et storrumskontor den bedste ramme for dit arbejde? Vores arbejdsliv er under forandring, og isÊr coronanedlukningerne har rejst spÞrgsmÄlet om, hvordan vi trives bedst i arbejdslivet. Lyt med pÄ MorgenDAC LIVE, hvor Carsten Primdahl, arkitekt og stifter af CEBRA og Janne Gleerup, der forsker i arbejdsliv ved RUC, er dagens gÊster og diskuterer, hvad vi kan forvente af fremtidens arbejdsplads. Anne Katrine Harders er vÊrt.

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Podcast: Engineering Culture by InfoQ (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Developer Experience is a Critical Issue for Organisations Today
Pub date: 2022-12-11

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Abi Noda about the costs of poor developer experience, why it is a crucial issue for organisations to address, a framework for assessing developer experience and ways it can be improved.Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3VRHSt4Subscribe to our newsletters:- The InfoQ weekly newsletter: bit.ly/24x3IVq- The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/Upcoming Events:QCon London:qconlondon.com/- March 27-29, 2023QCon San Francisco:qconsf.com/- Oct 2-6, 2023Follow InfoQ:- Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq- Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8- Instagram: www.instagram.com/infoqdotcom/- Youtube: www.youtube.com/infoq

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Episode: Stop Having Meetings that Suck - Patricia Kong on Why Facilitation Should be a Core Competency
Pub date: 2022-12-18

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Patricia Kong of Scrum.org about the importance and value of facilitation skills for collaborative teams.Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3WtFKHSSubscribe to our newsletters:- The InfoQ weekly newsletter: bit.ly/24x3IVq- The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/Upcoming Events:QCon London:qconlondon.com/- March 27-29, 2023QCon San Francisco:qconsf.com/- Oct 2-6, 2023Follow InfoQ:- Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq- Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8- Instagram: www.instagram.com/infoqdotcom/- Youtube: www.youtube.com/infoq

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Episode: People Matter Most in Organisational Change
Pub date: 2023-01-06

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Simon Powers about why organisational change is hard, putting people first, the need for emergence rather than recipes and his new book Change: A practitioners guide to Enterprise Agile CoachingRead a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3IoLONVSubscribe to our newsletters:- The InfoQ weekly newsletter: bit.ly/24x3IVq- The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/Upcoming Events:QCon London: qconlondon.com/- March 27-29, 2023QCon San Francisco: qconsf.com/- Oct 2-6, 2023Follow InfoQ:- Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq- Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8- Instagram: www.instagram.com/infoqdotcom/- Youtube: www.youtube.com/infoq

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Episode: Empowering Women in STEM & Building Inclusive Teams through Cooking
Pub date: 2023-01-18

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Kimberley Fox about her work empowering women in STEM, helping create cultures where women feel welcome and includedRead a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3iQdyAGSubscribe to our newsletters:- The InfoQ weekly newsletter: bit.ly/24x3IVq- The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/Upcoming Events:QCon London: qconlondon.com/- March 27-29, 2023QCon San Francisco: qconsf.com/- Oct 2-6, 2023Follow InfoQ:- Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InfoQdotcom- Instagram: www.instagram.com/infoqdotcom/- Youtube: www.youtube.com/infoq- Mastodon: https://techhub.social/@infoq

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Episode: Delivering Great Software and Building Great Teams at CircleCI
Pub date: 2023-01-29

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Rob Zuber, CTO of Circle CI, about what it takes to build and deliver great software and build great teamsRead a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3Y7XqtqSubscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: https://www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=architectnl Upcoming Events:QCon London https://qconlondon.com/?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=qlondon23 March 27-29, 2023QCon New Yorkhttps://qconnewyork.com/?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=qny23 June 13-15, 2023QCon San Francisco:https://qconsf.com/?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=qsf23 Oct 2-6, 2023Follow InfoQ:- Mastodon: https://techhub.social/@infoq - Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq- Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8- Instagram: @infoqdotcom- Youtube: www.youtube.com/infoqWrite for InfoQ- Join a community of experts.- Increase your visibility.- Grow your career.https://www.infoq.com/write-for-infoq/?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=writeforinfoq

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Podcast: Leading The Future of Work With Jacob Morgan (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Why Former Home Depot CEO Frank Blake Doesn’t Like 360 Reviews
Pub date: 2022-12-12

Frank Blake, the former chairman and CEO of The Home Depot. Prior to this he worked for the U.S. Department of Energy and General Electric. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Delta Air Lines. Frank also spent several years working for the Bush White House administration.

In today’s episode Frank shares his experiences with being vulnerable, how he managed his role as CEO of Home Depot, a better approach to 360 interviews, and his view of the world of work in today’s world.


This episode is sponsored by Cornerstone.

Cornerstone combines best-in-class learning with growth-centric talent capabilities and the power of AI to make talent leaders champions of engagement, growth, and transformation. Learn more about how Cornerstone TXP can help you build your future ready workforce at https://bit.ly/FOWCornerstone


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Over the last 15 years, I’ve had the privilege of speaking and working with some of the world's top leaders. Here are 15 of the best leadership lessons that I learned from the CEOs of organizations like Netflix, Honeywell, Volvo, Best Buy, The Home Depot, and others. I hope they inspire you and give you things you can try in your work and life. Get the PDF here.


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Podcast: Leading The Future of Work With Jacob Morgan (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How To Create Boundaries in a Hybrid World
Pub date: 2022-12-14

Boundaries are crucial in a hybrid world

As flexible work becomes a reality, one of the most important things we need to do is to set boundaries with our leaders, letting them know what's acceptable and what is not.

Connectivity does not imply availability.


This episode is sponsored by Cornerstone.

Cornerstone combines best-in-class learning with growth-centric talent capabilities and the power of AI to make talent leaders champions of engagement, growth, and transformation. Learn more about how Cornerstone TXP can help you build your future ready workforce at https://bit.ly/FOWCornerstone


Get ad-free listening, early access to new episodes and bonus episodes with the subscription version of the show The Future of Work Plus. To start it will only be available on Apple Podcasts and it will cost $4.99/month or $49.99/year, which is the equivalent to the cost of a cup of coffee.

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Over the last 15 years, I’ve had the privilege of speaking and working with some of the world's top leaders. Here are 15 of the best leadership lessons that I learned from the CEOs of organizations like Netflix, Honeywell, Volvo, Best Buy, The Home Depot, and others. I hope they inspire you and give you things you can try in your work and life. Get the PDF here.


Get the latest insights on the Future of Work, Leadership and employee experience through my daily newsletter at futureofworknewsletter.com

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Podcast: Leading The Future of Work With Jacob Morgan (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How All Leaders Can Embrace the VC Mindset to Evaluate Ideas
Pub date: 2022-12-19

Sebastian Mallaby who has written several books including The Man Who Knew, More Money Than God, and his most recent book called The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future. He is also a senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations.

In today’s episode Sebastian shares how he’s spent a lot of time exploring the world of venture capital, start-ups, and entrepreneurship, and it turns out that there’s a lot of lessons and ideas we can bring from that world into the more traditional environment. These include how to think about and approach risk, developing innovation ecosystems, dealing with failure, and when creating an entrepreneurial culture can be a bad thing.


This episode is sponsored by Cornerstone.

Cornerstone combines best-in-class learning with growth-centric talent capabilities and the power of AI to make talent leaders champions of engagement, growth, and transformation. Learn more about how Cornerstone TXP can help you build your future ready workforce at https://bit.ly/FOWCornerstone


Get ad-free listening, early access to new episodes and bonus episodes with the subscription version of the show The Future of Work Plus. To start it will only be available on Apple Podcasts and it will cost $4.99/month or $49.99/year, which is the equivalent to the cost of a cup of coffee.

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Over the last 15 years, I’ve had the privilege of speaking and working with some of the world's top leaders. Here are 15 of the best leadership lessons that I learned from the CEOs of organizations like Netflix, Honeywell, Volvo, Best Buy, The Home Depot, and others. I hope they inspire you and give you things you can try in your work and life. Get the PDF here.


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Podcast: Leading The Future of Work With Jacob Morgan (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Why Physical Space Matters For Employee Experience
Pub date: 2023-01-11

If you were to write down your corporate values on a piece of paper and walk around your space, would you see these values come to life?

In the eyes of your employees, your physical space acts as a symbol that represents what your organization stands for.

If your employees are on the frontlines, the customer experience starts to mimic the employee experience because that is where employees are working.

The physical space is 30% of the overall employee experience and should reflect the values of the organization.


Get ad-free listening, early access to new episodes and bonus episodes with the subscription version of the show The Future of Work Plus. To start it will only be available on Apple Podcasts and it will cost $4.99/month or $49.99/year, which is the equivalent to the cost of a cup of coffee.

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Over the last 15 years, I’ve had the privilege of speaking and working with some of the world's top leaders. Here are 15 of the best leadership lessons that I learned from the CEOs of organizations like Netflix, Honeywell, Volvo, Best Buy, The Home Depot, and others. I hope they inspire you and give you things you can try in your work and life. Get the PDF here.


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Podcast: Leading The Future of Work With Jacob Morgan (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: What Can Leaders Learn From Teenagers
Pub date: 2023-01-18

Have you ever noticed that when we have a problem with technology, we often turn to our kids?

In today's world, every company is a technology company. That means that every leader needs to be a technology-driven leader.

This doesn’t mean you should learn how to create your own AI or be able to build your own blockchain.

But you need to understand the different technologies, how they might impact your business, team, and career, and where the potential opportunities might be.

You need to master the skill of the technology teenager.

You need to embrace technology.


Get ad-free listening, early access to new episodes and bonus episodes with the subscription version of the show The Future of Work Plus. To start it will only be available on Apple Podcasts and it will cost $4.99/month or $49.99/year, which is the equivalent to the cost of a cup of coffee.

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Over the last 15 years, I’ve had the privilege of speaking and working with some of the world's top leaders. Here are 15 of the best leadership lessons that I learned from the CEOs of organizations like Netflix, Honeywell, Volvo, Best Buy, The Home Depot, and others. I hope they inspire you and give you things you can try in your work and life. Get the PDF here.


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Episode: How to Navigate Inflection Points for Career and Personal Growth, According to Best-selling Author Rita McGrath
Pub date: 2023-01-23

Rita McGrath is a best-selling author and long-time professor at Columbia Business School. She received the #1 award in strategy from Thinkers50 and is one of the top 10 management thinkers in the world. When it comes to strategy and innovation you won’t find anyone smarter than Rita.

In today’s discussion we look at what Elon Musk is doing with Twitter and if it’s a good idea, the current strategy for Meta and if they are on the wrong track, what really happened to Kodak, and how to identify and act on personal inflection points.


Get ad-free listening, early access to new episodes and bonus episodes with the subscription version of the show The Future of Work Plus. To start it will only be available on Apple Podcasts and it will cost $4.99/month or $49.99/year, which is the equivalent to the cost of a cup of coffee.

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Over the last 15 years, I’ve had the privilege of speaking and working with some of the world's top leaders. Here are 15 of the best leadership lessons that I learned from the CEOs of organizations like Netflix, Honeywell, Volvo, Best Buy, The Home Depot, and others. I hope they inspire you and give you things you can try in your work and life. Get the PDF here.


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Podcast: Leading The Future of Work With Jacob Morgan (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Do You Have To Love Your Job?
Pub date: 2023-01-25

I don’t like every part of my job.

I don’t like if I'm working with a difficult client, don't get a speaking gig that I was excited for, or am working on a project I don’t like.

But that doesn’t mean I don’t love my job.

It’s ok to not like some parts of your job.

You don’t need to love every minute of your job. It’s ok to have bad days where you're frustrated, feel a little bit disengaged, or are tired.


Get ad-free listening, early access to new episodes and bonus episodes with the subscription version of the show The Future of Work Plus. To start it will only be available on Apple Podcasts and it will cost $4.99/month or $49.99/year, which is the equivalent to the cost of a cup of coffee.

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Over the last 15 years, I’ve had the privilege of speaking and working with some of the world's top leaders. Here are 15 of the best leadership lessons that I learned from the CEOs of organizations like Netflix, Honeywell, Volvo, Best Buy, The Home Depot, and others. I hope they inspire you and give you things you can try in your work and life. Get the PDF here.


Get the latest insights on the Future of Work, Leadership and employee experience through my daily newsletter at futureofworknewsletter.com

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Podcast: The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: #146 Barbara Tversky: Action Shapes Thought
Pub date: 2022-09-06

My guest today is acclaimed psychologist and longtime Stanford University professor Barbara Tversky who calls on her nearly 50 years in the field of cognitive psychology for an in-depth discussion about how our minds work.

We discuss the Nine Laws of Cognition, why action shapes thought, how the language we use changes what we think, tactics to communicate better on Zoom, why she dove into the work of Leonardo da Vinci, when to use charts and when to avoid them, the importance of perspective taking, learned knowledge vs. earned knowledge, and so much more.

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Episode: #147 Reid Hoffman: Better Decisions, Fewer Mistakes
Pub date: 2022-09-20

Few figures have shaped the way we think about business over the past 20 years more than Reid Hoffman. The co-founder of LinkedIn and former PayPal executive is also a wildly successful venture capitalist, author and podcaster, but he didn’t get to his place as a Silicon Valley giant without making plenty of crucial decisions. On this episode Hoffman discusses lessons learned from decades spent as a hands-on operator and investor, including what he knows about scaling that others miss, the three principles of decision making, how to constantly evolve your learning pattern, and why the best leaders adapt to the crisis at hand. Hoffman is perhaps best known for co-founding the professional networking site LinkedIn, which he started in 2003 and later sold for a reported $26.2 billion to Microsoft in 2016. Prior to founding LinkedIn, Hoffman was one of the first employees at PayPal, where he served as an executive vice president. He is also a partner at the venture capital firm Greylock Partners, an investor in Airbnb, the author of a series of successful business books including Masters of Scale, and the host of the podcast of the same name.

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Podcast: The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: #148 Kenneth Stanley: Set The Right Objectives
Pub date: 2022-10-04

Artificial intelligence researcher and author Kenneth Stanley has argued that “as soon as you create an objective, you ruin your ability to reach it.” So what should you consider when thinking about your objectives, and what will set you up for success? On this episode Stanley discusses how to set the right objectives for your life, why we’re too tied to accomplishments, what role accountability plays in our education system, the value of peer review, why transformative innovations are always counter intuitive, and so much more. Stanley is the co–author of Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective, as well as the former Head of Core AI Research at Uber AI and the Open-Endedness Team Leader at OpenAI. He has also served as the Charles Millican Professor in Computer Science at University of Central Florida.

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Podcast: The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: #150 TKP Insights: Making (Even) Better Decisions
Pub date: 2022-10-25

This episode is packed with wisdom from previous guests on the art of making better decisions.

We discuss the three types of decision-makers, how to control your emotions when making decisions, why it’s crucial to look at every decision differently, the processes for coming to the right decision, and how to learn from your mistakes when you get it wrong.

The guests on this episode are author Ventakesh Rao (Episode 7), psychologist, author and professional poker player Maria Konnikova (Episode 89), Stripe co-founder Patrick Collison (Episode 32), cognitive-behavioral decision science author and professional poker player Annie Duke (Episode 37), and Shopify co-founder Tobi Lutke (Episode 41). Transcript: https://fs.blog/knowledge-project-podcast-transcripts/tkp-insights-decision-making/ --

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Episode: #151 Alan Mulally: The Power Of Working Together
Pub date: 2022-11-01

Widely regarded as one of the top business leaders of his generation, Alan Mulally joins the show to discuss the formation of his leadership strategy and how you can apply his lessons to your life and business. On this episode Mulally breaks down the principles of how a team can work together toward a larger goal, creating a culture of love by design, the role of the leader, what happens when people opt out of working together, how to use the ideas of working together in your family life, and so much more. Mulally is perhaps best known as the former President and CEO of the Ford Motor Company, which was struggling during the late-2000s recession before Mulally used his teamwork-oriented philosophy to save the company. Under Mulally’s leadership from 2006-14, Ford was the only major car manufacturer to avoid a government bailout, and Mulally was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by Time. Prior to joining Ford, Mulally spent more than three decades at Boeing, where he eventually served as an Executive Vice President and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes. -- Want even more? Members get early access, hand-edited transcripts, member-only episodes, and so much more. Learn more here: https://fs.blog/membership/

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Episode: #152 Tobi LĂŒtke: Calm Progress
Pub date: 2022-11-15

My guest today is Shopify co-founder and CEO Tobi LĂŒtke. We discuss the differences between founders and professional managers, how he’s scaled with Shopify, the constant fight against bureaucracy, how he thinks about innovation in a large company, and how he manages to keep his head when everyone else is losing theirs.

A coder at heart who emigrated from Germany to Canada two decades ago, LĂŒtke co-founded the e-commerce giant Shopify in Ottawa in 2006. The Globe and Mail named LĂŒtke "CEO of the Year" in November 2014, and in May 2021 the company reported that it had more than 1.7 million businesses in approximately 175 countries using its platform. As of July 2022, Shopify is among the top 20 largest publicly traded Canadian companies by market capitalization, and the company’s total revenue for 2021 was $4.611 billion. LĂŒtke previously appeared on Episode 41 of The Knowledge Project.

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Episode: #154 Emily Balcetis: Setting and Achieving Goals
Pub date: 2022-12-13

Social psychologist Emily Balcetis has devoted her career to understanding how people’s perceptions of the world fuel their motivations and life goals. In this episode she goes in-depth on that wealth of research, what she’s learned from studying some of the world’s most successful people and how they set goals, and how you can get better results in life if you change the way you see the world and where you place your focus. Balcetis is an Associate Professor of Psychology at New York University (NYU), focused on how the motivations, emotions, needs, and goals people hold impact the basic ways people perceive, interpret, and ultimately react to information around them. She is also the author of the book Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World, which was released in 2020. -- Want even more? Members get early access, hand-edited transcripts, member-only episodes, and so much more. Learn more here: https://fs.blog/membership/

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Podcast: The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: #157 Carolyn Coughlin: Become A Better Listener
Pub date: 2023-01-24

Acclaimed executive coach and leadership development specialist Carolyn Coughlin calls on more than a decade of experience to help you become a better listener. She goes in-depth on why the language we use with each other and with ourselves is so important, the three different types of listening, the most common skill she teaches that makes an immediate impact, and how to help your kids become better listeners. Coughlin is a co-founder at Cultivating Leadership, a leadership development consultancy firm that helps leaders and organizations grow and lead in the face of complexity, ambiguity, and change. She also spent nine years with leadership consulting firm Kenning Associates and more than five years with McKinsey & Company. --

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Podcast: Schmidt List - Inspiring Leaders (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Build a Successful Product Management Team
Pub date: 2023-02-02

To create a genuinely innovative product management team, you’ll need far more than technical skills.

In this episode, Matt Pacyga and I provide valuable insight into how to effectively source the right mix of talented individuals with diverse backgrounds to create an environment that fosters their success!

Find Matt here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattpacyga/

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Podcast: P3 Dystopia (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Vi jobbar ihjÀl oss
Pub date: 2023-01-20

Arbetsrelaterad stress leder till hundratusentals dödsfall per Är och det vÀntas fortsÀtta öka.

LÄngvarig stress kan orsaka flera olika sjukdomar. HjÀrtinfarkt och stroke, men ocksÄ psykologiska Äkommor som Ängest, tvÄngssyndrom och depression som i vÀrsta fall kan leda till sjÀlvmord. LÄngvarig stress Àr ett ökande problem, och det hÀnger ofta ihop med det allt intensivare moderna arbetslivet.P3 Dystopia reder ut varför vi har mer att göra pÄ jobbet idag, varför Japan Àr ett skrÀckexempel och hur en riktigt dÄlig mellanchef kan göra allt vÀrre.Funderar du eller nÄgon du kÀnner pÄ att ta livet av sig?Kontakta sjÀlvmordslinjen Mind pÄ telefonnummer 90101 eller via deras hemsida http://mind.se. Du kan ocksÄ kontakta Jourhavande medmÀnniska pÄ 08 - 702 16 80, kl. 21-06. Vid akut sjÀlvmordsrisk bör du ringa 112.

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Podcast: Inside Intercom (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 2022 in review: Highlights from this year's best conversations
Pub date: 2022-12-20

Throughout the year, we’ve talked with and learned from industry leaders, experts, and innovators about a multitude of topics: from facing the tech slowdown to the dawn of machine learning, from the trends transforming customer support to using human insight to create memorable experiences.

And so, before we ring out the old and ring in the new, we’ve put together our favorite stories and conversations, insights, and reflections from 2022 in a special end-of-year episode.

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Episode: MadKudu’s co-founder Francis Brero on unlocking the keys of product-led growth
Pub date: 2023-01-12

This week we’re catching up with co-founder and CPO of MadKudu Francis Brero. Just last July, he gathered a group of over 50 growth and marketing leaders to discuss how to leverage product data to scale revenue engines. We dive into his findings with him and talk about the four key ways to scale and monetize product-led growth.

Transcript: https://www.intercom.com/blog/podcasts/madkudus-co-founder-francis-brero-on-unlocking-the-keys-of-product-led-growth/

Listen to Francis' last appearance on the podcast where he spoke about AI can boost your conversational support: https://www.intercom.com/blog/podcasts/madkudus-francis-brero-on-how-ai-can-boost-your-conversational-support/

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Episode: The future of learning: meet the edtech companies leading the way
Pub date: 2023-01-19

From schools adapting to remote learning to music apps sparking creativity, in today’s episode, we'll hear from Intercom's customers at the forefront of edtech about the latest trends and developments. Grab a pen and notebook, or a tablet and stylus, and join us as we take a peek into their world and what the future of education looks like.

Today's guests:

  • Tristram Hewitt, Head of Operations at Outschool
  • Liran Biderman, Head of Customer Experience at Simply
  • Kris Jagasia, Co-founder and CEO of Off2Class
  • Chris Hull, Co-founder and President of Otus

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Podcast: Inside Intercom (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Gainsight PX founder Mickey Alon on using your product as a vehicle for growth
Pub date: 2023-01-26

As soon as a customer buys your solution, the bulk of the customer journey will be inside the product. Are you taking full advantage of it? On this episode we're joined by Gainsight PX CTO and founder Mickey Alon discusses how companies can put products at the forefront of their growth strategy.

Transcript: https://www.intercom.com/blog/podcasts/gainsight-px-founder-mickey-alon-on-product-growth/

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Podcast: Inside Intercom (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Our grand experiment with GPT and generative AI
Pub date: 2023-01-31

In today’s episode, Intercom Co-Founder Des Traynor and Director of Machine Learning Fergal Reid return for round two on ChatGPT – this time to share what we’ve learned in the past weeks of our experiment in harnessing the AI revolution in customer service, where we’re going next, and how it has changed our perception of what’s possible in this space.

Learn more about our new AI features here: https://www.intercom.com/blog/announcing-new-intercom-ai-features/

Read a transcript of this episode here: https://www.intercom.com/blog/podcasts/ai-intercom-inbox/

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Podcast: Inside Intercom (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: GPT is here to stay. Where will it take us?
Pub date: 2023-02-02

In today’s episode, Intercom Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer Des Traynor and Director of Machine Learning Fergal Reid delve into all things GPT – from the skepticism to its role in business communications, from the disruption of creative work to the future of user interfaces.

Learn more about our new AI features here: https://www.intercom.com/blog/announcing-new-intercom-ai-features/

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Podcast: Knowledge at Wharton (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Navigating Microaggressions at Work
Pub date: 2022-11-01

Diversity at Work podcast, Wharton’s Stephanie Creary and two guest experts tackle the thorny issue of microaggressions.

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Podcast: Knowledge at Wharton (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: How Divestiture Can Create Corporate Value
Pub date: 2023-01-13

Divestiture is an important strategy for a company seeking healthy financial growth, one that is often overlooked. In her new book, Wharton’s Emilie Feldman explains why sometimes the best way to add value is through subtraction.

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Podcast: Knowledge at Wharton (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Why Hybrid Work Will Reign in 2023
Pub date: 2023-01-17

Wharton management professor Martine Haas says now that hybrid work has been around for a while, companies need to spend the next year figuring out what works best and refining their policies.

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Podcast: Knowledge at Wharton (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: ChatGPT Passed an MBA Exam. What’s Next?
Pub date: 2023-01-30

Wharton professor Christian Terwiesch analyzes ChatGPT's performance on his exam and why the controversial software has limitless potential to improve education, business, and a range of industries.

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Podcast: At The Table with Patrick Lencioni (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 161. Principle Over Policy
Pub date: 2023-02-01

Too many organizations allow their culture to be affected by their policies, while their policies should instead be informed by their culture. This week, Pat, Cody and Beau discuss the dangers of letting our policies send the wrong message to our employees and customers.

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Podcast: Hacking the Org
Episode: Toli and Andy Norton from Cinch on Team Topologies, Theory of Constraints, and Serverless
Pub date: 2023-01-09

Charles Humble talks to Apostolis Apostolidis (aka Toli) and Andy Norton from Cinch, arguably one of the UKs most successful start-ups.  They discuss: how the company got started, how Team Topologies, the Spotify Model, and the Theory of Constraints influenced how the organisation was designed; building a learning organisation; migrating from Kubernetes to Serverless; and observability and SRE practices at the firm.

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Episode: Adrian Cockcroft on Serverless, Continuous Resilience, Wardley Mapping, Large Memory Systems and Sustainability
Pub date: 2023-02-03

Charles Humble talks to Adrian Cockcroft, ex of AWS, Battery Ventures and Netflix. They discuss: memes in computing, serverless first, chaos and ideas around continuous resilience, strategy and Wardley Mapping, using large hardware such as AWS ultra clusters, and sustainable software.

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Podcast: Product Thinking (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Demystifying Pricing Strategy with Patrick Campbell
Pub date: 2023-02-01

Welcome to another episode of the Product Thinking podcast. This week, host Melissa Perri is joined by Patrick Campbell, CEO of Profitwell. They discuss all things pricing, diving deep into the psychology behind pricing models and how to choose a pricing strategy. Patrick talks about the biggest mistakes businesses make when pricing, when and how often you should be raising your prices, how to align your price changes with your value metrics and communicate those changes to customers, and more.

You’ll hear Melissa and Patrick talk about:

  • Patrick's team developed a financial analytics product and decided to give it away for free in order to get more data and improve their algorithms. 37,000 companies have used it in the past seven years.
  • Patrick's company was acquired by Paddle for $200 million in May 2022, with a mission to grow subscription companies automatically.
  • Pricing is a core competency for a business and should not be treated as a quick task to be done and moved on from. It is the very essence of a business as it represents the value of a product or service and how it is perceived by customers.
  • Businesses should experiment with monetization once per quarter and raise prices once per year.
  • Raising prices too often can lead to customer churn. However, this eventually normalizes as ‘fence-sitting’ customers leave.
  • Make sure your price increase is justified by the value you provide to the customer. Align your pricing with a value metric, such as revenue.
  • Packaging and pricing go hand in hand and can be thought of in terms of charging different prices for different pieces of value of the product.
  • Sustaining a social media platform like Twitter is difficult, and it can be hard to monetize.
  • Adobe's move from selling Photoshop for $1,000 to a subscription model of $32 a month was an "eye-opening" change that allowed for more investment in the product.
  • It's important to get the finance team aligned with the move to a subscription model, as costs will initially go up and revenue will initially go down.
  • Pricing is a whole company problem, not just a product problem.

Resources

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Podcast: Topchefernes strategi med Niels Lunde
Episode: Topchefernes dagsorden 2023: Velkommen til Den Store Volatilitet
Pub date: 2023-01-11

Niels Lunde har besÞg af sin chef, Bjarne Corydon, ansvarshavende chefredaktÞr og adm. direktÞr pÄ BÞrsen. De to forsÞger at give et bud pÄ de fem vigtigste temaer for erhvervslivets beslutningstagere i 2023.

02.30: Indledning: Fra Den Store Moderation til Den Store Volatilitet.06.20: USA vs. Kina: Hvis vi skal finde en lĂžsning, skal vi fĂžrst forstĂ„ problemet.18.26: Teknologi: Alt kan ske, alle er udfordret.35.35: Uforudsigeligheden som nyt vilkĂ„r – to eksempler: Inflation og sĂ„rbarhed.44.35: Ledelse: Ja, v fĂ„r brug for nye kompetencer, men fĂ„r vi ogsĂ„ brug for nye ledere?55.30: Dansk politik: Kravet, hvis den nye regering skal blive en succes.

Producer: Peter-Emil Witt.

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Podcast: Topchefernes strategi med Niels Lunde
Episode: Novo Nordisk: Ingen over, ingen ved siden af
Pub date: 2023-02-02

Selv om regnskabet fra Novo Nordisk er uden nyheder, sÄ er virksomheden sÄ vigtig for Danmark, at regnskabet er ugens vigtigste begivenhed. Niels Lunde forsÞger at blive klogere pÄ Novo Nordisk. HÞr ogsÄ om et giftigt spÞrgsmÄl, som de mÄ stille sig selv hos Coop, og om hvad lukningen af restaurant Noma fortÊller os.

01.37: Novo Nordisk – om at skabe vĂŠrdi ti Ă„r ud i fremtiden. GĂŠst: Journalist Tom Frovst, BĂžrsen.

13.00: Coop – om prisen for at udvise mangel pĂ„ rettidig omhu.

23.50: Noma – om en restaurant, hvor begejstringen for produktet endte med at tage magten fra ledelsen.

Niels Lunde: Novo Nordisk er blevet sÄ vÊrdifuld, at der er noget, som vi bÞr tale om.https://borsen.dk/nyheder/opinion/novo-nordisk-er-blevet-saa-vaerdifuld-at-der-er-noget-som-vi-bor-tale-om?b_source=borsen&b_medium=row_2&b_campaign=list_1

Producer: Mie Hee Christensen.

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Podcast: Semaphore Uncut
Episode: David Heinemeier Hansson on Finding the Right Balance Between Business and Technology
Pub date: 2022-12-13

The prominence of venture capital in the software industry continues to shape how companies grow, set their budget and goals, and model their teams. It even affects how developers perceive their abilities. Nevertheless, Ruby on Rails creator and CTO of 37signals (Basecamp & HEY) David Heinemeier Hansson invites those looking to start a company in the industry to become skeptical of the need for financing and encourages them to apply the practices that have led his (and many others) companies to success.

Listen to the full episode or read the transcript at https://semaphoreci.com/blog/david-heinemeier-hansson

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Podcast: Semaphore Uncut
Episode: Simon Wardley on Improving Business With Maps
Pub date: 2023-01-10

The complexity of business and business processes can pull us away from the big picture. Internal documents, graphs, and other visual representations are there to aid us, but they might not be detailed enough, intuitive, or easy to read. In this regard, Wardley maps are business management tools that help organizations visualize their processes by plotting all their components topologically.

In this episode, researcher Simon Wardley teaches us his mapping technique for making sense of how organizations work and reach their highest potential.

Listen to the full episode or read the transcript at https://semaphoreci.com/blog/wardley-maps

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Podcast: The Work Item - A Career Growth and Exploration Podcast (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: #60 - Defining A Force Multiplier, with Sam Saccone
Pub date: 2022-12-28

When we choose our career path, we often try to optimize for one specific bucket - you’re a product manager, or a project manager, or a UX designer, or any other variation of an expertise area in tech. Sam Saccone defies the expectations of a single role and instead believes in being a “plumber” - doing whatever work is necessary to enable others to do their own version of great work.

I sat down with Sam to learn more about his path to a Senior Staff Engineer at Google, what it means to brute-force your way through problems, and what the best avenues are to become a force multiplier for your team.

You can find Sam on the following sites:

  • 🐘 Mastodon
  • đŸ€ Twitter
  • 📝 Blog

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Podcast: The Work Item - A Career Growth and Exploration Podcast (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: #9 - Interview with Philipp Cannons
Pub date: 2020-07-20

In this episode of The Work Item, we interview Philipp Cannons, CEO and founder of PMFIT.AI - a startup that aims to accelerate product success. Philipp talks about his experience starting a business from scratch and building a deep understanding of large organizations.

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Episode: #5 - Interview with Jin Yang
Pub date: 2020-06-21

A virtual fireside chat with Jin Yang, VP of design at CapitalOne. We discuss leadership, building great teams, and wrap up the show with food place recommendations.

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Podcast: The Work Item - A Career Growth and Exploration Podcast (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: #1 - Remote Work
Pub date: 2020-03-15

In this episode, Courtny Cotten and Den Delimarsky talk about what it takes to work remotely, along with some tips and best practices.

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Podcast: Topchefernes strategi med Niels Lunde
Episode: Roger Martin: Hvis Aristoteles levede i dag, ville han ryste pÄ hovedet af erhvervslivets ledere
Pub date: 2022-12-14

I en uforudsigelig tid bÞr man udfordre sin mÄde at tÊnke pÄ. Men hvordan gÞr man det? Og hvordan ser man nye tendenser og nye muligheder fÞr sine konkurrenter

Niels Lunde taler med forfatter Roger Martin, der netop har udgivet bogen ”A New Way to Think”.

Roger Martin er en af verdens bedste business-tÊnkere. Han er tidligere professor, han skriver fast i Harvard Business Review, han har skrevet en rÊkke strategibÞger, blandt andet Playing to Win, som mange lyttere vil kende, og sÄ har han i mange Är rÄdgivet danske Lego og Kirkbi.

HĂžr Roger Martin:

03.25: Om erhvervslivets vanetÊnkning.06.06: Eksempel 1: Om en overdreven tro pÄ data.11.05: Eksempel 2: Om en forkert forstÄelse af kunder.

17.25: Om tidens uforudsigelighed: Tro ikke, at det er ekstra svÊrt nu. Det har altid vÊret svÊrt.23.45: Om virksomhedernes nye sÄrbarhed: Hvorfor sÄ vi den fÞrst, da det var for sent?37.30: Om topchefers kompetencer: Tro ikke, at du lÊrte det rigtige pÄ studiet. Du har brug for nye kompetencer.

Producer: Peter-Emil Witt.

FÄ Niels Lundes nyhedsbrev. Tilmelding pÄ borsen.dk/nyhedsbreve.

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Podcast: Agile Uprising Podcast (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Real Flow with Brandi Olson
Pub date: 2022-11-20

Break the Burnout Cycle and Unlock High Performance in the New World of Work!

Hosts Andy Cleff, Jay Hrzcko, and Shana Burns chat with organizational agility expert Brandi Olson about her book: Real Flow

We cover a range of topics: Brandi’s inspirations for the book, cognitive science, organizational agility, lean principles, and permaculture.

Listen in and learn how to cultivate an evidence-driven approach to high-performing, agile organizations, with improved employee retention.

Links

  • Brandi’s website, Real Work Done
  • Brandi’s LinkedIn
  • Brandi’s book, Real Flow

Other Books Mentioned

  • If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity

About the Agile Uprising

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Podcast: Agile Uprising Podcast (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Come Fail Away With Me and Paul Tevis
Pub date: 2022-12-04

Not long ago, Chris Murman and Jay Hrcsko recorded a podcast about some of the mistakes or failures Murman has made in his agile journey. Perhaps it wasn't an outright fail, but definitely coaching he wished he could have a do-over. It is part of a larger conversation we have been having at AU for quite some time. We even wish we could host a conference devoted solely to failure bows.

It definitely become a fiery topic since the pandemic to realize the ways of working most held dear weren’t always the case anymore. And yet we hold them as always true. So Murm put the call out on Twitter for someone else to join me in the conversation. Treasured peer and friend Paul Tevis answered the Bat Signal, and we thank him for his bravery.

Join Murman and Tevis as they discuss why it's so tough to discuss failure in an industry that claims to embrace it. What were some moments we wish we could do over again, and why it's important to find those moments? Recognizing the opportunity to use regret is the key to taking huge leaps forward together.

  • If you enjoyed this episode, please give us a review, or a rating, or leave comments on iTunes, Stitcher, or your podcasting platform of choice. It really helps others find us.
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Podcast: Engineering Culture by InfoQ (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Genuine Recognition as a Motivating Driver
Pub date: 2022-10-01

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Dr Natalie Baumgartner of Achievers Workforce Institute about the recently released State of Engagement report, how recognition needs to be far more than just lip service and how managers can engage effectively with their people.Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3y6aUekSubscribe to our newsletters:- The InfoQ weekly newsletter: https://bit.ly/24x3IVq- The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: https://www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/Upcoming Events:QCon San Francisco:https://qconsf.com/- Oct 24-28, 2022- Oct 2-6, 2023QCon Plus online: https://plus.qconferences.com/- Nov 29 - Dec 9, 2022QCon London https://qconlondon.com/- March 26-31, 2023Follow InfoQ:- Twitter: https://twitter.com/InfoQ- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/infoq- Facebook: https://bit.ly/2jmlyG8- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/infoqdotcom/- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/infoq

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Podcast: Engineering Culture by InfoQ (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Introducing the Four-Day Work Week at Uplevel
Pub date: 2022-11-04

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Nicole Stanton of Uplevel about their experience introducing a four-day work week, and how it resulted in higher productivity and higher team engagement. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3fvPxgKSubscribe to our newsletters:- The InfoQ weekly newsletter: bit.ly/24x3IVq- The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/Upcoming Events:QCon Plus online:plus.qconferences.com/- Nov 30 - Dec 8, 2022QCon London:qconlondon.com/- March 26-31, 2023QCon San Francisco:qconsf.com/- Oct 2-6, 2023Follow InfoQ:- Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq- Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8- Instagram: www.instagram.com/infoqdotcom/- Youtube: www.youtube.com/infoq

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Podcast: Engineering Culture by InfoQ (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: What it Takes to be Genuinely Data Driven in Software Engineering
Pub date: 2022-11-13

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke Andrew Lau about thestate of engineering management report, what it takes for organisations to be genuinely datadriven and the measurable benefits that are possible with good data.Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3WWv31jSubscribe to our newsletters:- The InfoQ weekly newsletter: bit.ly/24x3IVq- The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/Upcoming Events:QCon Plus online:plus.qconferences.com/- Nov 30 - Dec 8, 2022QCon London:qconlondon.com/- March 26-31, 2023QCon San Francisco:qconsf.com/- Oct 2-6, 2023Follow InfoQ:- Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq- Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8- Instagram: www.instagram.com/infoqdotcom/- Youtube: www.youtube.com/infoq

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Podcast: Engineering Culture by InfoQ (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Great Management is a Skillset with Huge Impact on Team and Organisation Performance
Pub date: 2022-11-18

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Stefanie Tignor, lead data scientist at Humu about what it take to be a great manager, how great managers show up with their teams and the powerful difference managers make in the organisation. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3Oyv1ctSubscribe to our newsletters:- The InfoQ weekly newsletter: bit.ly/24x3IVq- The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/Upcoming Events:QCon Plus online:plus.qconferences.com/- Nov 30 - Dec 8, 2022QCon London:qconlondon.com/- March 26-31, 2023QCon San Francisco:qconsf.com/- Oct 2-6, 2023Follow InfoQ:- Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq- Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8- Instagram: www.instagram.com/infoqdotcom/- Youtube: www.youtube.com/infoq

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Podcast: Leading The Future of Work With Jacob Morgan (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Three Ts to Putting People First: Trust, Transparency, and Teamwork from Hibob CEO Ronni Zehavi
Pub date: 2022-11-07

Ronni Zehavi, the CEO and Co-founder of HiBob, an HR platform that simplifies people management and modernizes the work experience. Before being the CEO of HiBob, he was an entrepreneur in Residence at the Silicon Valley-based Bessemer Venture Partners. Growing up in Israel, Ronni joined the army at the age of 18, where he became an intelligence officer. After graduating, he got his BA in History and Educational Management from Tel Aviv and a MA in organizational Sociology from Bar-ilan University. Previously, Ronni was the co-founder and CEO of Contendo, which was later acquired by Akamai for $300 million.

In today’s episode Ronni shares his thoughts on quiet quitting, the importance of putting his employees first, and the elements of the three T’s, trust, transparency and teamwork.


This episode is sponsored by Hibob. From creating great employee experiences to bridging the gap with multi-national companies, look to HiBob to help create the future of work in your company. Check out their free guide at www.hibob.com/fow.


Get ad-free listening, early access to new episodes and bonus episodes with the subscription version of the show The Future of Work Plus. To start it will only be available on Apple Podcasts and it will cost $4.99/month or $49.99/year, which is the equivalent to the cost of a cup of coffee.

________________

Over the last 15 years, I’ve had the privilege of speaking and working with some of the world's top leaders. Here are 15 of the best leadership lessons that I learned from the CEOs of organizations like Netflix, Honeywell, Volvo, Best Buy, The Home Depot, and others. I hope they inspire you and give you things you can try in your work and life. Get the PDF here.


Get the latest insights on the Future of Work, Leadership and employee experience through my daily newsletter at futureofworknewsletter.com

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Podcast: Leading The Future of Work With Jacob Morgan (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Creating a Leadership Mindset and 3 Ways to Deal with Failure from Edelman US CEO Lisa Osborne Ross
Pub date: 2022-11-14

Lisa Osborne Ross, the US CEO of Edelman, the world's largest PR firm, and leads the largest region with 13 offices and more than 2,000 employees, In addition to this, Lisa is also a counselor to senior executives, corporate and public affairs and DE&I initiatives. Lisa has also been featured on Forbes 50 over 50. Prior to being the CEO of Edelman, she was the director of APCO Worldwide’s Flagship office. She has also had a 15 year career at Ogilvy, holding multiple different titles including Founder of multicultural practice, Head of Public Advocacy Group, and head of Public Affairs Division.

Today on the podcast, Lisa shares her thoughts on what can contribute to your success, her approach to leadership, the difference between different leading styles, and her personal purpose and what balance means to her.


This episode is sponsored by Hibob. From creating great employee experiences to bridging the gap with multi-national companies, look to HiBob to help create the future of work in your company. Check out their free guide at www.hibob.com/fow.


Get ad-free listening, early access to new episodes and bonus episodes with the subscription version of the show The Future of Work Plus. To start it will only be available on Apple Podcasts and it will cost $4.99/month or $49.99/year, which is the equivalent to the cost of a cup of coffee.

________________

Over the last 15 years, I’ve had the privilege of speaking and working with some of the world's top leaders. Here are 15 of the best leadership lessons that I learned from the CEOs of organizations like Netflix, Honeywell, Volvo, Best Buy, The Home Depot, and others. I hope they inspire you and give you things you can try in your work and life. Get the PDF here.


Get the latest insights on the Future of Work, Leadership and employee experience through my daily newsletter at futureofworknewsletter.com

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Podcast: Leading The Future of Work With Jacob Morgan (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Future Workplace After 2 Years Working From Home
Pub date: 2022-11-16

What will the future workplace look like?

After two years of the pandemic, most employees are demanding flexibility.

A lot of the top organizations around the world are giving their employees multiple workspaces so they can perform different types of activities in different types of environments.

Because the reality is, there is still a place for in-person work.

Even though employees can be productive and get stuff done at home, it stalled creativity and innovation.


This episode is sponsored by Hibob. From creating great employee experiences to bridging the gap with multi-national companies, look to HiBob to help create the future of work in your company. Check out their free guide at www.hibob.com/fow.


Get ad-free listening, early access to new episodes and bonus episodes with the subscription version of the show The Future of Work Plus. To start it will only be available on Apple Podcasts and it will cost $4.99/month or $49.99/year, which is the equivalent to the cost of a cup of coffee.

________________

Over the last 15 years, I’ve had the privilege of speaking and working with some of the world's top leaders. Here are 15 of the best leadership lessons that I learned from the CEOs of organizations like Netflix, Honeywell, Volvo, Best Buy, The Home Depot, and others. I hope they inspire you and give you things you can try in your work and life. Get the PDF here.


Get the latest insights on the Future of Work, Leadership and employee experience through my daily newsletter at futureofworknewsletter.com

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Podcast: Leading The Future of Work With Jacob Morgan (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 3 Questions AOL Co-Founder Steve Case Asks To Keep Ideas Moving Forward
Pub date: 2022-11-21

Steve is one of the world’s most known entrepreneurs and business leaders and is responsible for helping make communication via the internet possible. AOL rose to being one of the largest and most successful internet companies reaching over 4.5 million subscribers by 1995. In 2000 AOL merged with Time Warner in what was described as "the biggest train wreck in the history of corporate America.”

In today’s episode Steve shares how AOL came to be and what he learned as the CEO. We also cover how Steve thinks about the future including the variables he looks at, how he identifies potential in others, why diversity is important, and how to change your mindset from focusing on a challenge to seeing an opportunity.


This episode is sponsored by Hibob. From creating great employee experiences to bridging the gap with multi-national companies, look to HiBob to help create the future of work in your company. Check out their free guide at www.hibob.com/fow.


Get ad-free listening, early access to new episodes and bonus episodes with the subscription version of the show The Future of Work Plus. To start it will only be available on Apple Podcasts and it will cost $4.99/month or $49.99/year, which is the equivalent to the cost of a cup of coffee.

________________

Over the last 15 years, I’ve had the privilege of speaking and working with some of the world's top leaders. Here are 15 of the best leadership lessons that I learned from the CEOs of organizations like Netflix, Honeywell, Volvo, Best Buy, The Home Depot, and others. I hope they inspire you and give you things you can try in your work and life. Get the PDF here.


Get the latest insights on the Future of Work, Leadership and employee experience through my daily newsletter at futureofworknewsletter.com

Let's connect on social!

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Podcast: Leading The Future of Work With Jacob Morgan (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How Does a Futurist See the Future: 4 Questions You Need to Know
Pub date: 2022-11-23

One of the most important skills leaders should have is thinking like a futurist.

Being a futurist doesn’t mean you can predict the future.

Futurists help make sure their company isn’t surprised by what the future might bring.

Especially now that the world is changing at a rapid pace, being able to think like a futurist has never been more important.

Here are some questions that could help you think like a futurist:

  1. Why might something happen?

  2. What else might happen?

  3. What are some of the factors that will influence or impact why something will or will not happen?


This episode is sponsored by Hibob. From creating great employee experiences to bridging the gap with multi-national companies, look to HiBob to help create the future of work in your company. Check out their free guide at www.hibob.com/fow.


Get ad-free listening, early access to new episodes and bonus episodes with the subscription version of the show The Future of Work Plus. To start it will only be available on Apple Podcasts and it will cost $4.99/month or $49.99/year, which is the equivalent to the cost of a cup of coffee.

________________

Over the last 15 years, I’ve had the privilege of speaking and working with some of the world's top leaders. Here are 15 of the best leadership lessons that I learned from the CEOs of organizations like Netflix, Honeywell, Volvo, Best Buy, The Home Depot, and others. I hope they inspire you and give you things you can try in your work and life. Get the PDF here.


Get the latest insights on the Future of Work, Leadership and employee experience through my daily newsletter at futureofworknewsletter.com

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Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jacobmorgan8 Instagram: https://instagram.com/jacobmorgan8 Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/jacobm Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FuturistJacob

  1. What do you want to actually happen?

Thinking like a futurist is a tremendous asset during your leadership journey.

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Podcast: Leading The Future of Work With Jacob Morgan (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Is Your Ego in the Way? World's #1 Executive Coach Marshall Goldsmith Shares How Leaders Can Balance Ego
Pub date: 2022-11-28

Marshall Goldsmith, an expert on leadership and employee engagement He is one of the most well known coaches and on the top 10 list of business thinkers in the world. Goldsmith is the author of 35 books, and has sold a record amount of 3 million copies worldwide. Besides being a keynote speaker and an author, he is also a professor of Management Practice at Dartmouth Tuck School of Business.

Today on the podcast, Marshall shares what an executive coach does, what common behaviors he coaches on, how the standards on being transparent and vulnerable have changed over the years, and his advice for leaders on approaching difficult situations.


This episode is sponsored by Hibob. From creating great employee experiences to bridging the gap with multi-national companies, look to HiBob to help create the future of work in your company. Check out their free guide at www.hibob.com/fow.


Get ad-free listening, early access to new episodes and bonus episodes with the subscription version of the show The Future of Work Plus. To start it will only be available on Apple Podcasts and it will cost $4.99/month or $49.99/year, which is the equivalent to the cost of a cup of coffee.

________________

Over the last 15 years, I’ve had the privilege of speaking and working with some of the world's top leaders. Here are 15 of the best leadership lessons that I learned from the CEOs of organizations like Netflix, Honeywell, Volvo, Best Buy, The Home Depot, and others. I hope they inspire you and give you things you can try in your work and life. Get the PDF here.


Get the latest insights on the Future of Work, Leadership and employee experience through my daily newsletter at futureofworknewsletter.com

Let's connect on social!

Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jacobmorgan8 Instagram: https://instagram.com/jacobmorgan8 Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/jacobm Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FuturistJacob

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Podcast: Leading The Future of Work With Jacob Morgan (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Leading a Team is a Lot Like Being a Chef
Pub date: 2022-11-30

If you want to be a great leader, you have to master the mindset of the chef.

When it comes to cooking, you always have to balance ingredients. If you put too much of one thing, it becomes too sweet, too much of something else, it becomes too salty or too much of another ingredient, it becomes unhealthy or too sweet.

As a leader in this new world of work that we're all a part of, there are only two ingredients that you have to balance, which are humanity and technology.

Humanity is this aspect of making sure that your organization stays human, that you focus on purpose and meaning and undoing good. And the second aspect that you need to balance is technology, which is this idea of investing so that you can be productive and efficient and scale.


This episode is sponsored by Hibob. From creating great employee experiences to bridging the gap with multi-national companies, look to HiBob to help create the future of work in your company. Check out their free guide at www.hibob.com/fow.


Get ad-free listening, early access to new episodes and bonus episodes with the subscription version of the show The Future of Work Plus. To start it will only be available on Apple Podcasts and it will cost $4.99/month or $49.99/year, which is the equivalent to the cost of a cup of coffee.

________________

Over the last 15 years, I’ve had the privilege of speaking and working with some of the world's top leaders. Here are 15 of the best leadership lessons that I learned from the CEOs of organizations like Netflix, Honeywell, Volvo, Best Buy, The Home Depot, and others. I hope they inspire you and give you things you can try in your work and life. Get the PDF here.


Get the latest insights on the Future of Work, Leadership and employee experience through my daily newsletter at futureofworknewsletter.com

Let's connect on social!

Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jacobmorgan8 Instagram: https://instagram.com/jacobmorgan8 Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/jacobm Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FuturistJacob

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Podcast: EconTalk (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Ryan Holiday on Discipline Is Destiny
Pub date: 2022-10-24

Author Ryan Holiday talks about his book, Discipline Is Destiny, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Holiday discusses the mentor who taught him discipline, the self-control of Queen Elizabeth, the world-champion boxer who counseled the man who defeated him in the ring, and the forgotten Roman emperor who helped make Marcus Aurelius the man he would become.

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Podcast: Schmidt List - Inspiring Leaders (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Why Entrepreneurship Isn't for Everyone
Pub date: 2022-10-06

There is much hype around entrepreneurship.
It's nearly impossible to consume social media without someone promoting a "side hustle." Many people try to convince you that it answers all your problems. However, entrepreneurship isn't for everyone. It's not even appropriate for most people. If you're thinking about starting your own business, you must ask yourself some tough questions and be honest.

The truth is that entrepreneurship is hard. It's not all about making money and being a boss. There are many sacrifices that you have to make, and it can be very stressful. If you're not prepared to take on more stress in your life, then entrepreneurship isn't for you. You need to be able to embrace stress and work long hours if you want to be successful.

In this episode, I share a few questions you should ask yourself before leaping.

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Podcast: Schmidt List - Inspiring Leaders (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Stop Being Tactical and Start Being Strategic
Pub date: 2022-11-23

Are you feeling like you're spinning your wheels and not getting anywhere?

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Podcast: Inside Intercom (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Solving the Innovator's Dilemma: How successful companies are embracing innovation units
Pub date: 2022-11-10

With innovation units, there’s no need for the traditional rules and regulations that typically bound a more established organization. No need to get saddled with historical tech debt or antiquated third-party tools. Progress gets measured by learnings – not growth, revenue, or retention –, so you get to try new ideas, take bigger risks, move fast and break things. And that’s what we’re exploring on this episode. While foolproof strategies to newer, disruptive threats are still unknown, creating innovation-driven divisions within a company may just help you solve the Innovator’s Dilemma.

You’ll hear from:

Sherif Mansour, Product Manager at Atlassian

Neil Caron, VP of Product at Gartner

Jeff Loomans, Senior IT Manager at Vermeer Corporation

Beth McEntee, Intercom Senior Editor

Read a full transcript of this episode here: https://www.intercom.com/blog/podcasts/solving-the-innovators-dilemma-how-successful-companies-are-embracing-innovation-units/

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Podcast: 24 spÞrgsmÄl til professoren (LS 23 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: NÄr personligheden er problemet
Pub date: 2022-11-21

Personlighedsforstyrrelser var lÊnge psykiatriens stedbarn. Hver tiende af os opfylder kriterierne til en personlighedsforstyrrelse, men fÄ bliver diagnosticeret og endnu fÊrre behandlet.

Psykiater Erik Simonsen fortĂŠller, hvad barndomstraumer har at gĂžre med borderline, og hvorfor narcissister kan komme til tops men vĂŠre skrĂžbelige.

24 spÞrgsmÄl til professoren er stÞttet af Carlsbergfondet.

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Podcast: Brinkmanns briks
Episode: <3 Bureaukrati <3
Pub date: 2022-10-26

Vi elsker at hade det. Formularer, regler, kontorpersonale, skrankepaver, der stjÊler tid og penge fra de vigtige ting. Men faktisk tror jeg vi har en skjult kÊrlighed til at pÄberÄbe os reglernes dejlige enkelhed. Det gÞr verden mere sort-hvid og det kan vi godt lide. SÄ er bureaukratiet vores hemmelig elsker eller er det den irriterende ekskÊreste, som insisterer pÄ at gennemgÄ hele fotoalbummet for at dele hvert enkelt billede op efter, hvem der har mest ret til det? VÊrt: Svend Brinkmann.GÊster: Dennis NÞrmark antropolog, foredragsholder og forfatter til Pseudoarbejde og Tina Øllgaard Bentzen lektor ved Roskilde Universitetscenter og forsker i afbureaukratisering.TilrettelÊgger: Christoffer Heide HÞyer.

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Podcast: Brinkmanns briks
Episode: Det er ledelsens skyld - det hele!
Pub date: 2022-11-02

Jeg synes egentlig ledere fÄr skyld for lige lovligt meget. MÄske er det mellemlederen i min mave, der forsÞger at finde lidt syndsforladelse. I dag finder jeg ud af om det faktisk er ledelsens skyld, nÄr det sejler pÄ arbejdspladsen? Hvad kan vi give lederen skylden for med god samvittighed?VÊrt Svend Brinkmann.GÊster Lotte BÞgh Andersen, Professor ved Institut for statskundskab og Leder af Kronprins Frederiks Center for Offentlig Ledelse pÄ Aarhus Universitet og Claus Elmholdt, lektor ved Aalborg Universitet, psykolog og direktÞr i konsulentvirksomheden Lead.TilrettelÊgger Christoffer Heide HÞyer

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Podcast: Brinkmanns briks
Episode: Min drÞm om et bÊredygtigt arbejdsliv pÄ 30 timer
Pub date: 2022-11-16

Jeg kan sagtens blive forfÞrt af tanken om en 30 timers arbejdsuge og et mere simpelt arbejdsliv. Men er det virkelig lÞsningen pÄ det pressede arbejdsliv mange oplever? Og findes det bÊredygtige arbejdsliv i harmoni med os selv og resten af planeten? GÊster: Pernille Garde Abildgaard, direktÞr i Take back time, forfatter og foredragsholder og Rasmus Willig, forperson i andelsgaarde, sociolog og forfatter. TilrettelÊgger: Christoffer Heide HÞyer.VÊrt: Svend Brinkmann.

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Podcast: Brinkmanns briks
Episode: Skal det vÊre sjovt at gÄ pÄ arbejde?
Pub date: 2022-11-23

Det er virkelig ikke altid sjovt at gÄ pÄ arbejde, men det siger mange ledere, det skal vÊre. Vi skal vÊre glade og humoristiske, nÄr vi arbejder, hvilket ogsÄ efterspÞrges i jobannoncerne. Du godeste. Lad mig vÊre i fred, siger jeg bare, sÄ skal jeg nok selv bestemme, hvilket humÞr jeg har, nÄr jeg laver mit arbejde. Eller hvad? MÄske ER det vigtigt, at vi er nogenlunde glade og positive i de fleste af de mange timer, vi bruger pÄ arbejdet.VÊrt: Svend Brinkmann.GÊster: Cecilie DemkjÊr Schultz Pedersen psykolog og i arbejdsmiljÞleder IBM og seniorforsker ved det nationale forskningscenter for arbejdsmiljÞ Thomas Clausen. TilrettelÊgger: Christoffer Heide HÞyer.

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Podcast: At The Table with Patrick Lencioni (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 152. The New 3-Letter Secret to Success
Pub date: 2022-11-23

It's simple, it's easy, and yet it's somehow a major competitive advantage.  This week, Pat, Cody, Tracy and Beau discuss the new 3-letter secret to success.  

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Podcast: Level-up Engineering (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Process Management 101: The Secrets of Efficient and Engaging Processes
Pub date: 2022-11-30

Interview with Rod Garcia, VP of Engineering at Slack. He talks about the importance of understanding the big picture before implementing processes, shares the steps he uses to determine if a process needs improvement, and tells stories of process management from previous projects and from his current workplace.

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In this interview we're covering:

  • Process management 101
  • Creating engaging processes
  • Making sure your processes work
  • Common mistakes in process management
  • Automating processes at Slack
  • Creating more efficient and engaging processes - Storytime

Excerpt from the interview:

"We often feel the need to balance every confusing behavior with a process. The outcome isn’t great because a process doesn’t improve human behavior. Instead of processes, behavior problems can be solved by coaching conversations or retrospective team meetings.

Processes enable us to collaborate much easier, but it’s the trust among teammates that powers the process. These two aspects have a snowball effect: when the challenges in behavior continue despite having a process in place, the team gets frustrated, which causes even more problems, so they introduce additional processes. It becomes a slippery slope, and it doesn’t help teams to do their work effectively."

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Podcast: VĂŠkstmaskinen
Episode: Ep. 07: Helle Rosendahl - Storytelling
Pub date: 2022-11-30

I syvende afsnit af VÊkstmaskinen sÊtter vi fokus pÄ storytelling. I studiet har vi Helle Rosendahl, som er founder af Storytelling Akadamiet og har tidligere arbejdet med storytelling samt kommunikation i Microsoft og MÊrsk. Helle giver dybdegÄende indsigt i, hvordan virksomheder kan bruge storytelling til at styrke top- og bundlinje.  

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Podcast: Hacking the Org
Episode: Podcast: Silicon Valley Product Group’s Christian Idiodi on Product Management Skills and Product Discovery
Pub date: 2022-12-02

In this episode Charles Humble talks to Silicon Valley Product Group partner Christian Idiodi about how he got started in product management, the Certified Scrum Product Owner and MBA pathologies,  how product management is badly taught, the skills you need, and how to improve.

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Podcast: Product Thinking (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Answering Questions About Advocating for Resources, Bottom-Up Transformation, and Setting Expectations
Pub date: 2022-11-30

In this Dear Melissa segment, Melissa answers subscribers’ questions about advocating for resources in a non-leadership role, whether or not a bottoms-up transformation can really work if leadership isn’t immediately on board, and how to effectively communicate with teams outside of product in order to set realistic expectations and get them on your side.

Q: As a product manager that is not in a leadership role, how do you recommend advocating for additional resources on your development?

Q: Have you ever seen a product transformation work from bottoms-up, work at the team level first, and then improve at the executive level? If so, what do you think were the deciding factors?

Q: How do I work with non-product teams who have no regard for prioritization or respect for the actual product team’s process?

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Podcast: Product Thinking (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Mapping Out Now, Next, and Later with Janna Bastow
Pub date: 2022-12-07

Melissa Perri welcomes Janna Bastow to this episode of the Product Thinking Podcast. Janna is the founder of Mind the Product and the CEO and founder of ProdPad, which is software that helps manage your roadmap and product backlog. Janna and Melissa discuss the story of how ProdPad came to be and why Janna was inspired to build a more robust road mapping tool, how to become the most informed PM in your industry, the process behind creating the Now, Next, Later roadmap format and why it’s caught on, how to communicate with other teams both before and after you create your roadmap, and how to influence your leadership to evolve their processes and thinking around road mapping.

Here are some key points you’ll hear Melissa and Janna talk about:

  • Janna shares how ProdPad came to fruition. “Some of the immediate problems were the fact that we have to ask the same questions over and over again: Why are we doing this thing, what is this thing we're doing? What problem does it solve?”
  • Janna has always taken a collaborative approach to product management. She knows she doesn’t have all the answers, so she views her job as asking questions and using the knowledge of the people around her.
  • When done right, product management is the most fun area of business. You get to play with different ideas, interact with different areas, and make decisions about what gets made.
  • The Now-Next-Later roadmap focuses on prioritizing the most urgent tasks, identifying what needs to be done, and providing a framework for the scale of certain tasks, emphasizing sequence rather than time.
  • Many product managers prefer roadmaps in the style of Now-Next-Later because it doesn’t communicate time at all. They don’t want to be beholden to time estimations in anticipation of over-committing or not hitting deadlines.
  • ProdPad is a mix of a coach and a SaaS tool designed to help you become a better product manager. It gives you a few key views in a non-exploitative format that allows you to view the order in which you are going to solve problems.
  • One of the key things product managers can do to convince their leaders to adopt the Now-Next-Later roadmap is to speak their language; try to gain clarity on the core of their resistance.

Resources

Janna Bastow on the Web | LinkedIn | Twitter

ProdPad | Twitter

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Podcast: Think Like A Founder (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: 003: Alicia Jackson - Founder and CEO of Evernow
Pub date: 2020-04-18

"I am a 30 year old woman without a bio degree proposing to do these crazy projects about engineering biology and creating new biological functions in an office of electrical engineers, mostly men, all forties and 50s and one of those individuals said to me, we're still trying to figure out what you're doing here... I'm here to do what I came to do"

On this episode of Think Like A Founder, Maureen talks to Alicia Jackson, founder of Evernow, a company with a vision to cure menopause. Alicia talks about her unusual journey from academia to government to becoming a founder. She also talks about the drive and grit she learned during her first year at MIT, as well as the importance of wit - that’s W- I- T - as a business value.

Think Like A Founder is produced by SNP Communications in San Francisco California. Learn more by visiting us at www.snpnet.com or connect with Maureen Taylor on LinkedIn to continue the conversation there.

Series Producer: Roisin Hunt. Sound design: Marc Ream. Creative Producer: Eli Shell. Content and scripting: Mike Sullivan. Production Coordinator: Natasha Thomas.
Thanks also to Selena Persiani-Shell, John Hughes and Renn Vara.

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Podcast: Think Like A Founder (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Embracing a Remote Workforce: Kevin Fishner, Chief of Staff at Hashicorp
Pub date: 2019-12-04

How do you cultivate a happy and productive place to work with a remote workforce? Hashicorp, a software company with a Freemium business model based in San Francisco, utilizes a remote workforce spread across the globe. Kevin Fishner, Hashicorp’s Chief of Staff, talks with Maureen about the ways they’ve found to embrace a remote workforce as the world continues to decentralize. 

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Podcast: Semaphore Uncut
Episode: Allen Holub on Why You Should Get Rid of Estimates
Pub date: 2022-10-04

Nowadays, Agile methodologies are applied and well-known all over the software development industry. But are they actually implemented as they should?

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Podcast: At The Table with Patrick Lencioni (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 149. Success is Messy
Pub date: 2022-10-21

Success is messy.  Embrace it, and don't assume others aren't.  This week, Pat, Cody, Beau and Tracy discuss some common misconceptions about management and leadership.  

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Podcast: At The Table with Patrick Lencioni (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 150. Say it Again, and Again, and Again...
Pub date: 2022-11-02

As leaders and managers, we are often far too hesitant to overcommunicate. This week, on our 150th episode of the At the Table Podcast, the whole team discusses the importance of overcommunication, and the fears that keep us from achieving better clarity.

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To take the Six Types of Working Genius Assessment: https://www.workinggenius.com/

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Podcast: At The Table with Patrick Lencioni (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 151. Everyone's Got Stuff
Pub date: 2022-11-09

Everyone's got stuff, and that stuff is a part of who we are.  This week, Pat, Beau and Tracy discuss why it's good to talk about our personal challenges at work, and how to do it safely. 

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Podcast: Level-up Engineering (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: The Ultimate Guide to Building High-Performance Teams in Tech
Pub date: 2022-10-12

Interview with Álvaro Moya, Founder of LIDR.co. He shares his approach to building high-performance teams. He talks about the importance of clearly defined values and goals within the company, and shares which areas can be improved to foster high performance.

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In this interview we're covering:

  • Defining high performance
  • Measuring high performance in software engineering
  • Building high-performance teams
  • Improving a team's performance
  • Priorities in high-performance teams
  • Advice for leaders on building high-performance teams
  • Spotting high performers
  • Building a high-performance team from scratch

Excerpt from the interview:

"Code is easy to alter to make it work better. Doing the same with people takes a lot of time and effort. The more people you have on your team, the more difficult your job is as a leader.

You’ll have to make a conscious effort to allocate time for your team.

If you want to create a high-performance atmosphere, you have to be consistent. Day after day, you have to be clear about what you value and what you don’t tolerate. Your team will align with these values, and you’ll create psychological safety and a collaborative work environment as a result."

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Podcast: Level-up Engineering (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time - A Leader’s Guide to Energy Management
Pub date: 2022-11-09

Interview with James Stanier, Director of Engineering at Shopify. He talks about setting yourself up for success by planning for the unexpected, goal- and achievement tracking and keeping your calendar under control.

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In this interview we're covering:

  • Reasons to manage your energy, not your time
  • Tips to manage your energy
  • Aspects of managing your energy, not your time
  • Energy management for senior leaders vs. ICs
  • Communication with colleagues while managing your energy

Excerpt from the interview:

"I have flexibility over my calendar. I’m in a high-intensity environment, but I have more time than I used to. I have noticed that my previous habits didn’t suit my current situation, and I realized that managing my energy was more important than managing my time. "

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Podcast: VĂŠkstmaskinen
Episode: Ep. 06: Sophie Bohr - Fra molekylĂŠrbiolog til ivĂŠrksĂŠtter
Pub date: 2022-08-22

Sjette afsnit af VĂŠkstmaskinen er med Sophie Bohr GrĂžnbĂŠk, CEO og Co-founder af det digitale forsikringsselskab Undo. I afsnittet sĂŠttes der fokus pĂ„ Sophies vĂŠkstrejse, og hvordan hun gik fra at studere molekylĂŠrbiologi til at revolutionere forsikringsbranchen. Derudover kommer vi ind pĂ„ hvad Undo er for en stĂžrrelse, hvordan det er at have Tryg med som investor og deres position som ”first mover” i en ellers konservativ branche. 

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Podcast: Hacking the Org
Episode: Sudden Compass Co-Founder Matt LeMay on Effective Product Management and Conducting User Research
Pub date: 2022-10-28

Charles Humble and Matt LeMay explore what the job of product manager entails, common A/B testing pitfalls, conducting user research, dealing with senior stakeholders, and managing prioritisation.

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Podcast: Product Thinking (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Finding Agility Through Psychological Safety with Tara Scott
Pub date: 2022-09-14

Melissa Perri interviews Tara Scott at the Agile 2022 Conference on this week’s episode of the Product Thinking Podcast. Tara is an experienced product coach and organizational behavior design coach who specializes in psychological safety, which is the ability to speak up in the workplace without fear of negative consequences. Tara tells Melissa how experiences in her own family led her to this important line of work, how she realized psychological safety could actually help increase organizational agility, what happens when a company isn’t psychologically safe, why having a “work” version of you is actually harmful, the inevitable uncomfortable moments that come with creating a safer work environment, particularly for leadership, and more.

Here are some key points you’ll hear Melissa and Tara talk about:

  • Tara talks about her own background and what led her to teach psychological safety.
  • Tara assesses the psychological safety of an organization by conducting individual conversations with the team.
  • If you feel like you have to micromanage your employees, it probably means that you don't feel safe giving them the freedom to do their jobs. This can be damaging to your team's morale and productivity.
  • Tara advises that leaders should “lead with curiosity as opposed to leading with questions” as this would create positive interactions with employees and allow them to feel psychologically safe.
  • Open communication, diversity and inclusion, willingness to help and willingness to ask for help, and attitudes towards risk and failure are the four metrics used to measure if a work environment is psychologically safe.
  • Tara explains that when employees are more relaxed and laugh, it is a sign that the work environment is becoming more psychologically safe. Another indicator is when team leaders work actively to create a psychologically safe environment.
  • Tara suggests that every morning, remote teams should sit around before work and just talk to each other – get to know each other and become comfortable hearing your own voice. This promotes psychological safety within the team.
  • As an executive, if you're noticing your organization becoming psychologically unsafe you can introduce an optional virtual coffee, where your employees can join for 15 minutes to relax and have conversations with co-workers.

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Podcast: Product Thinking (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Dear Melissa - Answering Questions About Competitive Analysis, Stage Gates, and Aligning Around Lofty Goals
Pub date: 2022-09-21

In this Dear Melissa segment, Melissa answers subscribers’ questions about ways to research and stay on top of the market in order to conduct a thorough competitive analysis, when adopting a Stage Gate process makes sense and how to design it, and how to organize teams around the product strategy framework.

Q: What tips do you have for competitor analysis?

Q: What is your experience with Stage Gate? Am I just being stubborn and intractable by thinking that adopting Stage Gate is the opposite of creating a product-led organization? Or, for example, a risk-led organization?

Q: In your experience, would it make sense for each squad to have its own challenge, or should there be one or two challenges for the entire product area?

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Podcast: Product Thinking (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Defining Outcomes Over Output with Josh Seiden
Pub date: 2022-09-28

Josh Seiden is Melissa Perri’s guest on this episode of the Product Thinking Podcast. Josh is a consultant and bestselling author of Lean UX, Sense and Respond, and his latest book, Outcome Over Output: Why Customer Behavior Is the Key Metric for Business Success. In this week’s show, he and Melissa explore why saying “outcomes over outputs” is a lot easier than actually committing to it in practice, measurable outcomes, correlation versus causation, the problem with getting fixated on process, and how to keep your team focused on outcomes as a leader.

Here are some key points you’ll hear Melissa and Josh talk about:

  • One of the challenges companies face that prevents them from becoming outcome-centric is the legacy of how they manage their work, Josh says.
  • “Change in human behavior creates value, which helps us to take a huge step forward.”
  • Josh advises that you build a logic model with impact and outcome. Identify the leading and lagging indicators that help you determine if your business model could be successful.
  • Teams get so fixated on processes or methods that they don’t look at the big picture in what they’re trying to achieve and the whole ecosystem of their market. What data is out there already so that you don’t have to reinvent the wheel?
  • The surprising power of the words, “just tell me a story
” to help shift focus to data and figuring out what outcomes to go after.
  • Josh talks about the success of the book and what he might add to a second edition.
  • Josh says that most companies need to develop a risk-tolerant, psychologically safe environment, where employees are allowed to experiment freely to find what works best for the company.

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Josh Seiden on LinkedIn

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Podcast: Product Thinking (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Investing in Internal Tools with John Athayde
Pub date: 2022-10-26

Melissa Perri welcomes John Athayde to this episode of the Product Thinking Podcast. John is a design team leader, strategist, and individual contributor, as well as VP of Design at PowerFleet. John and Melissa discuss how he shifted focus to the importance of internal tools at Living Social, how he got buy-in from leadership to prioritize internal tools, the process of creating a design system for a scaling organization, the benefits of design systems, design systems vs. style guides, and the tools and org structure he recommends to get set up for success.

Here are some key points you’ll hear Melissa and John talk about:

  • What led John to PowerFleet.
  • John shares how he started pushing for improved internal controls. “As I was working on the front-end screens, [I realized] we could make this a little better.” He convinced some product people and engineers, and they collaborated to do a bunch of mockups. They presented them to the CTO, who gave them his blessing.
  • Designers should know how to code, or at least know how code happens, according to John. “You can’t design a building without knowing how a building is built.”
  • You can use product thinking to design your internal tools. It’s less of just a design issue and more of an issue of creating a product, which is a complex internal operating system. This is necessary to actually scale.
  • A UX engineer is a front-end developer who is primarily focused on the look and feel as opposed to functionality. They are the bridge between functionality and design. It's a person with the design sensibility who can speak code and help implement, but they're not doing the implementation.
  • Now that almost everyone has some kind of experience with software, UX and UI have become more essential. Consumers are going to subconsciously compare their experience with your user interface with others.
  • Every company needs a source of truth for their operations, that is, documentation for all the relevant information needed to continue operations. In the event of key people leaving, the work they did would still be there for the next person to take over.
  • We often take for granted how important the role of a UX designer is in a high-growth organization.

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Podcast: Product Thinking (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Sharpening Your Financial Skill Set with Giff Constable
Pub date: 2022-11-09

Melissa Perri welcomes Giff Constable to this episode of the Product Thinking Podcast. Giff is a product leader and former CPO of both Meet Up and Neo. Giff is passionate about helping product people sharpen their financial skills, which is a big topic of conversation in this episode. He talks to Melissa about why it’s key that product executives understand the nuances of financials, the most important relationships for a product executive to cultivate and how, why Giff never regrets investing time in the exercise of creating FP&A models, the ins and outs of understanding valuation, and so much more.

Here are some key points you’ll hear Melissa and Giff explore:

  • Giff talks about his career path and how he ended up in CPO and CEO roles.
  • When communicating in a corporate space, adjust your language depending on who you're speaking to, with the goal of finding common ground.
  • Giff explains the FP&A model.
  • Nothing changes user behavior more than your pricing model. Adjust your pricing model so that the majority of your customers are satisfied. "When both the customer and the company are being successful together, everyone's reinvesting, everyone's happy," Giff tells Melissa.
  • Product leaders should build a relationship with their teams. An easy way to do this is to involve them in decision-making. Trust is built. You don't have to do everything by yourself or work in silos.
  • Valuation has to do with what someone is willing to pay for what you have. Companies are valued with a multiple of their top or bottom line. Lower growth companies are valued in the multiple of the bottom line. Higher growth companies tend to be valued as a multiple of revenue.
  • How fast or slow a company grows has to do with its product. If a company has poor prioritization or if there are market shifts, its product will become obsolete and contribute to slow growth for the company. For larger companies, there's also the risk of being so far ahead that you don't see who's catching up with you, and by the time you do, it's too late. Prioritization and paying attention to market trends and shifts are key.

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Giff Constable | LinkedIn | Twitter

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Podcast: Topchefernes strategi med Niels Lunde
Episode: Adam Bryant: Topchefernes to-do liste
Pub date: 2022-10-13

NĂ„r du, kĂŠre lytter, iagttager erhvervslivets topchefer, tĂŠnker du sĂ„ ind i mellem: Hvad er det egentlig, at de kan? Hvordan er det, at topcheferne skiller sig ud fra andre ledere? Og kan vi andre lĂŠre af topcheferne? Adam Bryant, tidligere kommentator ved New York Times, har forsĂžgt at finde ud af det. Adam Bryant er medforfatter til bestselleren ”The CEO Test”, som bygger pĂ„ flere hundrede interview med amerikanske topchefer. Niels Lunde har mĂždt Adam Bryant, og taler med ham om de syv udfordringer, som succesfulde topchefer prioriterer hĂžjest.

02.00: Introduction of Adam Bryant 07.19: Can you develop a simple plan for your strategy? 13.45: Can you make the culture real – and matter? 18.29: Can you build teams that are true teams? 25.50: Can you lead transformation? 29.56: Can you really listen? 33.45: Can you handle a crisis? 38.00: Can you master the inner game of leadership? 44.29: Afslutning

Producer: Mie Hee Christensen.

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Podcast: Not Another Talkshow
Episode: Hvad er forskellen pÄ selvledelse og selvstyring? | Michael Pedersen
Pub date: 2022-09-06

Michael Pedersen, Associate Professor, CBS er i studiet for at gÞre os klogere pÄ selvledelse og selvstyring. Forskning peger pÄ, at selvledelse motiverer langt mere end traditionelle Þkonomiske belÞnninger som lÞnforhÞjelser og bonusser. Og det er den vej pilen peger. Vi ser mere og mere selvledelse. Men det er ikke uden clash og konsekvenser.

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Podcast: AdfĂŠrd
Episode: 75. 10 tankevékkende indsigter om, hvad danskerne vil have af deres arbejdsgiver – med Morten Ballisager
Pub date: 2022-10-04

Husk at tilmelde dig podcastens nyhedsbrev. Det gĂžr du her: https://bit.ly/3UF8dKB
Se hele det rÄ interview pÄ YouTube lige her: https://youtu.be/VnF3tHm8QDw

Hvad er den primÊre grund til, at folk siger deres arbejde op? Hvad er det vigtigste for medarbejdere, nÄr de sÞger et nyt job? Og hvilke ledere bliver evalueret bedst: MÊnd eller kvinder?

Det fĂ„r vi svar pĂ„ inden for den nĂŠste times tid. Dagens gĂŠst er Morten Ballisager, direktĂžr i Konsulenthuset ballisager. De stĂ„r bag Kandidatanalysen, der undersĂžger danske lĂžnmodtageres holdninger, motivation og prĂŠferencer i deres arbejdsliv og karriere – og det er netop temaet for i dag.

I dagens episode finder du bl.a. ud af:

  • hvilken ene person der oftest bĂŠrer ansvaret for, at folk siger op

  • hvilken rolle ’purpose’ og ’vĂŠrdier’ i virkeligheden spiller, nĂ„r folk sĂžger job

  • hvor interesserede vi egentlig er i at lĂŠre nye ting

  • den uinspirerende Ă„rsag til, at vi i sidste ende siger ja til et nyt job

  • hvor stor betydning gode kolleger har efter corona-nedlukningen

  • hvor meget trivsel der er forbundet med hjemmearbejde.

Det bliver bÄde provokerende og tankevÊkkende, og undervejs fÄr Morten pÄ en charmerende og velreflekteret mÄde trÄdt hele segmenter over tÊerne:-)

Du finder Morten her: https://ballisager.com

Du finder Morten pÄ LinkedIn her: https://dk.linkedin.com/in/morten-ballisager-a47a771

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Podcast: AdfĂŠrd
Episode: 77. SĂ„dan skriver du bedre faglige tekster om komplicerede emner – med Kresten Bjerg
Pub date: 2022-10-18

Husk at tilmelde dig podcastens nyhedsbrev. Det gĂžr du her: https://bit.ly/3UF8dKB
Se hele det rÄ interview pÄ YouTube lige her: https://youtu.be/oVOkdcINbw4

”Hvis man bare sĂŠtter mange punktummer, sĂ„ bliver teksten lettere at lĂŠse.” Hvis du bruger dette rĂ„d, er du mĂ„ske faldet i en farlig gryde. I sĂ„ fald bliver du klogere i dag.

Kresten Bjerg arbejder med sproglig rÄdgivning for fagtunge organisationer, fx ministerier, styrelser og vidensvirksomheder. Men hvordan formidler man egentlig fagstof, sÄ det faktisk bliver lÊst og forstÄet af borgerne?

Det er temaet for denne episode, og undervejs kommer vi bl.a. forbi:

  • Hvilke 3 sproglige strukturer hjernen elsker

  • Hvorfor mange skriverĂ„d, som fx ’undgĂ„ passiver’, er alt for firkantede

  • Hvordan jurister kan lĂŠre at skrive mere lĂŠsevenlige tekster – uden at det gĂ„r ud over fagligheden

  • En hĂ„ndfuld konkrete skriverĂ„d

  • En lillebitte smule grammatik – ja, sgu!

  • Hvad sladretante-princippet er, og hvordan du kan bruge det i faglig formidling (og comedy 
)

Du finder Kresten her: https://www.bjergk.dk/

Du finder Kresten her pÄ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kresten-bjerg-40084546/

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Podcast: AdfĂŠrd
Episode: 78. Det utrolige potentiale i ’Psykologisk tryghed’ – med Christian Ørsted
Pub date: 2022-10-25

Husk at tilmelde dig podcastens nyhedsbrev. Det gĂžr du her: https://bit.ly/3UF8dKB
Se hele det rÄ interview pÄ YouTube lige her: https://youtu.be/7U3HcZxReMs

”Ledere tror, at de har enormt meget humor, fordi mange griner af deres vittigheder. I hvert fald mens de er pĂ„ arbejde 
 Derhjemme er der sjovt nok ingen, der griner af deres vittigheder!”

Citatet stammer fra Bestseller-forfatter og ledelsesrÄdgiver Christian Ørsted. Han er forfatter til to vidunderlige bÞger om forandringer: Livsfarlig ledelse og Fatale forandringer. Og sÄ er han ekspert i begrebet psykologiske tryghed og har arbejdet sammen med forskeren bag begrebet, Amy Edmondson, i flere sammenhÊnge.

NĂ„, tilbage til citatet, Ledere overvurderer mange ting. Blandt andet deres egen humor 
 Og endnu vigtigere: Graden af psykologisk tryghed i deres organisation. Og det kan have kĂŠmpe konsekvenser. For psykologisk tryghed er helt afgĂžrende for fx mere innovation og bedre fastholdelse af medarbejderne.

I dagens afsnit kigger Christian Ørsted forbi med en guide til at skabe psykologisk tryghed i din organisation.

Vi kommer bl.a. ind pÄ:

  • Hvorfor det er svĂŠrt at vurdere den psykologiske tryghed i organisationen ved kun at kigge pĂ„ trivslen

  • Hvordan Google har arbejdet med psykologisk tryghed i deres high performing teams

  • Hvorfor begrebet ’robusthed’ er uambitiĂžst

  • Hvorfor ledere oplever stĂžrre psykologisk tryghed end medarbejdere

  • Hvorfor begrebet ’min dĂžr er altid Ă„ben’ ifĂžlge Christian er sĂ„ dumt, at det ikke er til at fĂ„ luft

  • Hvor i vores liv vi allerede er superstjerner til at skabe psykologisk tryghed

  • Hvordan man arbejder helt konkret med at Ăžge den psykologiske tryghed i organisationen.

Du finder Christian her: https://www.christianorsted.dk/

Du finder Christian pÄ LinkedIn her: https://www.linkedin.com/in/orsted/

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Podcast: AdfĂŠrd
Episode: 79. Top 10 psykologiske faldgruber i projektledelse [Lazy edition]
Pub date: 2022-11-01

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Langt de fleste projekter bliver forsinkede, de er dyrere, end vi regner med, og de lever ikke op til de fordele, som vi havde planlagt. Årsagerne er komplekse, men dog forudsigelige. I dag fĂ„r du professor Bent Flyvbjergs 10 psykologiske Ă„rsager til, hvorfor projekter kikser.

Dagens lazy edition er baseret pÄ blogindlÊgget af samme navn. PÄ lige under 22 minutter fÄr du Flyvbjergs top-10 i kondenseret form. Og du fÄr ogsÄ serveret de 5 ting, du kan gÞre ved faldgruberne i praksis.

Undervejs vi bl.a. forbi mÄnelandingen, et skandalÞst koncerthus og nordamerikanske dÊmninger 


Du finder Bent Flyvbjerg her https://pure.itu.dk/portal/da/persons/bent-flyvbjerg

Du finder Bent Flyvbjerg pÄ LinkedIn her https://www.linkedin.com/in/flyvbjerg/

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Podcast: AdfĂŠrd
Episode: 80. Gode vaner og tĂ„belige mĂ„l – med Morten MĂŒnster
Pub date: 2022-11-08

Husk at tilmelde dig podcastens nyhedsbrev. Det gĂžr du her: https://bit.ly/3UF8dKB

”HvornĂ„r er du egentlig selv gĂŠst i din podcast, Morten?” er et spĂžrgsmĂ„l, jeg aldrig har fĂ„et.

SĂ„ i dag protesterer jeg ved at give dig en episode, hvor jeg selv taler langt det meste af tiden:-)

Dagens interview blev fĂžrste gang bragt i Ludvigs Podcast, og jeg bliver interviewet af Ludvig Larsen. Emnet er: AdfĂŠrdsdesign og vaner.

I episoden bliver du klogere pÄ:

  • Hvad i alverden jeg egentlig laver, nĂ„r jeg gĂ„r pĂ„ arbejde
  • Årsagerne til, hvorfor folk ikke gĂžr det, vi gerne vil have dem til
  • Hvorfor du skal vĂŠre uambitiĂžs, nĂ„r du vil lave bĂŠredygtige forandringer
  • Hvorfor ’jeg vil tabe mig 5 kilo’ er det tĂ„beligste mĂ„l, du overhovedet kan sĂŠtte op for dit liv
  • Hvordan du bruger motivationsbĂžlger til at ĂŠndre adfĂŠrd
  • Hvorfor ’det tager 21 dage at ĂŠndre en vane’ er noget vrĂžvl – og hvad du egentlig skal fokusere pĂ„, nĂ„r du vil ĂŠndre en vane.

Undervejs kommer vi ogsÄ forbi radiser, nÊsestrips, Þlbongs og kompressionssokker 



Du finder Ludvigs Podcast her: https://www.ludvigspodcast.dk

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Podcast: AdfĂŠrd
Episode: 81. Guide til den svére samtale – med Sanne Gry Bech Folker
Pub date: 2022-11-15

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Se hele det rÄ interview pÄ YouTube lige her: https://youtu.be/jCAXLMcVYTg

I dag fĂ„r du Sanne Folkers tips og tricks til den svĂŠre samtale – fx afskedigelser, lĂžnforhandlinger eller opsigelser.

Hun er seniorrÄdgiver i Center for Ledelse og ekspert i, hvordan man gennemfÞrer den svÊre samtale med de stÞrste odds for succes.

I dagens episode finder du bl.a. ud af:

  • de typiske faldgruber, man overser
  • hvilken struktur en svĂŠr samtale bĂžr have
  • hvorfor ’den gode stemning’ er overvurderet i starten af samtalen
  • hvor pĂ„ kontoret du aldrig bĂžr tage en svĂŠr samtale
  • hvilke reaktioner modparten ofte har, nĂ„r han eller hun modtager det hĂ„rde budskab
  • hvad man kan gĂžre for slet ikke at havne i en svĂŠr samtale.

Vi tager udgangspunkt i mÄlgruppen ledere. Men principperne er gÊldende for alle svÊre samtaler, du kan have med fx en kunde, kollega eller ÊgtefÊlle. Rigtig god fornÞjelse:-)

Du finder Sanne her: https://www.cfl.dk/hvem-er-vi/kontakt/medarbejdere/sanne-gry-bech-folker

Du finder Sanne pÄ LinkedIn her: https://dk.linkedin.com/in/sannefolker

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Podcast: Lederhjerne
Episode: Kan dine medarbejdere arbejde for meget hjemme?
Pub date: 2022-06-01

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Podcast: Lederhjerne
Episode: SÄdan skaber du psykologisk tryghed og fÄr dit team til at performe
Pub date: 2022-04-13

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Podcast: Lederhjerne
Episode: Involver dine medarbejdere - ogsÄ nÄr du selv bliver presset
Pub date: 2022-05-11

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Podcast: The Product Science Podcast (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: The Marty Cagan Hypothesis: Extraordinary Products Are Built by Empowered Product Teams
Pub date: 2020-12-22

This week on the Product Science Podcast, we’re back with a new interview with Marty Cagan, founder of the Silicon Valley Product Group, to talk about his new book, EMPOWERED: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products.

In this episode of the Product Science Podcast, we learn what lead him to write a new book, and why many business leaders underestimate the results they can get out of the team they already have by working in a new way.

Read the show notes to learn more: https://h2rproductscience.com/ep317-marty-cagan

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Podcast: The EntreLeadership Podcast (LS 65 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Why Empowered Teams Make the Best Products with Marty Cagan
Pub date: 2021-04-05

How do you ensure your product or service keeps its edge as you scale? This is a huge challenge many founders of a fast-growing company face as they start to see some success. Marty Cagan, founder of the Silicon Valley Product Group, argues leaders must learn how to empower their teams to solve customer problems (on their own) or risk losing their product mojo. The author, speaker and tech-industry product maker—who’s known for helping some of the world’s most successful companies build products—unpacks the problem-solving principles crucial to designing effective teams and products that win big in the marketplace.

entreleadership.com/podcast

Silicon Valley Product Group’s website

Empowered by Marty Cagan and Chris Jones

Principles by Ray Dalio

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Podcast: Better Product (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: The Minute: Marty Cagan
Pub date: 2021-01-25

If you’re in the product world, the name Marty Cagan is most likely one you’re familiar with. He’s a pioneer, a leader, and author of INSPIRED. We had him on the show in 2019 and he had a lot to say about product culture, which left Anna and Christian with a lot to talk about right after his interview. 

In this Minute episode you’ll hear their conversation discussing what it means to be a real product manager, what it looks like to have a product culture in your organization and how all that translates to impact your company, no matter its size.

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Podcast: Product Thinking (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Getting Leadership Up to Speed with Marty Cagan
Pub date: 2021-07-14

Melissa Perri’s guest on this week’s Product Thinking Podcast is Marty Cagan. Marty is a product executive, the Founder and Product Partner of the Silicon Valley Product Group and the author of “Inspired: How to Create Products Customers Love”. He has over two decades experience in the field of product management. Marty joins Melissa to discuss product management and how to become the best product manager you can possibly be.

Here are some key points you’ll hear Melissa and Marty talk about in this episode:

  • The essence of product is how well the team works together to solve problems in ways customers love, but that which also works for the business. [1:31]
  • The focus of Marty’s book, Empowered, is helping leadership up their game. If a product team is not performing well, the fault lies with the leaders. [2:58]
  • The product leader’s first and main job is to make sure that their product team thrives, and that they do their jobs well. Product managers should be encouraging and coaching their teams, and inspiring them so that they can set up their teams for success. [4:23]
  • “Product teams are only as good as their product managers...if those product managers are not good, it all falls apart and then it doesn't matter how much singing and dancing that product leader can do with the other executives if he or she can't deliver results,” Marty tells Melissa. [8:00]
  • What causes organizations to use tactics that only focus on cost reduction. [13:28]
  • The advice Marty gives to clients on what they can do to change their organizations. [17:38]
  • Becoming a great product manager is about learning from, and being coached by someone who’s dedicated to developing and coaching you. [22:17]
  • How to know which organizations will be willing to train you and how to find a product leader who is going to put in the time and effort to show you the ropes. [24:30]
  • Product leaders hire based on a person’s potential. It’s not about an academic qualification but more of a belief in the person’s ability to reach where product leaders think it can be. [27:22]
  • What organizations should be doing to help bring their less tech savvy employees up to speed, for the benefit of their product teams. [30:28]
  • One of the biggest issues surrounding product management. [34:59]
  • The ten keys to successful transformation. [40:38]

Resources

Marty Cagan | LinkedIn | Twitter

Silicon Valley Product Group

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Podcast: Tech Lead Journal (LS 29 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: #102 - Building Inspired & Empowered Product Teams - Marty Cagan
Pub date: 2022-08-29

“Instead of being given a roadmap of features, an empowered team is given a problem to solve and they get to figure out the best way to solve that problem."

Marty Cagan is the founder of the Silicon Valley Product Group and the author of “Inspired” and “Empowered”. In this episode, we discussed how companies ought to build great products by learning from the best product companies. Marty explained the importance of building the right product and shared the two inconvenient truths about building products. Marty then elaborated on the traits a good product team has and how to create an empowered product team by ensuring ownership and alignment and by having clear product vision, strategy, and focus. Towards the end, Marty shared the importance of coaching and nurturing people, how to hire better, and how to structure product team topologies.

Listen out for:

  • Career Journey - [00:05:48]
  • Writing Inspired & Empowered - [00:11:38]
  • Building the Right Product - [00:16:23]
  • Two Inconvenient Truths - [00:17:45]
  • Traits of Good Product Teams - [00:22:06]
  • Engineering Involvement - [00:24:53]
  • Empowered - [00:26:44]
  • Ownership & Alignment - [00:28:41]
  • Product Vision & Strategy - [00:33:00]
  • Focus - [00:35:39]
  • Coaching & Nurturing People - [00:39:40]
  • Hiring - [00:41:56]
  • How to Structure Teams - [00:43:49]
  • 4 Tech Lead Wisdom - [00:46:55]

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Marty Cagan’s Bio

Before founding the Silicon Valley Product Group to pursue his interests in helping others create successful products through his writing, speaking, advising and coaching, Marty Cagan served as an executive responsible for defining and building products for some of the most successful companies in the world, including HP Labs, Netscape Communications, and eBay. Marty is also the author of the books INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love and EMPOWERED: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products.

Follow Marty:

  • Website – https://www.svpg.com/
  • LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/cagan
  • Twitter – @cagan

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Podcast: Not Another Talkshow
Episode: Hvordan bliver man mere kreativ? | Lene Tanggaard
Pub date: 2022-08-17

Vi har brug for kreativitet. IsĂŠr i Danmark, hvor vi nĂŠsten ikke har nogen naturlige ressourcer og vores lĂžnniveau er til den sĂžde side sammenlignet med de fleste andre lande.

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Episode: Hvad er Design Thinking? | Regndans
Pub date: 2022-08-18

Design Thinking. Hvad er det? Du har helt sikkert hÞrt om det, for de to ord har vÊret brandvarm buzzzz i flere Är. Men hvad er det egentlig? Hvad vil det sige at tÊnke som en designer? Og hvorfor er det lige, at designerens tankegang kan noget specielt?

I visse kredse har Design Thinking vÊret hot hot hot i to Ärtier. Men her pÄ det seneste har flere fÄet Þjnene op for metoden og det den kan.

En af dem er Mads Nipper, Ørsteds CEO, som tit og ofte fremhÊver Design Thinking som et af de greb han bruger i sin ledelse. PÄ Youtube kan man fx finde en fin film, hvor han siger fÞlgende:

"Man kan i virkeligheden bruge designtÊnkning pÄ utrolige mange udfordringer og opgaver man har mellem hÊnderne."

Det lyder jo lovende. Mads Nipper er kendt for sin sÊrlige ledelsesstil og de resultater han skaber. Men hvad er det egentlig han gÞr, nÄr han bruger Design Thinking? Hvad gÄr metoden ud pÄ? Hvordan tÊnker man som en designer?

Det ved Jonas og Mark fra designvirksomheden Regndans. De lever nemlig af at tĂŠnke som designere og lĂŠre andre at gĂžre det samme.

GĂŠster
Mark og Jonas er to vaskeÊgte autoriteter inden for Design Thinking. Sammen driver de designvirksomheden Regndans, der har base pÄ Fyn, men efterlader farverige Post-its hos hÞjprofilerede kunder over hele landet.

Udover at drive Regndans, har de ogsÄ deres fingrer nede i Sprint Akademiet og Circular Design Camp, og sÄ udgiver de en absolut anbefalelsesvÊrdig podcast ved navn Den kreative dÄseÄbner.

VĂŠrt
Bo er co-CEO og partner i Abtion. I Not Another Talkshow indtager han rollen som vĂŠrt. Bo har sine rĂždder i kommunikation og design, og bruger Design Thinking i sin tilgang til ledelse.

Bo er en af ophavspersonerne til ideen om 4-dages arbejdsuge i Abtion og har med succes véret med til at lede organisationen igennem den store forandring. ‍

Bo er efterspurgt som oplÊgsholder blandt medarbejderteams og ledergrupper, der sÞger inspiration til, hvordan de pÄ det operationelle plan kan arbejde aktivt med trivsel, arbejdsglÊde og produktivitet.

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Episode: Hvordan slipper man af med stress | Bo Staal
Pub date: 2022-08-08

Kender du den dér fÞlelse af, at du har meget at lave, men kke ved hvad du skal lave? Eller den hvor du starter en masse ting, men ikke kan fokusere pÄ den samme ting lÊnge nok til at afslutte den?

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Episode: Forandringer der lykkes | Bo Vestergaard
Pub date: 2022-08-08

Forandringer er svÊre. Ja udtrykket er nÊrmest er blevet standardforklaringen pÄ, hvorfor vores initiativer fejler allerede fÞr, de er ivÊrksat. Og der er noget om sagen. For 2 ud af 3 forandringsforsÞg mislykkes faktisk.

Men der findes ledere og organisationer, der slĂ„r statistikken og fĂ„r 8 ud af 10 indsatser til at give pote — ligesom du kan gĂžre det. Metoden bygger pĂ„ masser af involvering og prĂŠcise doser styring, men du er nĂždt til at se nĂŠste afsnit af Not Another Talkshow for at fĂ„ hele hemmeligheden. Her fĂ„r vi nemlig besĂžg af en gĂŠst, der har vundet fine priser for hans praktiske teori om forandringsledelse.

Bo Vestergaard er forsker, forfatter, ledelses- og organisationskonsulent, og han har gravet dybt i, hvad der kendetegner lige prĂŠcis de forandringsforsĂžg, der lykkes.


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I interviewet refererer Bo Vestergaard flere gange til sine modeller. Hvis du skriver dig op pĂ„ hans mailliste, sĂ„ kvitterer han med sine slides + en case fra sin nyeste bog: “Hvad laver ledelsen, nĂ„r medarbejderne bestemmer? Cases fra Europas bedste offentlige arbejdsplads”.

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Podcast: Not Another Talkshow
Episode: Bagsiden af digitalisering | Imran Rashid
Pub date: 2022-06-29

I dette talkshow taler vi om bagsiden af digitalisering. Andelen af danskere med dĂ„rligt mentalt helbred stiger, og vi mĂ„ erkende, at nogle af de digitale produkter, der bliver udviklet, har taget kontrollen over os og stjĂŠler vores tid. I sin seneste bog “MĂŠrkbar” giver Imran Rashid en (samtids)diagnose og en kur pĂ„ det, som nogle kalder vor tids stĂžrste udfordring: nemlig hvordan vi skaber en bedre forbindelse mellem teknologi og mennesker.

I Abtion hylder vi fokus og fordybelse som vigtige kilder til et bedre liv. Det er bl.a. den filosofi, der har givet os 4-dages arbejdsuge. Samtidig tror vi pĂ„, at digitalisering er nĂžglen til endnu mere velfĂŠrd og fritid – hvis vi bruger den rigtigt. For spĂžrgsmĂ„let er, om vi vil bruge den Ăžgede produktivitet til at skabe et bedre og mere indholdsrigt liv for os selv, eller om det hele fortsat bare skal omsĂŠttes til vĂŠkst med stress og mistrivsel som biprodukt.

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Podcast: Not Another Talkshow
Episode: Hvordan bliver arbejdslivet efter corona? | Pernille Garde Abildgaard
Pub date: 2022-06-29

Har hjemmekontoret vundet fremtiden, eller lÊnges vi efter kontorlandskabets kuperede terrÊn af skillevÊgge, sniksnak og skÊrmfri interaktion? MÄske nedlukningen alligevel har sat (arbejds)livet lidt i perspektiv. For gider vi overhovedet at arbejde ligesÄ meget som fÞr?

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Podcast: Not Another Talkshow
Episode: Hvordan undgÄr vi pseudoarbejde? | Dennis NÞrmark
Pub date: 2022-06-29

PĂ„ dit job udfĂžrer du med garanti nogle opgaver, der rent faktisk ikke skaber vĂŠrdi, men bare optager din tid. Har vi ret? Vores nĂŠste gĂŠst kalder den slags opgaver for ‘pseudoarbejde’, og han har skrevet to fĂŠnomenale bĂžger om fĂŠnomenet. Han hedder Dennis NĂžrmark, og vi har inviteret ham i studiet for at tale om, hvordan man kommer det ligegyldige arbejde til livs og bruger sin tid mere fornuftigt.

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Podcast: Not Another Talkshow
Episode: Nej, det giver ikke mening at planlĂŠgge 37 timers arbejde | Morten MĂŒnster
Pub date: 2022-06-29

Nej, det giver ikke mening at planlĂŠgge 37 timers arbejde.

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Podcast: Making Sense with Sam Harris (LS 82 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: #289 — Time Management for Mortals
Pub date: 2022-07-18

Only the first 38 minutes of this episode are available on the paywalled podcast version (the BLACK podcast logo). If you’d like to hear the full 1 hour and 28 minutes of this episode and gain access to all full-length episodes of the podcast, you’ll need to SUBSCRIBE here. If you’re already subscribed and on the private RSS feed, the podcast logo should appear RED.

Sam Harris presents an unconventional perspective on time management from Oliver Burkeman. Rather than focusing on rote efficiency or productivity, Burkeman calls on us to embrace our finitude and surrender to the rhythms of life, so that we may “end our struggle with time”—and live with “more accomplishment, more success, and more time spent on what matters most.”

Oliver Burkeman is the author of the New York Times bestseller Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, about embracing limitation and finally getting round to what counts, along with The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking and Help!: How to Be Slightly Happier, Slightly More Successful and Get a Bit More Done. For many years he wrote a popular column on psychology for The Guardian, This Column Will Change Your Life, and has reported from London, New York, and Washington, D.C. In his email newsletter, The Imperfectionist, he writes about productivity, mortality, and building a meaningful life in an age of distraction.

Learning how to train your mind is the single greatest investment you can make in life. That’s why Sam Harris created the Waking Up app. From rational mindfulness practice to lessons on some of life’s most important topics, join Sam as he demystifies the practice of meditation and explores the theory behind it.

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Podcast: no dogma podcast (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: #166 Michael Dowden, Managing Remote Teams
Pub date: 2022-09-01

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Michael Dowden tells me about his experiences building and managing remote teams.

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Who he is, what he does. Managing a remote team, first employees hired over social media; skipped formal interviews some times; impact of Covid on team, meetings instead of email, stress. Not "work from home"; types of remote work, being available, meeting occasionally; how the team handled remote work; improving communication, document outcomes/decisions, documentation is the "source of truth", message overload; employees dedicated to managing communication; handling difficult conversations, don't let it linger; handling HR/legal issues across country/world; agile and remote work, Live Share; tips for remote work,

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Podcast: Agile Uprising Podcast (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Clean Language with Caitlin Walker and Sarah Baca
Pub date: 2022-09-11

Talk about an episode that's been a long time coming; this week we finally dive into the topic of Clean Language, and to help us do so we enlisted the best people to talk about it: author Caitlin Walker and clean practitioner/conference speaker Sarah Baca. This is definitely an episode you'll want to listen to twice...Enjoy!

Caitlin's Clean Learning Website

Caitlin's Book, From Contempt to Curiosity

Sarah's YouTube Channel, Clean at Work

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Podcast: Engineering Culture by InfoQ (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Shifting from Passenger to Driver Mindset
Pub date: 2022-09-09

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Mingxi Wu, VP of Engineering for TigerGraph about their engineering culture, motivating engineers through empowerment and shifting from a passenger to a driver mindset.

Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3qsa07W

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Podcast: Leading The Future of Work With Jacob Morgan (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Stop Asking For Permission, Try Doing This Instead!
Pub date: 2022-09-14

Asking for forgiveness is better than asking for permission.

If you ask for forgiveness, it means you’re proactively trying new things and can get things done quicker.

If you do things right, you probably won’t have to ask for forgiveness that often.

Instead of waiting for people’s decisions and asking for permission, take initiative and just ask for forgiveness.


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Podcast: Schmidt List - Inspiring Emerging Leaders (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Networking Tips For Professionals
Pub date: 2022-09-06

Want to know how to create value in your network?

In this episode, John Gabos and I will share networking tips to help you get the most out of your relationships with other professionals.

If you're like me, you know networking is key to success. But many people don't realize that networking isn't just about exchanging business cards and hoping for the best. It's about creating value for the people in your network and ensuring they get something out of it too.

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Podcast: Knowledge at Wharton (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Why Managers Aren’t Worried About Quiet Quitting
Pub date: 2022-09-12

Wharton’s Matthew Bidwell explains why employers have bigger things to worry about than employees who are quiet quitting, a phrase that describes doing the bare minimum at work.

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Podcast: At The Table with Patrick Lencioni (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 138. Iron Sharpens Iron
Pub date: 2022-08-05

Holding people accountable is an essential behavior for any high performing team, but the inability to do so remains one of the most prevalent dysfunctions in organizations today.  This week, our good friend Chris Stefanick joins Pat and Tracy to discuss how iron sharpens iron, and why it is so important to foster this behavior within our teams.  

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Podcast: At The Table with Patrick Lencioni (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 139. The Sport of Business
Pub date: 2022-08-10

Like many others in the business world, we love to make analogies to sports.  Why are these analogies so impactful, and what can we learn from them?   This week, Pat, Cody and Tracy discuss the nature of the relationship between accountability and results.  

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Podcast: At The Table with Patrick Lencioni (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 140. Work is a Verb
Pub date: 2022-08-17

Work is a verb, and we're supposed to enjoy it.  This week, Pat, Tracy and Cody discuss the reasons why what we do matters far more than where we do it.  

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Podcast: At The Table with Patrick Lencioni (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 142. Vocation Over Vacation
Pub date: 2022-08-31

When we don't see our work as a vocation, we're constantly looking forward to our next vacation.  This week, Pat, Beau and Tracy discuss the Sunday blues and the idea of work as a calling rather than a transactional relationship. 

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Podcast: At The Table with Patrick Lencioni (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 144. Enough About Quiet Quitting
Pub date: 2022-09-14

Enough about quiet quitting.  This week, Pat, Cody and Tracy discuss the act of quitting and staying, and why this is neither a new concept nor a good thing for employees or the organizations they serve.  

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Podcast: Level-up Engineering (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: The Manager’s Role in Engineer Coaching and Career Development
Pub date: 2022-08-31

Interview with Somer Esat, Senior Engineering Manager at Blizzard. He talks about the role of engineering managers in engineer coaching and career development.

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In this interview we're covering:

  • Managers in engineer coaching
  • Daily engineer coaching
  • Coaching engineers in their career development
  • Steps in engineers' career development
  • Coaching engineers to be flexible
  • Coaching engineers when choosing tracks
  • Challenges of the leadership track

Excerpt from the interview:

"The key is that you’re working with people; they’re not just resources. People have things that happen in their lives, within and outside of work as well. Both are important, because they determine how they feel.

You must be ready to manage your team’s feelings. They’re humans, and sometimes they’ll be more excited to be at work, and other times, they’ll be more focused on their personal lives. Engineering managers can ensure that the team is able to talk about these feelings.

If you’re not mindful of that, you might as well have robots working with you."

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Podcast: Hacking the Org
Episode: Sarah Wells on The Role of a Tech Director, Internal Tech Conferences, and Developer Enablement at the FT
Pub date: 2022-08-05

Charles Humble talks to Sarah Wells,  Former Tech Director for Engineering Enablement at the  Financial Times.  They discuss the role of the tech director, explore what Developer Enablement (AKSA as Developer experience/DevEX and Developer Productivity) is, examples of DevEx tooling, running an internal tech conference, her upcoming book and reading recommendations.

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Podcast: Hacking the Org
Episode: GitHub Director of Engineering Liz Saling on Pausing Feature Development to Focus on Tech Debt and DevEx
Pub date: 2022-09-12

Charles Humble talks to Liz Saling, Director of Engineering at GitHub. They discuss the role of developer experience at GitHub, why the firm paused feature development for an entire quarter to focus on making developer experience improvements, service ownership, and handling feedback.

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Podcast: Semaphore Uncut
Episode: Maximizing Software Product Value with Gojko Adzic
Pub date: 2021-01-19

In this episode of Semaphore Uncut, we talk to Gojko Adzic, specialist in agile and lean quality improvement. We talk about how to make truly valuable software products: addressing real needs rather than all requests and establishing quick feedback loops by observing behavior change. Gojko also shares how he has kept his passion for software alive. We hear how he made space to learn and experiment and how he guards his autonomy.

Gojko is a frequent speaker at software development conferences. He is also the author of Specification by Example and other books.

Key takeaways:

  • A developer-customer communication anti-pattern
  • Solve for needs, not features
  • Behavior change: a rapid feedback loop
  • Data over opinion
  • Books for budding product designers
  • Keeping the passion alive
  • The joy of autonomy
  • Even 'failed' experiments produce learning

About Semaphore Uncut
In each episode of Semaphore Uncut, we invite software industry professionals to discuss the impact they are making and what excites them about the emerging technologies.

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Podcast: Topchefernes strategi med Niels Lunde
Episode: Arnold Peter MĂžller: Rettidig omhu
Pub date: 2022-07-18

Niels Lunde fortĂŠller om dansk erhvervslivs dygtigste ledere i en lille sommerserie. Hvad var det at de var sĂ„ gode til som ledere? Og kan vi lĂŠre noget af dem? I dag om A. P. MĂžller, og hans sĂŠrlige livssyn som var forankret i udtrykket ”Rettidig omhu”, som han brugte da han for alvor gav sine konkurrenter baghjul lige efter den fĂžrste verdenskrig.

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Podcast: Topchefernes strategi med Niels Lunde
Episode: Alexander Foss: Lobbyistens ABC
Pub date: 2022-07-19

Niels Lunde fortÊller om dansk erhvervslivs dygtigste ledere i en lille sommerserie. Hvad var det at de var sÄ gode til som ledere? Og kan vi lÊre noget af dem? I dag om Dansk Industris fÞrste lobbyist Alexander Foss, der for mere end hundrede Är siden viste at det er muligt for erhvervslivet at sÊtte en politisk dagsorden.

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Podcast: Topchefernes strategi med Niels Lunde
Episode: August og Marie Krogh: Founder’s Mentality
Pub date: 2022-07-20

Niels Lunde fortĂŠller om dansk erhvervslivs dygtigste ledere i en lille sommerserie. Hvad var det at de var sĂ„ gode til som ledere? Og kan vi lĂŠre noget af dem? I dag om ĂŠgteparret August og Marie Krogh, der var med til at skabe Novo Nordisk – og som stadig spiller en stor rolle i virksomheden.

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Podcast: Topchefernes strategi med Niels Lunde
Episode: Den danske smÄstatsfordel
Pub date: 2022-07-21

Niels Lunde fortÊller om dansk erhvervslivs dygtigste ledere i en lille sommerserie. Hvad var det at de var sÄ gode til som ledere? Og kan vi lÊre noget af dem? I dag om det danske cementeventyr i Asien i slutningen af 1800-tallet og starten af 1900-tallet. Et nÊsten glemt, men utroligt og ogsÄ lÊrerigt kapitel i det danske erhvervslivs forunderlige historie.

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Podcast: Topchefernes strategi med Niels Lunde
Episode: Ole Kirk Christiansen: VĂŠrdibaseret ledelse
Pub date: 2022-07-22

Niels Lunde fortÊller om dansk erhvervslivs dygtigste ledere i en lille sommerserie. Hvad var det at de var sÄ gode til som ledere? Og kan vi lÊre noget af dem? I dag om den arbejdslÞse tÞmrer Ole Kirk Christiansen der skabte en lille legetÞjsvirksomhed i Billund for 90 Är siden. Hvad var det for et vÊrdisÊt han gjorde det ud fra?

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Podcast: Topchefernes strategi med Niels Lunde
Episode: Mads Clausen: TĂŠnk industrielt
Pub date: 2022-07-25

Niels Lunde fortĂŠller om dansk erhvervslivs dygtigste ledere i en lille sommerserie. Hvad var det at de var sĂ„ gode til som ledere? Og kan vi lĂŠre noget af dem? I dag om ingeniĂžren Mads Clausen der skabte Danfoss, og som Niels Lunde kalder for ”den vigtigste industrialist som vi har haft i Danmark”.

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Podcast: Topchefernes strategi med Niels Lunde
Episode: Godtfred Kirk Christiansens glemte notat
Pub date: 2022-07-26

Niels Lunde fortÊller om dansk erhvervslivs dygtigste ledere i en lille sommerserie. Hvad var det at de var sÄ gode til som ledere? Og kan vi lÊre noget af dem? I dag om Lego-ejeren Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, der kort fÞr sin dÞd skrev et notat, hvor han nedfÊldede sit sÊrlige syn pÄ ledelse.

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Podcast: Topchefernes strategi med Niels Lunde
Episode: Herman Salling: ForstĂ„ kunden – bedre end kunden forstĂ„r sig selv
Pub date: 2022-07-27

Niels Lunde fortÊller om dansk erhvervslivs dygtigste ledere i en lille sommerserie. Hvad var det at de var sÄ gode til som ledere? Og kan vi lÊre noget af dem? I dag om Herman Salling, kÞbmanden fra Aarhus der startede fÞrst FÞtex, sÄ Bilka og sÄ Netto, og som gjorde det ud fra en unik forstÄelse af sine kunder og deres livsstil.

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Podcast: Topchefernes strategi med Niels Lunde
Episode: MĂŠrsk Mc-Kinney MĂžllers ledelsesmĂŠssige testamente
Pub date: 2022-07-28

Niels Lunde fortĂŠller om dansk erhvervslivs dygtigste ledere i en lille sommerserie. Hvad var det at de var sĂ„ gode til som ledere? Og kan vi lĂŠre noget af dem? I dag om MĂŠrsk Mc-Kinney MĂžllers sĂŠrlige syn pĂ„ vĂŠrdier og ledelse – en historie der tager afsĂŠt i en historisk tale som skibsrederen holdt i sit private hjem i 2003.

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Podcast: Topchefernes strategi med Niels Lunde
Episode: De historiske topchefers vĂŠrktĂžjskasse
Pub date: 2022-07-29

”Topchefernes strategi” slutter sin sommerserie med et samlet bud pĂ„, hvad de dygtigste ledere i dansk erhvervsliv var sĂ„ dygtige til. Er det muligt at identificere nogle fĂŠlles ledelsesvĂŠrktĂžjer hos indbyrdes vidt forskellige ledere som J.C. Jacobsen, C.F. Tietgen, H.N. Andersen, A.P. MĂžller og alle de andre? Niels Lunde giver et bud pĂ„ deres fem vigtigste ledelsesvĂŠrktĂžjer.

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Podcast: Software Process and Measurement Cast (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: SPaMCAST 714 - Shift Right! A Conversation With Jonathon Wright
Pub date: 2022-07-31

Today Jonathon Wright will shift us
right? After decades of listening to the mantra shift left, you probably think you are entering the twilight zone. Maybe, but not on our account! Jonathan and I talked about putting customers first, testing AI, quality, and leadership.

Jonathon Wright is the Chief Technology Evangelist and heads up Solution Engineering (R&D) for Eggplant a Keysight Technologies company. He is a strategic thought leader and distinguished technology evangelist. He specializes in emerging technologies, innovation, and automation, and has more than 25 years of international commercial experience within global organizations.

Jonathon combines his extensive practical experience and leadership with insights into real-world adoption of Cognitive Engineering (Enterprise A.I. and AIOps). Thus, he is frequently in demand as a speaker at international conferences such as TEDx, Gartner, Oracle, AI Summit, ITWeb, EuroSTAR, STAREast, STARWest, UKSTAR, Guild Conferences, Swiss Testing Days, Unicom, DevOps Summit, TestExpo, and Vivit Community. Jonathon also hosts the QA lead (based in Canada) and is the author of several award-winning books (2010 – 2022) the latest with Rex Black on ‘AI for Software Testing.

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I am still recovering from a Covid infection I picked up at or getting to Agile 2022. All in all I have been lucky (and prepared) and have weathered a mild brush with this disease. My chest still feels like I was mugged, but every day I am getting better. The lack of self-awareness that I was getting sick until things were full-blown is fairly startling. It was more startling when I was re-reading Chapter 3 of Coaching Agile Teams by Lyssa Adkins (SPaMCAST Amazon affiliate line https://amzn.to/38G0ZD3 - buy a copy) again this week in preparation to write this essay.

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We will map the attributes of flow explored in SPaMCAST 708 to a basic palette of flow metrics. This will complete the circle defining flow, establishing basic attributes, and then identifying how to measure flow through its attributes.

We will also have a visit from Susan Parente who will bring her Not A Scrumdamentalist column to the cast!

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Podcast: no dogma podcast (LS 30 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: #165 Mads Torgersen, ADHD
Pub date: 2022-06-15

Summary

Mads Torgersen and I chat about his recent diagnosis with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and how it has changed his life for the better.

Details

Why we are making this podcast. The diagnosis; his symptoms. Hard time focusing + stress and fear, low self esteem, fear of what others think; good emotional intelligence. Biological disorder. Diagnostic process. Looking back at his childhood through the lens of ADHD, new perspective on old events, better understanding of paths/decisions. Conscious forgetfulness. Baking bread, (fast and) slow; long process, sticking to the recipe helps. Other superpowers. Handling stress, mutually beneficial delegation. Effect on relationships, people pleaser, allowing people to walk over him. Imposter syndrome, not belonging to the group, too busy being distracted. Hard to know what's going on with a person from the outside, extra effort to do things that require attention, biking uphill all the time. The Mads wiggle/explanation dance, the brain/body needs activity; staying still in schools. Treatment, changing habits, learning about AD/HD; stimulant medication, biking on flat ground, better focus, less anxiety, no side effects; needs to consciously take breaks; ADHD in the morning and taking the pill. Nonmedical routes, meditation, relaxing, diet. Talking publicly, sharing with others. Genetics and looking back on family history; understanding the past. Getting a diagnosis can help you get a good life; some resources (links below). What's next for Mads. Be open to people's differences.

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Podcast: Agile for Humans with Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: YDS: Sustainable Pace and Taking a Break
Pub date: 2022-07-05

Sustainable Pace and Taking a Break. Let's explore the options this situation presents. All of this and more are discussed in today's episode of Your Daily Scrum with Todd Miller and Ryan Ripley.

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Professional Scrum Trainers Todd Miller and Ryan Ripley built this course to help those interested in Scrum get up and running quickly using the Framework. They've partnered with Daria Bagina from ScrumMastered to bring practical materials and guides to the course.

Todd and Ryan also co-authored a book - Fixing Your Scrum: Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems.

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Podcast: Finding Mastery (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Oliver Burkeman on Time Management: Breaking Down the Facade of Productivity
Pub date: 2022-07-27

This week’s conversation is with Oliver Burkeman, a British author and journalist who I’ve really enjoyed his writings on productivity, mortality, the power of limits, and thoughts on building a meaningful life in an age of distraction.

Oliver is the winner of the Foreign Press Association's Young Journalist of the Year award, and for many years wrote a hit weekly column for The Guardian called This Column Will Change Your Life.

In this conversation, we dive into Oliver’s newest book, Four Thousand Weeks - where he uses the average number of weeks that humans live, 4k – as a reference point to help us examine how we are living
especially in a world of impossible demands, infinite choice, and countless “productivity techniques” that mainly just leave us feeling busier - and less fulfilled.

Oliver’s perspective and insights were a breath of fresh air, and I hope you’ll leave this conversation inspired to do the work to get clear on your values and prioritize your time based on the things that really matter to you – so that, ultimately, you too can make the most of your remaining weeks.


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Podcast: At The Table with Patrick Lencioni (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 137. Honey, I Shrunk the Team
Pub date: 2022-07-22

How many people belong on a leadership team?  This week, Pat, Cody and Tracy dive into the reasoning behind the answer to one of our most frequently asked questions.  

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Podcast: Level-up Engineering (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Screw SCRUM: Guide to Building a Truly Agile Organization
Pub date: 2022-07-20

Interview with Tyler Hartley, Director of Software Engineering at Johnson & Johnson. He talks about the philosophies, habits and challenges of truly agile organizations.

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In this interview we're covering:

  • The definition of agile
  • Characteristics of agile organizations
  • Truly agile practices
  • Behaviours to encourage
  • When not to choose agile
  • Agile products at J&J
  • Challenges of agile organizations
  • Common mistakes
  • Becoming an agile organization - J&J's story
  • Measures of success in an agile environment

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"Our team was working on a video recording feature, and we thought that including a passcode would be useful. Surgeons would have exclusive access to the recording tool, and they could ensure that they were the only ones who could start and stop the video.

The feedback we got was an unequivocal no. They told us that they wouldn't care about pushing buttons in that high-stress environment, and that they would probably put the passcode on a sticky note on the device, making it pointless.

We removed the feature because it didn’t add value. It only created friction."

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Podcast: Product Thinking (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Shifting How We Measure Success with Jeff Gothelf
Pub date: 2022-04-27

Melissa Perri welcomes Jeff Gothelf to this episode of the Product Thinking Podcast. An experienced consultant in the Agile and Lean UX space, Jeff just released the third edition of his popular book, Lean UX. Jeff talks with Melissa about how he’s shifted focus to teaching about OKRs, and why he encourages the companies he consults with to adopt this goal-setting framework to measure success. He breaks down what OKRs are, why they can’t be the only product-led change a company adopts, how many OKRs there should be within an organization, what a good OKR looks like at the executive level, and why OKRs make a “great gateway drug” to organizational agility.

Here are some key points you’ll hear Melissa and Jeff talk about:

  • HR leadership, especially the performance, retention, and promotion factions, is taking an interest in new ways to measure success, Jeff shares. They want to learn how to deploy this new metric across their organizations so they can improve their overall internal and external performances. [5:03]
  • Jeff shares how he educates clients about integrating their corporate strategy with their OKRs. “These things don’t exist in a vacuum and can’t be manufactured out of thin air,” he says. “They have to be derived from some kind of corporate strategy, product strategy, business unit strategy.” [9:19]
  • Objectives are the qualitative goals that we would like to achieve; they are aspirational and inspirational, and the value of doing them should be clear. [11:02]
  • When your teams are too independent, you run the risk of hyperlocal optimization, Jeff advises. “One of the better tactics that I've seen over the years is to take a set of teams and give them the same OKR set to hit,” he adds. “With those teams, we’ve defined what success is.” [19:09]
  • Jeff describes an exercise he runs with most of his executive clients. They visualize the relationship between impact metrics and leading and lagging indicators in order to identify the outcomes they’re going to work toward. What this exercise ends up becoming is a top-to-bottom customer journey map. [25:44]
  • Typically, teams get told what to build; they make a roadmap and get it approved. In Jeff’s OKR conversations with clients, he removes the output part of the process. They now have to discover what to build by practicing Lean UX, product discovery, and design thinking. Many organizations either don’t know how to do that, or they do and they make it difficult or impossible to execute the work. [33:09]
  • Quarterly check-ins allow you to reflect on whether it makes sense to go towards the goals you’ve set for yourself. [38:06]
  • Being a good storyteller is a key component of being a good product manager. A vast majority of product managers have to rely on bringing people together on a vision they’ve either built themselves or along with a team through storytelling, as they lead without authority. If you can tell a concise and compelling story that ties in the necessary information, that will be a valuable asset. [41:45]

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Podcast: Product Thinking (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Dear Melissa - Answering Questions About User Research
Pub date: 2022-05-04

In this Dear Melissa segment, Melissa answers subscribers’ questions about when research is stale and needs to be revalidated, when and why to schedule frequent customer interviews, and understanding product success when conducting product trials.

Q: Do you have any tips for identifying when previous validation of knowledge could be stale and might need to be revalidated before continuing work? [2:22]

Q: What’s your advice for booking customer interviews? [9:17]

Q: Do you have any tips beyond the usual customer surveys and interviews for understanding product success? [16:32]

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Podcast: Product Thinking (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Leading a Product Organization with Paul Adams
Pub date: 2022-05-11

Melissa Perri welcomes Paul Adams, Chief Product Officer at Intercom, to this episode of the Product Thinking Podcast. At Intercom since the days when they only had only 13 employees, Paul has helped shape the Product department from the ground up. Paul joins Melissa to talk through his approach to product leadership, what his day to day is like as CPO and why he hasn’t been in a product review in years, how to build trust within your organization, and embracing the “messy middle” when it comes to product strategy.

Here are some key points you’ll hear Melissa and Paul talk about:

  • Paul talks about his introduction to the field of product management, and how he became the Chief Product Officer at Intercom. [1:55]
  • To have a successful product organization, three teams – product management, product design and research and data science – must work together harmoniously. [4:55]
  • Paul believes that the best way to oversee all the different groups within a product organization is by appointing a trustworthy leader to each group and allowing them to have autonomy over their decisions. [6:51]
  • Paul cautions that the downfall of most organizations is the lack of trust from team leaders. Paul suggests that the teams have open conversations about “Why are they here? What do they not trust?” in order to build trust in the team. [15:03]
  • When choosing a new team leader or product manager, you have to build a relationship with them so they can trust you and vice versa. [16:12]
  • For your organization to work in unison, the strategy must be clearly, concisely and accurately translated to the execution level, acknowledging the ever-changing trends. [ 20:25]
  • When the company is reviewing the strategy in Google Docs, they urge employees to label their comments “major, minor or curious” in order of urgency. This creates a smooth-running system that maintains discipline. [25:46]
  • The lines between sales, support, marketing, product, and project management need to be blurred. These teams should deeply collaborate in order to achieve collective success for the company. [27:50]
  • For a company like Intercom to work harmoniously, a feedback loop for each team should be set up, where the problems to be solved for each group are shared so that the service can run as smoothly as possible. This only works if there is a strong relationship in the company. [34:05]
  • Paul believes that surveys would be most beneficial to project managers as they collect and track first-party data, which allows them to send targeted ads/messages. [38:31]

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Podcast: Product Thinking (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Empowering An Organization Through Product Operations with Scott White
Pub date: 2022-05-25

Melissa Perri welcomes Scott White to this week’s episode of the Product Thinking Podcast. Scott leads the product vertical at AirTable, so he shares how his own organization puts into place the tools and processes AirTable supports. Melissa and Scott discuss the many benefits of product operations and how it evolves as a company grows, “global alignment with local autonomy,” Melissa’s dream product ops set up, automated roadmap review, and product management in platform companies.

Here are some key points you’ll hear Scott and Melissa talk about:

  • Scott talks about his introduction to the product management field, his professional background, and what led him to AirTable. [2:02]
  • Scott shares why he entered the product management sphere, how his product works, and the versatility of AirTable. [4:25]
  • AirTable’s product development process and how product operations are conducted.
  • Product development should be a company-wide concern and not solely the product team’s. “Great ideas can come from anywhere within an organization as long as people have the visibility and the context into why the organization is prioritizing what that they are,” Scott says. [14:44]
  • The evolution of product operations and when it is most essential to organizations of varying sizes. Scott says that there are two major points where your product operations should metamorphose: “One is when you need to improve your product desperately 
.. Number two is when you're drastically increasing the complexity of your business.” [17:39]
  • Scott shares how his product operations team sets goals, monitors strategy, and tracks the goals and metrics, to ensure that they're tackling the task at hand so that they can achieve their goals. [21:07]
  • Scott reveals what he believes to be the most crucial practice that a product leader can implement when conducting product operations. “I think ultimately [as a product leader] it’s critical to understand the voice of your customers when you're building products.” [37:00]
  • Melissa asks Scott about his transition from CEO to product leader and what aspects of his former role he carries into his new one. [38:58]

Resources

Scott White | LinkedIn | Twitter

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Podcast: Product Thinking (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Dear Melissa - Answering Questions About Strategy, Discovery and Delivery
Pub date: 2022-06-01

In this Dear Melissa segment, Melissa answers subscribers’ questions about separating product strategy from overall company strategy, rules of thumb for discovery and delivery phases, and what a small company starting to scale up really needs in order to carve out a thoughtful product strategy and vision.

Q: Do you have any advice on how to align between product strategy and business strategy, especially when a product doesn't have a strong executive presence? [1:13]

Q: How do you manage discovery and delivery simultaneously during a 12-week quarter? Should there be two different roles? [6:59]

Q: What should the next step be for a company entering a scale-up model with no long-term strategy? [11:13]

Resources

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Podcast: Product Thinking (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Dear Melissa - Answering Questions About AI and Platform Products, Being New to Product Ops, and People Management in Product
Pub date: 2022-02-23

In this Dear Melissa segment, Melissa answers subscribers’ questions about data, AI, and platform products, transitioning from project management to product operations, and how to navigate a lead engineering role that is intertwined with both product and people management responsibilities.

Q: How do you do discovery and write requirements for data, AI, and platform products? [1:09]

Q: What are some tips and tricks you would recommend for a first-time product operations manager coming from a project management role? What do you think are the most important things to do during the first 30 days on the job? [8:17]

Q: Can people and product management really mix? Do you have any tips for making sure both domains can run smoothly without interference? [13:15]

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MelissaPerri.com

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Podcast: Conversations with Tyler (LS 64 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Tyler and Daniel Gross Talk Talent
Pub date: 2022-05-18

If Tyler and Daniel's latest book can be boiled down into a single message, it would be that the world is currently failing at identifying talent, and that getting better at it would have enormous benefits for organizations, individuals, and the world at large. In this special episode of Conversations with Tyler, Daniel joined Tyler to discuss the ideas in their book on how to spot talent better, including the best questions to ask in interviews, predicting creativity and ambition, and the differences between competitiveness and obsessiveness.

They also explore the question of why so many high achievers love Diet Coke, why you should ask candidates if they have any good conspiracy theories, how to spot effective dark horses early, the hiring strategy that set SpaceX apart, what to look for in a talent identifier, what you can learn from discussing drama, the underrated genius of game designers, why Tyler has begun to value parents more and IQ less, conscientiousness as a mixed blessing, the importance of value hierarchies, how to become more charismatic, the allure of endurance sports for highly successful people, what they disagree on most, and more.

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Podcast: The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: #141 Kunal Shah: Core Human Motivations
Pub date: 2022-06-28

Indian entrepreneur and venture capitalist Kunal Shah calls on his decades of entrepreneurial experience to discuss what he’s learned about what motivates people, and how observing trends have made him a runaway success in business. Shah also discusses the cultural differences between India and the West, the lessons he learned growing up in the family business, why he dropped out of an MBA program, strategies for decision-making, and so much more. Shah is the founder and CEO of CRED, an Indian fintech company that serves as a reward-based credit card payments app. Shah also currently sits on the board of a variety of Indian companies and has served as an investor in dozens of companies since 2016. --

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Podcast: Schmidt List - Inspiring Emerging Leaders (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Signs You Are a Bad Leader
Pub date: 2022-06-16

Do you sometimes feel like you're just not cut out to be a leader?

But you're not alone if you feel your self-awareness needs a little work. It can be difficult for some people at times, and that's why it is essential to keep learning to better ourselves, so we don't fall back into old habits again.

How can you tell if you need to improve your leadership skills? Some signs are indicative of substandard leadership. Let me share some of the most common ones so you can identify them and take steps to improve.

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Podcast: Inside Intercom (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Intercom on Product: Facing the tech slowdown
Pub date: 2022-05-26

In the face of what’s expected to be an economic downturn, projected growth has slowed, investment has shrunken, and the tech industry has taken a hit. It’s time to pause, regroup, and devise a new game plan. Des Traynor and Paul Adams reflect on the tech slowdown and what it means for product teams.

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Podcast: Inside Intercom (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Intercom’s product principles: Back to the basics
Pub date: 2022-06-09

Software only becomes valuable when it's delivered to customers. By following fundamentals and stripping unnecessary complexity from the equation, we can do it fast and efficiently. On today's episode you’ll hear from Intercom product designer Charlotte Sferruzza about the importance of following design fundamentals and how it leaves space for innovation and engineering manager Martha Moniz on building better solutions by keeping it simple.

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Podcast: Inside Intercom (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: G2's CMO Amanda Malko on the latest trends in software buying
Pub date: 2022-06-23

The typical software selling strategy is dead. In a market where there is less and less time to influence customers’ decisions, can customer marketing help companies get ahead? In today’s episode, we chat with G2's CMO Amanda Malko about the trends she’s seeing in the industry, and how they’re affecting the way businesses operate.

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Podcast: Knowledge at Wharton (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Your Manager Is Leaving: What Does That Mean for Your Career?
Pub date: 2022-05-25

A boss can be the most consequential person in an employee’s career. New research from Wharton’s Matthew Bidwell examines what happens to employee pay and promotion when that relationship is severed by turnover.

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Podcast: At The Table with Patrick Lencioni (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 125. Poisonous Candy
Pub date: 2022-04-29

There are some ideas that seem great on the surface, but may lead to a number of unintended negative consequences.  This week, Pat, Cody and Tracy discuss the merits (and limits) of a new proposal for a 32 hour workweek as it relates to productivity and employee engagement.  

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Podcast: At The Table with Patrick Lencioni (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 126. Abdication vs. Delegation
Pub date: 2022-05-03

When it comes to being a leader, how can we tell the difference between delegating tasks and abdicating our responsibilities?  This week, Pat, Cody and Tracy discuss the intersection of The Motive and The Working Genius.  

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Podcast: At The Table with Patrick Lencioni (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 127. Adjust Your Rearview Mirror
Pub date: 2022-05-11

When we get through painful experiences, both in our lives and in our work, how do we tend to look back on those experiences?  This week, Pat, Cody and Tracy discuss how we can begin to see failure as a necessity, and look back on difficult moments with gratitude instead of shame.  

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Podcast: At The Table with Patrick Lencioni (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 129. You're Not Tired, You're Fatigued
Pub date: 2022-05-25

Right now, within a lot of organizations, one of the most common issues we're facing is fatigue.  This week, Pat, Cody and Beau discuss the different reasons for this issue, and why we as employees, managers, and leaders are often solving for the wrong things.  

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Podcast: At The Table with Patrick Lencioni (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 131. Blowing up Performance Management
Pub date: 2022-06-10

Forget everything you know about performance management.  This week, Pat, Cody and Tracy talk about one of the most important jobs of any leader, and how it relates to hiring, firing, and everything in between.  

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Podcast: At The Table with Patrick Lencioni (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 134. 14 Qs About the 5 Ds
Pub date: 2022-06-29

This year, we're celebrating the 20th anniversary of Pat's book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team.  In this episode, Pat and Cody respond to 14 of your questions about the model, the book, and how to best apply it to your team.  

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Podcast: Dev Interrupted (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: The 2 Things You Ask Your Team When You Pass $1B w/ Hippo’s VP of Engineering
Pub date: 2022-06-04

When you think of a billion-dollar tech company, you probably imagine rooms full of monitors with dashboards and non-stop data streams.

Well, after talking to Hippo - a certified unicorn and newly minted giant in the insurance industry - we realized this couldn’t be further from the truth.

Mike Gordon, VP of Engineering at Hippo, sat down with Dev Interrupted to chat about what it’s actually like to run the dev teams powering a company that just passed a $1 billion valuation.

His insights about what actually matters to him were amazing for how simple, focused and – brilliant – they are.

A great conversation on what’s important to a company re-writing the rules of insurance, Mike Gordon is by far one of the most thoughtful-yet-pragmatic minds we’ve had on yet.

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Episode: DI Labs: Where Does Your Dev Team’s Performance Rank? w/ Ori Keren Co-Founder & CEO of LinearB
Pub date: 2022-06-15

In an industry that has trouble looking beyond the next sprint, it’s good to know there are very smart people researching the conscious and unconscious pain points keeping devs from focusing on what they actually want to do: code.

In our new series Dev Interrupted Labs we’ll be looking at the most interesting research on how devs work, communicate and code.

The best way to start should be understanding what is actually a well-performing engineering org versus one that’s struggling. That’s why we’re so excited to have Ori Keren, co-founder of LinearB, as our first guest to discuss the results of the first-ever “Engineering Benchmarks Report.”

The product of comprehensively analyzing the work of almost 2,000 dev teams, “The 2022 Engineering Benchmarks Report” is the first EVER look at what performance metrics make engineering orgs elite, average or underwhelming.

We hope you enjoy this conversation as much as we did and that you’re able to find out where your dev team ranks as well as concrete ways to improve.

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Episode: The Best Solution to Burnout We’ve Ever Heard | A Conversation With Slack, Netlify & Ambassador Labs
Pub date: 2022-06-18

With registration for our free October Interact conference now open, we wanted you to hear one of our favorite sessions from this past April’s Interact.

Featuring the best minds from Slack, Netlify and Ambassador Labs, our session on Inspiring Engineering Leaders & Driving Developer Creativity turned into one of the best conversations we’ve ever heard on topics like dev toil, dev focus and dev burnout.

This is a great preview of the type of content we’re working on for our conference in October, and this panel completely made us rethink how we approach burnout at LinearB.

If you like it as much as we do, be sure to sign up for October’s free, virtual Interact conference at: https://devinterrupted.com/event/interact/ Access the engineering benchmarks report here: http://linearb.io/benchmarks/

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Episode: Creating a Better CTO Playbook w/ Dama Financial's CTO Zach Goldberg
Pub date: 2022-06-25

Fact: There are guidebooks for everything in programming except for actually leading, managing and inspiring programmers.

That’s why I was so happy to have my friend Zach Goldberg on the podcast.

Someone who has made learning and self-improvement a core pillar of his professional and personal life, Zach Goldberg is someone who I turn to when I need to know who smart CTOs are turning to.

In this great conversation, Zach talks about the most important things he’s learned in separating signal from noise in the realm of engineering leadership. He also provides some amazing guidance on who you should be listening to (when you’re not listening to us). Enjoy.

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Zach's reading list: http://go.zachgoldberg.com/readinglist

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Podcast: Level-up Engineering (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: How to Improve Employee Retention During the Great Resignation
Pub date: 2022-05-25

Interview with David Siegel, CEO at Meetup. He talks about ways the leaders at Meetup and he has been utilizing to motivate employees and combat the Great American Resignation.

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In this interview we're covering:

  • Takeaways from the pandemic
  • Improving employee retention and motivation
  • Communication in a hybrid environment
  • Supporting leaders at Meetup
  • Improving work-life balance
  • Building a community
  • Communicating your mission right

Excerpt from the interview:

"I received an email a few days ago from a Meetup organizer. The subject line said, ”Thanks for Meetup.”

The email read, "David, I'm grateful for Meetup. My mom is in the hospital, and she's probably going to die. Because of all the great friends I've made through running my groups, I'm not alone. People come over to support me at this difficult time. Thank you!"

This is a real story. Every few weeks, I get a few powerful emails like this. As a leader, you need to connect with your customers, and you need to find ways to tell these stories to your team, so they connect with the customers as well."

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Episode: Engineering Management Trends 2022
Pub date: 2022-06-08

State of Engineering Management 2022 report

Interview with Dylan Hansen, Senior Director of Engineering Enablement & Engagement at Salesforce dicussing the results of the State of Engineering Management 2022 report. We analyze the most interesting findings to get more insight and commentary from a fellow engineering leader.

In this interview we're covering:

  • Self-improvement in leadership
  • Hiring and retention
  • People and performance management
  • Engineering brand
  • Remote work

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Podcast: Make Things That Matter (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: #58 Scott Young: Learning for Real Life
Pub date: 2022-06-28

Scott Young is an expert on rapid, effective learning. This ep will help you learn new skills effectively and quickly amidst the chaos of real life.


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Podcast: Hacking the Org
Episode: Manuel Pais on Using Team Topologies Patterns for Remote Working
Pub date: 2022-06-01

Charles Humble talks to Team Topologies co-author Manuel Pais. They discuss how the rapid adoption of Team Topologies may be being driven by companies seeking a new competitive advantage as DevOps and Cloud become ubiquitous; applying software engineering thinking to organisational design; the challenges of cross-team collaboration in a remote context; and using Team Topologies patterns for remote working.

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Episode: VP Engineering and Chief Architect at eBay Randy Shoup on Improving their Developer Velocity
Pub date: 2022-04-01

In our first "Hacking the Org" podcast, Charles Humble talks to Randy Shoup, VP Engineering and Chief Architect at eBay. They discuss how eBay’s architecture has evolved, discovering problems in engineering using value stream mapping, measuring engineering team velocity, and making cultural change. Transcriot and show notes.

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Episode: Susanne Kaiser on Joining the Dots Between Wardley Mapping, Domain Driven Design and Team Topologies
Pub date: 2022-05-04

Charles Humble talks to Susanne Kaiser, an independent tech consultant from Hamburg, Germany, supporting organisations with building socio-technical systems. They explore her thinking on combining Wardley Mapping with Domain Driven Design and perspectives from Team Topologies, and how this thoughts into broader ideas around socio-technical systems and optimising for fast flow. Transcript and show notes

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Podcast: The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: #132 Ret. Gen. Stanley McChrystal - The Essence of Leadership
Pub date: 2022-03-08

Retired United States Army General Stanley McChrystal calls on more than three decades of military experience to discuss the fundamental tenets of leadership, and practical advice for taking calculated risks and making important decisions. This wide-ranging conversation includes insights on mitigating risk, making decisions under uncertainty, why civilian leadership is tougher than military leadership, developing mental toughness, teaching discipline, and so much more. A veteran of four U.S. wars in the Middle East, McChrystal was a four-star general best known for his command of Joint Special Operations Command from 2003-08, when he oversaw special operations in both Iraq and Afghanistan. His troops were responsible for both the capture of Saddam Hussein in 2003 and the 2006 death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq. After retiring from the military in 2010 he joined Yale University as a Jackson Institute for Global Affairs senior fellow, and in 2011 he founded a consultancy firm, McChrystal Group, which helps organizations tap into human potential in service of stronger business outcomes. -- Want even more? Members get early access, hand-edited transcripts, member-only episodes, and so much more. Learn more here: https://fs.blog/membership/

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Episode: #135 Sarah Jones Simmer: The Foundation of Trust
Pub date: 2022-04-19

Sarah Jones Simmer calls on her years of experience as an advisor, investor, and top-level executive to offer a series of crucial career tips, and discuss how work helped rehabilitate her following a frightening cancer diagnosis. Simmer goes deep on scaling a business, making the right hire for your company, female-led companies, fundraising, setting boundaries, and how she learned to re-focus on the big deals in life.

Simmer is the CEO of Found, a company focused on making evidence-based, sustainable weight care for all. She joined the company in September 2021 after serving as the Chief Strategy Officer at Bumble, Inc., the parent company of the wildly popular relationship app. During her time with Bumble she was responsible for core strategy, international growth, marketing initiatives, business operations, and expanding Bumble’s rapidly growing team. She also led the investment strategy for the Bumble Fund, the company’s early-stage investing vehicle.

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Podcast: Schmidt List - Inspiring Emerging Leaders (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: How to Succeed with a People First Mindset
Pub date: 2022-03-22

Successful modern businesses must have a people-first mentality. You form a culture of trust and mutual respect when you put your employees first. That trust and respect develop enthusiasm and motivation, essential for its overall growth strategy.

However, it's necessary to remember that a people-first mindset should not come at the expense of having a strategy. A well-executed strategy is essential to achieving organizational goals and generating opportunities for your employees to grow professionally.

If The Great Resignation impacts your business, it has become painfully evident that you need to create a balance between your people and your strategy. You'll create an environment where everyone can feel safe and thrive in their roles.

Learn more about succeeding with a people-first mindset by joining Chris Heim, President & CEO at AbeTech, and me in this live presentation.

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Episode: How to Take Care of Yourself at Work
Pub date: 2022-04-26

Do you sometimes struggle to get through the workday?

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Podcast: Inside Intercom (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Intercom's Jane Honey on perfecting career paths for product management
Pub date: 2021-10-14

The role of a PM is riddled with variables and subtleties. Writing clear career paths gets rid of the uncertainty and helps you navigate your way up the ladder. On this episode Intercom's Senior Product Director Jane Honey discusses the perks of career ladders and what has changed in our approach since last time.

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Episode: Wellbeing coach Marilyn Suttle on curbing burnout and attrition
Pub date: 2022-02-24

In our recently published Customer Support Trends Report for 2022 a significant 64% of support leaders say their team have felt “burned out” in the past 12 months. Companies that focus on their wellbeing will be the ones to thrive. That's why this week on Inside Intercom we spoke to wellbeing coach Marilyn Suttle about wellbeing practices in and outside the workplace and how to restore good feelings after dealing with stressful situations.

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Episode: Growth marketing expert Ramli John on why you’re getting user onboarding wrong
Pub date: 2022-03-03

User onboarding is not a quick product tour or welcome email. It starts before the users sign up, and it doesn't quite end after they convert. So, what is it, and more importantly, how do you get it right? Growth marketing expert Ramli John joins us to discuss.

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Episode: Product evangelist John Cutler on becoming a catalyst for change
Pub date: 2022-03-16

There’s more to being a product evangelist than just advocating for a product. Amplitude Product Evangelist John Cutler believes focusing on the work culture and systems surrounding the R&D org is just as important and he joins on todays episode to chat with Intercom Product Manager Mathew Cropper.

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Podcast: Knowledge@Wharton (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: What’s Going to Happen to All Those Empty Office Buildings?
Pub date: 2022-02-28

The demand for office space is unlikely to rebound to pre-COVID levels because workers want flexibility, says Wharton real estate professor Joseph Gyourko.

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Podcast: The 6 Figure Developer Podcast (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Accessibility First with Alexander Lemkin
Pub date: 2022-03-07

Episode 235

Alexander is a Web Engineer and Architect focused on accessible and extensible solutions.

Links

https://www.alemkin.com/

https://www.flapjacktech.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-lemkin-63663749/

https://github.com/alemkin

Resources

https://www.ada.gov/

https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG2AA-Conformance

https://www.a11yproject.com/

https://accessibilityinsights.io/

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Podcast: The 6 Figure Developer Podcast (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: DevSecOps with Sandy Carielli & Janet Worthington
Pub date: 2022-04-04

Episode 238

Sandy is a principal analyst at Forrester advising security and risk professionals on application security, with a particular emphasis on the collaboration among security and risk, application development, operations, and business teams.

Janet is a senior analyst at Forrester advising security and risk professionals. She covers product security, proactive security design, securing new development methods, security testing in the software delivery lifecycle, and collaboration between security, development, and product management.

Links

https://twitter.com/sandycarielli

https://twitter.com/janetworthing

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandra-carielli-251599/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/janet-costello-worthington/

Resources

SAST - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_application_security_testing

DAST - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_application_security_testing

https://www.dayofshecurity.com/

https://portswigger.net/burp

https://owasp.org/

https://safecode.org/

https://www.securecodewarrior.com/

https://risky.biz/

https://reverb.spokenlayer.net/publishers/v1-wired-security

https://thecyberwire.com/podcasts/daily-podcast

https://www.forrester.com

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Podcast: At The Table with Patrick Lencioni (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 118. It's a Strategy Thing
Pub date: 2022-03-03

Product leadership, customer intimacy, operational excellence.  Every organization needs to pick one of these three values to be the best at in their industry.  

This week, Pat and Cody discuss Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema's, 'The Discipline of Market Leaders'.

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Episode: 119. Gaslighting Really Sucks
Pub date: 2022-03-09

We might not think of gaslighting as something that happens in the workplace, but it does... and it sucks.  When leaders are unwilling to be vulnerable, and team members are unable to admit their mistakes, it can lead to behaviors like gaslighting that undermine culture and poison organizations.  

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Episode: 120. Plan is a Four Letter Word
Pub date: 2022-03-18

It was Mike Tyson who said "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth."  This week, the team discusses flexibility and the importance of identifying and working towards a 'true north' over adhering to the details of a plan.  

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Episode: 121. Enough About Productivity
Pub date: 2022-03-25

Productivity is an art, not a science.  

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Episode: 122. Doctor Burnout
Pub date: 2022-03-30

When it comes to burnout, it's not the amount of work, it's the type of work.  This week, the team talks about the nature of our jobs, and how to do more of what gives us energy and joy.  

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Episode: 123. Don't Calm Down
Pub date: 2022-04-08

This week on At the Table, the team discusses the importance of expressing appropriate emotion at work.  

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Episode: 124. Our Fascination with Theranos
Pub date: 2022-04-19

Other than television shows based on their unethical and disastrous decisions, what do the founders of Theranos, WeWork, and Uber have in common?  This week, Pat, Cody and Tracy discuss the dangers of leading for the wrong reasons.  

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Podcast: Level-up Engineering (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Customer Obsession in Action - Case Study from Mailchimp
Pub date: 2022-03-02

Interview with Maura Kelly, VP of Engineering at Mailchimp about injecting customer obsession into software engineering. She details organizing an event to actualize customer obsession and promote it across every level of the company and shares everything she's learned along the way.

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In this interview we're covering:

  • Customer obsession in software engineering
  • Customer obsession event
  • Origins of the customer obsession event
  • Getting buy-in from leadership
  • Getting buy-in from software engineers
  • Feedback for the customer obsession event
  • Lasting changes on the development process
  • Pitfalls of customer obsession

Excerpt from the interview:

"This idea didn’t originate from one person. It came from different parts of the company. People on different teams and different levels started thinking about similar ideas, and we all came together and made it happen. It came from engineering, management, and from our support team.

I had co-conspirators who helped me plan it out and make it happen. Shout out to Mehdi, Lee, Cal, and Ariana for all the help. They were working on their own pitches about similar ideas.

We all got together and worked out the common patterns across our ideas that resulted in this event."

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Episode: Guide to Improve Organizational Decision Making: Restructuring Foursquare
Pub date: 2022-03-16

Interview with Ankit Patel, SVP of Engineering at Foursquare. He explains how he realized that Foursquare's decision making process requires a rehaul, and what he did to completely restructure the entire organization to create more efficient decision making.

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In this interview we're covering:

  • Organizational decision making issues
  • New organization structure
  • Finding the solution
  • Role of leadership in rebuilding organizational decision making
  • Getting buy-in from the teams
  • Changes in hiring
  • Common mistakes in organizational decision making

Excerpt from the interview:

"The challenge was enabling fast decision making based on the customers’ needs. Foursquare has been in hypergrowth, and we’d been developing teams based on profession. You often had to cross VP boundaries just to discuss a product feature, and our products require a lot of this type of collaboration.

We were slow to innovate, which made it difficult to drive change. You needed at least three to four teams to work together to get anything done. This caused a cascading effect where delays in one team impacted other teams as well.

This also made prioritization difficult. When you had an emerging idea, you often needed executive involvement to set up priorities. This slowed down innovation and the overall workflow."

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Podcast: Level-up Engineering (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Software Engineering Ethics Manifesto by Uncle Bob Martin
Pub date: 2022-03-30

Interview with Robert C. Martin a.k.a. Uncle Bob. He explains his views and ideas about the need for a set of software engineering ethics, universal quality standards and how they may translate to reality.

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In this interview we're covering:

  • Importance of ethics
  • Applying ethics to software engineering
  • Current ethical problems in the software industry
  • Selling companies on software engineering ethics
  • Cornerstones of software quality
  • Thought experiments with software engineering ethics
  • Role of the individuals in creating software ethics
  • The deadline on software engineering ethics

Excerpt from the interview:

"Currently, software developers carry the lifeblood of civilization. Nothing can function without software, and developers' behavior isn’t in line with that responsibility. I want us programmers to behave in a stalwart way, and acknowledge our responsibility which is likely to keep growing.

There have been high profile calamities caused by software over the past decades. Software developers need to start discussions about what may be done before a disaster happens that takes control out of our hands.

I expect a disaster to happen eventually that overtakes politics and causes legislation to constrain the software industry. We need to get ahead of this and be ready with a code of ethics and a set of standards by the time the politicians come to regulate us."

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Podcast: Level-up Engineering (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Top Methods for Building Trust in Virtual Teams
Pub date: 2022-04-13

Interview with Anand Safi, Senior Engineering Leader at Mark43. He covers methods and metrics for building trust in virtual teams while telling his story of taking over a newly founded remote team and scaling it up.ï»ż

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In this interview we're covering:

  • Definition of trust in the workplace
  • Differences between building trust in virtual teams vs the office
  • Methods for building trust in a virtual team
  • Encouraging team members to build trust among each other
  • Measuring trust in a virtual team
  • Feedback channels in virtual teams
  • Anand's story of building trust in his virtual team

Excerpt from the interview:

"At the organizational level, the metric can be transparency around communication. Once you’ve built trust with individuals, you can build organizational trust on the back of that.

As an engineer, I used to think, “I wish leadership would tell us about every problem; there is no reason not to.” As a leader partaking in some of these conversations, I’ve had to realize how fluid strategic decisions are. I prefer going to my reports with concrete information rather than updates on discussions that may change by next week.

I put effort into coaching my team to understand the leadership's position. I assure them that we’re working on a strategy, and I’ll make sure to update them when we have a plan to execute. Their reaction lets you know how much they trust the organization."

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Podcast: VĂŠkstmaskinen
Episode: Ep. 01: Morten Resen fra GoLittle
Pub date: 2022-03-28

FÞrste afsnit af VÊkstmaskinen er med Morten Resen, CEO og founder af GoLittle & Mambeno. I dette afsnit gÄr vi i dybden med Mortens ivÊrksÊtterejse og stiller skarpt pÄ hvordan han har rejst penge flere omgange til GoLittle. 

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Episode: Ep. 03: Mikkel Severin EQ og Ledelse
Pub date: 2022-04-13

Tredje afsnit af VÊkstmaskinen er med Mikkel Severin, CEO i Mind Control. I dette afsnit gÄr vi i dybden med emotionel intelligens, og hvordan man som leder kan bruge EQ som et ledelsevÊrktÞj. I vores fÞrste podcast special vil Mikkel give  en dybdegÄende indsigt i, hvordan EQ kan ses pÄ bundlinjen, og hvad nÞglen er til gazellevirksomheders forsatte vÊkst.

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Podcast: Bret Weinstein | DarkHorse Podcast (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: #116 Selling out the West (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)
Pub date: 2022-02-27

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In this 116th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

This week, we discuss a hypothesis regarding the mechanism by which mRNA vaccines may cause myocarditis. We discuss fear and safety and how fear is used to convince us that we can do with less safety—in things from vaccines to transgenic trees. We discuss Ukraine, a bit, and fairness, and fixing the system so that we can be strong and liberal again, and we read two Wendell Berry poems, and a letter from a Canadian named Matthew.


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Mentioned in this episode:

To fight climate change, a biotech firm has genetically engineered a very peppy poplar: https://www.science.org/content/article/fight-climate-change-biotech-firm-has-genetically-engineered-very-peppy-poplar

Aldén et al 2022. Intracellular Reverse Transcription of Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine BNT162b2 In Vitro in Human Liver Cell Line. Curr. Issues Mol. Biol. 2022, 44(3), 1115-1126. https://doi.org/10.3390/cimb44030073

Dr. Mobeen Said video on the above paper: https://youtu.be/MjxlvduyJyc

Doidge, Norman. Needle Points. Tablet Magazine, Oct 27, 2021: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/[sectionSlug]/articles/needle-points-vaccinations-chapter-one

The Truth About the War in Ukraine, with Konstantin Kisin of Triggernometry: https://youtu.be/dNnq8gMAE-8?t=745

Springtime was the season the dinosaurs died, ancient fish fossils s

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Podcast: Bret Weinstein | DarkHorse Podcast (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: #120 What is a Woman? (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)
Pub date: 2022-03-26

In this 120th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

This week, we discuss the definition of woman. What are women? Adult human females. What are adults, and humans, and females? Are we suffering a plague of sophistry? (Yes.) Must we turn this around? (Yes.) Are humans ever hermaphroditic? (No.) What about banana slugs? (Yes. What about them?) And clown fish? (Also yes—again, so? They’re clown fish, not humans.) We discuss the evolution of sex and sex roles (aka gender). We talk about Genetic Sex Determination and Environmental Sex Determination. We discuss anisogamy and monoecious and dioecious plants, and it’s interesting and not full of uninterpretable words. We do not discuss the paired hemipenes of snakes and lizards. Our apologies.


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Digital Public Square – bringing a plug-and-play experience to the decentralized web: https://www.samizdapp.com/

Akira the Don, Dr. Seuss, and Bret Weinstein: https://youtu.be/1pJhF2GjwDM

Ketanji Brown Jackson, nominee to the Supreme Court of the U.S., is asked what a woman is: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ketanji-brown-jackson-says-she-can-t-define-woman-because-i-m-not-a-biologist/ar-AAVnX6b

Dictionary.com definition of woman: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/woman

(also see: the Oxford English Dictionary, and also A Dictionary of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics (2nd ed, Lincoln, Boxshall and Clark), for a definition of “female”)

Daly and Wilson 1983. Sex, Evolution and Behavior. https://books.google.com/books/about/Sex_Evolution_and_Behavior.html?id=VodHAAAAMAAJ

Leshem 2016.

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Podcast: Make Things That Matter (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: #31 Marty Cagan: Empowering product teams to do the best work of their lives
Pub date: 2020-12-01

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Podcast: Make Things That Matter (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: #35 Dianne Frommelt: Building products to help people become their best selves
Pub date: 2021-01-26

Dianne Frommelt is the Chief Product Officer for 15Five, a company I am a longtime fan of. They're on a mission to create high performing, highly engaged teams, and to create a product that helps everyone who uses it to be and become their best selves.


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Links & resources mentioned* Dianne Frommelt: LinkedIn, Twitter * 15Five + Podcast: Best-Self Management * Resources mentioned + Yvonne Chouinard’s practice that inspired 15Five + How To Have Clearing Conversations At Work + Conscious Leadership Group * People + Neil Degrasse Tyson + Laura Garnett – see episode 24: “Find your zone of genius and never fear a job search again” + Marty Cagan – see episode 31: “Empowering product teams to do the best work of their lives” + Rich Mironov – see episode 5: “Building a thriving product organization” + Josh Bersin - The Future of Work: It’s Already Here
 And Not As Scary As You Think - The Future of Work: Lessons In Job Architecture and Career Management + Anese Cavanaugh (intentional energetic presence) * Books + First, Break All The Rules – by Marcus Buckingham + 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership + Product Roadmaps Relaunched + The Genius Habit

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Podcast: Make Things That Matter (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: #37 C Todd Lombardo: Ask better questions to unlock clarity
Pub date: 2021-02-23

C Todd Lombardo brings a blend of humanity, rigor, and innate curiosity to the questions that shape what we do. Learn to ask better questions and unlock clarity in your work.


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Links & resources mentioned* C Todd Lombardo: Twitter, LinkedIn * C Todd's books: + Product Research Rules + Product Roadmaps Relaunched * Related episodes: + #31 Marty Cagan: Empowering product teams to do the best work of their lives * Machine Metrics * Question formulation technique (QFT) * Books + Switch + Turn the Ship Around

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Podcast: Make Things That Matter (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: #39 Melissa Perri: Product strategy and the missing middle in organizations
Pub date: 2021-03-23

Melissa Perri is on a mission to grow great product leaders. This conversation will help you to become more strategic and multiply your impact.


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Links & resources mentioned* Melissa Perri: Twitter, website + Melissa's new podcast, Product Thinking + Melissa's book: Escaping the Build Trap * Related episodes + Marty Cagan: Empowering product teams to do the best work of their lives (#31) + Hope Gurion: What nobody told you about being a product leader (#27) * Books + Melissa's book: Escaping the Build Trap + The Art of Action * Other resources mentioned + "The Product of You": A Talk from Melissa Perri on Product Leadership + How to know if you're interviewing at a product-led company + What is Good Product Strategy? — Melissa Perri + Cost of delay + Gib Biddle strategy framework

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Podcast: Make Things That Matter (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: #40 Eric Steege: Treat your culture like a product
Pub date: 2021-04-06

Eric Steege is an energetic product leader intent on spreading great product cultures and practices. This conversation explores how to use product thinking to build your culture.


Links & resources mentioned* Eric Steege - Twitter * Related episodes + #18 Josh Seiden: How to create clarity with outcomes thinking + #35 Dianne Frommelt: Building products to help people become their best selves + #14 Derik Mills: Cultivating a faculty of wonder in business and life * Books + The Infinite Game + Finite and Infinite Games + Outcomes Over Output + The Hard Thing About Hard Things + The Lean Startup + Who Moved My Cheese? * Other resources mentioned + NUMMI (2015) - This American Life + Gall's Law + Amazon bar raiser program + Amazon leadership principles + ADKAR Change Management Model Overview + HEART metrics + Pirate metrics + Early adopters + 15Five culture + Asana culture + Glo & The Glo Podcast + Magic Mind matcha green tea

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Podcast: Make Things That Matter (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: #44 Teresa Torres: Habits for clear thinking and better product bets
Pub date: 2021-06-01

Teresa Torres teaches an approach to product creation and creative work that will help you think more clearly, make better decisions, and raise the odds your bets will pay off. She's the author of the new book, Continuous Discovery Habits.


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Links & resources mentioned* Teresa Torres - website, @ttorres + New book: Continuous Discovery Habits + Product Talk membership program + Product Talk Academy (courses) * People & orgs + Hope Gurion + Ash Maurya + Tom Chi * Related episodes + #27 Hope Gurion: What nobody told you about being a product leader + #31 Marty Cagan: Empowering product teams to do the best work of their lives * Books + Decisive - Chip & Dan Heath + Peak - Anders Ericsson + How We Think - John Dewey + Testing Business Ideas, David Bland + Thinking in Bets, Annie Duke + Polarity Management * Other resources mentioned + How to know if you're interviewing at a product-led company + Business Model Canvas + Lean Canvas + LEANSTACK + Human Centered Design + Stanford Symbolic Systems + Explore / exploit - how to choose new opportunities

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Podcast: Make Things That Matter (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: #45: The Timeless Way of Leading
Pub date: 2021-06-15

This adapts the core ideas from "The Timeless Way of Building," a classic of architectural theory, to creative and personal leadership.


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Links & resources mentioned* Send episode feedback on Twitter @askotzko or via email * Original book: The Timeless Way of Building * Click here to get PDF of the full "Timeless Way of Leading" adaptation * Ep #22 Pam Fox Rollin: Be a decisive leader who helps people come alive

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Podcast: Make Things That Matter (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: #46 The Infinite Game, by Simon Sinek: Book summary
Pub date: 2021-06-29

This episode reviews the key ideas from "The Infinite Game," a massively transformative book by Simon Sinek, and explores how to apply them to your work.


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Podcast: Make Things That Matter (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: #50 Bo Burlingham: Small Giants & the roots of great businesses
Pub date: 2021-09-07

Best known for his books Small Giants and The Great Game of Business, Bo is an editor-at-large of Inc. magazine and the author of five books which have profoundly impacted values-led business creation. I don't know of anyone that has explored more deeply, through real-world examples, what it means to build a meaningful business.


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Links & resources mentioned* Send episode feedback on Twitter @askotzko, or via email * Bo Burlingham - website, Twitter * Related episodes + #9 Amy Edmondson: Building teams where people feel safe + #43 Courtney Bigony: Life above neutral with Positive Product Design * People & orgs + Tugboat Institute & Evergreen Companies + Dave Whorton + Adam Smith + Harriet Rubin + Jack Stack + Jim Collins + Kleiner Perkins + John Doerr + Clay Christensen + Norm Brodsky + Gary Erickson & CLIF Bar * Books + Bo's books - Small Giants - The Great Game of Business (GGOB) - A Stake in the Outcome - Finish Big + The Fifth Discipline + Good to Great + The New New Thing + The Innovator's Dilemma + How Will You Measure Your Life? + Battle Cry of Freedom + The Lessons of History * Other resources mentioned + Small Giants Community + Great Game of Business Community + Life After Pi + Open Book Management + How to Build a Company That Will Last for 100 Years | Inc.com + Inc Magazine + Something Ventured + Springfield ReManufacturing + Transcendental Meditation (TM)

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Podcast: Make Things That Matter (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: #52 How to get more creative flow in your work day
Pub date: 2021-12-09

Flow is defined as an optimal state of consciousness, where you feel and perform at your best. This episode will help you get more of it in your day.


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Links & resources mentioned* Send episode feedback on Twitter @askotzko , or via email * Related episodes + #12 Rian Doris & Conor Murphy: Flow — Cultivating the optimal experience of life (part 2) * People & orgs + Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi + David Kadavy + Cal Newport + Flow Research Collective * Books + Mind Management, Not Time Management + Deep Work + Flow + The Power Of Full Engagement * Other resources mentioned + Steven Kotler - FAQs on Flow + Adam Grant - The Other Side of Languishing Is Flourishing. Here’s How to Get There. + David Kadavy: Arrange your time and tasks according to these seven mental states, and you’ll be a creativity machine + Brain.fm - music designed to help you focus + Focus (app) + Freedom (app) + Apple releases iOS 15 with Focus mode and more + Cal Newport's Time Block Planner + Fantastical (app) + Incubation stage of creativity

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Podcast: Make Things That Matter (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: #55: How does continuous discovery come together for a new product?
Pub date: 2022-01-26

How to apply continuous discovery techniques to a nascent, early stage product that doesn't yet have product-market fit.


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Episode: #56 Ash Maurya: The Innovator's Gift
Pub date: 2022-04-07

Ash Maurya introduces "The Innovator's Gift" to help you find problems worth solving, and navigate the uncertainty of new product ideas.


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Links & resources mentioned* Send episode feedback on Twitter @askotzko , or via email * Ash Maurya - LEANSTACK, Twitter + Ash's books: - New: Running Lean - Scaling Lean * Related episodes + #55: How does continuous discovery come together for a new product? + #44 Teresa Torres: Habits for clear thinking and better product bets * People & orgs + Bob Moesta + Tom Chi - Tom Chi talk @ MindValley: Everything is Connected - Here's How + W. Edwards Deming + Peter Drucker + Steve Blank + Eric Ries + Dave McClure + Sean Ellis * Books + They All Laughed: The Fascinating Stories Behind the Great Inventions That Have Changed Our Lives + User Story Mapping + When Coffee and Kale Compete (JTBD) - Alan Klement + Demand-Side Sales - Bob Moesta + The ONE Thing + Thinking in Systems * Other resources mentioned + Customer forces canvas + LEAN canvas + Jobs to Be Done (JTBD) - The Milkshake Study + Recency Bias

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Podcast: Level-up Engineering (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: From Manager to Director: Guide to Managing Managers
Pub date: 2022-02-16

Interview with Mike Seavers, VP of Online Development at Epic Games about becoming a manager of managers. He talks about his hardships as a new director, he tells the story of overcoming them, and shares other stories about coaching other leaders to turn them into great directors.

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In this interview we're covering:

  • Differences between managing ICs and managing managers
  • Story of transitioning from manager to director
  • Necessary skills to managing managers
  • Common mistakes of new directors
  • Warning signs for new directors
  • Choosing from director candidates
  • Support from executive leaders to new directors
  • Story of coaching a director new to managing managers
  • Bonus advice to managing managers

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"I first became a director and started managing managers about 17 years ago. My team consisted of five sub-teams, about 50 people combined, and I had six or seven managers reporting to me. We were going through an Agile transformation.

I spent all my time focusing internally, working with my team. I attended stand-ups, we were teaching Scrum and we were introducing new tooling to manage the Agile process. We changed our release method and other internal processes.

I was proud of what we managed to accomplish, but when it came time for performance reviews, I received the worst review of my career. My peers and everyone around me outside my team said in their feedback that they had no relationship with me. They didn’t know what I was doing, they just saw me making changes in engineering without involving the leaders of the project management team, the release management team, or the QA team."

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Episode: How to Lead with Empathy in a Remote Environment
Pub date: 2022-02-02

Interview with Jossie Haines, VP of Engineering and Head of DEI at Tile. She talks about the place of empathy in leadership and in the workplace in general, and shares her stories about mastering empathy and coaching others to lead with empathy as well.

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In this interview we're covering:

  • Defining empathy in the workplace
  • Defining empathetic leadership
  • Infusing leadership with empathy
  • Challenges of leading with empathy remotely
  • Story of learning about the importance of empathetic leadership
  • Coaching leaders towards empathetic leadership
  • Common mistakes when leading with empathy

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"As a leader, you need to be willing to put yourselves in other people’s shoes, and process what they’re going through. Leaders, especially former engineers, often get into the habit of trying to fix everything.

When I switched from engineer to manager, I thought my job was to fix things, but I was wrong. I had to learn that my colleagues don’t need me to fix everything. They need me to help them fix their own problems.

The first step towards leading with empathy is listening, reflecting and acknowledging how the other person is feeling."

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Episode: The Ultimate Guide to Prepare Your Team to Scale
Pub date: 2022-01-19

Interview with Joseph Gefroh, Engineering Director at HealthSherpa. He goes into detail about preparing a team to scale up. He shares his experiences and tells stories about what processes do you need to put in place, why they're necessary and how you can sell your teams on them.

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  • Defining a team that's ready to scale
  • The first challenges of scaling a team
  • Improving knowledge sharing to scale your team
  • Top processes to standardize before scaling your team
  • Creating alignment in your team as you scale
  • Story about standardizing communication channels
  • Building management as you scale your team
  • Introducing new management layers as you scale up
  • Process to reiterate standardized processes

Excerpt from the interview:

"At one point, I was in a fundraising company that had no intake process. We had different functions, like finance operations, account management, sales, product, etc.

Whenever someone in a different department wanted something from engineering, they directly messaged an engineer or had a conversation with them in the office. The engineers usually agreed to help out, and the rest of the company took it as a commitment that engineering would get them what they needed.

This led to weird commitments that nobody was tracking and no one was working on. When the deadlines passed, the teams that made these requests got mad and blamed engineering for committing to help in the first place. The engineering organization turned into a black box, and from the perspective of the rest of the company, we were missing deadlines that we didn’t even know about."

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Episode: Principles of Decision Making: User’s Manual to Leadership
Pub date: 2022-01-05

Interview with James Trunk, VP of Engineering at Griffin. He talks in-depth about coming up with his principles of decision making, the ways you can do the same, and their utility in leadership.

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In this interview we're covering:

  • Utilizing your principles of decision making
  • Role of decision principles in leadership
  • Using decision principles with your team
  • Using decision principles with your peers and manager
  • Dangers of using decision principles
  • Origins of the decision principles
  • Tips to create your own decision principles
  • Evolving your principles of decision making over time

Excerpt from the interview:

"I don’t think my principles should be applied by everyone. For example, if you keep picking safe bets, you’ll probably fail to create a competitive advantage as a startup. However, in a corporate environment, safe bets might be a better path for your career.

I’ve been collecting my decision principles over time, and they’re based on my experiences. I’ve done a lot of reflection on what has and hasn’t gone well, and which principles have helped me make better decisions and which haven’t. They change over time, and I’ve been keeping track of them over the years.

I recommend every leader to come up with their own principles of decision making. You don’t have to treat them as absolute truth. Use them as guidelines that remind you to stop and reflect on whether you’re headed in the right direction."

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Episode: Guide to Leadership and Work-Life Balance for You and Your Team
Pub date: 2021-12-15

Interview with Dylan Hansen, Senior Director of Engineering Enablement and Engagement at Salesforce. He talks about leadership and work-life balance, telling stories and tips about improving it in your own life, and supporting your team in achieving a better work-life awareness as well.

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In this interview we're covering:

  • The definition of work-life balance
  • The process of improving work-life balance in leadership
  • Strategies for a healthy work-life balance in leadership
  • Using a sabbatical to improve work-life balance
  • Work-life balance tips for new managers
  • Spotting the signs of burnout in a remote environment
  • Helping your team improve work-life balance
  • Asking your team to sacrifice from work-life balance
  • Action plan for employees failing to hit deadlines

Excerpt from the interview:

"When I came back from my sabbatical, I decided to set guardrails around my work time, and I wouldn’t check any work email before 7:00 AM or after 5:30 PM. When I was done, I shut down my laptop and picked it up the next day.

This started making me anxious when at 5:00 PM, I found myself with more to do and in the flow, so I knew I could get it all done by 6:00 PM. That goes 30 minutes beyond my pre-set stopping time. These situations made me go through a lot of mental gymnastics.

As I examined the situation, I realized that boundaries are great, but you have to be able to flex them to fit in an extra 30 minutes when necessary. You have to be able to make yourself available for irregular events on both sides of the work-life balance."

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Episode: The Secrets of Productive Virtual Offsites - Tips from GitHub
Pub date: 2021-12-01

Interview with Allison McMillan, Director of Engineering at GitHub. She shares her best virtual offsite ideas, hands out some tips you can try yourself and warns you of the pitfalls to avoid. Real life stories from behind the scenes at GitHub.

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In this interview we're covering:

  • Definition of virtual offsites
  • Ground rules for virtual offsites
  • Realistic expectations for virtual offsites
  • Challenges of virtual offsites
  • Preparations for virtual offsites
  • Virtual offsite ideas

Excerpt from the interview:

"I consider an offsite a state of mind rather than a physical location.

Going to a different location can help you achieve this state of mind. Depending on your preference, it may be a different location at your house, a coffee shop, a coworking location, or a different continent.

The idea is to get yourself away from daily tasks and to put your brain into a different gear."

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Episode: Scaling Your Leadership with Your Company: Case Study from Prezi
Pub date: 2021-11-17

Interview with Jose Roca, VP of Product and Engineering at Prezi. He tells his story about going from shy kid to great engineering leader, building and scaling Prezi's platform team, overcoming internal resistance on different levels, and much more.

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In this interview we're covering:

  • Getting into leadership at Prezi
  • Scaling yourself with your company
  • Finding mentors and mentoring others
  • Overcoming internal resistance
  • Key leadership skills
  • Balancing the dual role of VP of Product and Enginering
  • Scaling in and out of the office

Excerpt from the interview:

"My most controversial move was adding the first full-time product manager to an infrastructure team. The resistance mostly came from the engineers. They didn’t understand what the product manager was going to do, or they didn't think they needed that type of help.

I explained everything step by step. We went through everyone’s roles and responsibilities, but the infrastructure engineers have been working without product help for so long, I couldn’t convince them it was going to be helpful. On the other side, I worked closely with the first product manager to make sure he fit into the team, and in time, the engineers started seeing the value of his work.

Today, our platform teams always work with product managers and they like it, because they understand what tasks they take off the table, so the engineers can focus more on writing code. Some of the platform engineers enjoy doing interviews with product engineers, but most of them are relieved that the product managers take care of it."

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Episode: Managing Platform Teams: How to Build and Structure Platform Engineering?
Pub date: 2021-11-03

Interview with Camille Fournier, Managing Director and Head of Platform Engineering at Two Sigma. She talks about the role of platform teams, the most important skills for platform engineers, creating smooth communication with product teams and more!

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In this interview we're covering:

  • Definition of a platform engineering team
  • Differences between product and platform engineering
  • Priority differences for product and platform teams
  • Communication channels between product and platform teams
  • Communication challenges in platform teams
  • Necessary skills for platform engineers
  • The time to create a platform engineering team

Excerpt from the interview:

"Communication works best when a product team reaches out directly to a team in the platform organization. They can communicate quickly about what they need and find a solution. The more you involve senior leadership in early stages, the slower and more complex the process can be.

Sometimes you don’t have a choice but to escalate the situation because the platform team you’re in contact with lacks the bandwidth to address your problem. I aim to provide flexibility for my platform teams to work with their product counterparts, but it has to be balanced.

If the platform team is constantly working on fulfilling one-off requests, it hurts productivity. If you see that happening, you need to figure out what the product teams are trying to do, and plan ahead to provide the necessary tooling."

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Episode: The Importance of Writing in Software Engineering
Pub date: 2021-10-20

Interview with Erica Greene, Senior Engineering Manager at Etsy about the importance of writing in software engineering. She goes into details about why you need to write well, how to get good at it, how to coach your team in writing and much more.

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In this interview we're covering:

  • The importance of writing in engineering management
  • Why is writing important in software engineering
  • Why is writing important in meetings
  • Improving your writing skills as a manager
  • Writing tools for engineering managers
  • Common mistakes of managers
  • Teaching your team about the importance of writing

Excerpt from the interview:

"Recently, I had a disagreement with a project manager regarding a project. We had a meeting about it and it was productive, but we didn’t manage to completely resolve the conflict. He suggested that we continue the discussion in a document.

We wrote down the points that we agreed on, and the points we disagreed about, and we started a back and forth. He wrote his response and sent it to me, and I could answer when I found some time, and then send it back. We resolved the conflict in about four to five rounds.

It was a misunderstanding, and we came to a compromise. It was an efficient way of working out a conflict in written format, which we probably wouldn’t even have tried pre-pandemic, working fully on-site."

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Episode: Leadership and Systems Thinking: Clear Sight for Complex Decisions
Pub date: 2021-10-06

Interview with Pat Kua, former engineering leader, current leadership coach about applying systems thinking to management. We start from the defintion systems thinking and discuss applying it to leadership with clear steps and concrete examples.

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In this interview we're covering:

  • The definition of systems thinking
  • Applying systems thinking to leadership
  • Key concepts and potential traps of systems thinking
  • The steps of applying systems thinking
  • The importance of exploration in systems thinking
  • Tools for systems thinking
  • Bonus advice to apply systems thinking in leadership

Excerpt from the interview:

"Systems thinking focuses on emergent behavior. It’s about qualities that the individual parts alone don’t possess.

Human life is a good example for this. We’re made up of parts, such as skin, brain, etc., but none of these parts can be alive on their own. Life only happens when you combine them.

The reductionist view is still important and valuable. Systems thinking is a complement to the classic scientific view. It can help you take a holistic approach to understand complex systems."

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Episode: Scaling your Team and Product: Leadership Stories from Product Hunt
Pub date: 2021-09-22

Interview with Radoslav Stankov, Head of Engineering at Product Hunt. He tells stories about him going from IC to Head of Engineering, the different stages he led through Product Hunt, the challenges he faces in product development, his leadership journal and much more.

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In this interview we're covering:

  • The evolution of Product Hunt's structure
  • Going from IC to leader
  • Evaluating yourself as a leader
  • The effects of the pandemic on remote work
  • Leadership challenges in product development
  • Learnings about product development
  • And more!

Excerpt from the interview:

"I have a technique that I call my manager journal. I write a log of everything that happens every week.

This includes the general things, like what I was doing or what core events happened to our system. I also use it to keep track of what I’m worried about that week. For example, there might have been an outage, or an argument in my team, or some of my points didn’t go through.

For example, my concern right now is the design system we’re building. My main concern was balancing its flexibility with performance. I write these in my journal every week and check back every month to track how my concerns have changed and to see whether they’d been resolved."

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Episode: Creating an Internship Program for Software Engineers - Case Study from Redbubble
Pub date: 2021-09-08

Interview with Tom Sommer, Director of Engineering at Redbubble about creating an internship program for software engineers. Tom tells stories about setting up the internship program at Redbubble and the iterations they've gone through over the years to give you a headstart at building your own program.

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In this interview we're covering:

  • Mistakes while creating an internship program for software engineers
  • Recruiting to an internship program
  • Evaluating candidates going into the program
  • Evaluating candidates at the end of the program
  • Choosing teams and mentors for interns
  • Stages and expectations in an internship program

Excerpt from the interview:

"Early on, we put the new interns into their own team, gave them a task to rewrite a system or a project for us, and checked in on them periodically. The point wasn’t to test whether they could do it, but we thought it was a good way to gain experience.

It didn’t work out well.

This is why we transitioned to embedding interns into teams to give them the full experience of working on a product engineering team."

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Episode: Performance Review: Build Your Process and Master Feedback Delivery
Pub date: 2021-08-25

Interview with Lara Hogan, legendary leadership coach and former engineering leader about building a performance review process. Lara goes into detail about building a process from the bottom up and takes a deep dive into synthesizing and delivering feedback to your direct reports for maximum effectiveness.

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In this interview we're covering:

  • Definition of performance reviews
  • Steps of a performance review process
  • Preparation tips for giving and receiving feedback
  • Rules to giving feedback based on a performance review
  • Sharpening your skills in giving feedback
  • Supporting your team to give feedback

Excerpt from the interview:

"You want to make a performance review discussion a two-way conversation.

I’ve seen people say that you should end your feedback with a request like, “Could you pick up more tickets, please?” I consider this a terrible way to deliver feedback that shuts down any chance of a conversation.

Leading questions may serve you well in a toxic situation, or when working out a performance improvement plan. When it comes to delivering constructive criticism in a regular performance review, make it a two-way conversation. This is the best you can do for everybody."

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Episode: How to Engage Remote Employees: Tips to Lead Distributed Teams
Pub date: 2021-08-04

Interview with Greg Dick, Senior Engineering Manager at Hudl about building engagement with remote employees in distributed teams. They miss out on a lot of professional and personal interactions, and don't integrate well into the team. Check out Greg's tips to learn how you can kickstart that process as a manager!

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In this interview we're covering:

  • Definition of remote employees and distributed teams
  • Integrating remote employees to distributed teams vs remote teams
  • Challenges of managing remote employees in a distributed team
  • Engaging remote employees in the office chit chat
  • Engaging remote emplyoees in team building activities
  • Tips to set up the office to better engage remote employees
  • Managing the return to the office in distributed teams
  • Increasing retention by getting remote employees engaged

Excerpt from the interview:

"A few years ago, I had a remote member on my team who left the company after about a year. I asked him what happened and he said, “I saw all the cool stuff you all were doing in the office and I wanted that too.” It turns out, he considered moving to Lincoln to work with us in the office, but he had family ties, so he ended up joining a local company that had a similar culture to ours.

This left me wondering how much of this is our fault for bombarding him with reminders and videos of the office events. These might feed his feeling of being left out. Holding events every few weeks was an integral part of our engineering culture, but you had to be in Lincoln to partake.

Currently, we make our events visible in a way that if somebody is interested, it’s easy to find them. This is valuable to remote employees when they’re looking for times to visit headquarters. Looking at the calendar and picking the events they like makes this choice easier."

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Episode: Leadership Stories from Slack by Michael Lopp
Pub date: 2021-07-14

Interview with Michael Lopp, Rands about his time as VP of Product Engineering at Slack. He tells stories about the darkest day of Slack, the mistakes he made along the way and how he grew into his executive role.

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In this interview we're covering:

  • Leadership takeaways from Slack
  • The darkest day of Slack
  • Tactical vs strategic focus as VP of Product Engineering
  • Retaining your direct reports
  • Creating processes before they're necessary
  • The experience of Slack going public
  • Story about telling the truth
  • And much more!

Excerpt from the interview:

"I suggest executives in growing companies tell the truth as quickly as possible.

It’s great advice, but this story is about how it backfires. Really, this was a failure on my part as a senior leader, and it flowed from this approach. If I get a question, I answer it. If you ask, “How are we doing on hiring women in engineering?” I’ll say, “Here’s the answer and here’s the data.”

At Slack, we had a lot of data come in about hiring in a big spreadsheet. It’s data like the number of people hired, diversity in hiring, and so on..."

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Episode: How to Hire Entrepreneurial Engineers and Why You Need Them
Pub date: 2021-06-30

Interview with Mark Kinsella, VP of Engineering at Opendoor about what makes entrepreneurial engineers great and how to lead them. We go in-depth from the definition through the key qualities of entrepreneurial engineers, hiring and retaining them, and much more.

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In this interview we're covering:

  • Definition and qualities of entrepreneurial engineers
  • Hiring entrepreneurial engineers
  • Onboarding and retaining entrepreneurial engineers
  • Nurturing the business mindset in software engineers
  • Culturally supporting the business mindset
  • Giving feedback to engineers
  • Preventing burnout for entrepreneurial engineers

Excerpt from the interview:

"At Opendoor, we need to ingest a large amount of data. Real estate data is public, so we need to process all that data to make informed decisions. We had a hard time importing MLS and home data because it was so messy.

At the end of the day, a few of our engineers went to shadow agents at a different company who were importing this data. They tried to understand the customer’s perspective and what they were doing. They took the insights they’d collected, and managed to build a better data ingestion pipeline.

Understanding their customer made it possible to build a faster and scalable tech solution. This initiative and creative thinking got us to the point where we could ingest more data with higher reliability. This is an example of why we want to work with entrepreneurial engineers."

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Episode: How to Keep Remote Meetings Productive and Your Schedule Under Control
Pub date: 2021-06-16

Interview with Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range about structuring, scheduling and making your remote meetings productive. Learn from her stories about handling an avalanche of remote meetings, and what she's learned along the way about transforming these meetings and supporting her team.

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In this interview we're covering:

  • The optimal number of remote meetings daily
  • Making remote meetings productive
  • Structuring remote meetings
  • Necessary extra meetings in a remote environment
  • Tools to support remote meetings
  • Meetings that don't work remotely
  • Providing a flexibility of schedule in your company

Excerpt from the interview:

"This is my rule of thumb: remove status updates and announcements from meetings, and communicate them as asynchronous updates. You can use a tool like Loom for this. Leaders can record a short video message, and the employees can watch it at any time and leave comments.

Use async channels with anything that doesn’t require discussion, or where you can start out without a discussion.

Don’t rely too much on meetings; move everything you can to asynchronous updates. For example, it’s easier for me to reply to an email than it would be to find 15-30 minutes to discuss the same thing in a video call."

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Episode: Building Self-Managed Teams: A Case Study from Riot Games
Pub date: 2021-06-02

Interview with Mike Seavers, former CTO at Riot Games about building self-managed teams for high performance. Learn from a seasoned leader about making sure you have the right people, and coach them the right way to empower them so you can stop holding their hands. Unlock your team's potential and unleash them to do great work!

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In this interview we're covering:

  • Relationship between performance and autonomy
  • Role of the leader in self-managed teams
  • Description of self-managed teams
  • Making time to coach your employees
  • Measuring the manager's performance in self-managing teams
  • Leadership strategies to build self-managed teams
  • Communicating your expectations
  • Building self-managed teams in a new company
  • Building self-managed teams in an established organization

Excerpt from the interview:

"In a self-managed team, even the most junior employee is empowered to make a meaningful decision that affects the team’s performance. They’re not dependent on management to make all the decisions. No winning team requires the coach to explain how to kick the ball; the coaching happens before and after the game.

Leadership’s job is to make the vision and the goals clear. In my one-on-one meetings, I always ask these questions from my reports:

  • Is the company vision clear?
  • Are the company goals clear?
  • Do you understand what we’re trying to accomplish and the near-term objectives?"

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Episode: Software Development Trends 2021
Pub date: 2021-05-19

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Interview with John Ford, VP of Engineering and Country Leader at LogMeIn discussing emerging industry trends based on data from the State of Software Development 2021 report. We touch on the effects of COVID-19 on the industry, old and new challenges, hiring, retention and more.

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In this interview we're covering:

  • The effects of COVID-19 on the software industry
  • Top challenges in software development
  • Comparing the perception of managers and engineers
  • Hiring and retention
  • Performance management
  • Outsourcing development

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Episode: Managing Hybrid Teams: How to Keep Your Team Engaged and Productive
Pub date: 2021-04-28

Interview with Ellen Wong, Director of Engineering at Calm about leading partially remote and partially on-site hybrid teams. She shares her experience in hiring the right people for hybrid teams, creating processes, and handling all the day-to-day difficulties of the hybrid environment.

In this interview we're covering:

  • Advantages and disadvantages of a hybrid team
  • Leadership challenges in a hybrid team
  • Preparing your team for hybrid processes
  • Extra support requirements in hybrid teams
  • Future plans with the hybrid environment
  • Key skills to lead hybrid teams
  • Keeping the community alive in a hybrid environment

Excerpt from the interview:

"I joined Calm remotely, and I’ve hired the majority of my team for remote work. My previous company was focused on working from the office, so we chose carefully who we allowed to work remotely. We came up with certain criteria, which I use when hiring for my hybrid team.

Look for these qualities in your interview:

  • Inclusivity and kindness
  • Good communication skills
  • Proactivity
  • Openness to feedback

For example, if they have issues conveying their points, and you have to keep asking follow-up questions, they may not be a good fit for remote work."

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Episode: Leadership in Hypergrowth: A Case Study from Shapr3D
Pub date: 2021-03-31

Interview with Ákos Kapui, VP of Engineering at Shapr3D. He talks about running an engineering organization in hypergrowth, doubling its employee count every year. Pick up his tips, tricks, and learn from his experience as he goes into detail on recruitment, decision making at scale, and planning while in hypergrowth.

In this interview we're covering:

  • Challenges in hypergrowth
  • Finding the right employees
  • Key moments for a startup in hypergrowth
  • Scaling management as the organization grows
  • Planning hypergrowth
  • Preparations for projected growth

Excerpt from the interview:

"Startups often don't recognize that the teams in the frontline should make their own decisions. The top leaders are far from the problem, their insight is limited, and their knowledge of the ground level work may be outdated. Micromanagement has its place, but it often leads to bad decisions.

As you grow from 20 people to 40 and 100, you need to start making decisions differently. As a high level leader, your job is to help your employees make decisions, show them how to align a good decision, spot a bad one, and help them learn from their mistakes.

Cities don’t involve the prime minister in details, and the frontline workers make the big decisions. The problem is that people lack experience in making decisions quickly, sticking with them, learning from them, and taking responsibility for them."

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Episode: From Engineer to CEO: How to Start a Tech Company
Pub date: 2021-03-17

Interview with Taavi RehemÀgi, co-founder and CEO of Dashbird. He tells the story of founding Dashbird, and what it took for him to go from software engineer to CEO. Learn how he built his network and found success in a completely different role!

In this interview we're covering:

  • How they came up with the idea of Dashbird
  • Challenges of going from engineer to CEO
  • Essential skills for a CEO
  • How his engineer background made him a better CEO
  • How he improved the skills necessary to be a CEO
  • Networking tips

Excerpt from the interview:

"A CEO has to continuously learn just like a software engineer. My background in engineering helped me with the following:

  • Iterating different solutions
  • Setting expectations toward solutions
  • Learning from past activities
  • Tracking variables

The first years of a new tech company are about learning what strategy is viable on your market. Your best bet is using data and making logical decisions. Engineers are good at this."

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Episode: Leadership Soft Skills: Master Your Own Mind to Lead Your Team to Success
Pub date: 2021-02-17

Interview with Gergely Hodicska "FelhƑ", VP of Engineering at Bitrise. We take a deep dive with him into leadership soft skills and his story about finding his weaknesses and turning them into superpowers. We cover common weaknesses, methods to improve yourself and others around you, and more.

In this interview we're covering:

  • Importance of soft skills in engineering leadership
  • Essential leadership soft skills
  • Story about building up leadership soft skills
  • Practices to improve leadership soft skills
  • Common challenges for engineering managers
  • Helping direct reports improve their leadership skills
  • Integrating leadership soft skills into your engineering culture

Excerpt from the interview:

"I had a heated argument with a friend of mine at Ustream, and he told me, “This is why I don’t like working with you.” At first, I thought, I’m just trying to find the best solution, but really I was defending my ego in that conversation.

Moments like that made me realize that I should improve, and research why I react the way I do in certain situations. That’s when I started to learn about my psychological drivers.

The first step I took was learning about personality types. This didn’t give me a lot of answers, but it helped me understand why others are stupid..."

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Episode: Remote Onboarding: How to Save New Hires from Social Isolation
Pub date: 2021-02-03

Interview with Jerie Shaw, Senior Technical Program Manager at Shopify about building a remote onboarding process to suit the needs of remote software engineers. Coming up with new ways to get developers familiar with the job, keep energy and engagement high, and integrate them into the team while they're often continents apart.

This is how Shopify deals with onboarding remotely.

In this interview we're covering:

  • Differences between remote onboarding and in-person onboarding
  • Methods to integrate new hires into a group remotely
  • Stakeholders in the remote onboarding of new hires
  • Breakdown of Shopify's remote onboarding process
  • Tracking the progress of new hires
  • Mistakes when setting up the remote onboarding process

Excerpt from the interview:

"Solving problems together energizes people. On the other hand, spending an entire day on a video call drains their energy. Knowing this, we redesigned the onboarding experience to be active, synchronous, and hybrid.

We give a group of new employees a real challenge, like ship a dashboard or build a data pipeline. They work on it together at the same time. We provide them with support structures like a virtual pod for better collaboration, and experts on the topic to answer their questions via Slack.

This gives them a sense of being with a group and working on an interesting problem without being trapped in a video call for eight hours straight."

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Podcast: Level-up Engineering (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Improve Team Performance and Turn Around Underachieving Engineering Teams
Pub date: 2021-01-20

Interview with John Ford, VP of Engineering and Site Leader at LogMeIn about his management framework to turn around underachieving teams and improve overall team performance. Learn from his practical tips and tricks while listening to some of the stories from his decades worth of engineering leadership experience!

In this interview we're covering:

  • Assessing team performance
  • Velocity goals for a productive engineering team
  • Focus points for underperforming teams
  • People improvements
  • Process improvements
  • Technical improvements
  • A story about turning around an underachieving team
  • Bonus advice

Excerpt from the interview:

"My advice for engineering managers and leaders is to keep an open mind because there might be many reasons for suboptimal performance. There are lots of differences between companies in engineering culture, team history, management, etc.

If you’ve been running your team for a while, and the performance is dropping off, the reason is often a lack of clarity around the high-level objectives. In this case, you need to link the product or company strategy to the daily work of the team, and to provide direction about the higher-level strategy. Consider these questions:

  • What's important for my manager?
  • What’s the team doing..."

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Episode: Knowledge Sharing: A Sneak Peek into Facebook’s Engineering Teams
Pub date: 2021-01-06

Interview with BalĂĄzs BalĂĄzs, former Engineering Manager at Facebook about the knowledge sharing strategies he's used over the years with his engineering teams. You'll get tips, tricks and real stories from behind the scenes about how knowledge sharing works with real people, rather than how it should work in an ideal situation.

In this interview we're covering:

  • Picking the right methods for sharing knowledge in your team
  • The best knowledge sharing methods in engineering teams
  • The rules of using documentation
  • The best methods to help junior engineers grow
  • Onboarding software engineers to your team
  • Making time for knowledge sharing
  • Tools for knowledge sharing in engineering teams
  • Encouraging engineers to partake in knowledge sharing
  • The key to Facebook's success in sharing knowledge

Excerpt from the interview:

"Facebook has offices all over the world and employees get to travel to other offices for free with business reasons. As it turns out, software engineers are very innovative when it comes to figuring out business reasons for free travel.

My team was based in London, and we worked with a team in New York for a while. We were struggling with effectively analyzing data. One of my engineers came up with the idea to fly our team to New York, and hold a data week, where the two teams analyze data together.

I'm pretty sure that the motivation was to get a free week in New York. Still, it was the most productive week we’d had for a long time. It took a lot of preparation, but people didn’t mind, because the traveling made it fun.

This is just an example; there are far more affordable ways to make knowledge sharing fun..."

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Episode: The Ultimate Skip Level Meeting Guide for Leaders
Pub date: 2020-12-09

Panel discussion interview with Sarah Milstein, Sr. Director of Engineering at Mailchimp, and Tanisha Barnett, Director of Engineering at Mailchimp. They get into the details of holding skip level meetings, let them be one-on-ones or group meetings.

Here's everything you'll ever need to know about why you want to have your own skip level meetings, what they look like, what questions to ask, how to break the ice, keep track of them all, and much more. Master skip level meetings to become a great engineering leader yourself!

In this interview we're covering:

  • Skip level meeting definition
  • The reason they started doing skip level meetings
  • Skip level one-on-one meeting and regular one-on-one comparison
  • Choosing the people to schedule skip level meetings with
  • Notifying the in-between manager about skip level meetings
  • Skip level meetings' role at Mailchimp's engineering culture
  • Keeping track of the content of skip level meetings
  • Skip level meeting questions
  • Icebreakers for skip level meetings
  • Sensitive topics at skip level meetings
  • Advice for new leaders on skip level meetings
  • Skip level meeting stories

Excerpt from the interview:

"Even though a key reason for the meeting is to talk about the manager, I don't want to support gossiping. It's a structured meeting that we use for giving feedback, not to talk trash behind people’s backs.

When I get feedback about what employees wish their manager would do, I listen, but I try not to reinforce it in any inappropriate way. I say things like, "That sounds difficult," or "I understand why you want that," while I avoid saying, "Your manager really screwed up." I have to be..."

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Episode: Managing for Happiness: Tips to Run a Productive Engineering Team
Pub date: 2020-11-25

Interview with Jurgen Appelo, leadership speaker, writer and entrepreneur. He is an expert on the topic of managing teams to maximize happiness, which heavily bolsters productivity. Learn his tips, tricks and strategies in making it happen, and make your own team happier so you all win.

In this interview we're covering:

  • Connection between happiness and performance
  • Prerequisites for high performance
  • Create a company culture based on experimentation
  • Methods for managers to learn their team's needs
  • Surveys and measuring team happiness
  • The process to build a management system for happiness
  • Signs of a happy team
  • Methods to engage employees to take action for their happiness

Excerpt from the interview:

"There isn’t one process to manage for happiness.

The best way is to think outside the box and to do the things you enjoy and others might enjoy as well. Here are some examples of what I did as an engineering manager:

  1. I invited people for dinner at my house and surprised them with the fact that we would cook together.
  2. I put a bell in the office..."

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Episode: Software Engineer Resume: Tips to Get in the Door at Hot Tech Companies
Pub date: 2020-11-11

Interview with Gergely Orosz, self-employed author of 'The Tech Resume Inside Out', former Engineering Manager at Uber.

He shares unique insight into the process of hiring for a big tech company. We also look at tips to stand out from the crowd with your software engineer resume, and what companies should do differently to find talent more effectively.

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In this interview we're covering:

  • The importance of a software engineer resume
  • The goal of a software engineer CV
  • Highlights in a great tech resume
  • The resume review process in a big tech company
  • The role of referrals in the tech industry
  • Why you get no response to your application
  • Remaining objective for hiring managers
  • Improving the hiring process in a tech company

Excerpt from the interview:

"Before COVID-19, resumes were less important for software engineers, especially with a few years of experience. Engineers new to the industry have always needed a resume that represented them fairly. But COVID-19 changed the way we work, and it made resumes more important than before.

The challenge when recruiting engineers, especially with a few years of experience, used to be to get them interested in your company. This was true even for Uber.

COVID-19 unfortunately brought layoffs, even to the tech world, and resulted in fewer companies hiring. Now these people are applying for jobs, and they need to submit a CV."

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Podcast: Level-up Engineering (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: How to Make the Spotify Model Work for You - Hint: Don’t Copy Blindly
Pub date: 2020-10-28

Interview with Jonathan Rasmusson, ex-Spotify engineer and author of 'Competing with Unicorns' about the key elements of making the Spotify model work.

Squads, tribes and guilds are the essential elements of the Spotify model, but there is a lot more to it. Leadership is the force that drives all the elements, makes the model come alive and deliver a great product. You get all the answers here about how that works.

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In this interview we're covering:

  • Comparing traditional organizations vs the Spotify model
  • The keys to effective engineering in the Spotify model
  • What makes the squad system successful
  • Contribute as an engineering manager
  • Role of engineering leaders in the Spotify model
  • Incentives to keep up developer motivation
  • Performance management in the Spotify model
  • How to improve when you're missing deadlines

Excerpt from the interview:

"In 2014, Sony came to Spotify to set up a partnership, because their music service was shutting down. This instantly became our biggest project, and a lot of squads started working on making Spotify work on PlayStation. I was coaching a team working on this.

At one point, I realized that the launch date was coming up, and we were behind schedule. I thought we were in trouble. At the next all-hands meeting, I told everyone that the deadline was in jeopardy.

In any other company I’ve been part of before, this would have been a big deal. Instead, the program director said, “Thank you for the information. We'll let the team tell us if they think there's a problem.” Then she simply moved on.

This left me puzzled, because I expected the CEO and everyone else to get up in arms and demand action. This showed me how much trust Spotify puts in their teams."

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Podcast: Level-up Engineering (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Diversity in Recruiting: Road to Inclusion in Tech
Pub date: 2020-09-30

Interview with Ola Sitarska, Engineering Lead at Onfido about addressing diversity and inclusion at the base level: integrating these values into your recruitment process.

Why do you want to put up the effort? How do you balance it with hiring the most competent developers? What goals are realistic? You get these answers and more right here.

In this interview we're covering:

  • The difference between diversity and inclusion
  • How to balance hiring for diversity and competence
  • What makes an inclusive hiring process
  • Obstacles in implementing diversity in recruiting
  • First steps to make your hiring process more diverse
  • How to make your interviews inclusive
  • How to encourage your team to be more inclusive

Excerpt from the interview:

"When you’re running a business, you always want to hire the best candidates. Increasing diversity and inclusion broadens the pool of qualified candidates applying to work at your company.

If the pool is limited, then your ability to hire the best is limited as well. You always want to work towards broadening the pool of exceptional people who may have gone through a non-traditional path in their career.

My story is an example of this..."

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Episode: From Junior to Senior Developer and Beyond: Farhan Thawar (VP of Engineering, Shopify)
Pub date: 2020-09-16

Software engineers, like any other person can get stuck. Their personal development slows down, their career may not move in the direction they want to go to.

Great engineering managers and leaders can do a lot to stop that from happening, facilitate growth for their developers and advancement from junior engineer to the senior level and beyond that. Get the know-how from Farhan Thawar, VP of Engineering, Shopify!

In this interview we're covering:

  • Differences between a junior and a senior engineer
  • The best way to level up coding skills
  • Potential career roadmaps in software development
  • A manager's methods to develop the career of their engineers
  • A company's options to facilitate professional development
  • Creating a career plan in software engineering
  • Motivating developers to keep honing their craft
  • Incorporating soft skills training

Excerpt from the interview:

"I was talking to one of our senior developers about a promotion. The next career level from there is either staff engineer or engineering manager. This person was interested in the staff engineer route.

We figured out that to move up the ladder, this person at this time needed to have an impact beyond his group. Helping with building software for Shopify in a broader context is the job of a staff engineer. So this person shifted focus toward that.

We checked in again after six months. He was doing well, and he was about to receive the promotion, but it turns out that he didn’t enjoy the staff engineer work. He saw how it would broaden his skills, how he’d work with other groups, and he didn’t want to do that.

Here's what we did..."

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Episode: GitHub's Feedback Culture: Ryan Nystrom (Director of Engineering, GitHub)
Pub date: 2020-09-02

GitHub versus Facebook feedback culture comparison with a breakdown of their key elements and cultural differences. Learn the secrets of a healthy feedback culture both on an organizational and personal level from Ryan Nystrom, Director of Engineering at GitHub.

In this interview we're covering:

  • The essential elements of a big company's feedback culture
  • GitHub vs Facebook feedback culture comparison
  • Formal performance reviews at GitHub
  • The benefits of a healthy feedback culture
  • Crucial elements to build a feedback culture
  • Keeping feedback useful
  • Handling strong emotional reactions to feedback
  • A leader's role in a good feedback culture
  • Gathering feedback as an engineering leader
  • When to avoid giving feedback face to face
  • HR's involvement in GitHub's feedback culture

Excerpt from the interview:

"When I’m encouraging people to share feedback, I tell them to consider their feedback a data point. I used to be nervous about giving critical feedback about others, because I didn’t want to cause trouble for them.

As a director, if I hear one thing from one person, but I don’t hear it from anyone else, I consider it a small issue. I’ll look into it and ask around if others are observing the same thing. If I see more corroborating evidence, only then will I consider acting on it.

No one is exclusively responsible for the consequences coming from their feedback."

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Episode: One-on-One Meeting Guide: James Stanier (SVP of Engineering, Brandwatch)
Pub date: 2020-08-19

Avoid the rookie mistakes engineering managers and engineering leaders make at running one-on-one meetings. James Stanier, SVP of Engineering at Brandwatch, and author of "Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager" will teach you how to handle one-on-ones with both introverts, and people who complain all the time, along with many more tips and tricks.

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In this interview we're covering:

  • The goal of a one on one meeting
  • The ideal frequency of one on one meetings
  • One on one preparation tips for engineering managers
  • Handling challenging personalities
  • Documenting your one on ones
  • Critical feedback at one on ones
  • Common mistakes of engineering managers
  • Walking versus sitting one on ones
  • One on one meeting with a new team member
  • One on one meetings questions and topics
  • Doing one on ones with individual contributors vs managers
  • Preparing engineering managers to run one on ones
  • How direct reports should prepare for one on ones

Excerpt from the interview:

"Remember; venting to your manager is fine. Sometimes people get frustrated and need to blow off steam in a private setting. You should support this.

If it becomes a recurring thing though, it's your duty as a manager to turn this into constructive energy. In this situation, you rarely have anything to say; you're just listening to a frustrated person. Sometimes you try to turn the conversation in a positive direction, but they just vent more, and you end up getting frustrated yourself.

I’ve dealt with employees who were venting all the time. I’m a good listener, but it can backfire when I run into these people. The first time I had a team member doing this early in my management career, I had no idea what to do.

Many weeks went by until I finally said..."

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Episode: HubSpot's Secret for Onboarding Engineering Leaders: Nadia Alramli (Engineering Director, HubSpot)
Pub date: 2020-08-05

Building trust across the board and becoming familiar with the whole context of a company is a common challenge for engineering leaders and managers as they transition to a new workplace. Nadia Alramli explains HubSpot's process to set up newly hired managers for their role.

In this interview we're covering:

  • The challenges of transitioning to a new company as an engineering leader
  • HubSpot's engineering leader onboarding process
  • The idea behind the process
  • Differences between the leadership onboarding and the engineer onboarding experience
  • The documentation of the process
  • The crucial factors
  • Measuring the success
  • Alternatives of HubSpot's manager onboarding process

Excerpt from the interview:

"Engineering leaders during the embedding process don’t have privileged access to information, nor management responsibilities. They’re expected to focus exclusively on doing an individual contributor’s job. They take the same training courses and go through the same engineer onboarding process as everyone else.

Leaders and managers are switching between the different engineering teams they will be responsible for in this period. They’re building features, fixing bugs, and reporting to the manager of the team they’re working with at the time.

The embedding experience is a great way to learn HubSpot’s tech stack, the product details, and the guiding principles. But really, it’s all about the relationships you get to build with the engineers. The whole point is the trust you build."

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Episode: Antifragile - Manage Your Team Under Pressure: Adam Wolff (VP of Engineering, Robinhood)
Pub date: 2020-07-22

Learn how to build an engineering team that not only survives under pressure, but consistently gets better. Adam Wolff explains the key ideas you need to know to make your team antifragile, and shows you how they've worked out through his personal experience from Robinhood and Facebook.

In this interview we're covering:

  • Concepts of antifragility
  • Internal and external sources of stress for engineering teams
  • Necessary characteristics of an antifragile engineering team
  • Agile methods and antifragility
  • How to measure antifragility in an engineering team
  • The leader's contribution to antifragility
  • How to make an agile team antifragile
  • Hiring for antifragility

Excerpt from the interview:

"What I don't like about agile is that it's become more like a cult than a set of ideas. It has great basics, like the team should get together every day to discuss what they're doing, or to run development in a few weeks of increments. Agile also preserves optionality well if development doesn’t go smoothly.

What I sometimes miss from agile software development is the longer arc.

Agile can be surprisingly short-sighted. You set a goal, and you work towards that in two-week increments. It lacks the moments where you consider a black swan event and the monthly checkpoints where you make sure if you’re still building the right product..."

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Episode: Engineering Leadership 101: Michael Lopp aka "Rands"
Pub date: 2020-07-08

Learn the basics of engineering leadership from seasoned veteran and praised writer of the leadership world: Michael Lopp a. k. a. "Rands". Everything you need to know is in this interview, so you won't have to learn the hard way, like Michael did.

In this interview we're covering:

  • The biggest challenge in leadership
  • Mastering the finer points of leadership
  • The biggest takeaway from decades of leadership experience
  • Traits and skills of great engineering leaders
  • Daily practices of engineering leadership
  • Building your influence
  • Common mistakes in engineering leadership
  • Building a personal brand as a leader
  • Delegating effectively

Excerpt from the interview:

"Engineering leadership is all about your ability to delegate, and it’s hard to do.

You get a big task, hand it to an engineer on your team, and you’re not doing the actual work. Maybe you slice it up into different tasks, and then give it to others. This is fundamentally tough for engineers, because we like building things ourselves.

Leaders don't get to do any of this work. Management is a ton of work, but you don’t do testing, don’t improve performance, don’t do anything that’s been your work as an engineer."

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Episode: Build Your Employer Brand In Engineering: Sarah Wells (Technical Director, Financial Times)
Pub date: 2020-06-24

Do you want access to the best talent out there in the tech world? Obviously. This is why you need to build your engineering employer brand. You aren't Google or Netflix, you may not even become them, but you can make yourself visible in the right way to the right people, and you can get them into your organization. Learn pro tips from Sarah Wells, Technical Director at Financial Times!

In this interview we're covering:

  • Synchronizing the engineering brand coexisting with the company brand
  • The challenges of building an engineering employer brand
  • The key elements of a powerful engineering brand
  • The tools to build your engineering brand
  • The first steps to building your employer brand in engineering
  • Involving your employees in facilitating your brand
  • Keeping your employer brand consistent across different offices
  • Organizing an internal tech conference
  • The results of investing into the FInancial Times' engineering brand

Excerpt from the interview:

"The Financial Times came up with a list of cultural values about a year ago that we wanted to demonstrate. I attended a workshop with people from all over the company to figure out how to demonstrate these values. Some key values were creativity, trust and integrity; I focused on creativity.

I found it interesting that many suggestions coming from other departments were ones engineering had been doing naturally. The 10% days came up as an idea, but in product and technology, we've been doing 10% days for a long time.

This shows there’s a fit in our overall values, but each department ends up being specifically focused on their own area. We write software and operate systems, so that leads to inherent differences."

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Episode: Time Management Masterclass for Engineering Managers: Matt Martin (CEO, Clockwise)
Pub date: 2020-06-10

Learn the top time management and productivity tips, tricks, hacks and practices engineering managers use to get on top of their endless mountain of work. Profit from the hard-earned experience of Matt Martin, CEO of Clockwise to become the best manager you can be!

In this interview we're covering:

  • Time management 101 for managers
  • How to do a calendar audit
  • How to use time dedicated to proactive management
  • Metrics of productivity for managers
  • How to develop team members
  • Delegating tasks
  • How to handle your emails
  • How to lead meetings productively
  • Productivity myths managers should avoid
  • The signs of good time management for managers

Excerpt from the interview:

"I've struggled with delegating effectively in the past. It's easy for managers at all levels to take on more work than they need to.

The toughest thing about delegating is that you’re often better at doing a task. Usually, you get promoted for a reason. You know the context, you have the information, and you've probably been a great individual contributor.

You might be the best person for a task, but that doesn't mean you should do it.If there's an opportunity to put a task on a team member, think critically about delegating it to them."

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Episode: How to Create a Culture Document: Rob Volk (CEO, Foxbox Digital)
Pub date: 2020-05-27

Learn the steps of creating a culture document for an engineering company! In this interview Rob Volk reveals why Foxbox Digital needed a culture document, and what impact it had on their day-to-day work.

In this interview we're covering:

  • What's Included and excluded in the Foxbox culture document
  • Why do you need a company culture document?
  • The steps of creating a culture document
  • The impact of a culture document on an engineering team
  • How does the document help to sustain the culture
  • How to change your copmany culture
  • How to check for cultural fit
  • Whether it's better to hire for diversity or for cultural fit

Excerpt from the interview:

"We've always had a strong company culture, but early on, it was accidental. I hired engineers who I thought were great, and the engineering culture formed organically.

By now, we've had cultural miss-hires, some contentions and issues. These are signs of a bad culture.

So, we tried to distill the good parts of our culture down to a cultural document. The purpose was to be able to maintain the culture as we scale up."

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Episode: 3 Leadership Styles for a Productive Engineering Team: Shawn Fair (Leadership Coach, CEO, Fair Consulting Group)
Pub date: 2020-05-20

Master these 3 leadership styles to build an amazing engineering team and maximize your own potential as well. In this interview with Shawn Fair, you'll learn how, when, and why to use the democratic, autocratic, and free rein leadership styles for optimal results.

In this interview we're covering:

  • The 3 base leadership styles
  • Determine the best leadership style for your developer team
  • How to train yourself to always find the right leadership style
  • Common mistakes
  • How the leadership styles improve team performance and employee retention
  • 5 core leadership attributes
  • Bonus advice

Excerpt from the interview:

"If you demonstrate both the three leadership styles and the five critical leadership attributes, your people will be more productive and more likely to stick around.

If you become a leader doing all this to meet the needs of every individual working for you, you’re a fair boss and a rare commodity.

You'll find one or two of those leaders in your lifetime in corporate America."

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Episode: Social Engineering: Olivia Liddell (Technical Curriculum Developer at Amazon Web Services)
Pub date: 2020-05-13

Utilize social engineering tactics to make your developer team stronger and more productive than ever before. In this interview, Olivia Liddell from Amazon Web Services shows you how to use social engineering for good.

In this interview we're covering:

  • How to measure the strength of an engineering team
  • The definition of social engineering
  • The process of using social engineering to build your team
  • Examples of social engineering in a positive context
  • Common mistakes when using social engineering in management
  • How to use social engineering with a new team
  • Possible conflicts when using social engineering on your team
  • The timeframe to successfully use social engineering

Excerpt from the interview:

"I used to work in higher education as a learning technologist with online courses for universities. I was on a team with 12 different program directors from areas like accounting and healthcare. I needed all program directors to give me information to get their courses up and running.

Some directors gave me what I needed right away, but I had to track others down and work hard to get them to give me what I needed. As you might imagine, this resulted in delays, and I had no idea why they'd make it hard for me.

Then I looked at it from the social engineering perspective. I started thinking about why these different directors would want to give me what I needed..."

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Episode: Leading vs Managing: AndrĂĄs Fincza (VP of Engineering at Emarsys)
Pub date: 2020-04-29

Leading vs managing comparison, true stories of failures, shortcomings, struggles and solutions that lead to success in an executive leadership position. AndrĂĄs Fincza, VP of Engineering, Emarsys shares his invaluable experience to tell you what you've never heard about leadership before.

In this interview we're covering:

  • The difference between managing developers and leading engineering managers
  • How to get direct information as an executive leader
  • How to transition from engineering management to leadership
  • What new tech leaders should do in their first 60 days
  • How to build trust
  • Characteristics of a great engineering manager
  • How to evaluate the performance of your engineering managers
  • And more!

Excerpt from the interview:

"I felt overwhelmed. I felt I couldn't finish anything. I didn't feel safe making decisions.

One night, in the midst of my agony, I started to write down all my duties, tasks, initiatives, and everything I couldn't finish. There were hundreds of items, and I put them into 20 categories and 80 subcategories. Then I buried my face in my hands, and the only thing I could think was, "What am I doing?"

It was insane.

I grabbed the list, and the next day, I reached out to my boss and mentor and asked to go out for a coffee or beer. He saw that I was upset, and I threw everything at him. The list, my feelings about it—I told him I was thinking of resigning because I couldn’t handle the pressure."

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Episode: Clean Code for Managers: Robert C. Martin, a.k.a. Uncle Bob
Pub date: 2020-04-22

Clean code is the most essential part of building great software with your team. In this interview Uncle Bob shares half a century worth of experience and practical tips about measuring code quality, leading your team, having them write clean code, and selling clean code standards to impatient clients.

In this interview we're covering:

  • Definition of clean code
  • Metrics of clean code
  • Consequences of bad code
  • Tips for engineering managers
  • Communication tips
  • On-boarding to clean code
  • Scaling with clean code
  • Clean code vs deadlines
  • And more!

Excerpt from the interview:

"The underlying theme is that if you want to go fast, meet schedules, and keep your customers and your managers happy, keep your code as clean as possible. Nothing will make you work faster than keeping your workspace clean.

One of the most important things a developer can say to a manager is the word no. You must be able to look your manager in the eye with all the empathy and sympathy you can muster, and say, “The answer is no.” You will save a lot of money if you say no at the right time.

Never promise to do something you know you can't do. They will believe you, bet a lot on your ability to do it, and you will let them down."

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Episode: Transition from Engineer to Manager: Jeff Perry, Engineering Leadership Coach
Pub date: 2020-04-15

You've just become a manager, and don't know where to start? You're close to a promotion, and want to be ready? It's unclear what you should focus on, how to get accepted, and how to streamline your ocean of tasks?

Jeff Perry has faced all these problems, and he'll help you find the way to success in this new role.

In this interview we're covering:

  • Challenges of becoming an engineering manager
  • Misconceptions about becoming a manager
  • The process to transition to management
  • Common mistakes of new engineering managers
  • Necessary skills for a great engineering manager
  • How to get accepted as a new manager
  • How to manage former teammates
  • And more!

Excerpt from the interview:

"Listening is critical for leaders. I struggle with this because I'm quite a talker. It’s amazing what you can learn when you ask a question and truly listen to the other person without interrupting or letting your mind wander.

Here’s a quote from Stephen R. Covey, “Seek first to understand and then be understood.” We’ll understand more if we start by listening more than we talk.

To help with this, I have an exercise the whole team can do together..."

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Podcast: Level-up Engineering (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Software Development Trends 2020: Camille Fournier and Juan Pablo BuriticĂĄ
Pub date: 2020-04-01

Download the full State of Software Development 2020 report here!

Discussion about the latest trends in the software industry, including the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic with Camille Fournier (Managing Director at Two Sigma) and Juan Pablo BuriticĂĄ (taking a break, running his consultant company, ex-VPE at Splice) based on the State of Software Development 2020 report.

In this panel discussion we're covering:

  • The effects of COVID-19 on the software world
  • The state of remote work
  • The top industry challenges
  • The latest recruitment trends
  • And more...

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Episode: First 100 Days as an Engineering Leader: Steven McCord (SVP of Technology at WhyHotel)
Pub date: 2020-03-18

In this interview Steven McCord, Senior Vice President of Technology explains the ins and out of entering the role of a tech leader. This is how you win at your first 100 days.

In this interview we're covering:

  • Challenges of becoming a tech leader
  • Early priorities when becoming a tech leader
  • Focus areas for a tech leader
  • Things you'd do differently
  • Common mistakes for tech leaders
  • How can a company help you transition?
  • Bonus advice for tech leaders

Excerpt from the interview:

"You have to make sure you figure out your architecture. But you shouldn't rush it. First, you need to understand the business problems.

Wherever I go, I build trust and culture around me. This is interesting in WhyHotel, because it isn't a tech company. Most people here come from real estate and hospitality. It’s a challenge because we’re from different worlds.

I try to breed trust by making decisions so I don’t tear people apart. I don’t just go and question, “Why did you make this decision?” Instead, I say, “I'm sure there were reasons why we made these decisions. Let's talk about them.

You need to prove yourself a team player. I believe as an executive, you have to lead by example. This is how you build the culture.

You have to show them that you're open and transparent about communication. You need to be empathetic and you use your emotional intelligence before you expect it from others. I demonstrate my core values of being accountable and transparent to show my reports the way.

Doing this is very softy-feely. It may sound weird from a technologist, but if you can set this tone and build trust across the organization, a lot of things become easier long-term."

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Episode: Engineering Culture: Sally Lait (Senior Engineering Manager at Monzo)
Pub date: 2020-03-04

Interview with Sally Lait, Senior Engineering Manager at Monzo. Their engineering culture is well-known in the industry for being one of the best. In this podcast you'll learn how to improve your engineering culture and what red flags to look for.

In this interview we're covering:

  • Key elements of a great engineering culture
  • Monzo's engineering culture
  • Cultural on-boarding
  • Engineering culture metrics
  • Building your engineering culture
  • Signs of a weak engineering culture
  • Dangerous behaviors
  • Improving your engineering culture
  • Implementing changes to your culture
  • Scaling your engineering culture

Excerpt from the interview:

"My favourite thing in the culture here is that defaulting to transparency is a key value for us. It doesn’t mean everything is transparent, but we keep as much in the open as possible. This includes engineering proposals as well.

When somebody is looking to make a change to the architecture or to the culture, they write a proposal, and anybody in the company is free to comment and to share their views. This way, everyone can see what's going on. Everything goes through Slack, so everything is visible.

Slack is an important tool from a cultural point of view as well. One of our senior engineers built the Guys bot, which pings up on Slack if anybody uses the word “guys.” It’s not an inclusive phrase.

We've built these things into our wider culture by using our engineering skills to create tools. I love how these gently nudge people to live out the key company values."

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Episode: Recruiting Engineers: Greg Sabo (Engineering Manager at Asana)
Pub date: 2020-02-19

Interview with Greg Sabo, Engineering Manager at Asana. Learn how Asana is overcoming the lack of developers on the workforce market, and get your recruitment process to the next level!

In this interview we're covering:

  • How to build your employer brand?
  • Asana's steps to recruiting engineers
  • How to make the final decision?
  • Key elements to recruiting engineers
  • Top channels to recruiting engineers
  • Intern program
  • What skills and traits do you need to recruit developers?
  • How do you evolve your recruitment process?

Excerpt from the interview:

"We do what we call a huddle-meeting, where everyone who has interviewed the candidate gets in a room. Each interviewer has an impression to start with, whether they think the person would be a fit for the rule, and we all discuss it.

The final decision comes down to the facilitator of the huddle based on the interviewers opinions. The facilitator hasn’t interviewed the candidate, so they bring a fresh mindset to the discussion. We train our engineers to facilitate meetings and make decisions collaboratively with a group.

It doesn't have to be a complete consensus."

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Episode: Handling Conflicts, Giving Feedback: Tom Bartel (Engineering Manager at Trivago)
Pub date: 2020-02-05

Handling conflicts and giving feedback are two of the most important things a manager needs to do. It has to be a given to lead a productive developer team. So we interviewed Tom Bartel, Engineering Team Leader at trivago to share some of the tips he picked up over the years he spent as a manager.

In this interview we're covering:

  • Common conflicts in an engineering team
  • How to step in and handle conficts as a manager?
  • Steps to prevent conflicts
  • Rules for giving feedback
  • How to give feedback to help improvement?
  • Common mistakes at giving feedback
  • Bonus advice
  • How to get feedback as an engineering manager?

Excerpt from the interview:

"At one point I had a new developer join a team of senior developers. The new guy was a junior both in skill level and age. The senior team members were used to each other and worked very well together, but the new guy didn't fit in well.

It was partly the new developer’s fault. Sometimes he joked around in ways that would annoy the others, and didn't take the learning opportunities seriously enough. When his first round of feedback came, it was mostly bad. He didn't see it coming and he was devastated.

I did what I talked about earlier, and got them all in the same room. We had a painful and awkward but ultimately healthy conversation. Everybody got to name what they didn't like about the situation, let it be behaviors or anything else. It resolved some misunderstandings too, because often problems are just that.

I also had a one on one conversation with the new engineer. My expectations were clear: he had to stop with certain behaviors, and he had to take some things more seriously.

To my surprise, he did everything I asked, and turned himself around. He applied himself, and improved the situation dramatically..."

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Episode: Engineering Productivity: Camille Fournier (Managing Director at Two Sigma)
Pub date: 2020-01-22

In software development when capacity is the problem, most managers think they need to hire more developers. But you can push engineering productivity higher by creating the right context for your existing developers.

We interviewed Camille Fournier on the topic of productivity, to learn what she's been doing as a tech leader to keep it high in her developer teams.

In this interview we're covering:

  • Defining engineering productivity
  • How to measure engineering productivity
  • Challenges for managers with engineering productivity
  • On-boarding for maximum engineering productivity
  • Effects of mentoring on engineering productivity
  • Keeping engineering productivity high
  • How to improve engineering productivity

Excerpt from the interview:

"Many engineering managers struggle with setting goals. They think about goal setting in a way that’s inspiring to their team without making it easy or pushing too hard.

Some managers say the way to build a productive team is to hire smart people and get out of their way. I have never seen that work. It might work in theory if you have clear goals and if you motivate people to achieve those goals.

Most managers aren’t good at setting clear goals. When you're always adjusting your goals, you can’t expect to just hire smart people, get out of their way, and watch them be productive.

Most engineers don't learn how to be productive on a team without having experienced it. If you've never been an engineer on a hyper-productive team, you won’t know what it’s like or what you could do to make a productive team happen."

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Episode: Managing Distributed Developer Teams: Tim Olshansky (VP of Engineering at Zenput)
Pub date: 2019-12-17

In software development it's more likely now than ever, that as a manager, you'll face the challenge of leading a fully or at least partially distributed developer team. It's a brand new thing for everyone, but Tim Olshansky, current VP of Engineering at Zenput has faced this already. In this interview he shares what he learned on managing distributed developer teams over the years, and gives you actionable tips on making it work as well as possible.

In this episode, we're covering:

  • Challenges of managing a distributed developer team
  • On-boarding remote engineers
  • Balancing synchronous and asynchronous work
  • Managing distributed developer teams
  • Measuring productivity at distributed developer teams
  • Giving feedback in distributed developer teams
  • Running meetings in distributed developer teams
  • Management tools at distributed developer teams

Excerpt from the interview:

"I don't measure productivity specifically. It’s been a struggle, because the definition of productivity is a difficult one, particularly in the software engineering world. Is fixing a hundred bugs or implementing ten features better? What if none of those features affect the company positively?

Firstly, I start by making sure we're working on the right things. If not, I try to fix that, because all the productivity in the world working on the wrong things is not going to get us where we need to be.

The next question: are we working the right way? Are we doing things that are going to cost us in the long run? This is a classic technical debt conversation.

Do we have the infrastructure to support the team to be productive? Does the team have to overcome difficulties to demonstrate what they've done? I try to assess those things and remove the impediments. Then the team can focus on doing what they like, which is problem-solving, and building new things.

When all this is sorted, I look at the individual level. There, I see that if they say they're going to do something , do they get it done? If not, why not? Sometimes, folks need to be held accountable for what they commit to..."

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Podcast: Level-up Engineering (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Training Engineering Managers: Matt Greenberg (CTO at Reforge, ex-VPE at Credit Karma)
Pub date: 2019-12-04

Training engineering managers doesn't get the attention it deserves. It's extremely valuable to keep and grow your own talent, rather than get all your tech leaders from a competitive workforce market. We interviewed Matt Greenberg, who has gained years of experience training new engineering managers.

In this episode, we're covering:

  • How to make sure an engineering manager prospect is ready?
  • Challenges of training engineering managers
  • Challenges of transitioning to engineering management
  • Common mistakes in training engineering managers
  • How to build a system for training engineering managers

Excerpt from the interview:

"People tend to think of engineering management as an opportunity to become a leader.

In reality, accomplished engineers are also leaders; they’re involved in everything. You get opportunities to mentor and you have a say in project leadership decisions and technical decisions, whether you're an individual contributor or a people manager.

Being a people manager entails all the administrative aspects of leadership. So, a lot of it comes down to hiring and firing people, performance management, dealing with HR or legal issues, finance, budgets and all these other things.

I think a lot of people want to become software engineering managers for the wrong reason. Also, many people get out of it once they realize what they're doing. You should look at the end goal. Do you want to be a senior leader managing hundreds of people, or do you want to be an accomplished person on a small team?"

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Podcast: Level-up Engineering (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Creating Psychological Safety: Dan Rummel (Senior Director of Engineering at One Medical)
Pub date: 2019-10-29

How do you build psychological safety in your team? Why is it important?

We sat down for an interview with Dan Rummel. He is currently the Senior Director of Engineering at One Medical, and he’s held engineering and leadership positions at various Bay Area startups.

He shares this invaluable insight with you on creating a workplace with psychological safety, so you get to understand his way of thinking and pick up actionable tips you can apply at your company.

In the interview we're covering:

  • Why is psychological safety important?
  • The difference between psychological safety and the comfort zone
  • Requirements for psychological safety
  • How did Dan build psychological safety?
  • How to promote psychological safety as a leader?

Excerpt from the interview:

Leading by example

"Leading by example is often neglected. It’s a real challenge for leaders and managers because their typical personality types can take up a lot of space in the room. I think leading by example means making space for others.

We need to actively make space for others to chime in during meetings. It also helps a lot to show vulnerability, talk about some of your challenges, or throw out the occasional wild or even silly idea. Even if you know it will likely be shot down, this lets your team know you’re fair game for debate as well.

Perhaps the most important thing to do is to admit when you're wrong, and not make it a big deal. Just saying, “I was wrong; you've got it,” helps the healthy debate and makes it comfortable to rumble through ideas and to find the best outcomes.

The reason healthy teams produce better outcomes is that there's a diversity of experiences and perspectives that come to the table. When people can build mental models with everyone else's experiences, your outcomes get exponentially better, and you get beautiful results from those debates."

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Podcast: Level-up Engineering (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Managing Remote Teams: Katie Womersley (VP of Engineering at Buffer)
Pub date: 2019-10-03

Working with a remote team has many upsides, but managing a remote developer team is one tough job to have. There are loads of challenges you wouldn’t have to worry about in an office, like possible time zone differences or making sure people feel part of the company. It requires a lot of attention to keep everything on track.

We sat down with Katie Womersley, the VP of Engineering at Buffer. She’s managing many remote engineering teams, and she shared a lot of invaluable experience she picked up over the years in dealing with all the obstacles of working with distributed teams.

In this episode, we're covering:

  • Usual challenges remote developer teams face
  • Key elements to make a remote team work
  • DOs and DONTs of managing a remote team
  • Handling time zone differences
  • On-boarding people new to remote work
  • Remote rewards

Excerpt from the interview:

The dark side of managing a remote developer team:

“Remote developer teams often have mental health issues that people don't talk about. It could make your teammates less productive, less healthy, and more likely to quit and go work somewhere in an office where they feel better. Anxiety and depression correlate with feeling lonely or being isolated. Naturally, when working remotely, people often work from home most of the time.

Many but not all developers find themselves a bit more introverted, a bit more on the quiet side, so they’re not going out every day with a ton of friends. One thing we see is that the rate of anxiety and depression is higher with remote workers, so the most practical advice is to be very open in talking about mental health with people, because it really affects their work and their ability to be a successful teammate on the job.

Remember, a manager is not a therapist; it's not your job to solve the issue, but it’s your job to be aware of it and to make sure your teammate gets proper help. Make sure they go see a doctor, go to a co-working space, get out and do some exercise, or get an actual therapist before it ends up becoming a real health problem.”

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Podcast: Level-up Engineering (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Mentoring Developers: Gergely Orosz (Engineering Manager at Uber)
Pub date: 2019-09-30

Mentoring is underutilized in the software development industry today. So, we did an interview with Gergely Orosz, currently an engineering manager at Uber, who has gained a lot of experience with mentoring over his years as a developer/manager.

In this episode, we're covering:

  • Mentoring in tech today
  • His approach to mentoring
  • Challenges in mentoring
  • How to build a mentoring program

Excerpt from the interview:

How do you think a company could implement a mentoring program?

"I've not seen many companies with good mentorship programs and this includes Uber. It's a work in progress, but at least there's something. On the other hand, despite the fact that there's not much structure or best practices, I hear people talk about mentorship all the time, so somehow it’s working. It means that people really want mentoring and it has real value, but I think companies have a long way to go.

At companies, there are two ways a process can go: from the bottom up, or from the top down. Mentoring has to be voluntary, so neither of them will fully work. It cannot just be fully organic, because you might have some teams where people mentor each other, but it will not spread to other parts of the company. You surely can’t make it mandatory.

The number one thing that helps a lot is tying mentoring into performance. Good mentoring happens in a lot of places, but often it’s left unrecognized. The most obvious place to recognize it is when you have your performance review or promotion conversation. That makes it tangible. If mentoring doesn’t come up there, it turns into a side project some people will do and others won’t."

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Episode: Scaling Developer Teams: Rich Archbold (Senior Director of Engineering at Intercom)
Pub date: 2019-09-30

Software companies often grow quickly, which means developer teams often suffer to manage scaling at the pace of growth and necessary workload. We sat down with Rich Archbold to pick his brain on how they scaled developer teams at Amazon, Facebook and Intercom.

In this episode we’ll be covering:

  • Biggest challenges when scaling a developer team
  • How he overcame these challenges
  • First steps to scaling teams
  • How to get hiring right

Excerpt from the interview:

Common mistakes when scaling engineering teams...

"I would say the biggest one is not putting enough emphasis on hiring for behavior and attitude. It’s the most expensive one too. Understand the team you're hiring for, and what's the balance you need to have in there.

The mistake we made in the past is hiring too many juniors. Unless you've got two seniors to match every eight juniors, you don't have a viable team. I call it guns and bullets. There's no point having a lot of bullets, if you don't have any guns to fire them, or the other way around.

Hiring 10 junior engineers can reduce the capacity in your organization, because your best people who were executing at a high rate, now have to mentor juniors. It takes a lot of their time for about six to nine months, and the overall capacity takes a hit. Make sure you understand the balance of strengths in your organization, and you're not just thinking about adding people, but strengthening the team."

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Episode: Software Engineer Career Ladder: Don’t Copy-Paste, Make Your Own!
Pub date: 2020-10-14

Interview with Tim Olshansky, EVP of Product & Engineering at Zenput on creating a software engineer career ladder for your own team.

This isn't a template you can just copy and paste, then forget it ever even existed. This is a guide to creating a meaningful engineering career ladder from Tim, who has been through it more than once.

In this interview we're covering:

  • Building a software engineer career ladder at Zenput
  • The first steps of building a career ladder
  • People to involve in the process
  • Key differences between the career levels
  • The importance of experience in the career ladder
  • The transition to engineering management
  • The role of engineering leaders and managers in the career ladder
  • Updating your engineering career ladder
  • Common mistakes in creating software engineer career ladders

Excerpt from the interview:

"The first four levels of the engineering career ladder are about writing code. Engineers on these levels do their part in supporting their team too, but it isn’t their focus. As they move beyond the senior engineer level, supporting the team becomes their priority.

Either they choose engineering management and do one-on-ones, feedback sessions, and everything that comes with it, or they pick technical leadership, and help people make the right technology decisions.

They end up working with people on the highest levels either way."

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Podcast: Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Becoming a Digital Unicorn with Trice Johnson
Pub date: 2021-12-02

The continuous wave of digital disruptions is demanding something new from each of us, whether you work for a large corporation or a small business, own a startup, or are a recent graduate looking to break into the industry. Trice explains to Scott that your ability to think beyond what's possible and solve problems with a different lens is the secret sauce that will set you apart - and increase your uniqueness in the market.

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Podcast: Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 491: Chase Kocher on The Recruiting LifeCycle
Pub date: 2021-12-21

Chase Kocher, the Founder and CEO of aim4hire, a technology recruitment agency, discusses the recruiting lifecycle from the candidate, the company and the recruiter’s point of view with host Kanchan Shringi.

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Podcast: Software Process and Measurement Cast (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: SPaMCAST 691 - AI and Estimation, The End Of Software Estimators, An Interview with Kevin McKeel
Pub date: 2022-02-20

In SPaMCAST 69, Kevin McKeel talks about using neurolinguistics to aid in software estimation tools. Is this the end of the world for the software estimating profession or the beginning of a golden age? Probably both, listen and draw your own conclusions.

Kevin’s Bio

Mr. Kevin McKeel has over 25 years of experience in software cost estimation. He is a CCEA and SAFe Architect and received the prestigious 2021 Technical Achievement of the Year award from ICEAA related to the research of automated software sizing using AI and NLP. Mr. McKeel holds a Bachelor’s in Business Administration (Finance, ‘89) from James Madison University and a Master’s in Business Administration (Decision Systems, ’92) from The George Washington University.

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Re-Read Saturday News

Week 8 of our re-read of Agile Conversations by Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick concludes our read of Chapter 5 addressing the ‘Why Conversation’. This week we spent time tackling the concepts of joint design and urging organizations to train team leads in decision making. They are not second class citizens

My experiment of the week:

Last week I proposed the experiment of creating a position-interest chart during the week. I actually used the technique to help frame an essay for the Software Process and Measurement Podcast within 12 hours of proposing the experiment. I also used the ideas in the approach to reframing several discussions (looking for the positions behind stated positions) during the week.

This week I will try to find a scenario to apply the concepts of joint design (no eggs will be harmed).

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Week 1: Logistics and Introduction - https://bit.ly/3EZspxT

Week 2: Escaping The Software Factory - https://bit.ly/3HIlivg

Week 3: Improving Your Conversations - https://bit.ly/3ty0nYe

Week 4: The Trust Conversation - https://bit.ly/3ApUrSk

Week 5 The Fear Conversation (Part 1) - https://bit.ly/3gahSpt

Week 6 The Fear Conversation (Part 2) - https://bit.ly/34lLON4

Week 7 The Why Conversation (Part 1) - https://bit.ly/3Jg6KE2

Week 8 The Why Conversation (Part 2) - https://bit.ly/34YAsPc

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What would you call a person with little training, a lot of responsibility, and little to no real authority? This is not a Dad Joke. I suggest the answer is often a team lead.

Also, Mr. Tony Timbol is back to talk about user stories in his To Tell A Story column.

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Podcast: Freakonomics Radio (LS 85 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: 494. Why Do Most Ideas Fail to Scale?
Pub date: 2022-02-24

In a new book called The Voltage Effect, the economist John List — who has already revolutionized how his profession does research — is trying to start a scaling revolution. In this installment of the Freakonomics Radio Book Club, List teaches us how to avoid false positives, how to know whether a given success is due to the chef or the ingredients, and how to practice “optimal quitting.”  

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Podcast: TED Radio Hour (LS 81 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Work, Play, Rest - Part 3
Pub date: 2022-02-18

Rest is so much more than just a good night's sleep. From human hibernation to ASMR to the science of dreams, we explore how to nourish our minds and bodies with different forms of rest. Guests include physiologist Craig Richard, psychologist Dylan Selterman, hibernation researcher Matteo Cerri, and journalist Celeste Headlee.

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Podcast: TED Radio Hour (LS 81 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Work, Play, Rest - Part 2
Pub date: 2022-02-11

As kids, play comes naturally. But over time, it gets replaced with work. This hour, TED speakers explore how to reconnect with play—to spark creativity, combat despair, and find our way in the world. Guests include musician Jacob Collier, human rights activist Yana Buhrer Tavanier, and web developer Stuart Duncan.

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Podcast: TED Radio Hour (LS 81 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Work, Play, Rest - Part 1
Pub date: 2022-02-04

The past few years have shaken the fundamental ways we live. It's... disorienting. But it's also an opportunity to reexamine how we spend our time. Over the next three episodes, TED speakers will investigate evolving notions of what it means to pay our bills, feel joy in play, and rest our minds and bodies. This hour: Work. Guests include labor organizer Jess Kutch, social entrepreneur Irma Olguin, and tech reporter Kevin Roose.

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Podcast: LeadingAgile SoundNotes: an Agile Podcast (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Goal Question Metric (GQM) Approach
Pub date: 2021-12-02

LeadingAgile Senior Consultant Derek Stanley joins Dave Prior to discuss GQM (Goal Question Metrics). During the interview Derek and Dave explore what GQM is by talking through real-world examples that showcase why people use them, and how they can provide clarity on performance towards desired business outcomes.

Whether you are focused on the team level, the program level, or the organization as a whole; GQM can help you clarify what you are trying to achieve, the questions that need to be answered to know if you’ve achieved it, and what metrics allow you to measure your success.

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Podcast: LeadingAgile SoundNotes: an Agile Podcast (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Prioritizing Value
Pub date: 2021-12-10

Being strategic is about planning to reach our goals and deciding what to do with our limited capacity to achieve those aspirations and vision. But to do this, we have to first identify what’s valuable to the organization and prioritize the things that will release the most value into it.

LeadingAgile Chief Methodologist, Dennis Stevens joins Dave prior this week to discuss why we should be prioritizing value and the importance of value density.

Contacting Dennis Stevens * Web: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/dennis-stevens/ * Twitter: https://twitter.com/dennisstevens * Email: dennis@leadingagile.com

Contacting Dave Prior If you’d like to contact Dave you can reach him at:

  • LeadingAgile: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungo
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrsungo
  • Email: dave.prior@leadingagile.com

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Podcast: LeadingAgile SoundNotes: an Agile Podcast (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Working with Product at LeadingAgile
Pub date: 2022-01-06

Working with the Product folks at LeadingAgile is different than a lot of other Product Management gigs. In this interview, LeadingAgile’s Andrew Young joins Dave to talk about what it’s like working with the product group at LeadingAgile, why we focus so heavily on the product side of things, the difference between working “in” product and working “on” product, and why he’s made the choice to work at LeadingAgile.

Contacting Andrew Young * LeadingAgile: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/andrew-young/ * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/atyoung/ * Twitter: https://twitter.com/exclamation101 * Email: andrew.young@leadingagile.com

Contacting Dave Prior If you’d like to contact Dave you can reach him at:

  • LeadingAgile: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungo
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrsungo
  • Email: dave.prior@leadingagile.com

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Podcast: LeadingAgile SoundNotes: an Agile Podcast (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Growth Mindset: Effort
Pub date: 2022-01-20

This podcast is our third in a series of conversations focused on Fixed vs. Growth Mindset. Leveraging the work in Carol Dweck’s book, Mindset, Mary Kaufman and Dave Prior explore the differences between having a fixed mindset and a growth mindset. Each episode of this series focuses on how our mindset impacts the way we perceive and respond to different types of stimulus/events.

This episode is focused on effort and the differences between how a fixed mindset and a growth mindset perceive the value we receive from applying ourselves at work. Do we see the effort spent as a waste of time, or a step towards achieving some level of mastery that can be a reward all by itself?

Other Episodes in our Growth Mindset Series * Episode 1: Embracing Challenges * Episode 2 : Obstacles

Links * Mindset: The New Psychology of Success - by Carol Dweck https://amzn.to/3yYpyn3 * Fixed vs Growth Mindset graphic referenced in the interview (created by Nigel Holmes) https://bit.ly/3vWO1Hh

Contacting Mary * LeadingAgile: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/mary-kaufmann/ * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mary-kaufmann-305b844/ * Email: Mary.Kaufmann@leadingagile.com

Contacting Dave Prior * LeadingAgile: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/ * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungo * Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrsungo * Email: dave.prior@leadingagile.com

If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to dave.prior@leadingagile.com

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Podcast: Thoughtworks Technology Podcast (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Delivering innovation at scale
Pub date: 2021-09-09

Lean Enterprise was a landmark book, exploring how large enterprise could learn from start-ups and deliver innovation at scale — how they could respond to changing market conditions, customer needs, and emerging technologies when building software-based products. Thoughtworks Technology Podcast catches up with two of the book’s authors to hear about its genesis, its impact and why there’s not likely to be a second edition.

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Podcast: Thoughtworks Technology Podcast (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: You can’t buy integration
Pub date: 2021-11-04

There’s often debate around the build-versus-buy decision for digital capabilities. But when it comes to integrating disparate systems, the convenience of some modern integration tools can result in point-in-time integrations: ones that are never intended to evolve, with all the complexity and cost that entails. Here, we catch up with Brandon Byers to explore the limits of low-code tools and the perils of thinking you can buy integration.

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Podcast: Thoughtworks Technology Podcast (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: The art of Lean inceptions
Pub date: 2021-12-16

Lean inceptions combine design thinking and methodologies from the Lean startup movement to provide teams with ways to get started on their projects and identify a minimum viable product as part of building an amazing business solution. We catch up with Paolo Caroli to hear about his new book on the subject as he share a few tips along the way.

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Podcast: Thoughtworks Technology Podcast (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: The big five tech trends for 2022
Pub date: 2022-01-27

Each year, Thoughtworks's Looking Glass report explores the technology trends we think will have far-reaching consequences. We catch up with one of the report's authors, to hear more about what the future holds for enterprise technology.

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Podcast: Hjernekassen pÄ P1 (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Hjernekassen pÄ P1: Ledelse
Pub date: 2022-02-01

Hvad gĂžr en leder til en god leder? Hvorfor har vi brug for ledelse? Hvem kan blive leder? Hvem kan ikke blive leder? Hvordan trĂŠner man sin leder? Vi har eksperter i studiet. VĂŠrt: Peter Lund Madsen.

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Podcast: Software Engineering Daily (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Mental Health with Kelsey Hightower
Pub date: 2022-02-26

Developers struggle with mental health, and this struggle has only gotten more acute during the pandemic. Sitting in front of a computer all day, engulfed by social media and code can cause us to lose our sanity. I personally had some issues that were hard to grapple with during the COVID lockdowns.

In today’s show, Kelsey Hightower joins the show to discuss our personal experiences with mental health challenges, as well as what we have observed in the broader community.

Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com

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Podcast: MS Dev Show (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Artificial Nose with Benjamin Cabe
Pub date: 2021-09-03

This week we talk with Benjamin Cabe about building an artificial nose. What I learned from software engineering at Google. And lots of cool GitHub annoucements.

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Podcast: MS Dev Show (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Optimizing Your Life
Pub date: 2021-12-22

Dwight emails us asking when you should upgrade your tech stack. We talk about iOS focus modes, burnout / mental health, managing your calendar, taking control of bookmarks, and creating a second brain in Obsidian.

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Podcast: Ruby Rogues (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: BONUS: How to do LARGE Volumes of HIGH Quality Work - While Spending Fewer Hours Working
Pub date: 2021-11-25

Get the Black Friday/Cyber Monday "Double Your Productivity by 5pm Today" Deal Coupon Code: "DEEP" for a GIANT discount Mani provides us with strategies and tactics to get Deep Work time and how to get our minds into that focused state for hours at a time.

He has read hundreds of books that have taught him the secrets to getting more done by getting into this state.

He starts by telling us how he was passed over for a promotion at Qualcomm in favor of someone younger and less experienced and how that inspired him to figure out what the other guy was doing differently. He learned that he needed to get more done with the time he was spending on his projects.

The trick? Deep Work!

Deep Work is the ability to spend uninterrupted, focused time on a task to bend your entire mind toward the goal.

Other developers call it "Flow" or "the Zone."

Mani provides us with strategies and tactics to get Deep Work time and how to get our minds into that focused state for hours at a time.

Get the Black Friday/Cyber Monday "Double Your Productivity by 5pm Today" Deal Coupon Code: "DEEP" for a GIANT discount

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Podcast: The New Stack Podcast (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: How to Hire (and Keep) Software Devs for Complex Systems
Pub date: 2021-12-28

There’s no doubt that the cognitive load developers are facing is seemingly endlessly increasing. Microservices and open source have aggravated the situation, where it’s nearly impossible for one developer to get up to speed with any codebase. This makes onboarding extra challenging, and contributes to about two-thirds of tech workers experiencing burnout. CodeSee looks to help developers get up to speed faster by visualizing a codebase in just a few clicks.

Shanea Leven, CEO and founder of CodeSee, sat down with TNS writer, Jennifer Riggins, on this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast to discuss workload complexity, work-life balance, and hiring/retaining best practices within the DevOps community.

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Podcast: The Psychology Podcast (LS 66 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Oliver Burkeman || Time Management for Mortals
Pub date: 2022-01-13

In this episode, I talk to bestselling author Oliver Burkeman about his latest book Four Thousand Weeks. On the surface, it’s easy to mistake it for another self-help book on time management. But instead of enthusing about productivity hacks, Oliver challenges his readers to confront the finite nature of humanity. By doing so, he argues we can live fuller lives—without having to always carry the fear of missing out. We also touch on the topics of procrastination, positive psychology, flow, realism, deep time, and patience.

Bio

Oliver Burkeman is a journalist for The Guardian. From 2006 to 2020, he wrote the popular weekly column on psychology called “This Column Will Change Your Life”. He is the author of The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking and Help! How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done. In 2015, he won the Foreign Press Association’s Young Journalist of the Year award, and has been short-listed for the Orwell Prize. His most recent book is Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals.

Website: www.oliverburkeman.com

Twitter: @oliverburkeman

Topics

00:02:03 The efficiency trap

00:05:34 Accepting human limitations

00:08:35 Why we handicap ourselves

00:13:07 How to be a better procrastinator

00:18:32 Each activity is paid for with your life

00:20:55 The joy of missing out

00:23:55 Harness more deep time

00:27:57 The common theme of Oliver’s books

00:32:02 Realism and doing the impossible

00:37:29 Productivity and self-worth

00:40:53 Embracing boredom instead of acceleration

00:46:14 Developing a taste for problems

00:50:21 Radical incrementalism

00:57:30 “Originality lies on the far side of unoriginality”

01:01:06 How time management distracts us from wonder

01:03:50 Oliver’s approach to new year resolutions

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Podcast: Agile Uprising Podcast (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: 12 Days of Agile - Produce Value Early
Pub date: 2021-12-09

In the first episode of our "12 Days of Agile" series, join Paul Elia and Jay Hrcsko as they discuss their thoughts on the first Agile Manifesto Principle: "Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software."

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Podcast: Agile Uprising Podcast (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: 12 Days of Agile - Welcome Change
Pub date: 2021-12-10

In the second episode of our "12 Days of Agile" series, join Colleen Johnson, James Gifford, and Jay Hrcsko as they discuss their thoughts on the second Agile Manifesto Principle: "Welcome changing requirements, even late in development. Agile processes harness change for the customer's competitive advantage.."

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Podcast: Agile Uprising Podcast (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: 12 Days of Agile - Iterative Delivery
Pub date: 2021-12-13

Join our hosts Paul Elia and Ryan Lockard as they discuss the 3rd Agile Principle: "Deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a preference to the shorter timescale."

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Podcast: Agile Uprising Podcast (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: 12 Days of Agile - Face to Face
Pub date: 2021-12-16

Join our hosts Jay Hrcsko, and Chris Murman as they discuss the 6th Agile Principle: "The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation."

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Podcast: Agile Uprising Podcast (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Team Topologies Book Discussion
Pub date: 2021-12-19

This week we convene a panel to discuss the book Team Topologies by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais. We review the team types outlined, the different interaction modes, how cognitive load figures into team size and layout, and even the Inverse Conway. Enjoy!

References:

Robin Dunbar on the Jim Rutt Show

Promise Theory with Mark Burgess

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Podcast: Agile Uprising Podcast (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Should I Take This? - Professional Kanban I
Pub date: 2022-02-13

In the newest edition of Should I Take This? we sit down with Janel Lanza and Andrew Leff to discuss their experience with taking the new Professional Kanban I course, taught by the man himself James Gifford. Enjoy!

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Podcast: Agile Uprising Podcast (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Bob Galen: The OG Badass of Agile Coaching
Pub date: 2022-02-20

Agile Uprising board member Chris Murman welcomes our good friend and all-around wise wizard Bob Galen to talk about his new book titled Extraordinarily Badass Coaching: The Journey From Beginner To Mastery and Beyond. If you want an e-copy (Mobi, Epub, and PDF) the best way to get it is on Leanpub. Here's a coupon code for a discounted copy. In the pod, we discuss how we got where we are with the role of Agile Coach, the struggles people find in the role, and what an improvement in the work could mean for teams.

Bob mentions the Agile Coaching Growth Wheel a few times in the recording. More information can be found here: * http://whatisagilecoaching.org/agile-coaching-growth-wheel/ * https://resources.scrumalliance.org/Article/agile-coaching-growth-wheel

Also, Mark Summers and Bob have collaborated with Comparative Agility to create an Agile Coaching PI (Personal Improvement) assessment that is free. It's a wonderful learning and development tool for agile coaches Finally, you can also download a free copy of Agile Reflections for Agile Coaches e-book from Leanpub here by setting the slider to $0. * If you enjoyed this episode, please give us a review, a rating, or leave comments on iTunes, Stitcher, or your podcasting platform of choice. It really helps others find us. * Much thanks to the artist Krebs from Machine Man Records who provided us with our outro music free of charge! If you like what you heard, check out these links to find more music you might enjoy! * If you’d like to join the discussion and share your stories, please jump into the fray at our Discord Server! * We at the Agile Uprising are committed to being totally free. However, if you’d like to contribute and help us defray hosting and production costs we do have a Patreon. Who knows, you might even get some surprises in the mail!

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Podcast: Engineering Culture by InfoQ (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Moving from Individual Contributor to People Leader
Pub date: 2021-10-01

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Sam McAfee about helping technologists move from being individual contributors to leaders of teams.

Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3AZHVID

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InfoQ Live: https://live.infoq.com/ - October 19, 2021

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Podcast: Engineering Culture by InfoQ (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Making hybrid working work
Pub date: 2021-11-12

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Nick Iovacchini of Kettle about making hybrid working work in the post-pandemic world and the ability to put people space and time together in ways that create successful experiences for employees and organisations.

Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3wDT40D

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QCon London: https://qconlondon.com/ - April 4-6, 2022 / London, UK

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Podcast: Engineering Culture by InfoQ (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Becoming a Great Engineering Manager is Hard
Pub date: 2021-12-03

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Anand Sufi about making the shift from being an individual contributor to an engineering manager

Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3Elwg8P

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QCon London: https://qconlondon.com/ - April 4-6, 2022 / London, UK

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Podcast: Engineering Culture by InfoQ (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Improving Developer Experience with Sarah Wells
Pub date: 2022-02-04

Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/34wR1BW

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Episode: The Challenges of DevOps and the Importance of Developer Experience with Jyoti Bansal
Pub date: 2022-02-21

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Jyoti Bansal about the challenges of DevOps today and the importance of developer experience for effective software development today.

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Episode: Are You An Implementor Or An Owner?
Pub date: 2021-11-17

Are you an implementer or an owner?

According to Kate Johnson, president of Microsoft U.S., an implementer is somebody who takes somebody else's vision and actions and implements it. Implementers typically give the accountability and responsibility to somebody else.

An owner is somebody who sets the vision and course of action. They provide clarity on the outcome and how a team or organization can achieve that outcome. Owners also take on the accountability and their responsibility without passing it off to someone else.

If you want to become an owner at your organization, you need to be more accountable for driving change. Volunteer for the tough projects that nobody else wants to take on. Be more humble and vulnerable when it comes to making mistakes and learning from them. And think of where you can create value inside of your organization and as a part of your team.

Implementers keep the ship running. But owners change the world. We need both, which one are you?


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Episode: 11 Ways Employees Are Evolving & How You Need To Adapt
Pub date: 2021-11-22

I recently shared an image on LinkedIn on the evolution of the employee, and it went bonkers; like it went completely viral. It became the most popular thing that I have ever shared on LinkedIn. It's fascinating because this is something I wrote about in 2014 and the whole concept was looking at how employees are changing and how the idea of employees is changing. And even though I wrote about it in 2014, it was manifesting slower--than Covid hit, and suddenly, this became a reality.

It’s important to go through this evolution so that you can understand what you need to do as a leader, what you need to do as an organization, or even what you need to be doing and thinking about it as an individual contributor.

In the past, employees were working nine to five and we’ve had an evolution towards working anytime. The idea of working nine to five and setting 32 or 40 hours a week is a concept that is probably almost 100 years old.

And why are the hours after five o'clock designated for personal time? I think technology has been the great equalizer here. Because technology allows us to stay connected to work anytime, anywhere, on any device. So, we're moving away from this concept of work-life balance to work-life integration.

The whole concept here is that work-life integration is about you, as an employee, deciding how you should be working, what makes the most sense for you. If you want to work nine to five, and that's how you choose to spend your time, hey, more power to you. So, it's my choice. It's my freedom. It's my flexibility. This is what work-life integration is all about. The challenge is you need to set boundaries, working anytime efficiently. But it would help if you also were more accountable and responsible for shutting off. This means having self-awareness and paying attention to if you're getting burned out.


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The next one that goes very much in parallel with this is this concept of the past. The past is working in the corporate office and the future is working anywhere. But for organizations that want more, they want to grow, they want to scale, they want to identify complex problems, they want to identify unique opportunities, they want to move beyond just getting stuff done. In that kind of environment, there is still a lot of room for improvement.

We're not just talking about productivity; we're not just talking about getting things done. We're talking about going beyond that. Tackling complex challenges, identifying new opportunities, creating trust, and psychological safety, being influential leaders, if we want to take it one step further. And you know what, there is still very much a place for in-person work. I do believe that, and guess what? All the executives that I've been interviewing think that now that role for in-person work doesn't mean that you're going to be in an office nine to five. It might mean you show up for a couple of hours a day or it might mean you show up once or twice a week--it might mean any number of things. That's what workplace flexibility is all about.

Work is no longer a place that you go to work, it is something that you carry with you; You can pretty much get anything done on your smartphone or on a laptop that you can take with you. So, technology is pushing this forward. So that's another significant evolution that we're seeing.

The third way is moving away from using company equipment towards using the device. We're very much moving towards a world where people are using their own devices to get work done. And not only their own devices, but they're finding their software. Suppose your organization offers software that employees believe is tedious and time-consuming, ineffective, and inefficient, and it's not beautiful, helpful, and valuable. Why aren't you going to use it? We're moving away from having to use company-sanctioned hardware towards the employees using their laptops, their phones, using their cameras, their microphone, and anything else they need. Give employees access to tools and platforms that emulate the things you're using for personalized use like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google and all these other easy-to-use platforms; it should be just as easy to get stuff done inside of our organizations as it is to do things in our personal lives.

The next one is the past is focused on inputs. Does your manager see you at your desk doing work, completing tasks? We're moving away from that and concentrating now on the outputs. What have you done? Would you instead that employee be working somewhere else, let's say working from home, if they are able to put four hours in, but the work that they're doing is impressive. It's high-quality work; they're used to their job, they're coming to work each day with new ideas and opportunities, they are doing a fantastic job. That's the mentality that we need to have. And that's the visual that I want you to have. It's not the time that matters, it's the quality of work. So, this is a significant shift that we're seeing, moving from inputs to focusing more on outputs,

The next one is moving away from climbing the corporate ladder to building your ladder. The exciting thing with creating your ladder is that technology, again, has made this the great equalizer. Because what I mean by creating your ladder, I suggest that you can shape your career path and your trajectory in the size of your organization.

One of the ways you can do that is through technology, by participating in relevant conversations, joining employee resource groups that are relevant to you seeking out opportunities pertinent to your organization that are tangential to what you're currently working on. But if you want to be able to create your ladder, part of what that means is that you need to step up, you need to let your voice be heard, you need to use these technologies that are out there, to speak up, you need to participate in the employee resource groups that are out there, all of this is going to be essential for you if you want to create that corporate ladder.

We're starting to see that a lot of leaders wish to do this. They want you to speak up, they want you to give them feedback, they want you to let them know what you care about and what you value, you can very much start to shape your ladder. Now employees have more power than they ever did before. An organization does not want to lose people; it would much rather keep you in transition into another role that you would find more suitable for the work that you're doing. So take advantage of the opportunity. Speak up if you're in a position and don't want to keep climbing that corporate ladder.

The next one that we have here is predefined work to customize work. When I say customized work, this is a lot based on the technologies that we're using, the resource groups, your ability to speak up inside of your organization, your ability to let people know what you're interested in and what you care about. And now, what I think we're starting to see, especially with this concept of employee experience, it's the organization acknowledging and saying, we're not going to tell you what to do. We're not going to create the work for you, we're going to design it with you. So, you tell us, what do you care about? What are your values? What do you get out of it? What's your purpose? And so we're starting to see a lot of customization on work based on employees speaking up and based on employees using the different technologies that are out there.

The next one after this is moving away from hoarding information to sharing information. Today, we're seeing this massive shift, where the employees help others get recognized and rewarded. If the people share their ideas, identify new opportunities, or tackle complex challenges, they get rewarded. Technology, again, has been an essential factor in this because it's easy for us to share information across anytime, anywhere, and on any device. That will make you more successful inside of your organization.

We're starting to see a move away from this idea of not having a voice inside of your organization and a move towards the idea that anybody can become a leader inside your company. So now you have a tremendous voice. You have immense power and responsibility, and we're moving towards creating a place where anybody can become a leader. A leader is not a title that is bestowed upon you. A leader is a mindset. It's a skill set. The future Leader is about helping make other people more successful than you. It's about thinking like a futurist having a growth mindset. You don't need permission from other people to do these things. You can do these things yourself. Anybody now can become a leader inside of an organization, you have that voice, use that voice. Don't ask for permission; ask for forgiveness.

The next one is moving away from relying on email to relying on collaboration technologies. Now, I'm not saying that email will completely disappear or vanish because I don't think it will. But email used to be the primary form of communicating and collaborating inside of an organization. Look at the number of tools and resources we have at our disposal to communicate and collaborate. We have Zoom meetings and so many different platforms and channels at our disposal.

The next one is moving away from focusing on knowledge to adaptive learning. And really what this means is not being a knowledge worker but being a learning worker. You need to learn how to learn; you must become a learning machine. Now, the good news is today you have access to YouTube, Coursera, Udemy, Khan Academy and so many different tools and resources are out there, there is no excuse for why you cannot learn anything that you need to know to be personally or professionally successful. It would help if you learned how to learn, take things into your own hands, don't wait for anybody else to tell you what you need to know. Organizations will say, look, we're going to help you as best as we can. But ultimately, you are going to be responsible for your growth, your trajectory, and your future.

And the last one is about corporate learning and training. In the past, anything that you wanted to know you'd have to sign up for a seminar or a training program and you would have to wait a few weeks or months. So corporate education and training are seeing a significant evolution. Part of what we're starting to see is that anybody is a teacher, and anybody can be a student. In other words, as a company, you can't assume that you are responsible for all education and training; you need to do a better job of connecting your people. Let them educate and train each other.

This is the evolution of the employee. And this is what I think we're starting to see much more of in organizations around the world.


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Episode: Being In A Relationship Is Like Working For A Company
Pub date: 2021-11-24

You need to view working at your company just like being in a relationship.

Whenever you're in a relationship, you're inevitably presented with a choice. Do you keep the relationship going? Is it something that you turn into a long-term relationship?

If you decide you want to fight for that relationship, then you have to fight like hell to make it work. Are you going to overcome the obstacles and work on the problems you're faced with? Then you have to do everything you can.

Working for an organization is the exact same thing. Are you going to try to make things work? Or are you going to jump ship?

Whether you are in a personal or a professional relationship, it is the same thing. You need to decide if it's a relationship worth fighting for. And if it is, fight like hell to make it work.


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Episode: The Best Career Advice For Young People
Pub date: 2021-12-01

Here are my 5 best pieces of career advice for young people.

đŸ„‚Taste test When you are young in your career, most of the time you have no idea what you want to do. So try out different jobs before you commit. It’s important that you enjoy what you are doing.

đŸ’ȘBuild your own ladder You don't have to follow the template that everybody tells you to follow. You can build your own career. The first step in doing this is to build your own personal brand.

✋Life is too short to be miserable Why would you want to spend any of your time being miserable? If you don’t like your job, do something about it.

🧭Make your own decisions There will be a lot of people who will tell you what they think you should do. You can take feedback of course, but the important thing is to make your own decisions. Ultimately, you have to do what makes sense for you. Nobody is going to look out for you.

đŸ‘„Be self-aware You need to know your strengths and weaknesses. The more self-aware you become, the more growth and opportunities you’ll see.


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Episode: Why Some Companies Fail With Technology, The Future Of Collaboration, & The Changing Nature of Talent
Pub date: 2021-12-06

Nathan Rawlins is the Chief Marketing Officer of Lucid, a software company with around 1000 employees that designs online visual collaboration applications. Its products are utilized in over 180 countries by more than 30 million users worldwide. Lucid's online applications bring people together over the web from anywhere in the world to work together on a shared canvas.

Nathan joined Lucid in 2017 as the CMO to show the world the benefits of working visually. Prior to joining Lucid, Nathan led worldwide marketing activities for Puppet and helped scale Jive through an IPO as he directed product marketing and brand.

Lucid was named Best Led Companies in 2021 by Inc. Magazine and was named Best Workplace in Technology by Fortune for a second consecutive year.

I have known Nathan for many years. We were reminiscing about how software has changed communication and collaboration for people over the years. The shift has been to social ways of communication more so than collaboration. Communication has evolved pretty dramatically over the course of the last decade.

What is Lucid's leadership philosophy

Every company has core values and its own culture. One of the exciting things about Lucid is that early employees codified the importance of the company and said, we need what we are doing to work, we like working together, we like doing what we are doing. Let's figure out the essence of that success. And that turned into the values created at Lucid. Teamwork over ego is one of our core values. And I would imagine, if you were to talk to people at Lucid, you would hear it from virtually everyone because it's this core idea that we need to win as a company. Another value at Lucid is innovation. But the way that we apply innovation is vital. After I joined Lucent several years ago, I noticed this early on, a highly experimental culture with an acceptance for learning as we go along.

Interviewing at Lucid we look for those core values. People can come from very different backgrounds; they can have different approaches, they need to, we want that level of diversity. But it's essential that the people we hire adhere to the core values, value teamwork over ego, and value innovation and creativity. So the second area Lucid focuses on is creating a structured leadership training course. We have a 100, 200 and 300 level series of training every people manager completes to ensure that we understand everything from managing effectively and how to motivate teams.

Trends that are top of mind for Nathan

The type of collaboration, the way that we collaborate needs to shift to allow for a high level of complexity, dialogue and interconnection. Another trend we are seeing is more companies are shifting to agile ways of working not just within software development. Companies are pushing for more self directed smaller teams where they can work with more autonomy. And that's fantastic. It does present an interesting challenge. We've talked about silos for decades. But for most of that time, we've talked about it as if there are a handful of silos in a company. When teams become more agile, you can actually create 1000s of mini silos. The need for a system of record for what you're trying to build becomes vital so that as teams work together, they have the common blueprint for what they're trying to accomplish. As work is handed off from team to team, it can be more effective. So you bring those two things together, the fact that we're building very complex projects, and doing it in a way where we have very nimble agile teams, and it makes it so that we need to rethink the way we go about having these conversations around collaboration.

The future of work look

We certainly have talked to many companies that are shifting to completely virtual collaboration, in particular, because of the current environment. What we found is that many of them are saying, even if we get back together at some point at scale, what we have learned over the course of the last year and a half will cause us to collaborate differently when we're all in the same room.

The other shift is in the preference for the way that we work. Bringing a team together on a virtual board, where they can brainstorm what needs to be built. Developing software that has capabilities where you can break into virtual rooms, and have a sticky note exercise and come up with the ideas. One idea may be to build a mobile application. So instead of having an email chain about what needs to change, a team can jump into a diagramming application together and build out the flow for that customer support process. All the way through you have this new place where people gather on this virtual board, and they can work side by side, even if they aren't face to face.

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Episode: 3 Daily Practices Of Perpetual Learners
Pub date: 2021-12-08

Be a perpetual learner if you want to future-proof your career.

Being a perpetual learner means understanding and acknowledging that you can’t rely on educational institutions or organizations to teach you everything you need to know to be successful.

A perpetual learner is somebody who takes learning into their own hands. They take their growth and development into their own hands, and they learn how to learn.

They acknowledge that what they learned in the past is not necessarily going to carry them forward in the future.

Here are three daily practices of perpetual learners:

They ask questions

Why is something being done like this? Is there a better way for us to do this? Can we be more efficient with this? Can we save money without having to do this?

They make time to figure out the answer to questions.

They apply the things they learn in their lives and their organization.

Do you do these practices yourself?


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Episode: Digital Body Language: How to Build Trust and Connection, No Matter the Distance Or Platform
Pub date: 2021-12-13

Erica Dhawan, entrepreneur, keynote speaker, and the best-selling author of a very timely book called Digital Body Language: How to Build Trust and Connection, No Matter the Distance.

She is best known as the leading authority on 21st-century collaboration and teamwork in a digital-first workplace.

Today we are focusing on how digital body language is all the new cues and signals that have replaced traditional body language. Humans rely on body language to connect and build trust, but with most of our communication happening from behind a screen, traditional body language signals are no longer visible.


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Episode: The CEO of Unit4 On Leading With Purpose, Hybrid Work, & The Human Side of Technology
Pub date: 2021-12-16

Mike Ettling, the CEO of Unit4, a software company with around 2700 employees in 26 countries that designs and delivers enterprise software and ERP applications including finance management, accounting, talent management, and student management modules.

Today we are focusing on how leaders can create a sense of purpose and meaning for their employees.

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Episode: How We Make Decisions, The Behaviors That Keep Us From Goals, and Strategies For Driving Change
Pub date: 2021-12-20

Katy Milkman is a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, host of Charles Schwab's popular behavioral economics podcast Choiceology, and president of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making. In addition, she is the co-founder and co-director of the Behavior Change for Good Initiative, a research center to advance the science of lasting behavior change.

She's also the author of a top-rated book called How to change the science of getting from where you are to where you want to be.

Today we are talking about her research and exploring insights from economics and psychology that can be harnessed to change consequential behaviors for good enhancing leadership skills to unleash employee potential. Learning techniques to change behavior around financial decision making, health decision making and around educational outcomes.


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Episode: 3 Things Leaders Do
Pub date: 2021-12-22

I've had the opportunity to talk to a lot of great leaders around the world. And I noticed that there are three things that a lot of these great leaders typically do.

✅Take time for themselves Successful business leaders spend time exercising, journaling, meditating, or enjoying quiet time. Whatever it is they do, they always take time for themselves. This is when they get a chance to think big picture and create the vision where they want to go.

✅Have goals Every leader I’ve interviewed has goals. These can be daily goals or big-picture goals for themselves and where they want the organization as a whole to go.

✅Spend time with other people Leaders don’t just spend time with peers and executives. They spend time with people on the front line and with customers. If you want to be a successful leader, make sure you're spending time with people, learning from them, getting feedback from them, and listening to their insights.


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Episode: How To Master The Art & Science Of Stress Free Productivity With David Allen
Pub date: 2022-01-03

David Allen is widely recognized as the world’s leading expert on personal and organizational productivity. The Getting Things Done Method rests on the idea of moving items of interest, relevant information, issues, tasks and projects out of the mind, by recording them externally, and then breaking them into actionable work items. And this allows attention to be focused on taking action on tasks instead of recalling them.


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Episode: How To Set Rules For Yourself So You Accomplish More
Pub date: 2022-01-05

It’s time to start setting boundaries for yourself, the same way you set boundaries for other people.

I have set 7 rules for myself that help me become more productive every day:

1.❌Don’t check email or social media until 4:00 p.m. every day.

2.❌Don't take meetings with people who just want to pick my brain. I get a lot of these requests every week, and if I start saying yes, it will snowball.

3.❌No television in the bedroom, and no technology during mealtimes.

4.✅Be healthy. I try to eat healthy and make time to exercise.

5.❌No calls or meetings before 9 a.m. or after 5 p.m.

6.✅Always make time for family.

7.❌NO meetings or calls on Mondays, Wednesdays, or Fridays.

How about you? What are your boundaries?


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Podcast: Leading The Future of Work With Jacob Morgan (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How Do We Embrace A Growth Mindset
Pub date: 2022-01-12

Having a growth mindset is crucial to succeed in the future of work. There are a few things you can do to embrace this mindset:

✅View challenges as opportunities. Most people view challenges as opportunities to fail and as things they can't overcome.

Instead, you should view any challenge you face as an opportunity to grow.

You can do this by taking on more challenging tasks. Don't just play it safe.

You can also find a creative path around your obstacles. Try to explore new ways of overcoming your challenges.

✅ Don't be afraid to ask for help. Don't be scared to bring in other people to help you accomplish your tasks.

✅ Set short-term and long-term goals for yourself. Setting goals allows you to work backwards to make sure you're taking the right steps to get where you want to be.


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Podcast: Leading The Future of Work With Jacob Morgan (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Why Gig Work Is The Future Of Work & How To Lead A Virtual Team
Pub date: 2022-01-17

Sondre Rasch is the co-founder and CEO of SafetyWing which offers health insurance for remote teams and nomads.

They have people all over the world where you can have a dashboard, you can add employees, or contractors anywhere and any country.

Also, Sondre was previously the founder of SuperSlide (YC W16) and policy advisor for the Government of Norway. He worked in the government for a while, enhancing the social safety net and now working to deliver the ideal social safety net to the rest of the world.

Today, we're talking about his company, SafetyWing, and how remote work is helping a lot of companies save money while also increasing productivity. We look at why companies choose freelancers, how to construct a successful virtual team, how to lead effectively, and much more.


This episode is sponsored by SafetyWing.

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Episode: How To Avoid Burnout
Pub date: 2022-01-19

It's very easy for us to become burned out in this new world we live in.

We're surrounded by technology at our fingertips, and it’s easy to get exhausted because we’re constantly multitasking.

Studies show that multitasking actually takes you 25% longer to complete both tasks.

Multitasking isn't your friend.

It does come down to being able to prioritize and figuring out what you should be working on and what can wait.

Everyone wants things from you all the time--your friends, your boss, your coworkers, your spouse. These requests come in digitally and in person.

Learning to say no and taking more control over our lives is crucial to success.

A lot of us have a hard time saying no because we’re conditioned from an early age to say yes. It feels awkward to say no to people.

But saying no is one of the best ways to prevent burnout.

Learn to value your time.

Saying no also allows you to build self-esteem and confidence.


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Episode: Sheryl Palmer CEO of Taylor Morrison On Being Vulnerable & Why She Does Job Interviews In Restaurants
Pub date: 2022-01-24

Sheryl Palmer is the CEO of Taylor Morrison, a National Homebuilder and Land Developer who dares to challenge the status quo. Taylor Morrison’s reputation is something one should never underestimate. From holding the title of America’s Most Trusted Home Builder by Lifestory Research for six years running, recognized by Fortune Magazine as World’s Most Admired Companies and Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work, their dedication, passion, and work ethics speak for itself.

Sheryl Palmer is also featured in my book, The Future Leader, as someone who inspires me a lot and the figure who exhibits what a great leader should look like.

Today, we will be talking about the corporate world and what made Sheryl who she is today. We uncover her leadership and business insights, what changed in Cheryl as a leader, and her tips on keeping things in perspective. Tune in to this exciting and inspiring episode with Sheryl Palmer!


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Episode: Why You Need To Master Your Communication Skills
Pub date: 2022-01-26

Today, there's noise and distractions all over the place. Being able to stand out and clearly share our ideas, points of view, and perspectives has never been more important.

Without strong communication skills, a great proposal might get lost in the shuffle, an amazing candidate might not get hired for an organization, or a brilliant idea might never be heard.

Think about how much information and data you are competing against every day. There is a lot of stuff out there that pulls our attention in many different directions.

That is why communication is a crucial skill to have in order to be successful in the new world of work.


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Episode: Living & Working In A Rapidly Changing World
Pub date: 2022-02-09

Around a thousand years ago, a mathematician and inventor named Sissa created chess. He showed it to the ruler of the land, who was so impressed that he offered Sissa any reward he wanted.

Sissa said, “I would like you to put one grain of rice on this chessboard and then keep double the amount of grain for each subsequent square.”

The ruler quickly agreed and told his advisors to figure out how much rice they would need to pay off Sissa.

As it turns out, we don’t even have enough rice in the world today to meet the amount required.

Sissa then became the new ruler of the land.

At first glance, doubling a grain of rice on a chessboard seems like it will lead to very gradual and small growth.

However, when you get to the second half of the chessboard, the doubling accelerates at a hockey stick growth pattern, meaning it’s no longer gradual growth but a massive increase from each square to the next.

When we talk about the rapid pace of change, this is where most leaders, technologists, and futurists believe we are today
 at the second half of the chess board.

We must all embrace that this is the new normal.

To succeed in this kind of a world, we need to change our mindset because today “late adopter” means “out of business”


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Episode: 5 Things You Can Do To Be Heard At Work
Pub date: 2022-02-16

We live in a connected world where everybody's trying to stand out and make their voice heard.

This can make it feel like you are just a drop in an ocean. So how can you possibly get noticed?

If you want to learn and grow and have your voice get heard, here are five things you can do:

  1. Speak up in meetings. Be confident that you were invited there for a reason to contribute something and not just to be a body.

  2. Join a committee or an employee resource group. Find something that matches your talents and interests and go all in.

  3. Participate in your company's internal collaboration platforms. Pretty much every organization uses some sort of technology for employees to communicate and collaborate. Take advantage of those platforms.

  4. Ask questions. If you struggle to share your own ideas, start by asking questions of others.

  5. Offer a solution. Stop pointing out what’s wrong and offer a solution.

Don't be afraid to make your voice heard. It will help you develop and be more successful in your career and in life.


This episode is sponsored by Namely.

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Episode: Michael Eisenberg on the Start-Up Nation, Storytelling, and the Power of Technology
Pub date: 2022-02-14

Michael Eisenberg, venture capitalist and the author of The Tree of Life and Prosperity talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the secret of the Start-Up Nation, the role of principles in investing, and why he's optimistic about technology's contribution to humanity.

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Podcast: Finding Mastery (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Dr. Dan Dworkis: Wiring Your Brain for Performance Under Pressure
Pub date: 2022-01-05

This week’s conversation is with Dr. Dan Dworkis, an attending emergency physician and professor at USC’s Keck School of Medicine, where he works at the Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center (one of the largest and busiest emergency departments in the country).

Before that, he did his training with the Brigham and Women’s Hospital / Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency.

ER doctors or not, we all face emergencies in our lives– times when we are called on to make a decision to act, or not act – with skill to meet the demands of the moment – whether that’s in an environment of uncertainty, pressure, or even intimacy.

Dan believes deeply that all of us can improve how we function under pressure and in doing so perform at our best when we are needed the most.

He’s the founder of The Emergency Mind project which helps individuals and teams perform better under pressure both in and out of the emergency department – and that sets the tone for this conversation.


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Podcast: Conversations with Tyler (LS 64 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Ana Vidović on Prodigies, Performance, and Perseverance
Pub date: 2022-01-12

Is genius born or made? For Croatian-born classical guitarist Ana Vidović the answer is both. Born into a musical family, she began playing guitar at five and was quickly considered a prodigy. But she’s seen first-hand how that label can trap young talents into complacency, stifling their full development. She’s also had to navigate changing business models and new technologies, learning for instance how to balance an online presence with her love of performing for live audiences.

She joined Tyler to discuss that transition from prodigy to touring musician and more, including how Bach challenges her to become a better musician, the most difficult piece in guitar repertoire, the composers she wish had written for classical guitar, the Beatles songs she’d most like to transcribe, why it’s important to study a score before touching the guitar, the reason she won’t practice more than seven hours per day, how she prevents mistakes during performances, what she looks for in young classical guitarists, why she doesn’t have much music on streaming services, how the pandemic has changed audiences, why she stopped doing competitions early on, what she’d change about conservatory education for classical guitarists, her favorite electric guitarists, her love of Croatian pop music, the benefits and drawbacks of YouTube for young musicians, and what she’ll do next.

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Podcast: Conversations with Tyler (LS 64 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Sebastian Mallaby on Venture Capital
Pub date: 2022-02-09

Venture capital powered the tech revolution, but what powers venture capital? With his in-depth knowledge and coverage of the sector you’d be forgiven for thinking Sebastian Mallaby is a veteran of the Silicon Valley scene. The author of several books on finance and economics, Sebastian takes pride in understanding his subjects intimately (perhaps too intimately, if you ask his critics). His latest book, Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future, sheds light on the small but mighty industry.

Sebastian joined Tyler to discuss why venture capital skills aren’t more replicable, the promise of biotech despite increased regulations, why venture capital remains concentrated in the Bay area even after the pandemic, the differences in risk-taking between East and West coast finance, the secret to Mike Moritz’s success as an investor, how Peter Thiel’s understanding of the power law set him apart, why he isn’t interested in becoming a venture capitalist himself, his predictions for the European tech ecosystem over the next ten years, the original sin of “too big to fail,” the major failure of Alan Greenspan during his tenure at the Fed, the Darwinian evolution of good hedge fund strategy, what Ray Dalio got right with Bridgewater, the finance topics he feels are undercovered, what it takes to be a good Substack writer, why he’s bullish on The Information, reasons to be optimistic about the innovative and entrepreneurial trajectories of Japan, the greatest living British historians, the future of the World Bank once China stops borrowing from it, what’s causing the decline in popularity of liberal capitalism, the zany appeal of The Grand Budapest Hotel, and more.

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Podcast: The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: #122 Robert Cialdini - The Principles of Persuasion
Pub date: 2021-10-19

What are the best strategies to get people to say “Yes” to your requests in life? Acclaimed psychologist Robert Cialdini dives deep into the seven small things that make a huge impact in influencing others, as well as the difference between being influenced and being manipulated into making decisions. What are the tactics, how do they work, and how do we defend against them? This episode is jam-packed with practical advice that will make you more persuasive in life.

Known colloquially as “The Godfather of Influence,” Cialdini is a foundational expert in the science of influence and how to apply it ethically in business. His books, including Influence: Psychology of Persuasion and Pre-Suasion, have sold more than 7 million copies in 44 different languages, and he is the Regents’ Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Marketing at Arizona State University.

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Podcast: Schmidt List - Inspiring Emerging Leaders (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: The Right Way to Find a Mentor - Ep 176
Pub date: 2021-12-07

The right way to find a mentor is by first looking in the mirror. What are you looking to accomplish?

A mentor provides guidance and advice that helps you improve as a professional and as a person. They can help you solve problems, help you grow in your job, and support you with their knowledge and experience to achieve meaningful goals.

Finding the right mentor can be crucial to your professional success, but it can be hard to find the right person.

Join Pat Sukhum, CEO of Big Brothers, Big Sisters Minnesota, and me as we discuss the importance and impact proper mentorship can have.

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Episode: How can a Leader Build Trust within their Teams? - Ep 181
Pub date: 2022-01-11

What makes a leader trustworthy?

People trust leaders who are dependable, honest, and transparent. To be a trustworthy leader, you must also care about meeting the needs of your team members.

Some leaders are trustworthy because they earn trust through what they do, how they treat people, and what values guide them. Other leaders are responsible for their character—honor, integrity, empathy, dependability. These two qualities aren't mutually exclusive; I believe the latter is a prerequisite for the former.

A leader's actions must be aligned with their values for their people to be able to trust them. There are countless examples of leaders who talk about honesty and integrity but then act dishonest or unethical.

Join Sherman Black and me as we discuss the different ways you can be a trustworthy leader.

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Podcast: Knowledge@Wharton (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Into the Metaverse: Can Facebook Rebrand Itself?
Pub date: 2021-11-08

Facebook’s name change to "Meta" signals a lot more about the company than a simple rebrand. Wharton marketing professor Patti Williams breaks down the decision and its implications for the world’s largest social media network.

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Episode: Should Employers Rethink What They’re Offering Workers?
Pub date: 2021-11-30

Wharton’s Peter Cappelli explains what we’re getting wrong about the Great Resignation, how the pandemic has rewired worker preferences, and why it's time for employers to reconsider how they do things.

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Episode: Falling Flat: Why Startups Need Hierarchical Structure
Pub date: 2022-01-10

A new study from Wharton's Saerom (Ronnie) Lee pushes back against the popular view that startups work best without a hierarchical management structure.

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Episode: How to Improve Your Time Management Skills
Pub date: 2022-01-18

Daily planning can help employees feel in control and more engaged at work. But the best type of planning depends on their role and environment, explains Wharton management professor Michael Parke.

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Episode: We’re Good at Motivating Others, but What About Ourselves?
Pub date: 2022-02-08

Wharton’s Angela Duckworth talks to Ayelet Fishbach, author of the new book 'Get It Done,' which offers a framework for setting and attaining goals.

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Podcast: The 6 Figure Developer Podcast (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: 226 – Mary & Tom Poppendieck: Software Engineering
Pub date: 2022-01-04

Mary and Tom Poppendieck join us to talk about Software Engineering: Then, Now, and Next.

Mary started her career as a process control programmer, moved on to manage the IT department of a manufacturing plant, and then ended up in product development, where she was both a product champion and department manager.

Tom is an enterprise analyst and architect, and an agile process mentor. He focuses on identifying real business value and enabling product teams to realize that value.

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Podcast: At The Table with Patrick Lencioni (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 109. Who is Your Sleeper?
Pub date: 2021-12-31

Many Hall of Fame athletes were overlooked at the beginning of their careers until someone gave them the chance to shine.  This week, the team takes a look at how organizations evaluate talent, and encourages you to answer the question, "Who is Your Sleeper?"

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Episode: 110. Be a Donkey Not a Unicorn
Pub date: 2022-01-07

Donkeys, unicorns, Theranos and a Panamanian fisherman.  

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Episode: 111. Rehire Your People
Pub date: 2022-01-12

Everyone remembers their first day on the job.  This week, Pat, Cody and Tracy talk about the mistakes that most companies make when onboarding, and why it's so important to communicate (and recommunicate) the 'why' to your employees.  

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Episode: 112. Speed Dating with Pat and Cody
Pub date: 2022-01-19

How do I kindly hold someone accountable?  How do I influence my boss?  Is there such thing as too much conflict?  This week on the podcast, we decided to have Pat and Cody field some of the most frequently asked questions related to organizational health, live!

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Episode: 113. Management is Not a Reward
Pub date: 2022-01-26

If promoting a high-performing member of your sales team means losing your best salesperson and gaining an average sales manager, why do we continue to rely so heavily on these metrics?  This week, Pat and Cody discuss the mistakes that many organizations make when promoting and choosing their managers.  

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Episode: 114. Replant Your Friggin Tree
Pub date: 2022-02-03

It's been a year and a half since we first encouraged you to plant your tree.  This week, Cody brings us back to one of our favorite episodes and offers a fresh perspective on a topic that, we believe, remains just as relevant 18 months later.  

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Episode: 115. The Benefits of Being Sick
Pub date: 2022-02-09

We talk about organizational health every week.  In this episode, Pat and Cody share their thoughts on being sick.  

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Episode: 116. It's Not Entitlement, it's Engagement
Pub date: 2022-02-16

Many organizations are struggling to get their people back in the office.  It's tempting to see this as a reflection of their employees' character, but what does this really say about the environment that these organizations have created?  The unwillingness to return to in-person work is not a result of entitlement, but rather a lack of engagement.  

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Episode: 117. Leaders Can't Be Pleasers
Pub date: 2022-02-25

As a leader, it's tempting to try and make sure everyone in your organization likes you and approves of you.  However, good leaders know that this simply can't happen, and that's okay.  

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Podcast: Dev Interrupted (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: From Devs, to VPs, to Co-Founders: 10Xing a Startup 5,000 Miles Apart
Pub date: 2022-01-08

We knew we had to kick off the new year with something big - so welcome to Season 2 of Dev Interrupted!

This episode probes the murky depths of a time before the pandemic by exploring the story of LinearB's founding in 2018, how co-founders Dan Lines and Ori Keren met at Cloudlock in 2012 - and how they decided to co-found a company while 5,000 miles apart.

Listen as Dev Interrupted host and all-around renaissance man, Dan Lines, steps behind the mic to be interviewed not as host of the podcast, but as COO and co-founder of LinearB. Joining Dan is his good friend and fellow co-founder, Ori Keren, LinearB’s CEO.

With Producer Conor Bronsdon stepping in to guest host, Dan and Ori detail their transition from developers and VPs at Cloudlock, to deciding to found a company while on separate continents.

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Podcast: Dev Interrupted (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: How a hacker, a hustler and a designer made RSS feeds cool
Pub date: 2022-01-15

Building a platform that 100,000 devs use every day is no accident, but it can happen (almost) overnight.

Daily.dev is the fastest growing online community for developers to stay updated on the hottest developer news, and their mission is to build the home page that every developer deserves. It pulls together and rewards dev-focused content from 400 sources – letting its users vote on which ones they find the most useful, the most interesting or the most entertaining.

Co-founders Nimrod Kramer and Ido Shamun sit down with me to discuss their mission, the trick to building something that grows itself and why they chose to create a platform that actually makes RSS feeds cool!

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Podcast: Dev Interrupted (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Why an Autistic Developer is Your Next Great Hire w/ Matt Nigh of UW Medicine
Pub date: 2022-01-22

Like most fast-growing companies, LinearB spends WAY too much time trying to hire developers.

So when we came across a brilliant article about hiring autistic talent, we knew we had to have its author Matt Nigh on the podcast. Matt is one of the most prominent thought leaders on neurodiversity in the workplace.

Matt himself was diagnosed with autism late in life following a very unique job interview at Google. He’s since spent countless hours researching, writing and talking about how companies can not only bring neurodiverse talent into the fold, but why engineering teams thrive when they do.

In this episode of Dev Interrupted we talk with Matt about best practices in recruiting, hiring and working with neurodiverse coders, how his interview at Google led to an autism diagnosis, the ways Matt’s data team at the University of Washington is helping combat COVID and what private companies can learn from the ROI metrics of universities and public institutions.

Dan and Matt also took some time to geek out about GitLab.

We hope this conversation was as enlightening for you as it was for us and we hope it helps you find your next great hire.

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Episode: What CTOs Say vs. What Developers Hear w/ DataStax's Shankar Ramaswamy
Pub date: 2022-02-05

Anyone who’s been in a rapidly scaling company with an ever-expanding engineering team knows that communication is never as simple as it seems.

That’s why we were so excited when Shankar Ramaswamy decided to sit down with Dev Interrupted's Conor Bronsdon.

Shankar is a veteran leader in the engineering space, having helped recruit, build and guide developer teams at companies like Amazon, eBay, Paypal and Google - where before leaving he managed a team of 300+ people.

Now the Head of Engineering at Datastax, Shankar took the time to talk to us about some of the practical lessons he’s learned managing teams of several hundred people, and why something he calls the “intent perception gap” is so tricky for managers to get right.

We also took the time to talk about Shankar’s views on the future of cloud computing, what healthy conflict looks like at unicorn companies and why you might want to rethink your single-vendor strategy.

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Podcast: The Idealcast with Gene Kim by IT Revolution (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Patterns of Generative Cultures: How They Can Be Destroyed and the Importance of Trust with Dr. Ron Westrum
Pub date: 2021-05-20

In the second part of this two-part episode of The Idealcast, Gene Kim continues his conversation with Dr. Ron Westrum, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Eastern Michigan University and creator of the Westrum organization typology model.

In part two of their conversation, Kim and Westrum talk about generative cultures and why Westrum thinks they are more important now than it they were a hundred years ago. Westrum also shares his observations on the increasing number of functional specialities in organizations. He discusses the challenges that arise from having matrixed organizations and the tools to overcome these challenges.

Finally, Westrum previews the new book he’s working on about information flow within organizations.

ABOUT THE GUEST

Ron Westrum is Emeritus Professor of sociology at Eastern Michigan University. He holds a B.A. (honors) from Harvard University and a Ph.D in Sociology from the University of Chicago.

Dr. Westrum is a specialist in the sociology of science and technology, and on complex organizations. He has written three books, Complex Organizations: Growth, Development and Change; Technologies and Society: The Shaping of People and Things, and Sidewinder: Creative Missile Design at China Lake. He has also written about fifty articles and book chapters. His work on organizational culture has been valuable for the aviation industry and to medical safety, as well as to other areas of endeavor. He has been a consultant to NASA, the National Research Council, and the Resilience Core Group. He is currently at work on a book on information flow cultures.

YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT

  • Why Westrum thinks creating generative cultures is more important now than it was 100 years ago
  • His observations on the increasing number of functional specialities and how long it’s been going on
  • The challenges that arise from having matrix organizations and the tools to overcome these challenges
  • The book he’s working on about information flow within organizations, what areas he’s pursuing and what has surprised him as he delves into specific examples

RESOURCES

  • The Sociology and Typologies of Organizations, and Technical Maestros with Dr. Ron Westrum
  • Sidewinder: Creative Missile Design at China Lake by Ron Westrum
  • Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
  • The Citigroup Center (formerly Citicorp Center)
  • Latent human error
  • Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II by Arthur Herman
  • Admiral Thomas Moore
  • Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
  • Lying to Ourselves: Dishonesty in the Army Profession by Dr. Leonard Wong and Dr. Stephen J. Gerras
  • The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today by Thomas E. Ricks
  • The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity by Alan Cooper
  • Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by General Stanley A. McChrystal with Chris Fussell, David Silverman, Tantum Collins
  • Hubble Space Telescope
  • NOVA - Aircraft Carrier
  • 21st Century Jet - Building the Boeing 777
  • Boeing to Buy McDonnell Douglas
  • Extended-range Twin-engine Operations Performance Standards (ETOPS)
  • Alan Mulally
  • Technology in Retrospect and Critical Events in Science (TRACES)
  • General George C. Marshall
  • The Marshall Plan on NPR’s Planet Money
  • 2015 State Of DevOps Report
  • Westrum organizational culture
  • The study of information flow: A personal journey by Ron Westrum
  • Stand and Deliver
  • Mayo Clinic
  • How a Friendly Fire Tragedy in Sicily Transformed Airborne Warfare
  • The New Heat On Ford
  • Email Ron Westrum

TIMESTAMPS

[00:00] Intro

[02:39] Why generative cultures are more important now

[14:50] Exposing latent pathogens

[19:39] Gene’s thoughts and a few corrections

[28:59] The increase in silos

[34:53] How Westrum would organize the organization

[40:42] Why matrix organizations are fundamentally unstable and how to cope

[44:57] LaunchDarkly and DevOps Enterprise Summit Virtual

[46:47] Matrix organizations and how to help increase likelihood of success

[57:26] Building the Boeing 777

[1:06:24] Where generative characteristics came from

[1:11:10] Bridging the world of R&D to the world of operations

[1:14:58] Team of Teams example

[1:20:09] General George C. Marshall

[1:24:35] Other mechanisms Westrum has seen in high performing teams

[1:32:30] Westrum’s new book

[1:38:53] What DevOps has helped Westrum

[1:39:47] Contacting Admiral Richardson

[1:41:36] Outro

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Podcast: The Idealcast with Gene Kim by IT Revolution (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Exploring COVID-19 and Just-in-Time Supply Chains, Chaos Engineering, and the Soviet Centrally Planned Economy with Dr. Steve Spear
Pub date: 2021-08-05

In this episode of The Idealcast, Gene Kim speaks with Dr. Steven Spear on his critiques of several articles from the NY Times and the Wall Street Journal, and their characterization of the impact of Just-in-Time (JIT) supply chains and the widespread shortages caused by the COVID-19 global pandemic. While the unprecedented health crisis created a widespread shortage of almost everything—from toilet paper to semiconductor chips to raw materials vital for medical materials—with results that impacted everyday life on a global scale, Dr. Spear makes the claim that JIT lessened the severity of shortages, as opposed to causing them.

The discussion is informed by Spear’s work on accelerating learning dynamics within organizations and the Toyota Production System, and from his time observing and working directly with a tier-one Toyota supplier. Kim and Spear dive deep into supply chain dynamics and why they are important to society. The discussion delves into how JIT manufacturing not only revolutionized manufacturing but also the entire manufacturing supply chain and how it increased (not decreased) resilience, productivity, efficiency, and prosperity.

They also explore the structure and dynamics of these JIT supply chains, as well as the similarities of the famous Netflix Chaos Monkey, famous for helping Netflix build resilient services that can survive even widespread cloud outages and the larger, emerging field of Chaos Engineers (arguably, a subset of resilience engineering).

Additionally, they explore Toyota’s manufacturing and how its history helped it become one of the least impacted by the semiconductor shortages. They follow that with an examination of the JIT’s antithesis and how it’s similar to the dynamics found in the Soviet’s centrally planned economy, particularly with its IT structure and dynamic results. Kim and Spear tie these things into the three basic tools of finance: net present value, option theory, and portfolio diversification.

ABOUT THE GUESTS

Dr. Steve Spear (DBA MS MS) is principal for HVE LLC, the award-winning author of The High-Velocity Edge, and patent holder for the See to Solve Real Time Alert System. A Senior Lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School and a Senior Fellow at the Institute, Dr. Spear’s work focuses on accelerating learning dynamics within organizations so that they know better and faster what to do and how to do it. This has been informed and tested in practice in multiple industries including heavy industry, high tech design, biopharm R&D, healthcare delivery and other social services, US Army rapid equipping, and US Navy readiness.

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YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT

  • What are supply chains, why they’re so vast and complex, and why they are important to society
  • How Just-in-Time (JIT) manufacturing revolutionize manufacturing, the entire manufacturing supply chain, and the supply chain for basically everything
  • How JIT increased, not deceased, the resilience of the supply chain
  • Why Toyota is one of the auto manufacturers least impacted by the semiconductor shortages, partially as a result of what they learned during the Fukushima earthquake and tsunami in 2011
  • How the structure and dynamics of the Toyota supply chain are almost exactly the same as the structure and dynamics of great systems discussed in previous episodes, such as the COVID mass vaccination clinic with Trent Green and Team of Teams
  • How Toyota has the ability to reconfigure themselves with a low cost of change
  • How these principles are very similar to Netflix chaos monkey and the entire field of what is now called chaos engineering
  • How the antithesis of JIT is similar to the dynamics found in the Soviet’s centrally planned economy, particularly with its IT structure and results in dynamics
  • How inventory is a substitute for knowledge
  • How this all ties into the three basic tools of finance: net present value, option theory, and portfolio diversification

RESOURCES

  • Announcing New Book from Gene Kim and Dr. Steven J. Spear
  • NPR: Plastic Is The New Toilet Paper For Scientists
  • New York Times: Shopping for Fashion, Six Months On
  • Planet Money: Negative Oil
  • New York Times: How the World Ran Out of Everything
  • New York Times: ‘I’ve Never Seen Anything Like This’: Chaos Strikes Global Shipping
  • Wall Street Journal: Auto Makers Retreat From 50 Years of ‘Just in Time’ Manufacturing
  • The Mainframe DevOps Team Saves the Day at Walmart
  • Frontline: Always Low Prices
  • “The Beer Game” by Prof. John D. Sterman
  • Lean manufacturing
  • Baseline: The End of the Just in Time Supply Chain Method
  • Fast Company: Living in Dell Time
  • CNBC: We traced what it takes to make an iPhone, from its initial design to the components and raw materials needed to make it a reality
  • An Econometric Analysis of Inventory Turnover Performance in Retail Services by Vishal Gaur, Marshall L. Fisher, and Ananth Raman
  • Inventory to Sales Ratio
  • Gross Profit Margin
  • Using FRED site to to calculate ratios of inventory to sales from 1946 to now
  • Walmart vs. Amazon
  • Reuters: Half of U.S. auto suppliers face bankruptcy: study
  • 21st Century Jet - Building the Boeing 777 Episode 3
  • Boeing 777 — The Ultimate History (II)
  • ASTA SOLUTIONS PTY. LTD.
  • 21st Century Jet - Building the Boeing 777 Episode 2
  • See Every Single Part Inside an iPhone
  • Code as supply chain
  • How Many Millions of Lines of Code Does It Take?
  • Top 15 Biggest Car Manufacturers in the World (1999 - 2017)
  • Moore's Law graphed vs real CPUs & GPUs 1965 - 2019
  • The Myth of Productivity vs Compliance: How To Have It All
  • Reuters: How Toyota thrives when the chips are down
  • BBC News: Tesla partners with nickel mine amid shortage fears
  • Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
  • Forbes: Toyota's 'Quake-Proof' Supply Chain That Never Was
  • The Netflix Simian Army
  • Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell
  • Los Angeles Business Journal: Just-in-Time Inventory System Proves Vulnerable to Labor Strife
  • Closed California ports impact on the supply chain
  • “We’d Have to Sink the Ships”: Impact Studies and the 2002 West Coast Port Lockout by Peter V. Hall
  • Reuters: How Toyota thrives when the chips are down
  • “The Simpsons” evolution
  • Example of language of simplification and stabilization

TIMESTAMPS

[00:37] Intro

[09:07] What Dr. Spear found objectionable in the NYT article

[13:41] How JIT increased resilience of the supply chain

[17:18] What are supply chains and what makes it so complex

[24:11] The economic impact of inventory and recapture

[28:17] The impact created by mass adoption of JIT practices

[42:00] JIT vs lean manufacturing

[44:46] How Toyota could handle the semiconductor shortage

[51:19] An example of the resilience of Toyota’s supply chain and manufacturing capabilities

[57:03] How to motivate everyone to mobilize

[1:02:12] What happened with Netflix’s chaos monkey and EYE-shin mattress factory plant

[1:08:13] Twitter feedback

[1:09:37] The link between experimentation at the EYE-shin plant and low cost of change

[1:17:30] Four characters of simplification, standardization, stabilization and synchronization

[1:20:46] The 2002 West Coast Port Lockout

[1:33:43] What triggered this conversation

[1:38:57] The opposite of JIT

[1:43:11] Three finance theories

[1:50:45] How the Soviet’s centrally planned economy compares with the four characteristics

[1:58:23] A misunderstanding of JIT

[2:05:15] Outro

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Podcast: The Idealcast with Gene Kim by IT Revolution (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Personal DevOps Aha Moments, the Rise of Infrastructure, and the DevOps Enterprise Scenius: Interviews with The DevOps Handbook Coauthors (Part 1 of 2: Patrick Debois and John Willis)
Pub date: 2021-12-16

In part one of this two-part episode on The DevOpsHandbook, Second Edition, Gene Kim speaks with coauthors Patrick Debois and John Willis about the past, present, and future of DevOps. By sharing their personal stories and experiences, Kim, Debois, and Willis discuss the scenius that inspired the book, and why and how the DevOps movement took hold around the world.

They also examine the updated content in the book, including new case studies, updated metrics, and practices. Finally, they each share the new lessons they have learned since writing the handbook and the future challenges they think DevOps professionals need to solve for the future.

Kim will conclude the series in Part 2, where he interviews the remaining two coauthors, Jez Humble and Dr. Nicole Forsgren.

ABOUT THE GUEST(S)

Patrick Debois is considered to be the godfather of the DevOps movement after he coined the term DevOps accidentally in 2008. Through his work, he creates synergies projects and operations by using Agile techniques in development, project management, and system administration. He has worked in several companies such as Atlassian, Zender, and VRT Media Lab. Currently, he is a Labs Researcher at Synk and an independent IT consultant.

John Willis an author and Senior Director of the Global Transformation Office at Red Hat.. He has been an active force in the IT management industry for over 35 years. Willis’ experience includes being the Director of Ecosystem Development at Docker, the VP of Solutions for Socketplane, the VP of Training and Services at Opscode. He also founded Gulf Breeze Software, an award-winning IBM business partner, which specializes in deploying Tivoli technology for the enterprise.

Patrick DeBois and John Willis are two of five coauthors of The DevOps Handbook along with Gene Kim, Jez Humble, and Nicole Forsgren, PhD.

YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT

  • The DevOps origin story from coining the term, why it took off, to launching the DevOps Days conference as an offshoot of the velocity conference.
  • How people thought of DevOps when it was first presented (their reactions, their mentalities, and their willingness to adopt it).
  • What has changed in the DevOps world since the first edition of The DevOps Handbook was published.
  • How the rise of SaaS companies is altering the DevOps world and participating in its evolution, and how building solid relationships with SaaS vendors and communicating comprehensive feedback to them is integral to DevOps.
  • The significance of speed in changing team dynamics.
  • Why resilient companies like Google and Amazon engineer chaos, and why companies like Toyota are happy when production stoppages happen.
  • Why you can’t afford to provide a high variety of products if you also offer high product variation.

RESOURCES

  • Get The DevOps Handbook (Second Edition)
  • Nudge vs Shove: A Conversation With Richard Thaler
  • Solaris Zones wiki
  • Agile Conference in Toronto 2008
  • Sys Advent article: In Defense of the Modern Day JVM (Java Virtual Machine) by Gene Kim
  • Mob programming
  • Breaking Traditional IT Paradigms to... (San Francisco 2015)
  • Crowdsourcing Technology Governance (Las Vegas 2018)
  • Laying Down the Tracks for Technical Change at Comcast (Las Vegas 2020)
  • 10+ Deploys Per Day by John Allspaw and Paul Hammond
  • 10+ Deploys Per Day
  • How chaos engineering works at Vanguard
  • Patrick DeBois tweet mapping out all the failure modes of an online conference.
  • Jesse Robins LinkedIn
  • Jesse Robbins on Twitter
  • How A Hotel Company Ran $30B of Revenue In Containers (Las Vegas 2020) by Dwayne Holmes
  • Google Cloud Certified Fellow Program
  • Operations is a competitive advantage
 (Secret Sauce for Startups!)
  • Love Letter To Conferences (And What Makes Some Truly Amazing) by Gene Kim
  • Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results by Mike Rother
  • Profound podcast by John Willis
  • Ben Rockwood on Twitter
  • Luke Kanies on LinkedIn
  • DevOps 2020 - The Next Decade (London 2020)
  • Beyond the Phoenix Project: The Origins and Evolution of DevOps by Gene Kim and John Willis
  • The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox
  • The Convergence Of DevOps
  • Operations as a Strategic Weapon by John Willis
  • Iterative Enterprise SRE Transformation (US 2021)

TIMESTAMPS

[00:00] Intro

[01:18] What’s new and improved in the second edition of the DevOps handbook

[03:56] Meet Patrick DeBois

[10:35] How faster technology made ideas like DevOps possible

[18:11] The myths and inefficiencies of team autonomy

[20:04] What the first DevOps days were like

[27:59] Different opinions between the dev community and ops community

[30:49] Mob programming and the future of collaboration

[39:31] Two surprising things Patrick learned about DevOps

[47:20] Patrick DeBois’ favorite DevOps patterns

[51:28] How fear of not delivering on time can mask technical errors

[59:45] What Patrick DeBois is working on these days

[1:04:38] What was expanded in the second edition of the DevOps handbook

[1:06:30] How Gene Kim entered the DevOps world.

[1:07:38] Meet John Willis

[1:10:42] Why the DevOps movement took off

[1:16:00] Mastering production disasters

[1:23:32] The birth of the DevOps Days conference

[1:37:37] Feelings of belonging and connection in a conference

[1:41:29] A few clarifications

[1:49:32] Two of the greatest DevOps open spaces

[1:52:40] The difference between variety and variation (the cost of knowledge work).

[2:07:12] Why you should want more stoppages in your production line

[2:10:16] John Willis’ two favorite DevOps case studies

[2:18:55] Outro

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Podcast: The Idealcast with Gene Kim by IT Revolution (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Behind The State of DevOps Research, Favorite Aha Moments, and Where They Are Now: Interviews with The DevOps Handbook Coauthors (Part 2 of 2: Dr. Nicole Forsgren and Jez Humble)
Pub date: 2022-01-27

In part two of this two-part episode on The DevOpsHandbook, Second Edition, Gene Kim speaks with coauthors Dr. Nicole Forsgren and Jez Humble about the past and current state of DevOps. Forsgren and Humble share with Kim their DevOps aha moments and what has been the most interesting thing they’ve learned since the book was released in 2016.

Jez discusses the architectural properties of the programming language PHP and what it has in common with ASP.NET. He also talks about the anguish he felt when Mike Nygard’s book, Release It!, was published while he was working on his book, Continuous Delivery.

Forsgren talks about how it feels to see the findings from the State of DevOps research so widely used and cited within the technology community. She explains the importance of finding the link between technology performance and organizational performance as well as what she's learned about the importance of culture and how it can make or break an organization.

Humble, Forsgren, and Kim each share their favorite case studies in The DevOps Handbook.

ABOUT THE GUEST(S)

Dr. Nicole Forsgren and Jez Humble are two of five coauthors of The DevOps Handbook along with Gene Kim, Patrick Debois and John Willis.

Forsgren, PhD, is a Partner at Microsoft Research. She is coauthor of the Shingo Publication Award-winning book Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and The DevOps Handbook, 2nd Ed., and is best known as lead investigator on the largest DevOps studies to date. She has been a successful entrepreneur (with an exit to Google), professor, performance engineer, and sysadmin. Her work has been published in several peer-reviewed journals.

Humble is co-author of Lean Enterprise, the Jolt Award-winning Continuous Delivery, and The DevOps Handbook. He has spent his career tinkering with code, infrastructure, and product development in companies of varying sizes across three continents, most recently working for the US Federal Government at 18F. As well as serving as DORA’s CTO, Jez teaches at UC Berkeley.

YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT

  • Projects Jez and Gene worked on together before The DevOps Handbook came out.
  • What life is like for Jez as a site reliability engineer at Google and what he’s learned.
  • The story behind his DevOps aha moment in 2004, working on a large software project involving 70 developers.
  • The architectural properties of his favorite programming language PHP, what it has in common with ASP.NET, and the importance of being able to get fast feedback while building something.
  • The anguish that Jez felt when Mike Nygard’s book, Release It!, came out, wondering if there was still a need for the book he was working on, which was Continuous Delivery.
  • “Testing on the Toilet” and other structures for creating distributed learning across an organization and why this is important to create a genuine learning dynamic.
  • What Dr. Forsgren is working on now as Partner of Microsoft Research.
  • Some of Dr. Forsgren’s goals as we work together on the State of DevOps research and how it feel to have those findings so widely used and cited within the technology community.
  • The importance of finding the link between technology performance and organizational performance and why it probably was so elusive for at least 40 years in the research community.
  • What Dr. Forsgren has learned about the importance of culture, how it can make or break an organization, and the importance of great leadership.

RESOURCES

  • Personal DevOps Aha Moments, the Rise of Infrastructure, and the DevOps Enterprise Scenius: Interviews with The DevOps Handbook Coauthors (Part 1 of 2: Patrick Debois and John Willis)
  • The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations, Second Edition, by Gene Kim, Patrick Debois, John Willis, Jez Humble, and Dr. Nicole Forsgren
  • Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
  • Nudge vs Shove: A Conversation With Richard Thaler
  • The Visible Ops Handbook: Implementing ITIL in 4 Practical and Auditable Steps by Kevin Behr, Gene Kim and George Spafford
  • FlowCon
  • Elisabeth Hendrickson on the Idealcast: Part 1, Part 2
  • Cloud Run
  • Beyond Goldilocks Reliability by Narayan Desai, Google
  • Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation by Jez Humble and David Farley
  • Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software (Pragmatic Programmers) by Michael T. Nygard
  • DevOps Days
  • On the Care and Feeding of Feedback Cycles by Elisabeth Hendrickson at FlowCon San Francisco 2013
  • Bret Victor
  • Inventing on Principle by Bret Victor
  • Media for Thinking the Unthinkable
  • Douglas Engelbart and The Mother of All Demos
  • 18F
  • Pain Is Over, If You Want It at DevOps Enterprise Summit - San Francisco 2015
  • Goto Fail, Heartbleed, and Unit Testing Culture by Mike Bland
  • Do Developers Discover New Tools On The Toilet? by Emerson Murphy-Hill, Edward Smith, Caitlin Sadowski, Ciera Jaspan, Collin Winter, Matthew Jorde, Andrea Knight, Andrew Trenk and Steve Gross PDF
  • Study: DevOps Can Create Competitive Advantage
  • DevOps Means Business by Nicole Forsgren Velasquez, Jez Humble, Nigel Kersten and Gene Kim
  • Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations by Nicole Forsgren, PhD, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim
  • DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) on Google Cloud
  • GitLab Inc. takes The DevOps Platform public
  • Paul Strassmann
  • The Idealcast with Dr. Ron Westrum: Part 1, Part 2
  • Building the Circle of Faith: How Corporate Culture Builds Trust at Trajectory Conference 2021
  • The Truth About Burnout: How Organizations Cause Personal Stress and What to Do About It by Christina Maslach and Michael P. Leiter
  • Maslach Burnout Inventory
  • Understanding Job Burnout at DevOps Enterprise Summit - Las Vegas 2018
  • Understanding Job Burnout at DevOps Enterprise Summit - London 2019
  • Workplace Engagement Panel at DevOps Enterprise Summit - Las Vegas 2019
  • Expert Panel - Workplace Engagement & Countering Employee Burnout at DevOps Enterprise Summit - London 2019
  • The Idealcast with Trent Green
  • Kelly Shortridge’s tweets about Gitlab S-1

TIMESTAMPS

[05:22] Intro

[05:34] Meet Jez Humble

[10:19] What Jez is working on these days

[15:56] What inform his book, “Continuous Delivery”

[24:02] Assembling the team for the project

[26:30] At what point was PHP an important property

[31:56] The most surprising thing since the DevOps Handbook came out

[35:07] His favorite pattern that went into the DevOps Handbook

[43:40] What DevOps worked on in 2021

[44:46] Meet Dr. Nicole Forsgren

[50:32] What Dr. Forsgren is working on these days

[52:18] What it’s like working at Microsoft Research

[55:58] The response to the state of DevOps findings

[59:18] The most surprising finding since the findings release

[1:05:59] Her favorite pattern that influence performance

[1:08:49] How Dr. Forsgren met Dr. Ron Westrum

[1:11:06] The most important thing she’s learned in this journey

[1:14:46] Her favorite case study in the DevOps Handbook

[1:19:12] Dr. Christina Maslach and work burnout

[1:20:46] More context about the case studies

[1:25:32] The Navy case study

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Podcast: The MACH Alliance Podcast
Episode: The building blocks to success with MACH and LEGO Group
Pub date: 2021-06-18

Niall Edwards, Vice President Marketing and Channels Technology at The LEGO Group, joins Sonja Keerl on the MACH Alliance Podcast to discuss how LEGO Group has moved to MACH, and critically how they evaluate vendors, changing from a feature-led mindset to an outcome-based outlook.

The LEGO Group needs no introduction. A business that’s constantly innovating, they have been migrating their systems to MACH over the past few years after realising a lot of effort and money was being wasted with slow, laborious monolith technology.

What Niall Edwards, Vice President Marketing and Channels Technology at The LEGO Group, says has been critical is the vendor evaluation process. Whereas we’ve “become absolutely addicted to thinking about features,” Naill says business must flip the thinking to be focussed on outcomes. LEGO, as a result, have adjusted their RFP process, engage in more two-way conversations where fit is vital, and don’t just look to a list or matrix of capabilities that vendors can tick off.

Hear from Niall as he joined Sonja Keerl to discuss The LEGO Group’s digital journey, where their monolithic pain points were, some of their fundamental principles when looking at vendors, and more.

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Podcast: Pragmatism in Practice (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Product thinking in the new era of cloud
Pub date: 2021-10-27

Cloud infrastructure has been universally praised for its simplicity, an intuitive, scalable, and cost-effective alternative that promised to transform how we approach IT infrastructure. But as offerings from the major public cloud providers have become more sophisticated, cloud is becoming increasingly complex. Listen to this episode with Max Griffiths, Principal Infrastructure Consultant, to learn more about productizing this part of the business, preparing teams for the skills shift to this new paradigm, ensuring cost savings and enabling the business with product thinking.

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Episode: The value of creative AI
Pub date: 2021-09-14

Companies are looking to AI/ML to deliver better customer experience, improve productivity, or keep up with the competition. Beyond the popular use of replacing tedious and repetitive tasks with automation, Principal Consultant Jarno Kartela explains the more creative and strategic opportunities to solve business problems and improve product innovation. This episode is for modern decision-makers who want to become more data-enabled, data-informed and science-backed in their operations and strategic planning

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Episode: Data governance: The foundation of data-driven organizations
Pub date: 2021-07-28

With the advent of big data analytics, powered by the ease of moving data to the cloud, the pressure on companies to get data right to make million-dollar decisions in a few seconds has become paramount. How can organizations set themselves up for success when it comes to data? What are some of the foundational elements to have in place? In this episode, Jason Hare, Data Governance Principal at Thoughtworks, shares the principles of establishing a data governance plan for forward-thinking organizations.

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Episode: Technology proficiency: the new imperative for business growth
Pub date: 2021-07-15

A recent study shows there is a close correlation between technology proficiency and business growth. How does your organization’s level of digital proficiency compare to competitor brands in your market? How can you build technology as a culture into your organization at all levels? In this podcast, we discuss the advantages that lie in technology proficiency existing beyond the office of CIO and the impacts in business growth across regions.   

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Episode: ABCD Model for Leadership: Drive
Pub date: 2021-06-30

The last episode in this four-part series explores the final prong of the ABCD framework to help leaders thrive in today’s ambiguous climate – drive. To thrive in ambiguity, requires purpose-driven drive. Based on practices from the New Zealand rugby team, the All Blacks, this episode will help leaders translate drive into building resilient and high-performing teams.

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Episode: ABCD Model for Leadership: Curiosity
Pub date: 2021-06-23

Dr. Anita Sands takes lessons from champion sports teams in times of ambiguity and applies it to the business world, through the ABCD framework. The third part of the framework explores curiosity – the ability to step into new situations with a mindset underpinned by curiosity. This episode in the four-part series will help leaders create a mindset for curiosity and create an environment that gives teams the capacity to be authentically curious. 

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Episode: ABCD Model for Leadership: Belonging
Pub date: 2021-06-16

Dr. Anita Sands shares the ABCD framework to help leaders thrive in today’s ambiguous climate. The second part in the four-part framework explores belonging – the sense of belonging, the clarity of purpose, the shared frame of reference and how it drives people. This podcast helps authentic leaders to apply effective leadership principles in building a culture of belonging. 

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Episode: ABCD Model for Leadership: Awareness
Pub date: 2021-06-09

As we slowly emerge from the coronavirus pandemic, this four-part series with Dr. Anita Sands, a global technology and business leader, shares the ABCD framework to help leaders thrive in today’s ambiguous climate. The first principle is awareness – how do you deal with changing environments as each day unfolds. This podcast will help guide authentic leaders to feel more resourceful and better equipped to deal with other forms of ambiguity and to be yourself, skillfully. 

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Podcast: Dev Interrupted (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Building High Performance Remote Dev Teams w/ Eric Johnson of GitLab
Pub date: 2021-05-17

What happens if we stay remote? This is the big question engineering leaders are answering in 2021. That’s why I’ve brought in Eric Johnson, the CTO of GitLab, to help us learn how the experts create high performance remote engineering teams.

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Podcast: Dev Interrupted (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Focus, Culture, and Metrics in a Remote-First World w/ Chris Brookins of Appcues
Pub date: 2021-06-02

How can you build and scale an effective remote organization? In our digital world, figuring out the answer to this question is crucial, and Chris Brookins the VP of Engineering at Appcues, has some great ideas about how to improve team focus time and maintain company culture in remote-first work environments. Hear from Chris how he and his team are using LinearB's metrics to inform their decision-making and create a culture of continuous improvement on this new episode of Dev Interrupted.

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Episode: Ensuring Quality Code that Fits Your Business w/ Erika Chestnut of Calendly
Pub date: 2021-06-10

Modern businesses run on code - and ensuring code quality is crucial to success. To get the inside scoop on Quality Assurance (QA), Dan Lines talks with Erika Chestnut, Head of QA at Calendly at what you need to do to set up QA that works for your business needs, how to socialize the right values for your team, what not to do, and how to adapt these processes when necessary.

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Podcast: Dev Interrupted (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Lessons Learned from Programming at Google - Part I
Pub date: 2021-06-26

Google is a titan of technology with one of the largest codebases in the world - and there are many lessons to be learned from how Google has scaled and its success. Senior Google Staff Engineers Hyrum Wright and Titus Winters joined Dan on the pod to share their lessons learned from programming at Google and talk about their new book.

In fact, the discussion was so good, we split it into a two-part episode!

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Podcast: Dev Interrupted (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Lessons Learned from Programming at Google - Part II
Pub date: 2021-07-02

Google is a titan of technology with one of the largest codebases in the world - and there are many lessons to be learned from how Google has scaled and its success. Senior Google Staff Engineers Hyrum Wright and Titus Winters joined Dan on the pod to share their lessons learned from programming at Google and talk about their new book.

In fact, the discussion was so good, we split it into our first two-part episode! Here's part II

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Episode: Improve Your Engineering Pipeline with Value Streams
Pub date: 2021-07-16

Helen Beal, Chair of the new Value Stream Consortium joins Dev Interrupted to break down the key takeaways from her new research showing that high-performing teams need Value Stream Management. Read Helen's VSM Research

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Episode: The Tech Executive Operating System - Part II
Pub date: 2021-07-28

Tech Executive Consultant Aviv Ben-Yosef rejoins Dev Interrupted to finish sharing his advice for technical leaders and how to make use of the "tech executive operating system" and its techniques to improve your leadership and your organization. Get a sample chapter of Aviv's book here.

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Episode: The Tech Executive Operating System - Part I
Pub date: 2021-07-24

Tech Executive Consultant Aviv Ben-Yosef joins Dev Interrupted to explain his strategies for your first 100 days at an organization and how to make use of the "tech executive operating system" and its techniques to improve your leadership and your organization. Get a sample chapter of Aviv's book here.

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Episode: Team Topologies 2: Organizing Business and Technology Teams w/ Manuel Pais & Matthew Skelton
Pub date: 2021-08-22

Dan is joined on the Dev Interrupted podcast by Manuel Pais and Matthew Skelton the writers of the book Team Toplogies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow for an in-depth discussion of how software teams are organized and how to optimize and streamline them for best effect.

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Episode: Leading 650 engineers with Microsoft’s Brendan Burns
Pub date: 2021-08-26

Brendan Burns not only co-founded Kubernetes, but he also leads a 650 person engineering organization at Microsoft today. This week on the Dev Interrupted Podcast he joins Dan Lines to tell the story of how he got into engineering and share his strategies and advice for how he leads his engineering teams - next week, he'll be back to take us through the founding story of Kubernetes and what he learned from that experience.

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Episode: Building a culture of trust - with Metrics - at Slack
Pub date: 2021-09-11

Rukmini Reddy started out doing needlepoint - and today she's VP of Platform Engineering at Slack. At Slack, she lives and breathes metrics. But she knows that without people and the context they bring, metrics alone won't solve engineering leadership challenges. To successfully use metrics to improve your teams and engineering processes - you need a culture of trust, and much more. Rukmini joined LinearB COO Dan Lines to talk about their shared vision for metrics success - and how she's building on Slack's successful engineering culture - plus the story of what brought her to where she is today.

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Episode: How to Scale Engineering Processes w/ Twitter's VP of Engineering
Pub date: 2021-10-02

Maria Gutierrez is the VP of Engineering for Strategy and Operations at Twitter. She joins a special livestream of the Dev Interrupted podcast to share her career journey, her strategies for sustainably scaling engineering teams, and the three pillars of engineering processes. Maria has also been working and managing engineering teams remotely for over a decade and offers a great deal of practical advice for team leads everywhere.

In a first for the Dev Interrupted podcast, this episode was recorded live during our virtual engineering leadership conference INTERACT. Maria was a fantastic guest, sticking around after her interview with Dan to take questions from the audience. Her lessons on team management, building company culture, hiring, and mentorship are not to be missed.

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Podcast: Dev Interrupted (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Live From INTERACT: Microsoft's Developer Velocity Research
Pub date: 2021-10-10

This week we have another episode from the 2021 engineering leadership conference INTERACT. In this live conversation, Conor Bronsdon, Community Lead at LinearB and the executive producer of the Dev Interrupted podcast, interviews Henrik GĂŒtle, GM of Azure for Microsoft Canada.

Henrik joins the podcast to break down the results and key takeaways of Microsoft’s research into the impact of remote work on developer velocity - and what engineering leaders can learn from it.

The exhaustive study taken over the course of more than a year, both before the pandemic and while it was ongoing, surveyed hundreds of companies regarding a host of topics including: agile practices, cloud adoption, toolsets and talent acquisition. The results of this survey are far-reaching and serve to provide companies with an understanding of transformative business practices.

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Episode: Live From INTERACT: Engineering Leadership Screwups
Pub date: 2021-10-23

When we asked some of our favorite engineering leaders if they had any mistakes they would be willing to share with our audience the response was always the same: "Yes, but where do I begin? There's so many."

The great thing about opening up about past mistakes is that it normalizes failure. All of us will make decisions that we come to regret - the best we can do is learn and grow from them. This is especially true of people in leadership positions who are responsible for managing teams.

In what will be the last podcast episode to feature excerpts from our INTERACT engineering leadership conference, Conor Bronsdon, Dev Interrupted Community Leader, presents a three-part interview he performed for audiences at INTERACT.

We applaud Luca Rossi, Head of Engineering at Translated; Shweta Saraf, Senior Director of Engineering at Equinix; and Chris Downard, VP of Engineering at GigSmart, for their candid, open responses about professional moments of failure.

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Episode: How to handle hypergrowth like Grammarly
Pub date: 2021-10-30

Grammarly has a simple but ambitious goal: turn all of its users into great writers. How good is it? We even used it to edit this text - and since Heidi Williams Joined Grammarly a year ago, the company has doubled in size. As Head of Engineering for B2B & Platform, she's at the forefront of crucial new initiatives - all while navigating hypergrowth and keeping users in mind.

Heidi joins us to share the lessons she's learned from hypergrowth, her experience as a CTO and Co-Founder, her time as VP of Engineering at Box, and other leadership lessons. She also breaks down what's next for Grammarly and gives us an inside look at the unique culture that powers Grammarly. Plus, don't miss her deep dive with LinearB COO Dan Lines into metrics, team dynamics, and much more.

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Episode: Building a Unicorn Engineering Org at GRIN
Pub date: 2021-11-20

How do you build an engineering organization that can drive your company to a billion-dollar valuation and unicorn status?

And how do you do it in an emerging and highly-competitive product category like influencer/creator management? Just ask Brent Bartlett, VP of Engineering at GRIN who joins us this week to share his blueprint for success and his path to leadership.

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Podcast: The 6 Figure Developer Podcast (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 221 – Art of Agile Development with James Shore
Pub date: 2021-11-22

James teaches, writes, and consults on Agile software development. He is co-author of the classic Agile how-to guide, The Art of Agile Development. He is also co-creator of the Agile Fluency¼ Model, a highly-regarded guide for Agile adoption. He’s a recipient of the Agile Alliance’s Gordon Pask Award for Contributions to Agile Practice.

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Episode: Episode 222 – Agile and Estimates with Allen Holub
Pub date: 2021-11-29

Allen is an internationally recognized software architect and consultant/trainer focusing on organizational agility. He helps people build software better & build better software. He's available as a consultant to help your company with it's agility.

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Episode: 106. Don't Cheat Yourself
Pub date: 2021-12-10

It's never been easier to get away with doing less.  This week, Pat, Cody and Tracy discuss why we need to avoid falling into the trap of mediocrity.  

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Episode: 82. Managing Your People is Risky
Pub date: 2021-03-03

Managing people is a fundamentally human endeavor, yet we tend to play it safe when it comes to building relationships.  This week, Pat, Cody and Tracy discuss the importance of accepting that risk.  

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Episode: 83. Be a jerk
Pub date: 2021-03-10

We often avoid saying things that need to be said because we're afraid of sounding like a jerk.  This week, Pat, Cody and Tracy talk about the importance of having the courage to be a "little-j jerk."

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Episode: 84. The Genius of Meetings
Pub date: 2021-03-17

Every meeting requires certain Geniuses.  This week, Pat, Tracy and Cody discuss the different types of meetings, and how to identify which Geniuses are appropriate and necessary.  

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Episode: 85. The Whole World is Wasting Time
Pub date: 2021-03-24

Most people and most companies waste a ton of time every day, and they've come to accept it.  This week, Pat and the team talk about why this is true, and how we can avoid it.  

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Episode: 86. Wanna Get Away?
Pub date: 2021-03-31

Over the past year, teams have been spending less and less time together.  In this week's episode, Pat, Cody and Tracy discuss the idea of a 'teamwork drought' and the importance of off-sites in building trust among teams.  

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Episode: 87. This is Your Wake Up Call
Pub date: 2021-04-07

How do you start your day?  This week, the team offers some practical personal advice related to stress and our morning routines.  

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Episode: 88. The Power of Daily Disruption
Pub date: 2021-04-14

What are you working on today?  In this episode, Pat, Cody and Amy talk about the difference between mission and maintenance, and the importance of disruption in determining what's most important.  

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Episode: 89. The Best 4-Letter Word
Pub date: 2021-04-21

Why do some teams succeed and some teams fail?  This week, the team identifies the best 4-letter word, and Tracy lets Pat and Cody talk about sports!

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Episode: 90. The Three Phases of Work
Pub date: 2021-04-28

People tend to think of work in two phases, ideation and implementation.  In this special Working Genius crossover episode, we discuss the critical "middle" stage of work - activation.

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Episode: 91. When To Leave a Job
Pub date: 2021-05-07

Too many people go through life not knowing when they should leave a job. There are a lot of reasons to keep a job, and a few really good reasons to dust off your resume.

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Episode: 92. Are You Addicted to Adrenaline?
Pub date: 2021-05-14

Many of us are feeling signs of burnout and may be suffering from an addiction to adrenaline.  This week, Pat and Amy talk about the early signs of adrenaline addiction and how to reconnect with the real purpose of work.

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Episode: 94. So You Want to Fire Someone...
Pub date: 2021-06-02

So you want to fire someone... stop!  This week on the podcast, we discuss the steps that every manager, leader and employer should take before letting someone go.  

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Episode: 97. Hold Yourself Accountable
Pub date: 2021-07-01

Holding our teammates accountable is almost never easy, even for the best leaders and the most healthy organizations.  On this week's episode, Pat, Cody and Tracy discuss how to hold yourself accountable for holding others accountable.  

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Episode: 101. The Elephant in the Workplace
Pub date: 2021-11-02

This week, Pat and Cody tackle the elephant in the workplace and enter the danger around a topic that nobody wants to touch: vaccine mandates.  

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Episode: 103. The 20 Minute Challenge
Pub date: 2021-11-17

Too often, we waste time scheduling meetings around conversations that could happen immediately.  This week, Pat, Cody and Tracy issue a challenge to our listeners.  

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Episode: The Amazon Way with John Rossman
Pub date: 2021-10-08

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to former Amazon executive John Rossman about the latest edition of his book, The Amazon Way.

Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3uNQYKk

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Episode: Career and Leadership Advice for Engineers and Technical Professionals
Pub date: 2021-10-29

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Jeff Perry about the important leadership and people skills that technologists are often not trained in, why career coaching can be valuable, being deliberate about career choices and advice for technical leaders.

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Podcast: Leading The Future of Work With Jacob Morgan (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 6 Levels Of Being An Amazing Listener
Pub date: 2021-10-27

Are you a good listener?

There are 6 levels of being a great listener according to Zenger Folkman.

The first level of being a listener is being able to create a safe environment where people feel like they can talk to you.

The second level is being able to avoid distractions like your phone or computer when you are talking to someone.

The third level is seeking to genuinely understand what the other person is saying.

The fourth level is paying attention to the non-verbal cues and body language of the person you are talking to.

The fifth level is being able to show empathy. That means understanding the emotional component of the conversation and putting yourself in the other person's shoes.

And the sixth level is the ability to make the conversation feel collaborative by asking questions to learn more about the topic.

If you really want to be a great listener, you need to practice these levels of listening.


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Episode: The Father Of Emotional Intelligence On How To Manage Your Emotions At Work & Why EQ Is More Valuable Than IQ
Pub date: 2021-11-01

Daniel Goleman is an internationally known psychologist and a science journalist, he is, in fact, known as the father of emotional intelligence. He’s also the bestselling author of several books including Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ and Primal Leadership: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence. Emotional Intelligence was named one of the 25 Most Influential Business Management Books by Time Magazine and Daniel has been listed among the most influential business thinkers by The Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal.

What is emotional intelligence? Daniel says it is a competence, a workplace ability, that makes you stand out from others and there’s a set of around a dozen competencies within the domain of emotional intelligence including empathy, adaptability, being able to stay positive, being able to inspire others, and keeping your eye on a goal without getting distracted.

Why is EQ critical for leaders and can it be learned As Daniel shares, “everything is a combination of nature and nurture, you get your genetic makeup, but that doesn't limit you. That's what you start with.” And he says that emotional intelligence is definitely learnable. But you need life experience, feedback, and practice to get better at it.

Daniel shares why EQ is so important for leaders: “Here's what emotional intelligence tells you. If you're in a negative emotional state, because of the way the brain is wired, you're narrowing the bandwidth of your other capabilities, your cognitive abilities, whatever talents you may have. Because emotions, the way the brain is designed and wired, take up a huge amount of space. In fact, emotional distractions, that thing she said to me that got me so upset, are far stronger than external distractions, it's gonna cap your intelligence, your attention, continually. So emotional intelligence helps you manage disturbing emotions.”

Leaders need to be able to lead themselves first, Daniel says, they have to have control of their emotions. The emotional state of the leader is contagious, so if the leader is negative all of the time, that drives the performance of employees, and production and morale go down. Whereas if the leader is emotionally intelligent and has a positive outlook on life and knows how to manage negativity, employees are more productive and happier too. It’s not to say leaders won’t ever experience anger, frustration, sadness, etc...All humans experience the full range of emotions. Emotionally intelligent people just know how to manage those emotions and they don’t let the emotions control them.


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IQ alone is not enough A majority of the time people are promoted to leadership positions because they are good at a certain task they perform in their current role. They are smart, capable people, but that doesn’t mean they have what it takes to lead people. We are currently seeing what people are calling the great resignation, people are leaving their jobs right and left and a lot of it has to do with leaders. People don’t want to work for horrible bosses who aren’t empathetic, positive, caring, self aware, etc
 “So you may be good at a job in terms of the objective measures of the job, such as--I’m really good at programming. But it turns out that it's all done with people. And if you're the leader of people, you need emotional intelligence to work well with the people you're leading. It's just a fact.” A certain level of IQ is needed for specific roles like being a lawyer or an accountant, but usually in those types of roles everyone around you has around the same IQ--so the thing that sets you apart is EQ. For people who only have IQ, but no EQ they may be better suited to a job in coding or something with numbers that doesn’t require them to work with people too much. They are not good for leadership roles because it is crucial for leaders to be good communicators. For people with high EQ but not high IQ they may be best suited for a role in sales or a position where they are building relationships with customers and clients. Three methods you can use to control your emotions at work We can all use some techniques that can be utilized when we feel angry, frustrated, sad, etc...Daniel has three main methods that he suggests:

  1. Sympathetic nervous system arousal. It sounds complicated, but actually it’s a breathing technique that helps you recover quickly from being upset. You start out by inhaling as long as you can (at least a count of four), hold it as long as you can (at least a count of four), and then exhale as long as you can. Repeat this six to nine times and it actually shifts your physiology.
  2. Name what you are feeling. It can help to say out loud what you are feeling either to yourself or to someone else. Just saying “I’m getting angry now” is shown to shift the energy from the part of the brain that feels it to the part of the brain that manages it.
  3. Practice mindfulness. Bring your focus to your breath and keep it there. Keep your attention on the rise and fall of your belly, and the breath in and out. If your mind starts to wander, notice it, and bring it back to your breathing. And do that for 10-20 minutes a day. The action of catching your mind wandering and bringing it back strengthens your mind to stay focused and avoid distractions.

It’s also important, when you have negative emotions, to take a step back and think twice about your negative thoughts. There are many times when we go to the extreme in our head. You make a mistake at work and your mind starts thinking about how you are going to be fired. When those thoughts pour in, realize that you are being extreme and refocus.


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Podcast: Leading The Future of Work With Jacob Morgan (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Rules For Success From The First CEO Of Netflix
Pub date: 2021-11-03

Do you have rules that you abide by?

Not long ago, I had the opportunity to speak with Mark Randolph, co-founder and first CEO of Netflix.

According to Mark, there are eight rules for success that his dad created, which he follows every day:

Do at least 10% more than you’re asked. There's no substitute for hard work. ✅Never present your opinions as facts. ✅Be courteous to people both up and down. ✅Don't knock others, don't complain, don't whine about stuff. ✅Don't be afraid to make decisions when you have the facts on which you can make those decisions. ✅Quantify whenever and wherever possible. You can't improve something if you don't measure it. ✅Be open-minded, but also be skeptical. ✅Be prompt. Never show up late.


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Podcast: Finding Mastery (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Chris Capossela: Inside the Mind of a Modern Leader
Pub date: 2021-11-03

This week’s conversation is with Chris Capossela, Microsoft’s chief marketing officer and executive vice president of worldwide consumer business.

As the chief marketing officer, Chris runs marketing across both the consumer and commercial businesses, which includes marketing for all Microsoft services and products, business planning, brand, advertising, events, communications and research.

As leader of the worldwide consumer business, Chris oversees the Consumer Channel Sales and Marketing team, Microsoft Advertising Sales and Microsoft Stores. These teams are responsible for driving revenue, growth and share across the consumer business.

Chris joined Microsoft in 1991 as a marketing manager for the Windows Seminar Team.

In his 30 years at Microsoft, Chris has held a variety of leadership positions and oversaw the creation of new business opportunities and consumer experiences, including the transition of Microsoft Office on-premises products to Office 365.

This conversation is important.

Chris is a model for the modern leader - he empowers his team and leads with empathy.


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Podcast: Schmidt List - Inspiring Emerging Leaders (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: The Secret to Best In Class Customer Experience - Ep 171
Pub date: 2021-10-12

A massive 73% of customers say they will abandon a business if it does not meet their expectations.

I've got two precious words for you that will help your business stay competitive, be profitable, and run smoothly:

Employee engagement.

That's right. A company culture based on empowerment will provide fantastic customer service and provide a company with high morale and, ultimately, the healthiest bottom line.

Customer expectations are continually rising, so it has become increasingly important for companies to invest in people who can provide world-class customer service experiences.

Join Jon Lenz and me as we explore what you need to know to build and maintain a culture of empowerment and how that will affect your company's bottom line.

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Podcast: Schmidt List - Inspiring Emerging Leaders (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: How to Lead with Emotional Intelligence - Ep 172
Pub date: 2021-10-19

Technology leaders need intelligent mindsets to help them rise above emotions like anxiety or stress while keeping their cool under pressure.

As leaders, we face a new challenge in today's business environment. The world of work has changed, and we must now consider emotional intelligence when building products. The demand is no longer only logical thinking skills; it's all about how you make someone feel, whether that be happy (or frustrated!)

So what does that mean for technology leaders? It means you need to start leading with emotional intelligence, or your company will be left behind.

Join Sarah Kim and me as we explore this topic and provide tips for technology leaders to manage their emotions, stay calm in high-pressure situations, and utilize empathy to better relate to others.

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Podcast: Knowledge@Wharton (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: This Checklist Can Make You a Better Leader
Pub date: 2021-11-02

In the 10th anniversary edition of his book ‘The Leader’s Checklist,’ Wharton’s Michael Useem highlights 16 mission-critical principles to help leaders make good decisions in unpredictable and stressful environments.

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Podcast: Quick Talk: A TM Forum podcast
Episode: TM Forum's CEO and Chairman take the pulse of telco industry
Pub date: 2021-10-21

In this week’s QuickTalk podcast TM Forum’s CEO, Nik Willetts, and Steffen Roehn, Chairman of TM Forum and Expert Partner with Bain & Company, discuss the evolution of communication service providers' operational and business models; cross-sector partnerships; cloud native IT deployment and the pressing need for new skills within our industry.

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Podcast: The 6 Figure Developer Podcast (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 115 – Clean Agile with Uncle Bob
Pub date: 2019-10-28

Robert C. Martin returns to discuss all things Agile.

Uncle Bob has been a software professional since 1970. Robert has spent the last 40 years contributing toward the betterment of the field, from kick-starting the Agile Alliance to authoring landmark books about Agile Programming, Clean Code, and more.

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Podcast: Software Process and Measurement Cast (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: SPaMCAST 632- What Is Working, Working From Home. A Conversation with Dalton, McDonough, Koorse, Hurney, and Cagley
Pub date: 2021-01-03

Software Process and Measurement Cast 632 reprises a panel from the 18th of March 2020 just as things were getting interesting on the working from the home front. Today we discuss what they have learned working with and supporting remote teams versus how it was supposed to work. The panel is:

Jeff Dalton, jeff@broadswordsolutions.com

Amy McDonough Amy, McDonough@spr.com

Sandeep Koorse, Sandeep@koorse.com

Christopher Hurney, Christopherhurney@gmail.com

Tom Cagley, tcagley@tomcagley.com

2020 was a year of firsts, this week one of those firsts intrudes on the podcast. Some sort of equipment error destroyed the first 8 ish minutes of the recording was lost. Actually lost was not a perfect description, in your mind picture a high-pitched screech. Then it was gone and the rest of the discussion was wonderful. I have chopped out the ear killing screech and we pick up late in the first question with Chris Hurney and go from there!

Re-Read Saturday News

This week it is time for Chapter 4 of Great Big Agile, An OS for Agile Leaders by Jeff Dalton. The Performance Circle, Envisioning, encompasses the behaviors and actions to describe what is required for “high-quality products and services.”

Remember, buy a copy and read along.

This week’s installment can be found at www.tomcagley.com/blog

Previous installments:

Week 1: Re-read Logistics and Front Matters - https://bit.ly/3mgz9P6

Week 2: The API Is Broken - https://bit.ly/2JGpe7l

Week 3: Performance Circle: Leading - https://bit.ly/2K3poWy

Week 4: Performance Circle: Providing - http://bit.ly/3mNJJN7

Week 5: Performance Circle: Envisioning - https://bit.ly/2JEVXdt

Next SPaMCAST

The next Software Process and Measurement Cast features my interview with Unmesh Srivastava. We talked about organizational culture and disrupting health care through development that is customer-focused.

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Episode: SPaMCAST 635 - Practical Ways to Manage, A Conversation with Johanna Rothman
Pub date: 2021-01-24

Cue the music . . . Happy Birthday, Software Process and Measurement Cast! Today we begin year 15 with a visit from Johanna Rothman. We talked about her THREE new books:

Practical Ways to Manage Yourself: Modern Management Made Easy, Book 1 https://amzn.to/2LXKkiQ

Practical Ways to Lead & Serve (Manage) Others: Modern Management Made Easy, Book 2 - https://amzn.to/39Viwnj

Practical Ways to Lead an Innovative Organization: Modern Management Made Easy, Book 3 - https://amzn.to/3qS90Z3

We of course covered more ground. For example about 2/3rds of the way through we talked about why the word experiment is a dirty word in most organizations. This is a longer interview, but when I grow up I want to be just like Johanna (I am serious). Here is her bio:

Johanna Rothman, known as the “Pragmatic Manager,” offers frank advice for your tough problems. She helps leaders and teams do reasonable things that work. Equipped with that knowledge, they can decide how to adapt their product development.

With her trademark practicality and humor, Johanna is the author of 18 books about many aspects of product development. Her most recent books are the Modern Management Made Easy series, From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams (with Mark Kilby) and Create Your Successful Agile Project: Collaborate, Measure, Estimate, Deliver.

See all her books, blog, and other resources at jrothman.com and createadaptablelife.com.

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Re-Read Saturday News

Today we take on Chapter 7 of Great Big Agile, An OS for Agile Leaders by Jeff Dalton. In three more weeks, we will begin Fixing Your Scrum: Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems (it is time to buy a copy).

Remember, buy a copy and read along.

This week’s installment can be found at www.tomcagley.com/blog

Previous installments:

Week 1: Re-read Logistics and Front Matters - https://bit.ly/3mgz9P6

Week 2: The API Is Broken - https://bit.ly/2JGpe7l

Week 3: Performance Circle: Leading - https://bit.ly/2K3poWy

Week 4: Performance Circle: Providing - http://bit.ly/3mNJJN7

Week 5: Performance Circle: Envisioning - https://bit.ly/2JEVXdt

Week 6: Performance Circle: Crafting - https://bit.ly/3ntsX69

Week 7: Performance Circle: Affirming - http://bit.ly/35OvFgC

Week 8: Performance Circle: Teaming - http://bit.ly/366CYk0

Next SPaMCAST

User Stories and Tony Timbol will take center stage. User stories are ubiquitous in agile. Getting them right is really important. Tony gives us some ideas to move the ball forward.

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Episode: SPaMCAST 642 - Scrum Master, Your Next CEO - A Conversation With Vasco Duarte
Pub date: 2021-03-14

Vasco Duarte returns to the podcast to discuss the Scrum Master. Scrum Masters are the face of agile in many organizations. Helping team facilitators get the role right benefits not only the agile community but every business they are involved with!

Vasco has been working in the software industry since 1998 and has learned the hard way what works (most of the time) and what does not work (almost never).

His goal is to help our industry evolve. We can’t become better without trying out new and innovative approaches to software development. The majority of our businesses run on software. We owe it to our society to get better at an activity that affects so much our lives and our countries’ economies.

Vasco consults companies that understand software is a key component of their business model. Get in touch via twitter: @duarte_vasco; or on his company’s web-site: http://www.oikosofy.com/.

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Re-Read Saturday News

This week we read Chapter 5 of Fixing Your Scrum, Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems, by Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller. Chapter 5 dives into fixing the antipatterns that hover around the product backlog. This chapter reinforces that a team and product owner are only as good as the backlog they are working from. If you have not bought your copy -- what are you waiting for? Fixing Your Scrum: Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems

This Week’s Installment

Week 1: Re-read Logistics and Front Matter - https://bit.ly/3mgz9P6

Week 2: A Brief Introduction To Scrum, and Why Scrum Goes Bad - https://bit.ly/37w4Dv9

Week 3: Breaking Bad Scrum with a Value-Driven Approach - http://bit.ly/3stGc9Q

Week 4: The Product Owner - https://bit.ly/3qpKvSn

Week 5: The Product Backlog - http://bit.ly/3cAEk9c

Next SPaMCAST

Next week we will talk with Caleb Woods, CEO and| Senior Software Craftsman at RoleModel Software. Caleb and I talk about the role of craftsmanship in developing and maintaining software (or really anything else).

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Episode: SPaMCAST 654 - Monotasking, A Conversation With Staffan Nöteberg
Pub date: 2021-06-06

This week is a doubleheader (baseball term for two games played by the same teams on the same day against each other). We begin our re-read of Monotasking by Staffan Nöteberg and we have my interview with Staffan. Several years ago I read Staffan’s book on Pomodoro which changed how I work. Monotasking might be even more useful and impactful. We discussed how to apply the ideas in the book to improve focus, productivity, and quality of life.

Staffan Nöteberg is an enterprise agility coach with years of experience in improving personal productivity. He is also the author of Pomodoro Technique Illustrated (2009) and teaches seminars on monotasking to companies in North America, Europe, and East Asia.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/staffannoteberg

Website: https://monotasking.staffannoteberg.com/

Re-Read Saturday News

We start our re-read of Monotasking by Staffan Nöteberg. The book is 237 pages published by Racehorse Publishing (an imprint of Simon & Schuster) and was released in English on June 1, 2021. For most of the readers of the blog and listeners to the podcast, this will be an initial read. The book’s contents include a Preface, Introduction, 7 numbered chapters, an Afterword, and then other stuff like index and more (we will not cover the other stuff but I am glad for the index and endnotes).

Now the fun part. Instead of a straight re-read and discussion. I am going to read a chapter, highlight the parts I am going to implement in the next week, tell you what I am going to do, and then the following week admit how well I performed.

Week 1 - Logistics, Game Plan, and Preface - https://bit.ly/3x1oVap

As a reminder, all of the entries from Fixing Your Scrum, Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems, by Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller are available!

Week 1: Re-read Logistics and Front Matter - https://bit.ly/3mgz9P6

Week 2: A Brief Introduction To Scrum, and Why Scrum Goes Bad - https://bit.ly/37w4Dv9

Week 3: Breaking Bad Scrum with a Value-Driven Approach - http://bit.ly/3stGc9Q

Week 4: The Product Owner - https://bit.ly/3qpKvSn

Week 5: The Product Backlog - http://bit.ly/3cAEk9c

Week 6: The Development Team - http://bit.ly/2OLVAAs

Week 7: Embracing The Scrum Master Role - https://bit.ly/3m0HB5D

Week 8: Management - https://bit.ly/31Kv39l

Week 9: Thinking In Sprints - https://bit.ly/321wXTg

Week 10: Sprint Planning - https://bit.ly/3stWOhx

Week 11: Sprint Backlog - https://bit.ly/3njezit

Week 12 - Reclaiming The Daily Scrum - https://bit.ly/3eNzMgz

Week 13: Deconstructing the Done Product Increment - https://bit.ly/3bedTGc

Week 14: The Sprint Review - https://bit.ly/3huZvgP

Week 15: The Retrospective - https://bit.ly/3bOK2Vg

Week 16 - Final Thoughts - https://bit.ly/3p3tbU0v

Upcoming Events!

ISMA 18 Virtual Conference, June 24th, 2021 8 AM EDT to 11:15 EDT

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June 25th, 2 to 3 PM EDT

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  • You can leverage this framework to transform the way your organization delivers software.
  • The model can transform your career.
  • Next steps to take on your journey to becoming a Test Process Improvement superhero.

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Next SPaMCAST

In the next Software Process and Measurement Cast, we talk with Ajit Ghuman, Head of Product Marketing at Narvar. Ajit and I talk pricing, marketing, product engagement/ownership, and development. Is there an ideal pattern for product and development to work together? If not, what are the consequences?

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Episode: SPaMCAST 656 - Gig Economy and Making The Market, A Conversation With Rahul Aggarwal
Pub date: 2021-06-20

In Software Process and Measurement Cast 656 we stay with an agile product and entrepreneurship theme with a conversation with Rahul Aggarwal. We discussed building a business and products to support the gig economy and entrepreneurship. Rahul provides excellent advice on recognizing market needs, experimenting, pivoting when necessary, and building a business.

Bio:

Being awarded as the Rising Entrepreneur of the year 2019 and Entrepreneur 35 under 35 in 2020, and Asia’s Most Promising Business Leaders 2021 by Economic Times, Rahul Aggarwal has co-founded Designhill and created a unique online marketplace to overcome the challenges faced by the business owners in

outsourcing high-quality creative solutions and designers who have been looking for creative freedom.

He’s a serial entrepreneur, passionate marketer, investor, advisor, and a firm believer in the concept of constant learning and growing. His astounding digital knowledge and impregnable business skills have led Designhill to be acknowledged as the Creative Startup Of The Year 2019 by Entrepreneur Magazine

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Re-Read Saturday News

This week we re-read Chapter 1 of Monotasking by Staffan Nöteberg titled Monotasking In A Nutshell. This chapter lays the foundation for translating the Five Axioms of Monotasking into a simple and straightforward approach.

Catch up on my experiment using the concepts on Monotasking by Staffan Nöteberg as part of the re-read. This week I am going to work on using shortlists and implementing both the panorama cues and panorama sessions.

Week 2 - Monotasking In A Nutshell - https://bit.ly/3gGMb72

Previous Entries

Week 1 - Logistics, Game Plan, and Preface - https://bit.ly/3x1oVap

Week 2 - Introduction - https://bit.ly/2TXVfwt

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I will host the event. The event will have a host of great speakers on great topics!

ISMA 18 will be free for both IFPUG members and non-members. IFPUG members are eligible for 1 credit at the CFPS Extension Program (CEP) and also attract 3 Technical PDUs in the PMI Talent TriangleÂź, both by attending the full conference!

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Real Value of TMMi (SPaMCAST is a Friend of TMMi America)

Free webinar from TMMi America featuring Mark Summers

June 25th, 2 to 3 PM EDT

This webinar will explore the common usages of the TMMi Test Process Improvement framework. We will dive into how:

  • You can leverage this framework to transform the way your organization delivers software.
  • The model can transform your career.
  • Next steps to take on your journey to becoming a Test Process Improvement superhero.

The real value of the TMMi is to help you dramatically change the frequency and quality of your software delivery.

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Next SPaMCAST

In the next Software Process and Measurement Cast, I will talk with SĂžren Pedersen. We talked about teams, value streams, and leveraging agile to improve how teams deliver value. We started with the definition of a team and then got into the practical nitty-gritty of defining value streams and coaching teams.

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Episode: SPaMCAST 668 - SPaMCAST - Learning, Hybrid Work Nirvana or Trouble, A Conversation With Tom Henricksen
Pub date: 2021-09-12

We are back from backpacking on Isle Royale. Simply awesome. Today, we feature a discussion with Tom Henricksen. You know Tom from the Agile Online Summit and the Dev Ops Online Summit however Tom is more than just the Summits. Today we discuss learning and then get into whether hybrid working scenarios are all they are cracked up to be. I am not sure we agreed.

Tom Henricksen is a technology professional with over 20 years of technical experience. He has worked as a developer, Team Lead, Scrum Master, and Manager. Tom is the founder of the Agile Online Summit!

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Re-Read Saturday News

Next week we will begin to read Mik Kersten’s Project to Product. I will be reading from the Kindle version of the book published by IT Revolution. The book includes a foreword, introduction, nine numbered chapters, a conclusion, and resources (we will not re-read this section). This works out to be 342 numbered pages for the Kindle Version. I have read this book twice, most recently during a book club (I hang around with geeks), and actively leverage the ideas from the book in my practice.

Buy a copy today

Whether you are just beginning fall or spring, I look forward to reflecting on Project to Product with you starting next Saturday.

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Next SPaMCAST

Next week we discuss transactive memory. My wife remembers things like special events and then clues me in
if she is around. Coaches and Scrum Masters often act as the official process memory for teams until they don’t. When they move on, the team more often than not forget and revert back to other ways of working. Transactive memory is efficient, a team is more than the accumulation of memories they all share, but has risks. I missed calling my father’s on his birthday this year - a failure in so many ways but also a failure of transactive memory.

Jeremy Berriault will also bring his QA Corner to the podcast.

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Episode: SPaMCAST 670 - Adapt, Transform Your Whole Organization, A Conversation With Luis Gonçalves
Pub date: 2021-09-26

Luis Gonçalves and I talked about his new book introducing the ADAPT Methodology. We discussed why using a framework can help leaders stay relevant. Our conversation dovetails nicely into the Re-read Saturday focus on Project to Product. There is a lot of synergy between the ideas of Kersten and Gonçalves.

Luis’s Bio:

Luis Gonçalves is an Entrepreneur, Best Seller Author, and International Keynote Speaker.

When consulting he works exclusively with Entrepreneurs, Founders, and Senior Leaders on the implementation of his game-changing "ADAPT Methodology".

By following the "ADAPT Methodology" Executive Leaders will be able to assess the 5 main pillars of their organization by identifying gaps that are required for them to succeed as a modern and digital leaders.

He has been successfully involved in the software industry since 2003 and his company blog https://www.adaptmethodology.com/ is considered a ‘must-read’ for everyone in the software development industry.

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The Agile Online Summit!

Tom Henricksen delivers one of the most innovative online conferences. This year he has upped the bar again! While you can attend the Summit for free, there are a number of innovative options to learn even more from the Summit, the early bird pricing on those options is nearly gone. Please join the premier Agile Online Conference from October 25th to 27th, 2021,

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Re-Read Saturday News

Chapter 1 begins Part 1 of Project to Product (there are 3 parts to the book). This part of the book introduces the Flow Framework, the core of the book. The graphic showing the whole model is the first thing you see when you open this part of the book which anchors the importance of the model for the rest of the book.

Buy a copy today

This Week’s Installment:

Week 1: Foreword and Introduction - https://bit.ly/39gIt0A

Week 2: Age of Software - https://bit.ly/2XYvqyI

Next SPaMCAST

Next week, an essay titled, What is Agile. There are a few things that just need to be said. For example, just because you are doing ceremonies doesn’t make you agile and might just make you fragile.

In addition, Susan Parente will bring her I’m Not A Scrumdamentalist column to the podcast.

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Podcast: Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 440: Alexis Richardson on gitops
Pub date: 2020-12-24

Alexis Richardson discusses gitops - a deployment model based on convergent infrastructure as code with host Robert Blumen.

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Episode: Episode 449: Dan Moore on Build vs Buy
Pub date: 2021-03-05

Dan Moore, cofounder of Vaporware, discusses the benefits and drawbacks of building or buying software solutions, including evaluation criteria, how to inspect an API, and cost considerations for purchasing software from external vendors.

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Episode: Episode 456: Tomer Shiran on Data Lakes
Pub date: 2021-04-21

Tomer Shiran, co-founder of Dremio, talks about managing data inside a data lake, historical changes and motivations for managing data as a data lake, and the common tools and methods for ingestion, storage, and analytics on top of the underlying data.

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Episode: Episode 457: Jeffery D Smith on DevOps Anti Patterns
Pub date: 2021-04-27

Jeffery D Smith, author of Operations Anti-Patterns, DevOps Solutions, talks about how things can go wrong in development organizations and what DevOps has to offer with host Robert Blumen.

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Episode: Episode 461 Michael Ashburne and Maxwell Huffman on Quality Assurance
Pub date: 2021-05-26

Michael Ashburne and Maxwell Huffman discuss Quality Assurance with Jeremy Jung.

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Podcast: Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Five Forces with Captain Hoff - Steve Hoffman
Pub date: 2021-06-24

In The Five Forces That Change Everything, Steve Hoffman, venture capitalist and CEO of Founders Space, takes you on a journey to see what the most brilliant minds of our age are dreaming up. Hoffman reveals how new scientific breakthroughs and business ventures are poised to reshape our lives and turn science fiction into fact.

  • The Five Forces That Change Everything

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Podcast: Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Engineering Servant Leadership with Carbon Health's Claire Hough
Pub date: 2021-07-08

Claire Hough started her career at Netscape and has been leading engineering teams to success ever since. Today she serves as the CTO of Carbon Health as a servant leader. Servant-leaders focus on the growth and well being of the people they lead rather than the accumulation of power.

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Episode: DevSecOps or SecDevOps with Wabbi's Brittany Greenfield
Pub date: 2021-08-12

DevSecOps vs. SecDevOps vs. DevOpsSec: Is there really a difference in these secure DevOps terms? We all agree we need to not only secure DevOps but we want secure software to pop out the other side of our ops pipelines. Folks often have 'security teams' that are separate...how important is it to get not just a segment in the DevOps pipeline but really integrated end to end? Scott chats with Wabbi's Brittany Greenfield about the future of DevOps+Security.

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Episode: Climbing the Engineering Ladder with Amal Hussein
Pub date: 2021-08-26

Amal Hussein is an engineer, community organizer, podcaster and budding entrepreneur. She is currently a Principal Software Engineer at Indigo, where she is focused on building global agricultural transportation software to annually save the planet millions of gallons of fuel. When she isn’t working on saving the universe from itself, you find her podcasting on JS Party or The Web Platform Podcast.

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Podcast: Lean Startup (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Analysis Paralysis And Other Innovation Blockers | Michael Barlow, Lucas Dickey, & DeMarcus Williams
Pub date: 2019-12-19

We recently hosted a conversation between Michael Barlow, Co-Founder & CEO at Fernish, Lucas Dickey, Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer at Fernish, DeMarcus Williams, Director of Silicon Valley Bank Early Stage Practice, and Hisham Ibrahim, Lean Startup Co. Faculty Member, about six rookie mistakes that block growth in early stage startups.

In the conversation, they discuss: - How to implement good hiring and retention practices to ensure you’re surrounding yourself with the right team. - The importance of maintaining a consistent company narrative. - Tips to avoid getting stuck in analysis paralysis.

And much, much more


Fernish’s founders Lucas Dickey and Michael Barlow have prime backgrounds in product management, engineering, design, sales, and finance. Their collective resumes include time in the trenches at Amazon and J.P. Morgan. When it came to launching their subscription service for home furnishings, though, they often traded expertise for proof of concept. Dickey and Barlow are methodical about ensuring each course of action boosts growth, regardless of what their egos may be telling them. This attitude is working in their favor. In the two years since they founded Fernish, the company has grown to 35 employees and their customer base numbers in the thousands.

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Episode: Name The Category, Own The Market | Christopher Lochhead
Pub date: 2020-01-28

We recently hosted a conversation between Christopher Lochhead, bestselling author and #1 charting podcaster, and Chris Guest, Lean Startup Co. Advisor, about why category design is so powerful, how to best wield it, and why entrepreneurs should naturally embody it.

In the conversation, they discuss: - What is category design and who are some companies that have successfully implemented it. - How category design gets you out of the comparison trap. - What it takes as an entrepreneur and intrapreneur to implement category design.

And much, much more


Christopher Lochhead values standing out over fitting in. He wants entrepreneurs to create markedly different products, not just better versions of old standbys. His #1 charting podcasts, "Follow Your Different" and "Lochhead on Marketing," and bestselling books Niche Down: How To Become Legendary By Being Different and Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets instruct entrepreneurs on developing and dominating new categories of products and services—and shifting consumer paradigms in the process. Lochhead eschews conventional marketing wisdom and evangelizes “category design,” which he calls “a secret art built on the thinking of legends.”

Lean Startup Co. advisor Christopher Guest recently chatted with Lochhead to understand why category design is so powerful, how to best wield it, and why entrepreneurs should naturally embody it.

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Episode: 463. How to Get Anyone to Do Anything
Pub date: 2021-05-27

The social psychologist Robert Cialdini is a pioneer in the science of persuasion. His 1984 book Influence is a classic, and he has just published an expanded and revised edition. In this episode of the Freakonomics Radio Book Club, he gives a master class in the seven psychological levers that bewitch our rational minds and lead us to buy, behave, or believe without a second thought.

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Episode: Jim Highsmith: a 54-year agile journey
Pub date: 2021-08-26

Thoughtworks Technology Podcast catches up with retired Thoughtworker and co-signatory of the Agile Manifesto, Jim Highsmith. He talks us through his experiences, from working on the Apollo missions to dropped card desks, the birth of the agile movement and its future in a post-pandemic world.

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Episode: Reimagining Banking at Current with Trevor Marshall
Pub date: 2021-09-24

Financial technology or fintech has always been a hot topic. This is increasingly true in recent years as disruptive companies enter the market to give better alternatives and solutions to consumers.

Current is focused on creating better financial outcomes. In addition to providing banking services, their app has many tools and reminders to help users learn and execute better money management strategies. In this episode, I interview Trevor Marshall, CTO of Current about starting a fintech company, how banking software is written, and what opportunities exist for disruption.

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Episode: Thoughtworks’ Tim Cochran on Developer Effectiveness
Pub date: 2021-08-06

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Tim Cochran, technical director at ThoughtWorks, about developer effectiveness.

Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3Ad6h0J

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Episode: The Craziness of Methods and Frameworks, and What to do Instead with Ivar Jacobson
Pub date: 2021-08-15

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Ivar Jacobson, originaror of Use Cases and pioneer of component based development about the craziness of methods and frameworks, and what we can do instead.

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Episode: Effective Remote and Asynchronous Work with Kaleem Clarkson & Tammy Bjelland
Pub date: 2021-09-11

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke with two of the speakers from the Remote Teams track at QCon Plus, Kaleem Clarkson & Tammy Bjelland, about the dangers of “hybrid” working environments and what is needed to make flexible remote and asynchronous working effective.

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Podcast: The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: #119 Todd Simkin: Making Better Decisions
Pub date: 2021-09-07

Todd Simkin calls on experiences from his lengthy career in financial services and educating traders to help Shane understand how to make better decisions. Simkin breaks down all the influences that go into how and why we make decisions, why financial decisions are different than inter-personal ones, the strategies involved with teaching other people to make better decisions, what he looks for when he’s hiring, the value of asking the right questions, and so much more.

Simkin is Associate Director at Susquehanna International Group, a privately held trading and technology firm. During his 25 years with the company he has held a variety of roles, including responsibility for SIG’s firm-wide education and trader development, where he taught the company’s new traders what questions to ask and what criteria to weigh before making hugely impactful decisions for the firm.

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Episode: The New Leadership Style 2021 - Ep 164
Pub date: 2021-08-03

Future leaders will need to be motivated by new concepts and innovation. The leaders who will be most successful can link ongoing management with enthusiasm to embrace disruption.

Join Ben Dueck and me to explore the focus and skills leaders will need in 2021 and beyond.

This is a talk about what the future of leadership will look like.

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Episode: How to Build Psychological Safety in Teams - Ep 167
Pub date: 2021-08-24

Imagine if your team is functioning as a single unit.

In this ideal state, your teammates are invested in one another's success. They share both their successes and failures with each other, openly and with trust. They welcome others' input and criticism. They listen to new ideas, even if they're outside their comfort zone.

It's a nice thought – a team that truly works together towards a shared goal, where each member feels safe enough to take risks and explore their path without being judged or put down by others. But how do you create this kind of team?

The good news is that psychological safety can be learned by feeling safe enough to take risks and be vulnerable.

Join Tara Swanson from Industrial Logic, Inc. and me to discuss the factors that may be holding teams back from developing psychological safety.

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Podcast: Schmidt List - Inspiring Emerging Leaders (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: How to Be Anti-Fragile - Ep 170
Pub date: 2021-09-21

What does antifragility mean?

Antifragility is a concept originally coined by Nassim Taleb, and its definition is deceptively simple: it means "the opposite of fragility." In other words, antifragile gets stronger when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors. You are an antifragile system if you become stronger when everything around you is getting chaotic.

Antifragility has been used in several industries. The term "antifragile" was first applied to software development by Google's director of engineering, Ray Kurzweil. He dubbed the technique "antifragile programming," describing it as an approach in which programmers embrace uncertainty and chaos by building systems that thrive on change with no surprises (my emphasis).

The antifragility concept has also been applied to marketing, finance, architecture, engineering, healthcare policy, governance, genetics, and biology.

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Podcast: Knowledge@Wharton (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Should U.S. Companies Stop Relying on China?
Pub date: 2021-09-07

Wharton’s Gad Allon explains why companies should consider nearshoring to blunt the effects of supply chain issues in China.

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Episode: What’s the Future of the Office?
Pub date: 2021-09-21

In a new book, Wharton’s Peter Cappelli says the choices employees and employers must make about the future of work could be among the most important they face.

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Episode: #64- Elektronikexperten Thorbjörn Ebefors om varför alla pratar om halvledare just nu.
Pub date: 2021-09-23

Den hÀr veckan tittar vi nÀrmare pÄ hur bristen pÄ halvledare uppstÄtt. Bristen pÄ de smÄ och relativt billiga halvledarna gör att vi exempelvis fÄr vÀnta lÀngre Àn vanligt pÄ nya datorer, nya mobiler och bila. Varför Àr problemet sÄ stort som nu? Varför passade en del pÄ att hamstra halvledare under pandemin medan andra nu stÄr tomhÀnta? Vad Àr egentligen en halvledare och varför Àr sÄ mÄnga beroende av produkterna? Och vad hÀnder pÄ den svenska marknaden. Har vÄra cirka 100 halvledarföretag nÄgon chans att bli en stor aktör pÄ den globala marknaden? Och vad innebÀr beslutet att EU ska bli sjÀlvförsörjande pÄ halvledare? Svaren fÄr vi av entreprenörer och elektronikexperten Thorbjörn Ebefors.


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Podcast: Leading The Future of Work With Jacob Morgan (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How Should We Prepare For The Future Of Work
Pub date: 2021-08-11

Business is very much like the game of chess. We need to prepare for a lot of different scenarios.

We do this in our personal lives all the time.

When we think about buying a house or having a kid, we think through everything--what's going to happen to the property value? What should my child study when they grow up? I wonder who they're going to marry? We like to think about different scenarios.

But for some reason in business, we don't think about different scenarios, we only think about one scenario.

We need to do a better job of thinking of multiple business scenarios and preparing for all of them.

(This is a clip of my conversation with Vicente Fox, former president of Mexico)

Now more than ever we need to take a step back to define what it means to be a leader and what great leadership looks like. But this isn’t easy to do. In fact, many business leaders struggle with this. You cannot become and build what you don't define. In the PDF you will get a framework you can follow and also see how some of the world’s top CEOs define leadership. Click here to get the PDF.

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Episode: Learn How To Learn
Pub date: 2021-08-18

There used to be a time where graduating from school was enough for you to be successful in life and in work.

And when you worked for a company, it too, would teach you everything you needed to know.

But today, that’s no longer the case.

Today, you can't rely on educational institutions and companies to teach you everything you need to know to be successful.

You need to be more accountable over your personal and professional development.

You need to learn how to learn.

Especially in this rapidly changing world of work, you’ll likely need to reinvent yourself multiple times during the course of your career.

What do you do to keep learning?

Now more than ever we need to take a step back to define what it means to be a leader and what great leadership looks like. But this isn’t easy to do. In fact, many business leaders struggle with this. You cannot become and build what you don't define. In the PDF you will get a framework you can follow and also see how some of the world’s top CEOs define leadership. Click here to get the PDF.

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Episode: The CEO of Qlik Shares Two Things That Hold Leaders Back From Greatness
Pub date: 2021-08-23

Mike Capone is the CEO of Qlik, a business intelligence company that provides end-to-end cloud data integration and data analytics solutions for organizations around the world. Mike leads a team of over 2,600 people around the world.

Mike’s experience as a leader started at the age of 24 when he was working in IT and he says he was totally unprepared for it. At the time he had no training, no experience, and he found it very intimidating at first. But with time, advice, and on the job learning he figured things out.

He says that his progression from an entry level leader to being the CEO leading over 2,600 people came about because of hard work, a willingness to volunteer for the hard jobs, and the ability to help others be successful.

The things that made a difference in Mike’s career

Jamie Dimon, the Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, is a leader that Mike really respects and someone that he has watched for a long time. In an interview Jamie shared that when it comes to success, there is no substitute for hard work. And Mike agrees with that completely, people who work hard get rewarded. But while that is a huge part of achieving your goals, there are other important things to focus on.

Mike says you also have to be unafraid to volunteer for tough jobs. In Mike’s own career there was a time when he was working for Oracle Financials when the company was rolling out a global financial system and they had already gone through two separate leaders who had been placed in the roll and then let go.

One day Mike was selected to be the next leader of the project, and everyone around him told him not to take it--it’s where people’s careers go to die. But Mike saw it as an opportunity to get noticed and advance his career. So he took the job and sure enough it was a huge stepping stone for him. As Mike shares, it is a combination of things that get you to the level of CEO, but if no one notices you and if no one knows who you are, then it doesn’t matter, you won’t get ahead. You have to have people believe that you are a key to their success.

Mike’s leadership style

One thing that is very important to Mike as a leader is listening twice as much as he talks. As a leader it is so important to let other people talk, even if you already know the answer. It’s also important to have diverse opinions and backgrounds around you.

But it’s equally important to be decisive as a leader. You have to listen, listen, listen, then decide and move on. “You always want to control the future and not let the future control you. But that said, like, that is the biggest failure I've seen of leaders is this kind of paralysis, this inability to decide. And you'd be hard pressed to find somebody who would accuse me of that, they'll accuse me of ready, fire aim sometimes, right. But they'll never accuse me of, you know, not deciding something quickly.”

There are going to be tough decisions that you have to make as a leader, but time is not going to make it go away. Some leaders also struggle with trying to build consensus around a decision, they want to be popular and liked, and while it is normal to want to be liked, you’re not always going to be and that shouldn’t stop you from making a decision.

“I always tell leaders, look, you have to do the listening and let people know they're heard, then you’ve got to use your best judgment and the data at hand and decide, and then your team has to get behind you. Time for discussing and then time for deciding and time for action.”

And if he makes a bad decision, Mike says he admits it and fixes it fast. He doesn’t dwell on it or let it eat at him.

What to do if you feel stuck in your job

Most of us have had a moment or moments in our career when we feel like we are stagnant and there is no way to move inside a company. It can be frustrating and disengaging. So what should you do in this situation?

Mike says before you make a decision, take a look at yourself. How much do you market yourself? How much are you trying to get noticed? Are you working on gaining new skills and improving the ones you have?

There are a lot of ways you can change your situation. Mike says, “If you're not fulfilled coming to work every single day, you’ve got to do something about that. You can't just complain about it. And I know economically, people sometimes say, well, I need this job. That’s great, like, you need the job, but you know, then skill yourself up. So your life isn't dependent on that particular job and then go find something else. But don't stay in a situation you're not happy in.”

Two things that hold leaders back

There are two main things that Mike says hold leaders back from their full potential. The first one is that leaders tend to think that the thing that got them where they are today is the thing to get them there tomorrow. They think that because they have a playbook that has worked before that they can just keep running the same one.

There’s a reason why most CEOs don’t last more than 5 years, because after that time they have to reinvent the thing that they invented, and it’s really hard to admit that what you did before isn’t lasting. But the pace of change is fast, and the world is changing so quickly. You can’t keep doing the same thing over and over.

The other thing that Mike says holds leaders back is thinking their time is more important than anyone else’s. This mindset manifests itself in canceling meetings, showing up late to meetings, being on your phone when someone is talking to you, etc...When you are in a meeting or talking with someone, be present completely. Multitasking doesn’t work, it’s just a productivity killer. If you need to respond to emails or text messages, set aside time for that.

What sets great leaders apart from good ones

There are a lot of leaders who can get things done through command and control, but the great leaders inspire the people around them. People are jumping in the boat because they want to follow that leader. It’s all about inspiration.

And this is something you can work on. Find people around you that model great leadership and watch them. Find someone who can mentor you. Practice things like empathy, listening, caring for others every single day. Catch people doing good things and let them know with an email, a call or a letter. It takes hard work and practice, but it’s worth it in the long run and it will ensure your success as a leader.

Now more than ever we need to take a step back to define what it means to be a leader and what great leadership looks like. But this isn’t easy to do. In fact, many business leaders struggle with this. You cannot become and build what you don't define. In the PDF you will get a framework you can follow and also see how some of the world’s top CEOs define leadership. Click here to get the PDF.

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Podcast: Leading The Future of Work With Jacob Morgan (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Why Leaders Need a Growth Mindset
Pub date: 2021-08-25

Does your leader have a growth mindset or a fixed mindset?

There are a few ways you can find out.

Leaders who have a fixed mindset place a very high priority on looking smart. They believe people can't change.

If you work for a manager or a leader who doesn't believe in embracing vulnerability or admitting that they don't know something, your boss has a fixed mindset.

On the other hand, if you work for a manager or a leader who believes in getting feedback and encourages learning, experimenting, and curiosity, your boss has a growth mindset.

Imagine being under constant pressure at work every day and feeling that every word that comes out of your mouth has to be correct. That's a horrible kind of culture to be in.

This is why leaders need a growth mindset.

Now more than ever we need to take a step back to define what it means to be a leader and what great leadership looks like. But this isn’t easy to do. In fact, many business leaders struggle with this. You cannot become and build what you don't define. In the PDF you will get a framework you can follow and also see how some of the world’s top CEOs define leadership. Click here to get the PDF.

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Podcast: Fri Tanke-podden
Episode: Carl Öhman: Om döden pĂ„ internet och vĂ„ra digitala kvarlevor
Pub date: 2021-07-09

“Inom ett par Ă„rtionden kommer det att finnas hundratals miljoner, kanske till och med miljarder döda anvĂ€ndare pĂ„ internet. Deras digitala kvarlevor utgör en otroligt rik data. Rikare Ă€n nĂ„gon annan historisk data som vi har haft i vĂ„r arts historia.”

GĂ€st i veckans podd Ă€r Carl Öhman, forskare vid Uppsala universitet som disputerat vid Oxford university med en avhandling om digitala kvarlevor. All din digitala aktivitet sparas och finns kvar efter att du har dött. Men vad hĂ€nder dĂ„ med all din data? Vem Ă€ger den och har dĂ€rmed juridisk och moralisk rĂ€tt att bestĂ€mma över den?

NÀr framtidens historiker skriver berÀttelsen om den arabiska vÄren eller metoo-hösten kommer data frÄn sociala medier att utgöra de frÀmsta arkiven. Men vad innebÀr det för oss som samhÀlle att Facebook, Twitter och Instagram fÄr monopol pÄ att förvalta vÄr gemensamma historia?

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Episode: Al Roth: Om spelteori och marknadens infrastruktur
Pub date: 2021-07-16

“Markets are human artefacts. They are tools that people create in order to serve their needs ... and we can change what they do if they are not doing what we think they should be doing.”

GĂ€st i veckans podd Ă€r Al Roth, professor i ekonomi vid Stanford University, vars bok “Vem fĂ„r vad – och varför” nyligen utkommit i svensk översĂ€ttning. Innan spelteorin vann gehör inom akademin tĂ€nkte ekonomer mest pĂ„ mĂ€nniskor som passiva köpare pĂ„ en sjĂ€lvreglerande marknad. Men spelteoretiker som Al Roth framhĂ€vde istĂ€llet hur mĂ€nniskor sĂ„som aktiva deltagare faktiskt ocksĂ„ formar ekonomin genom sitt deltagande.

IstÀllet för sjÀlvreglerande Àr dÀrmed marknader snarare att betrakta som artificiella byggen, styrda av detaljerade regler som konstruerats av mÀnniskor. Men hur och i vilken utstrÀckning pÄverkar spelreglerna utfallen pÄ marknaden? Och i vilken mÄn kan marknaden egentligen sÀgas vara fri?

I samtalet deltar ocksÄ Tommy Andersson, professor i ekonomi vid Lunds universitet.

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Podcast: The Audio Long Read (LS 64 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: The empty office: what we lose when we work from home – podcast
Pub date: 2021-07-09

For decades, anthropologists have been telling us that it’s often the informal, unplanned interactions and rituals that matter most in any work environment. So how much are we missing by giving them up? By Gillian Tett. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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Podcast: EconTalk (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Ian Leslie on Conflicted
Pub date: 2021-06-07

Author Ian Leslie talks about his book Conflicted with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Leslie argues that, far from being a negative thing, conflict is often the essential ingredient that helps us get to the right answer or best solution. Because some of our best thinking comes in collaboration with others, learning how to disagree civilly when our views conflict is the key to productive conversation in business and in marriage. The conversation includes a surprising defense of confirmation bias.

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Episode: Donald Shoup on the Economics of Parking
Pub date: 2021-06-14

Author and economist Donald Shoup of UCLA talks about destructive parking policies with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Shoup argues that most parking policies inflict unseen damage on the economy. He urges cities to charge for curbside parking and use the proceeds to improve the neighborhood beyond the curb. Shoup also explains the surprising harm done by requiring new buildings to provide a minimum level of off-street parking.

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Podcast: Finding Mastery (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Dr. Richard Harris on Heroic Decision Making - The Tham Luang Cave Rescue
Pub date: 2021-06-09

This week’s conversation is with Dr. Richard “Harry” Harris, an Australian anesthetist and cave diver who played a crucial role in the Tham Luang cave rescue.

For those of you unfamiliar, it’s an incredible story


In June 2018, Harry was about to depart on a cave diving holiday to the Nullarbor Plain.

He and dive partner Craig were requested by the Thai government, on the advice of British cave diving experts attempting to rescue twelve Thai children and their soccer coach who were trapped in the Tham Luang Nang Non cave system
 to provide assistance with the rescue efforts.

They were jointly awarded 2019 Australian of the Year as a result of that rescue.

I wanted to speak with Harry to understand how he did it
 what gave him the courage to put his life on the line on a whim for strangers?

I think you’ll be fascinated to not only hear about Dr. Harry’s first hand experience but also the mental skills he utilized – imagery, calm, confidence, focus
 it’s all there.


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Episode: Jordyn Wieber on Resilience and Managing Pressure
Pub date: 2021-06-23

This week’s conversation is with Jordyn Wieber, a member of the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame and the “Fierce Five” United States gymnastics squad that won team gold at the 2012 Olympics.

Jordyn was a two-time U.S. all-around champion (2011 and 2012) and the 2011 World all-around champion.

Her illustrious Elite Career included three medals at the 2011 World Championships (all-around and team : gold, and a bronze on beam), and four U.S. senior national titles (all-around, bars and floor in 2011 and all-around in 2012).

She officially retired from competitive gymnastics in 2015.

In 2019, Jordyn was introduced as the head coach of the Arkansas Women’s Gymnastics program making her the youngest NCAA head-coach in history.

Jordan has been a vocal advocate for safe sport, has won several awards in the past year, including the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the ESPYs, the Rising Star Award by the Los Angeles Business Journal, and the Giant Steps A Hero Among Us Award.

In this conversation we cover so much - the immense pressure she was under to succeed, the trauma she and her teammates experienced as members of USA gymnastics, and why she’s taken a stand to change the sport for the better.


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Podcast: The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: #112 Adam Grant: Rethinking Your Position
Pub date: 2021-06-01

Celebrated organizational psychologist and author Adam Grant provides compelling insight into why we should spend time not just thinking, but rethinking. In this episode we cover how to change our own views, how to change the views of others, hiring processes, psychological safety, tribes and group identity, feigned knowledge, binary bias, and so much more. Grant is a Professor of Psychology at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the author of five books, including his most recent release, the New York Times bestseller Think Again. He also serves as the host of WorkLife, a TED original podcast. -- Want even more? Members get early access, hand-edited transcripts, member-only episodes, and so much more. Learn more here: https://fs.blog/membership/

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Podcast: Schmidt List - Inspiring Emerging Leaders (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Creating a Culture of Experimentation - Ep 153
Pub date: 2021-05-11

How can your company support a culture of purposeful experimentation and innovation?

Join Scott Propp and me as we discuss his framework for how leaders can combat those potential "innovation villains" and encourage a culture of innovation.

http://scottpropp.com/gaining-back-the-ground-the-pandemic-has-taken/
http://scottpropp.com/3-key-ways-to-lead-into-the-future/

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Episode: Building and Selling a Successful FinTech Startup - Ep 155
Pub date: 2021-06-01

Cale Johnston from ClickSWITCH joins me to discuss the history of building his FinTech company and shares some behind-the-scenes stories of the recent acquisition.

How do you begin to sell a startup? M&As are always a high-stress process. What should you be examining during a startup exit?

Please bring your questions and join us LIVE as Cale shares his insight and experiences!

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Episode: Is Fear Controlling Your Career? - Ep 156
Pub date: 2021-06-08

Has fear ever held you back in your job or career?

Join Cat Breet and me as we discuss how to break through fear and achieve something extraordinary!

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Episode: Should You Build an App? - Ep 158
Pub date: 2021-06-22

Building an "app" is not and never will be an all-encompassing business solution.

Adding software to your business might seem to be a simple enough task, but knowing what questions to ask before embarking on your app journey is key to a successful outcome.

Join Liz Bohlmann and me as we discuss the questions you should be asking when contemplating designing building new products for your business.

Find Liz here:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/december_labs, https://twitter.com/lizbohlmann?lang=en
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Podcast: Inside Intercom (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: CX pioneer Jeanne Bliss on building customer-centric businesses
Pub date: 2021-03-25

CX pioneer Jeanne Bliss chats to Dee Reddy about what it takes to create a legacy of sustainable, customer-centric business.

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Podcast: Inside Intercom (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career
Pub date: 2021-04-22

There are plenty of resources and advice on unlocking the secrets of the engineering management career path. But what if the manager role is not for you? Calm’s Will Larson chats to Intercom's Brian Scanlan about the road beyond Senior engineer.

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Episode: Rewind: Lean UX author Jeff Gothelf on why design must have a seat at the table
Pub date: 2021-05-27

Author and consultant Jeff Gothelf joins us for a wide-ranging discussion on everything from strategies for making design part of a company’s DNA to the lessons we can learn from the human cannonball at a circus.

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Podcast: Kodsnack
Episode: Kodsnack 416 - Jasons bastu
Pub date: 2021-05-04

Fredrik och Kristoffer snackar om Basecamps plötsliga implosion - bĂ„de i antal anstĂ€llda och i hopsamlad goodwill i utvecklarvĂ€rlden - efter att de publicerade “nya riktlinjer” för företaget för drygt en vecka sedan. Vi diskuterar vad som hĂ€nt och vad vi tycker om det. Ska det behöva vara sĂ„hĂ€r galet pĂ„ jobbet? Spoiler: nej, det tycker vi inte.

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LĂ€nkar * Kodsnack 414 - frilansaravsnittet * Basecamp * Ruby on rails * DHH - David Heinemeier Hansson * Jason Fried * Jasons bastuinlĂ€gg * Changes at Basecamp - Jason Frieds blogginlĂ€gg (som det ser ut efter de uppdateringar som gjorts) * Originalversionen av Changes at Basecamp * Aldus Huxley * Brave new world * Nu vĂ€nder vi blad * 360-reviews * It doesn’t have to be crazy at work * Breaking camp - Verge om diskussionerna pĂ„ Basecamp som ledde fram till de nya riktlinjerna * Hatpyramiden * The Verge pĂ„ fredagen om hur mĂ„nga som dĂ„ offentligt sagt att de slutar pĂ„ Basecamp * Hey * Rework - Basecamps numera (just nu?) pausade podd * EA spouse * Livejournal * Connected diskuterar bland annat Basecamp-historien * How Basecamp blew up - publicerad samma dag som avsnittet

Titlar * Jag gillar ju kontroverser * Hajar som kÀnner lukten av blod i vattnet * Basecamps uppgÄng och fall * Det Àr ju jÀttegalet pÄ jobbet * Jasons bastu * Suffer and enjoy in solitude * Hihi jag har köpt en bastu * Ensam i bastun * Kanaliserat nordfinskt svÄrmod * Paternalistiska förmÄner * FörmÄner: glöm det * Kung David och kung Jason * David tyckte att han var klar * Det hÀr Àr min sandlÄda * SvÄrt att slÀppa fler böcker * Jag har precis upptÀckt tomater

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Podcast: Penge-Tanken
Episode: #88 - Derfor virker det ikke
Pub date: 2021-04-27

Du har helt sikkert prĂžvet det mere end Ă©n gang i dit liv – at Ăžnske en forandring. Du har virkelig prĂžvet
 og prĂžvet
 og prĂžvet, men alligevel endt op ved start igen – nu bare lidt mere slĂ„et ud end inden du gik i gang. SĂ„ hvorfor er det sĂ„ svĂŠrt at gennemfĂžre de ĂŠndringer vi Ăžnsker, nĂ„r nu vi virkelig Ăžnsker dem sĂ„ meget? Det mysterium, som egentlig ikke er sĂŠrlig kompliceret, taler jeg med dig om i dagens afsnit.

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Podcast: Leading The Future of Work With Jacob Morgan (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How to Build the Right Team
Pub date: 2021-04-07

Building the right team is very important and can increase your chances of success as a business leader.

When it comes to building a team, one of the first things to consider is diversity. But diversity doesn’t mean different types of looks, it's about bringing together different types of intelligence, beliefs, and views on the world.

Another crucial component when it comes to thinking about teams is team size. I love the “two pizza rule” Amazon uses. If two pizzas aren’t enough to feed an entire team, then the team is too big.

The last piece for creating effective teams comes down to metrics and measurement. Organizations use OKRs, objectives, and key results. Objectives are the big picture things that you're trying to accomplish, and the key results are the milestones that lead you to that objective.

Keep those things in mind as you build an effective team or are part of an effective team.

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Podcast: Leading The Future of Work With Jacob Morgan (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How to Create Executive Presence and Why It's So Important
Pub date: 2021-04-12

Whether you lead a team of thousands, a team of hundreds, or a team of five, you should have executive presence. While executive presence alone most likely won’t get you promoted or keep you in your current role, it is something that will set you apart. It is also a huge part of motivating and inspiring your team.

So what is executive presence? That is exactly what we are talking about today. Tom Henschel is the host of The Look & Sound of Leadership, which has been airing since 2008. Tom is also a communications coach for executives at companies like Warner Bros, Toyota, Mattel, and Sony Pictures.

Tom is president of the executive development firm Essential Communications. He was also classically trained at The Juilliard School, Drama Division. Tom was a professional actor for more than 20 years and has appeared in over 100 plays, films and TV episodes.

In this episode of the podcast we explore:

  • How Steve went from acting to coaching executives
  • What is executive presence and why is it so important
  • Do you need executive presence in order to be a leader?
  • The aspect of executive presence that leaders struggle with
  • How to have executive presence in a virtual world
  • Action items leaders can implement today to create executive presence

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Podcast: Leading The Future of Work With Jacob Morgan (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How to Find Your ONE Thing: Advice From Bestselling Author Jay Papasan
Pub date: 2021-04-26

Jay Papasan is the bestselling author of multiple books including The ONE Thing, which he co-authored with Gary Keller. The book has sold more than 2 million copies, it has been translated into 35 languages, and it has appeared on more than 500 national bestseller lists.

The main focus of The ONE Thing is to help readers find the one thing that they can do that will make everything else easier or unnecessary. In other words, once you come up with a goal for yourself it is important for you to ask yourself every day what is the one thing I can do today to take me closer to that goal. Every day you are looking for your number one priority.

But does that mean you can only focus on one goal or one thing at a time? No way! Jay says that is actually the biggest mistake readers make when going through the book. He says, “We never said that--who gets to do one thing? Nobody, right? We have kids, we have aging parents, we have hobbies, we have jobs, our jobs have all kinds of busy work that is absolutely necessary and can't be ignored. But if we start and give disproportionate focus and energy to the true priority, everything else does get easier. And sometimes it just goes away. You don't even have to do it. That's a big idea.”

Finding your ONE Thing Jay suggests that when you first start to try to find your one thing, it is important to think strategically about something that will be a long-term goal. Aim big, and long-term, instead of focusing on something you can achieve in the short term.

As Jay shares, when you are young and just starting out it is important to try to figure out what your unique gifts are. What are some areas where you excel that maybe others have a hard time with? He says, “The reason ultimately people get accelerated through the business world is that in some area they can provide disproportionate returns on their investment of time, right. They can sell more than the next person, they can close more than the next person, they can write better copy, or better code than the next person. So part of the young person's journey is discovering where their passion and their gifts align.”

How can you become invaluable? In what areas can you show up and provide extra value? What are you passionate about or what are you skilled at? If there is something that you are very skilled at and that same thing brings you joy and a sense of purpose--you should lean into that.

And remember that every job is going to have things about it that you don’t enjoy, it’s pretty rare for someone to find a job that they enjoy 100% of the time. But if the majority of the role is exciting, challenging, and enjoyable for you--start your focus there.

How Jay helps his employees find their one thing Jay is in charge of 44 employees with Keller Williams and one thing he practices on a regular basis with his team is something they call GPS. Each year Jay and his team come together to figure out what their number one goal as a company is. And once they have that goal they come up with three to five priorities that they will need to focus on throughout the year to reach that goal, and each of those priorities has up to five strategies behind it. That is how they get everyone on the team on the same page and working towards the same goal. So that happens on a yearly basis.

And then every week Jay meets with the people who report to him to review their own one page of set goals. This is called the 4-1-1, because it is that person’s priorities for 4 weeks, one month, and one year all on one page. Every week the individual employee looks at their annual goals based on the company priorities and from that they come up with monthly goals that support those overarching goals.

Jay says, “Every week they put their weekly goals that line up to their monthly goals that line up to their annual goals that line up to the divisional company goals. So it's a cascading set of priorities. So that every week, I spend 30 minutes or so with the key people who work with me, and we review their weekly priorities. And once a month, I will look at their monthly priorities and just ask the question, how does this help us achieve our goals? And at the beginning of the year is the most work, right? We ask what's our one thing and then based on that we create the cascade.”

This process allows employees to break large company-wide goals into bite-sized, achievable priorities that they know they can accomplish.

Is hustle culture a good thing? A lot of people, especially entrepreneurs, believe that success is connected to a nonstop hustle to try to get ahead. They think that by outworking their competition they can win. But Jay doesn’t agree with this concept at all.

He says, “One of my fundamental beliefs is that to be a successful husband and a father and a successful business person, that those are not mutually exclusive endeavors. I refuse to believe otherwise. And the challenge I have with the hustle culture that you have to outwork and work longer than your competitors, is that they're just ignoring the fact that like, I get to work every day with a self made billionaire. I do the math, what is his dollars per hour, it's incalculable. But he doesn't work any more hours than I do on an average week. So it's not how many hours you work. It's what you put into the hours. And it sounds so trite, but it's incredibly true.”

It’s not that you can’t work long hours from time to time or put in time at the office on a weekend on occasion. As Jay shares, he has done that when they are on a deadline or if he’s preparing to speak at a big conference. But it’s not the norm. There are moments in life when you have to work harder than others, but to hustle nonstop all the time is not sustainable.

“I've seen it be a recipe for divorce and disease. And I do not want the people I love to be caught into the culture of hustle first, think second. So I think this is business as a thinking person's game. And when we are strategic in our investment of time, we win.”

The four pitfalls people experience when living The ONE Thing Once people have found their ONE thing and they start living that out, there are a few pitfalls they can fall into that Jay warns about. They are:

  1. They lack clarity about what they want.
  2. They’re clear on what they want, but they’re unfocused in their approach.
  3. They’re focused, but they actually don’t have time to execute.
  4. The time that they DO commit, they leave unprotected.

So as you are navigating your priorities and goals, be sure to look out for these traps and make sure you don’t fall into any of them. What can you do to start practicing your ONE thing today For those of you who are ready to start putting this into practice today, Jay’s advice is to set up 30 minutes a week--whether it's on a Sunday before the week starts or on Friday before you leave work--and come up with your one goal for the coming week. Look at your schedule and tasks for the upcoming week and ask yourself “of all the things I could do, what is the number one thing I can achieve next week?” Figure out your number one goal for that week and then manage your time to make sure that one thing happens. And if you have more than one thing you have to get done, use that 30 minutes a week to help you narrow down your to-do list to your top 5 things that actually matter. And then number those 5 things in order of importance, so you remember what that #1 most important thing is. Putting this exercise into practice will help you stay laser focused on what really matters to you and it will help you achieve your goals faster.

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Podcast: Leading The Future of Work With Jacob Morgan (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Why You Need To Serve Yourself Before You Serve Those Around You
Pub date: 2021-04-28

Constantly serving other people and neglecting yourself is probably the best way to get exhausted, burned out, drained, and to become disengaged from work and even disengaged in your personal life.

So even though you are serving your leaders, your customers, and your team members, you also need to make sure that you serve yourself, because if you don't, you're not going to be able to serve anybody else effectively.

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Podcast: Schmidt List - Inspiring Emerging Leaders (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Organizational Structure and Design in Management - Ep 148
Pub date: 2021-04-06

Why is an organizations' design less focused on humanity and empathy than any other design field such as architecture, product design, experience design, urban planning, etc.?

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Podcast: Schmidt List - Inspiring Emerging Leaders (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: What Makes a Startup Successful? - Ep 150
Pub date: 2021-04-20

While there is no standard formula, there are many factors founders should focus on to make a startup as successful as possible.

Join Stephanie Rich and me from Bread and Butter Ventures as we discuss everything from building the right team to sourcing the right advisors and investors.

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Podcast: The InfoQ Podcast (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Melissa Benua on Continuous Delivery, Platforms, and DevTestSecOps
Pub date: 2021-01-25

In this podcast, Melissa Benua, Director of Engineering at mParticle, sat down with InfoQ podcast host Daniel Bryant and discussed: the importance of the roles of testing and security within DevOps; the benefits and challenges of building systems with teams of generalists; and how to “bake in” observability of systems from day zero.

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Podcast: Engineering Culture by InfoQ (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Emily Jaksch on the Myths, Misconceptions and Realities of the Millennial Generation
Pub date: 2020-11-27

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Emily Jaksch about the Myths, Misconceptions and Realities of the Millennial Generation.

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Episode: Lyssa Adkins on 21st Century Leadership, Relationship Systems and the Role of Agile Coaching
Pub date: 2020-12-18

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Lyssa Adkins, author of the book Coaching Agile Teams, about 21st century leadership, relationship systems, the role of agile coaching, brining more women’s voices to the fore and highlighting organisation disfunctions.

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Episode: Gonçalo Silva on Working Completely Asynchronously
Pub date: 2021-01-08

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Gonçalo-Silva of Doist about how they maintain a collaborative culture while working completely remotely and asynchronously.

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Podcast: Engineering Culture by InfoQ (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Evan Leybourn on Responding to Uncertainty Using Business Agility
Pub date: 2021-01-22

In this podcast recorded at the Agile Christchurch conference, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Evan Leybourn about the characteristics of agile organisations and how they respond to disruption.

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Episode: Renee Troughton on Deep Introspection, Integrated Organisations and Looking Beyond Agile
Pub date: 2021-01-29

In this podcast recorded at the Agile Christchurch conference, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Renee Troughton.

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Episode: Alex Sloley the Value of Coaching, Mob Programming in Action, and Leadership for New Ways of Working
Pub date: 2021-02-08

In this podcast recorded at the Agile on the Beach (New Zealand) conference, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Alex Sloley about the value of a coach, mobbing as a way to solve tough problems and the importance of leadership in adopting new ways of working.

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Episode: Allan Kelly on Continuous Digital, #NoProjects, Minimally Viable Teams and OKRs
Pub date: 2021-02-19

In this podcast recorded at the Agile on the Beach (New Zealand) conference, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Allan Kelly about his book, Continuous Digital, #NoProjects, Minimally Viable Teams and OKRs.

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Episode: Rebroadcast: Kim Scott on Radical Candor
Pub date: 2021-03-26

  • This is a rebroadcasted episode on a popular subject about giving and receiving feedback. *

In this podcast recorded at the Agile 2018 conference Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Kim Scott, author of the book Radical Candor about what radical candor is and how it can be applied in teams and relationships.

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Podcast: The Future of Work With Jacob Morgan (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 4 Steps To Practice Empathy From Dr. Brene Brown
Pub date: 2021-02-24

Now, more than ever, we need to make sure every leader in our organization is practicing empathy.

Empathy is all about putting yourself in somebody else's shoes to understand their perspective and where they're coming from.

According to Dr. Brene Brown, there are 4 steps to practicing empathy:

  1. Put yourself into somebody else's shoes. Imagine you are in their situation and try to think of a time when you had a similar experience.
  2. Never judge too quickly when a person tells you something. You have to understand the whole story of what’s happening.
  3. Recognize the emotion that the person is experiencing.
  4. Communicate that you understand that emotion.

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Episode: 3 Questions to Ask to Get Better Feedback
Pub date: 2021-03-03

A lot of people are very uncomfortable asking for feedback.

And rightfully so!

Early in my career, I was one of those people who was weirded out by asking for feedback.

But I realized that when you phrase feedback in a different way, it makes the conversation a lot easier and more directed towards your growth and development.

Here’s how you can rephrase the feedback you want to get.

  1. Can I get your advice? If you've created a solution to something and you want to get feedback on what that solution is.

  2. What can I do better? If you want to improve yourself on a certain thing.

  3. What can I focus on now to prepare for a future role? If you want to focus on your growth for future learning and development.

I found these questions very effective to get the feedback I’m looking for. Try it out!

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Episode: The 8 Archetypes of Leaders–Which One Are You?
Pub date: 2021-03-08

Manfred Kets de Vries is The Distinguished Professor of Leadership Development and Organizational Change at INSEAD, one of the world’s leading and largest graduate business schools. He has received INSEAD’s distinguished teacher award five times.

Manfred is also the author of 52 books including The CEO Whisperer, Mindful Leadership Coaching, and Down the Rabbit Hole of Leadership. And he is a consultant on organizational design, transformation, and strategic human resource management to leading companies all over the world.

From a young age Manfred was interested in psychology and human behavior, he was intrigued with trying to figure out why people act in certain ways. In college he studied economics and organizational behavior. Throughout his career he has focused on the intersection of these two areas and eventually he was appointed as the Global Leadership Director at INSEAD and he started a program specifically for leaders where 21 executives come together and Manfred creates what he calls tipping points for them to teach them how to make decisions in more humane and effective ways.

There is a Gallup poll that shows that 85% of employees worldwide don’t feel engaged at work. And as Manfred says, we only have one life to live so we should be making the best out of it. So he enjoys working with leaders because they have such a profound effect on the lives of their employees.

The 8 Archetypes Of Leadership Back in 2013 Manfred wrote an article for HBR on what he calls the 8 archetypes of leadership. These are recurring patterns of behavior that Manfred says influence a leader’s effectiveness inside of an organization.

As Manfred says in his article “I think of these patterns as leadership “archetypes, reflecting the various roles executives can play in organizations and it is a lack of fit between a leader’s archetype and the context in which he or she operates is a main cause of team and organizational dysfunctionality and executive failure.

The eight most common archetypes are:

  1. The strategist: Leadership as a game of chess. These people are good at dealing with developments in the organization’s environment. They provide vision, strategic direction and outside-the-box thinking to create new organizational forms and generate future growth.
  2. The change-catalyst: Leadership as a turnaround activity. These leaders like messy situations that they can come in and fix. They are good at implementing organizational change. But when things are good they tend to get bored.
  3. The transactor. Leadership as deal making. These leaders thrive on negotiations. They are skilled at identifying and tackling new opportunities. They are great dealmakers.
  4. The builder. Leadership as an entrepreneurial activity. Leaders in this category dream of creating something and they have the talent and determination to make their dream come true.
  5. The innovator. Leadership as creative idea generation. Leaders in this category focus on the new. They possess a great capacity to solve extremely difficult problems.
  6. The processor. Leadership as an exercise in efficiency. These executives like organizations to be smoothly running, well-oiled machines. They are very effective at setting up the structures and systems needed to support an organization’s objectives.
  7. The coach: Leadership as a form of people development. These executives know how to get the best out of people, thus creating high performance cultures.
  8. The communicator: Leadership as stage management. These executives are great influencers, and have a considerable impact on their surroundings.

It is important to know which type of leader you are, as well as what archetypes your peers and team members fall into in order to create the most effective and cohesive teams.

Can you change your archetype? Over the course of your career as a leader you may be interested in changing your archetype. Manfred says it is possible, but it’s not easy. Instead of trying to change yourself, you may consider surrounding yourself with people who fall into the archetypes that you need for what you are currently facing. Embrace the traits you have, and allow other people to fill in the gaps where you are lacking.

And there may come a time, Manfred believes, when it may be time to resign from that position and go elsewhere. Maybe it is time for you to do something different. Years ago Manfred was speaking to a group of around 200 executives and he asked them how long is the productive life of a CEO and they said seven years, plus or minus two years. After that it’s time to move onto something else.

What should you do if you are placed in a position that doesn’t match your archetype? There may be times when you feel you are being put in positions that don’t match up with your archetype and at that point Manfred says you have a decision to make. We are no longer living in times when you stick at a specific job at one company for decades. So you have to figure out what gives you energy and what brings you joy.

Manfred suggests keeping a diary for a few weeks to keep track of the periods of time that you feel positive energy and joy as well as situations that impact you negatively. That way you can look back and see what things are important to you, what things you should seek out and what situations you want to avoid. Looking back on that log of activity you can make a decision as to whether it is worth it to stay in that position or not.

Keeping archetypes in mind when you build your team It may not be possible to have each of the eight archetypes represented on every team you work with, but it is good to keep these archetypes in mind as each one has a role to play in an effective team.

Manfred gave an example of an investment bank that he worked with in the past. They had a group of seven people who covered almost every archetype except they didn’t have anyone who was good at coaching.

As Manfred shares, “they were not good in coaching, they were too busy with strategy, deal making and also having the things on time, all those kinds of things. So because of that, they decided we have to do something about it. And we have to hire someone who takes that role, because it will be growing very fast, and we don't pay any attention to that kind of thing. And we're not very good at it either, given our personality.

It is important to know which category you fall into and to be able to identify what’s missing. It’s not an exact science, and what combination of archetypes you need depends on the industry that you are in, but it is definitely something you should be aware of.

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Podcast: The Future of Work With Jacob Morgan (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: What if You Don't Like Your Leader?
Pub date: 2021-03-10

What should you do if you work for a #leader​ that you don't like or don't get along with? If you're in this situation you typically have a few options.

1) Do nothing and suffer. 2) Have a conversation with your leader. 3) Try to switch teams. 4) Quit. 5) Focus on doing great quality work.

Regardless of the path you take, I think the worst option here is the first one. If you do nothing and just complain about your situation then I'm sorry, but you deserve what you get.

You have to take charge over your own personal and professional success. I talk about this more in the video. Let me know what you think. Have you ever been a situation where you had to take one of these paths? I sure have!

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Episode: Aron Ain, The CEO of 13,000 Person Ultimate Kronos Group on Building A Company Where Everyone Loves to Work
Pub date: 2021-03-15

For several years in a row, Aron has been on the Glassdoor top 100 CEO list and in 2012 he won the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. UKG was rated the #2 best large employer in America by Forbes, it received a 100% on the Corporate Equality Index, and prior to the merger both Kronos and Ultimate Software were separately named a Best Workplace for Parents by Great Place to Work.

How do you build an organization where people love to come to work? Aron Ain, CEO of Ultimate Kronos Group (UKG), believes it is all about trust, transparency, and collaboration. Contrary to past fads, creating an engaged workforce is not about free food, free gym memberships, and frequent parties.

As Aron says, “I believe people join organizations because of the organization. I believe they leave because of who they work for.

In this episode of the podcast Aron shares:

  • How to keep consistency among leaders in an organization.
  • What it means to be an “un-leader.
  • How to deal with failure.
  • Why showing true gratitude for employees is so important and what that looks like.
  • The importance of humility and vulnerability
  • How to keep leaders accountable for being the best they can be
  • And much more!

The leaders that employees deal with on a daily basis make or break the experience that employee has. You can work for the best organization in the world, but if your direct manager is a horrible leader, you are going to hate your job.

Because of that fact, leaders inside of UKG, known internally as people managers, are held accountable to be great. People managers are not just evaluated and rated by their direct reports, they are also evaluated by the employees who work for them. Twice a year employees inside of UKG are given a survey with 19 questions with straight forward questions that measure the effectiveness of their manager. These are separate from engagement surveys as those only measure the relationship between the employee and the organization, not the relationship between the employee and the manager.

How to keep consistency among leaders in an organization Inside of any organization there could be anywhere from 10 to thousands of leaders who are in charge of teams. So how do you make sure that your leaders are consistent and living up to the company values? This is part of why UKG has the employee surveys in place. Leaders are evaluated by employees twice a year, and if they aren’t either at a 90% or higher, or at least improving each time, there are steps in place that are taken.

Depending on the situation the first step if a leader is struggling is to have a conversation and see if improvements can be made. The next step may be to move the person out of a leadership role, while still remaining at the company. And if all else fails, they may be asked to leave the company if they aren’t a good fit with the company values.

Having these ratings from employees is a huge game-changer as leaders typically look at employee engagement surveys to get a feel for how they are doing, but that’s not an accurate picture of the employee-manager relationship.

Aron shares a story about when UKG first started implementing these manager effectiveness surveys. There was a manager who asked Aron for a sit down meeting. When they were talking the manager asked Aron, “Are you going to train me to be a better manager?. Aron told him that of course he would, but wondered why the manager was coming to him at that moment asking for help.

The manager told Aron that he had always seen himself as a great leader because his team always gave high scores on engagement surveys. But when it came time for these new surveys he received a 59 out of 100 and he was shocked. He had never had the right data that would help him measure his true performance. Well after realizing it he worked hard to improve and two years later he had a score in the 90s.

It is so important for leaders to get an accurate view of how employees see them. How can you expect them to change if they don’t realize they are doing anything wrong. As Aron shares, “Our homegrown training program for our managers is called Courage to Lead. And I tell them the action word isn't lead. The action word in it is the courage, because it takes unbelievable courage to be a great leader. It's hard...it’s hard.

What does it mean to be an un-leader In Aron’s book, Work Inspired, he talks about the concept of the un-leader. What is an un-leader? Well Aron believes CEOs get too much credit when things go well and they get too much blame when things don’t go well. But this shouldn’t be the case. The reason organizations do well or don’t do well does not rely solely on what the CEO does, and CEOs need to have more humility and humbleness. They need to realize that the world doesn’t revolve around them.

To be an un-leader means you realize the value of the people around you and as a leader you understand that you are not more important than anyone else in the organization. Un-leaders show respect, they offer dignity, and they are thoughtful to the people they work with. They realize that they play by the same rules as everyone else. When un-leaders don’t know something, they don’t act like they do. They admit that they are not sure.

Aron says, “I don't expect everyone to care about people in the full spectrum of how I care about people. But I do expect everyone to be respectful. I do expect everyone to tell the truth. You want to ask people who work with-- you want to get on my bad side quickly, don't tell the truth. It's like, I just have no patience for that. Look, I'm a sore loser. I'll admit that, I play to win. But it doesn't mean I do it in a way that doesn't exhibit good sportsmanship and being thoughtful about it.

How to deal with failures when you give employees autonomy to experiment One of the key components of the UKG values is trust, it is something that Aron emphasizes. He doesn’t ask employees to gain his trust, they start with full trust in the very beginning, the trust is theirs to lose.

So as a leader if you give full autonomy and trust to employees how do you deal with failures when they happen? Aron says for him it comes down to not keeping score.

He says, “I try really, really hard to not keep score. And the reason I try really hard to not keep score, if you came and sold me on an idea to do something, and six months later, it's not going well-- and you know it better than anyone that it's not going well-- what do I want you to do? I want you to stop it, stop the project, stop throwing good money at a bad idea. But if every time I'm keeping score, and I'm going to put you in the penalty box, then you're going to spend another six months absolutely, positively proving it was a stupid idea. And wasted another six months of time and money. So that's how I deal with failure. Now, if the same people keep bringing ideas, and we say, okay, go do it. And it keeps being a dumb idea. And at some point, I say, well, I'm not sure that this person has great judgment on ideas like this, but I certainly start with the way I described it.

Action items for leaders who want to start improving When asked what advice he has for leaders who are looking to better themselves, Aron says the biggest thing is to understand the world doesn’t revolve around you. Work hard to trust your people, communicate with them, be transparent, and show them respect.

You should also respect that people have lives outside of the organization and that their families are the most important thing and they should come first.

Take time and think about what it looks like to trust your people. If you trust them to get their work done, how does that exhibit itself? You can’t just say the words, you have to make trust a living breathing part of your organization.

“If we want to be great leaders, if we want to create organizations where everybody loves to work, if you want to have these places that have these great people work for us, then you better find ways to engage them and you better do these key components around this that we've been talking about. You may be able to trick the people to come work for you. But you're not going to keep them.

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Episode: How To Kill Innovation
Pub date: 2021-03-17

The worst thing that you can do as an organization is to have a fixed mindset.

In a fixed mindset, you don't believe that people can change. You don't believe that people can learn new things or that they can adapt and improve.

This kind of culture will kill innovation inside your organization.

Instead, you must have a growth mindset.

Always believe that there is room for further improvement, and always learn new things.

Encourage your employees to think outside the box and constantly innovate in this rapidly changing world of work.

This is a really fantastic way to future-proof yourself, your career, and even your organization.

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Episode: The Benefits of Being Service Oriented
Pub date: 2021-03-24

Over the years, I've had the opportunity to interview hundreds of executives with different roles within organizations. One of the things I find consistently across the board is an emphasis on servant leadership, this change in leadership mentality that the role of a leader is actually to help others.

Being service-oriented simply means that you think about others before you think about yourself. You put other people ahead of yourself, and it can be extremely powerful.

It makes you a more effective leader, a more valuable employee, and a better teammate. Being service-oriented also helps create happy, loyal, and engaged customers, which is huge for company growth.

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Episode: Why Capable People Are Reluctant To Lead
Pub date: 2021-03-29

One of the biggest challenges CEOs today say they are facing is lack of leadership talent to carry the organization forward. But it is not a lack of talent that is at the root of this problem.

My guest this week is Scott DeRue, the Edward J. Frey Dean of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. Based on his award-winning research, this challenge CEOs are facing is caused by the fact that 40%-50% of capable leaders are not stepping up because of the risks involved in leadership roles.

Today Scott shares the research behind his article titled, Why Capable People Are Reluctant To Lead, as well as what we can do to change that.

In this episode of the podcast we explore:

  • The three kinds of risks that deter people from leadership positions
  • How we can overcome all three risks
  • What separates great leaders from average ones
  • The biggest mistakes Scott sees leaders making
  • The most important thing for leadership development

“One thing that we can all do to maximize our own potential is lean into those risks--Whether it's outcome risk, whether it's image risk, whether it's interpersonal risk-- let's not let that risk hold us back. But let's lean into it. Let's embrace that risk. And in doing so, by stepping up and assuming these leadership roles, we're able to have a bigger impact in the world.--Scott DeRue

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Episode: #105 Seth Godin: Failing On Our Way To Mastery
Pub date: 2021-02-23

Seth Godin is the author of 20 bestselling books, founder of altMBA, the Akimbo podcast and runs one of the most popular blogs in the world. Seth and Shane chat about creative work, fear, shame, trusting yourself, what it means to be a professional, how to become an observer of reality, emotional labor, how we learn and so much more.

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Episode: #106 Josh Kaufman: Maximizing Our Locus of Control
Pub date: 2021-03-09

Author of one of the best business books of all time, The Personal MBA, Josh Kaufman chats with Shane about rapid skill acquisition, mental models, decision making, overcoming fear and so much more.

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Episode: How to Love the Things that Help You Grow with Jessie Houlihan - Ep 140
Pub date: 2021-01-26

Jessie Houlihan, President at Stahl Construction joins me to talk about how to respect what has been and embrace what is coming in your journey as a leader.

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Episode: Is Imposter Syndrome Even Real? with Rich Bracken - Ep 141
Pub date: 2021-02-02

Some folks think that imposter syndrome isn't a real condition. Listen in as Rich and I discuss common symptoms that are associated with "imposter syndrome".

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Episode: Personal Development is Vital to Your Career Decisions with Tom Hoffman - Ep 143
Pub date: 2021-02-23

Tom Hoffman joins me to share his story of personal development and his advice for those looking to grow their careers more intentionally.

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Episode: Why Self-Awareness in Leadership is Essential for Success - Ep 144
Pub date: 2021-03-02

As described in his book, "Don't Be A F*cking Dick: Leadership for Vibrant Communities", Howie Milstein states that when leaders are jerks, the community is unhealthy, stakeholders are disengaged, and outcomes are marginal.

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Episode: Project Planning! Software & Management Best Practices - Ep 147
Pub date: 2021-03-30

The benefits of project management software are limitless.

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Episode: Are You Ready for the Hybrid Workplace?
Pub date: 2021-03-23

The post-pandemic hybrid workplace will create a power differential that needs to be managed carefully. Wharton’s Martine Haas explains how to minimize the risks.

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Podcast: The 6 Figure Developer Podcast (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 187 – Agile Conversations with Fredrick & Squirrel
Pub date: 2021-03-15

Douglas Squirrel has been coding for 40 years and has led software teams for 15 of them. He is an executive coach and consulting CTO in London, making use of his extensive experience growing teams and advising startup founders and senior managers. His previous roles included founding CTO at TIM Group and VP Engineering at e-commerce startup Secretsales. He has consulted with a wide variety of London startups including Geckoboard, Lostmy.name, DueDil, Kano, and MarketInvoice.

Jeffrey Fredrick is an internationally recognized expert in software development and has over 25 years' experience covering both sides of the business/technology divide. An early adopter of XP and Agile practices, Jeffrey has been a conference speaker in the US, Europe, India and Japan. Through his work on the pioneering open-source project CruiseControl, and through his role as co-organizer of the Continuous Integration and Testing Conference (CITCON), he has had a global impact on software development. Jeffrey's Silicon Valley experience includes roles as Vice President of Product Management, Vice President of Engineering, and Chief Evangelist. He has also worked as an independent consultant on topics including corporate strategy, product management, marketing, and interaction design. Jeffrey is currently Chief Technology Officer and Head of Product & Marketing in London at TIM, an Acuris Company. He also runs the London Organisational Learning Meetup and is a CTO mentor through CTO Craft.

Links

https://twitter.com/Jtf

https://twitter.com/douglassquirrel

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jfredrick/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dsquirrel/

Resources

https://www.conversationaltransformation.com/

https://www.conversationaltransformation.com/troubleshooting-agile-podcast/

Agile Conversations

Difficult Conversations

The Elephant in the Room

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Episode: #94 Chamath Palihapitiya: Understanding Yourself
Pub date: 2020-10-13

The Founder and CEO of Social Capital Chamath Palihapitiya sits down with Shane Parrish to chat about what it means to be an observer of the present, how to think in first principles, the psychology of successful investing, his thoughts on the best public company CEO’s and much more.

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Episode: #95 Code Cubitt: Coachability Is Critical
Pub date: 2020-10-27

Managing Director of Mistral Venture Partners Code Cubitt has an interesting origin story. After being kicked out of University twice he still managed to graduate and quickly climbed the ranks for several prominent companies before striking out on his own. Hear how he evaluates founders, his decision-making process, common mistakes companies make as they scale, and much more.

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Episode: #96 Randall Stutman: The Essence of Leadership
Pub date: 2020-11-10

The founder and co-head of the Leadership Practice at CRA and the Admired Leadership Institute, Randall Stutman is an incredible executive coach with an impressive roster of clients. You’ll walk away from this episode with some tools to put into practice to make you a better leader, partner and parent as Randall discusses the behavioral versus psychological view of leadership, what really drives results, and the uncommon routines of the world’s best leaders.

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Episode: #98 Sahil Lavingia: Observing the Present
Pub date: 2020-12-08

Sahil Lavingia is the founder and CEO of Gumroad, an online marketplace for creators. In this conversation Sahil and Shane cover building a billion dollar business, the most critical skills for success, how he hires, his worst mistake, the patterns of success and failure and so much more.

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Episode: #99 Kris Cordle: Releasing the Ego
Pub date: 2020-12-22

For over a decade, Kris Cordle worked directly with the CEOs at Yahoo, Twitter, and Slack. She joined Twitter and Slack early and helped them scale into public companies. Most recently she was Chief of Staff at Slack but left to launch Devenu Collaborations, helping rapid-growth CEOs scale. Kris and Shane discuss life in a religious cult, automatic rules for success, lessons in decision making and scaling, why it's hard for founders to scale, the common patterns to success, and much more. It's time to Listen and Learn.

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Episode: Being Productive with Jay Miller
Pub date: 2020-10-30

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In this episode of The .NET Core Podcast we talked with Jay Miller about the many different ways (some hidden from sight and some obvious) that we can help to boost the productivity of those around us. The full show notes, including links to some of the things we discussed and a full transcription of this episode, can be found at https://dotnetcore.show/episode-63-being-productive-with-jay-miller/ Support for this episode comes from areyouadev. Head over to areyouadev.com to try out the program for free, and get a complimentary 20 minute 1 to 1 chat with a fellow developer. Remember to rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, Podchaser, or wherever you find your podcasts, this will help the show's audience grow. Or you can just share the show with a friend.

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Episode: Episode 174 – DevOps Engineering with Ken Mugrage
Pub date: 2020-12-14

Ken is Tech Principal for the Office of the CTO @ThoughtWorks. He's passionate about #ContinuousDelivery and #DevOps. He's now focused on future tech.

DevOps: A culture where people, regardless of title or background, work together to imagine, develop, deploy and operate a system.

https://twitter.com/kmugrage/status/1328416416760938496

Links

https://kenmugrage.com/

https://twitter.com/kmugrage

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmugrage

Resources

Fearless Change

Continuous Delivery

Team Topologies

https://kenmugrage.com/2017/05/05/my-new-definition-of-devops/

https://hbr.org/2017/08/high-performing-teams-need-psychological-safety-heres-how-to-create-it

https://www.gartner.com/en/research/methodologies/gartner-hype-cycle

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Podcast: Brinkmanns briks
Episode: Brinkmanns briks: Ledelse
Pub date: 2020-11-18

Jeg har altid undret mig over sÄ stor vÊgt, der lÊgges pÄ ledere. Det sker bÄde i erhvervsliv og politik. Derfor vil jeg i dag finde ud af, hvor meget ledelse egentlig betyder for os mennesker og ikke den Þkonomiske bundlinje. Og hallo! Hvorfor afskaffer vi ikke de dÄrlige ledere, som skaber stress, usundt arbejdsmiljÞ og utrygge medarbejdere? GÊster: Nanna Bak Skytte, chefpsykometriker & Partner ved People Test Systems. Christian Ørsted, ledelsesrÄdgiver og forfatter til Livsfarlig Ledelse og Fatale Forandringer. TilrettelÊgger: Christoffer Heide HÞyer. VÊrt: Svend Brinkmann.

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Podcast: Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 419: John Ellithorpe on the Role of a CTO
Pub date: 2020-07-28

Host Kanchan Shringi spoke with Ellithorpe about defining the core essence of the CTO role, the skills that are key for success in the role, how to gain these skills and mentor others.

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Podcast: Software Process and Measurement Cast (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: SPaMCAST 606 - Seriously Good Software, A Discussion With Marco Faella
Pub date: 2020-07-05

The Software Process and Measurement Cast 606 features our interview with Marco Faella, author of Seriously Good Software: Code that Works, Survives, and Wins. Marco and I discussed quality, craftsmanship, and how being a passionate coder and academic mix.

Marco Faella teaches advanced programming at a major Italian university. His published work includes peer-reviewed research articles, a Java certification manual, and a video course on Java streams.

His contact data is:

Homepage: http://wpage.unina.it/m.faella/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/m_faella

Book: https://www.manning.com/books/seriously-good-software

I have discount codes (just ask!)

Re-Read Saturday News

This week we are taking a break from our re-read of Tame your Work Flow to celebrate the 4th of July and my wife’s birthday. We will be back next week.

Remember to buy a copy of Tame your Work Flow to support the authors and blog!

Week 1: Logistics and Front Matter - https://bit.ly/2LWJ3EY

Week 2: Prologue (The Story of Herbie) - https://bit.ly/3h4zmTi

Week 3: Explicit Mental Models - https://bit.ly/2UJUZyN

Week 4: Flow Efficiency, Little’s Law and Economic Impact - https://bit.ly/2VrIhoL

Announcements!

Patterns Podcast: The first full episode of the Patterns Podcast has been posted on YouTube. In the first full episode, Ben Wozniki and I tackle the concept of User Stories. User Stories are a ubiquitous feature of Agile implementations. We have posted the video on our YouTube channel.

https://youtu.be/h_fId4D6NFA

We would love to have your feedback. I will not throw a 200 mg file in the audio podcast feed again (we might create another feed).

Tom Cagley and Associates Website: We are days away from a website that brings everything together, my company, the blog, and the podcast. We will also be kicking off a newsletter in later July. We are still in the design process so I would really like your input on what makes a great newsletter. One of my favorites is Tim Ferris’s 5 Bullet Friday. Email me at tcagley@tomcagley.com. Feel free to send a sample.

Next SPaMCAST

The Software Process and Measurement Cast 607 features our interview with Mark Tolbert and Susan Parente to discuss their new book on Hybrid Project Management. Hybrid Project Management. Agile hybrids are often pilloried, Mark and Susan make a strong case that hybrids have a place in delivering value.

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Podcast: Software Process and Measurement Cast (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: SPaMCAST 610 - Organizing Around The Product Flow, Agile or Traditional, Pick One, Conversations and Essays
Pub date: 2020-08-02

The Software Process and Measurement Cast 610 features our essay, An Agile Team In a Waterfall Company – Organizing Around The Product Flow. Focusing on getting features and support for a product to market changes how teams and groups organize to solve business problems. This is a standalone essay that can be read as part of a larger theme covering the trials faced by an agile team in a waterfall company. The four separate essays can be found at:

  1. An Agile Team In A Waterfall Company - https://bit.ly/3hXpPy5
  2. Postponing Commitment - https://bit.ly/3dBhCfl
  3. Values, Principles, and Behaviours - https://bit.ly/2ZsoO8t
  4. Organizing Around The Product Flow - https://bit.ly/3k05jhj

We also have a visit from Susan Parente with a discussion that I have named, Agile or Traditional, Pick One! Many organizations have to make accommodations for mandated classic project management approaches. Susan provides excellent advice for making these types of scenarios work.

Re-Read Saturday News

This week we tackle Chapters 7 and 8 of Tame your Work Flow. These two chapters are a case study that knits together operational and financial throughput.

Remember to buy a copy of Tame your Work Flow to support the authors and blog!

Week 1: Logistics and Front Matter - https://bit.ly/2LWJ3EY

Week 2: Prologue (The Story of Herbie) - https://bit.ly/3h4zmTi

Week 3: Explicit Mental Models - https://bit.ly/2UJUZyN

Week 4: Flow Efficiency, Little’s Law and Economic Impact - https://bit.ly/2VrIhoL

Week 5: Flawed Mental Models - https://bit.ly/3eqj70m

Week 6: Where To Focus Improvement Efforts - https://bit.ly/2DTvOUN

Week 7: Introduction to Throughput Accounting and Culture - https://bit.ly/2DbhfLT

Week 8: Accounting F(r)iction and Show Me the Money - https://bit.ly/2XmDuWu

Next SPaMCAST

The Software Process and Measurement Cast 611 will feature our interview with Jeff Smith. Jeff discussed his new book, Operations Anti-Patterns: DevOps Solutions. The conversation was the most clear-eyed and penetrating conversation on DevOps I have had on the podcast.

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Podcast: Software Process and Measurement Cast (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: SPaMCAST 611 - Operational Anti-Patterns with DevOps Solutions, A Conversation With Jeff Smith
Pub date: 2020-08-09

The Software Process and Measurement Cast 611 features our conversation with Jeff Smith. Jeff and I talked about his new book, Operational Anti-Patterns with DevOps Solutions. Our conversation branched out to cover DevOps and how writing a book changes your perception of life. The conversation was the most clear-eyed and penetrating conversation on DevOps I have had on the podcast. Jeff challenged all of us to recognize that we can make a difference.

Bio:

Jeff Smith has been in the technology industry for over 20 years, oscillating between management and individual contributor. Jeff currently serves as the Director of Production Operations for Centro, an advertising software company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Before that he served as the Manager of Site Reliability Engineering at Grubhub.

Jeff is passionate about DevOps transformations in organizations large and small, with a particular interest in the psychological aspects of problems in companies. He lives in Chicago with his wife Stephanie and their two kids Ella and Xander.

Jeff is currently writing a book Operational Anti-Patterns with DevOps Solutions with Manning publishing due out in Spring of 2020, but available now via their early access program. He’s also the chapter president of Blacks in Technology where he strives to introduce the community to the different opportunities in the technology field.

Contact Information for Jeff Smith:

Web: http://www.allthingsdork.com/

Email: jeffery.d.smith@gmail.com

Twitter: @darkandnerdy

Re-Read Saturday News

This week we transition to Part 4: Maximizing Business Value in Knowledge-Work in Steve Tendon and Daniel Doiron’s Tame your Work Flow. We are approximately 40% through according to the Kindle App on my laptop. (Side note: I would like to talk with anyone in the audience that uses a Kindle to read non-fiction books that they will later use for reference; I am working on a buying decision).

Remember to buy a copy of Tame your Work Flow to support the authors and blog!

Week 1: Logistics and Front Matter – https://bit.ly/2LWJ3EY

Week 2: Prologue (The Story of Herbie) – https://bit.ly/3h4zmTi

Week 3: Explicit Mental Models – https://bit.ly/2UJUZyN

Week 4: Flow Efficiency, Little’s Law and Economic Impact – https://bit.ly/2VrIhoL

Week 5: Flawed Mental Models – https://bit.ly/3eqj70m

Week 6: Where To Focus Improvement Efforts – https://bit.ly/2DTvOUN

Week 7: Introduction to Throughput Accounting and Culture – https://bit.ly/2DbhfLT

Week 8: Accounting F(r)iction and Show Me the Money – https://bit.ly/2XmDuWu

Week 9: Constraints in the Work Flow and in the Work Process - https://bit.ly/33Uukoz

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The Software Process and Measurement Cast 612 will break pattern -- again. Recently I had a conversation with Allan Kelly and Woody Zuill about the topic of coaching and how if you bring all of your capabilities to the table you have transitioned to a guide. Allan and Woody are agile guides.

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Podcast: Software Process and Measurement Cast (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: SPaMCAST 620 - Test Automation and The Future of Manual Testers, A Conversation with Nalin Parbhu and Ola Omiyale
Pub date: 2020-10-11

The Software Process and Measurement Cast 620 is something out of the ordinary. Ola Omiyale joined me as a co-host and we interviewed Nalin Parbhu, the Founder and CTO of Infuse, and useMangoℱ. We talked about testing and test automation which is a passion for all three of us. We also explored the future of the role of the manual tester.

Nalin Parbhu, Founder & CTO: Infuse & useMangoℱ Nalin’s passion, mission, and vision is to enable customers to get the most of out their software. He has worked on hundreds of projects across the globe and has over 22+ years of experience in software engineering delivery in a variety of roles.

Nalin has a BSc in Statistics, Computers, Operational Research and Mathematics from Queen Mary University of London, and did his postgraduate studies in Advanced Information Technology at London Southbank University. Despite his London education, Nalin proudly states he is a citizen of the city of Leicester.

When not evangelizing from the pulpit about modernizing software delivery. Nalin is happily married with 2 children living in Central London. He is also a Rugby coach for Blackheath Rugby Club U11’s.

LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/nalinparbhu

Infuse website: https://infuse.it/

Ola Omiyale is from a social science background and has started her journey within the software industry. Being a beginner and developing a career in selling test automation solutions, she is eager to learn new information and innovations around software testing.

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/adodoolaomiyale

Re-Read Saturday News

I have taken the last two weeks off from Re-Read Saturday. A combination of household duties and work had to be managed. I will be back next week. In the interim, catch up on the re-read.

Have you bought your copy of Steve Tendon and Daniel Doiron’s Tame your Work Flow? Use the link to support the authors and blog!

Week 1: Logistics and Front Matter – https://bit.ly/2LWJ3EY

Week 2: Prologue (The Story of Herbie) – https://bit.ly/3h4zmTi

Week 3: Explicit Mental Models – https://bit.ly/2UJUZyN

Week 4: Flow Efficiency, Little’s Law and Economic Impact – https://bit.ly/2VrIhoL

Week 5: Flawed Mental Models – https://bit.ly/3eqj70m

Week 6: Where To Focus Improvement Efforts – https://bit.ly/2DTvOUN

Week 7: Introduction to Throughput Accounting and Culture – https://bit.ly/2DbhfLT

Week 8: Accounting F(r)iction and Show Me the Money – https://bit.ly/2XmDuWu

Week 9: Constraints in the Work Flow and in the Work Process - https://bit.ly/33Uukoz

Week 10: Understanding PEST Environments and Finding the Constraint in PEST Environments - https://bit.ly/3ga3ew9

Week 11: Drum-Buffer-Rope Scheduling - https://bit.ly/32l0Z3Q

Week 12: Portfolio Prioritization and Selection in PEST Environments - https://bit.ly/31Ea4WC

Week 13: Flow Efficiency, DBR, and TameFlow Kanban Boards - https://bit.ly/32rYUVf

Week 14: Outcomes, Values, and Efforts in PEST Environments - https://bit.ly/3jd52qw

Week 15: Introduction to Execution Management Signals - https://bit.ly/3mS9j4V

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The Software Process and Measurement Cast 621 will feature our essay on why agile coaches need a code of ethics. Its time for coaching to grow up and be a profession.

We will also have a visit from Jon M Quigley who will bring his Alpha and Omega of Product Development to the podcast.

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Podcast: LeadingAgile SoundNotes: an Agile Podcast (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Trust vs Trustworthiness w/ Yaton Bowens
Pub date: 2020-08-18

This week in SoundNotes, Yaton Bowens joins Dave to talk about the role that trust plays in Agile Transformation. Building on Mike Cottmeyers’ Trust vs. Trustworthiness webinar, Yaton and Dave dig into some of the trust gaps that management and the Development Teams have to cross for an Agile Transformation to take root in an organization.

Without a track record to demonstrate trustworthiness, how can management trust that the team will deliver? And how can the team trust that management will allow them to get the work done? To make things even more complicated, many organizations have not been designed with systems that support trust and trustworthiness.

We'll delve into the answers to these questions and more this week.

Links from the Podcast * Mike Cottmeyer's Trust vs. Trustworthiness Webinar

Contacting Yaton Bowens * Web: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/yaton-bowens/ * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yaton-bowens-06478a1/ * Email: yaton.bowens@leadingagile.com

Contacting Dave Prior If you’d like to contact Dave you can reach him at:

  • LeadingAgile: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungo
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrsungo
  • Email: dave.prior@leadingagile.com

If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to dave.prior@leadingagile.com

And if you're interested in taking one of our upcoming Certified ScrumMaster or Certified Scrum Product Owner classes, you can find all the details at https://www.leadingagile.com/our-gear/training/

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Podcast: LeadingAgile SoundNotes: an Agile Podcast (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: CapEx and Agile Transformation w/ Justin Polk
Pub date: 2020-09-30

This week in LeadingAgile’s SoundNotes, Justin Polk is here to discuss the role that capitalization plays in helping an organization adopt an Agile approach to work. When the conversation turns to Agile Transformation, it often focuses on what changes you need to introduce, where, and when. But sometimes we get so caught up in those conversations that we neglect to include one very important aspect
 the money and how it is tracked. In this episode of the podcast, you’ll learn what CapEx (Capital Expenditure) is, why it matters, and why it is a fundamental concern in Agile Transformation.

Contacting Justin Polk LeadingAgile: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/justin-polk/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-polk/ Email: justin.polk@leadingagile.com Contacting Dave Prior

If you’d like to contact Dave you can reach him at:

LeadingAgile: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungo Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrsungo Email: dave.prior@leadingagile.com

If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to dave.prior@leadingagile.com

And if you're interested in taking one of our upcoming Certified ScrumMaster or Certified Scrum Product Owner classes, you can find all the details at https://www.leadingagile.com/our-gear/training/

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Podcast: Thoughtworks Technology Podcast (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Testing the user journey
Pub date: 2020-06-12

Great web development isn’t just about the front and backends: the experience the user has is critical to success. In this episode, our hosts Alexey Boas and Subramanian talk to Scott Davis and Zabil Cheriya Maliackal about the principles of user journey testing and the tools such as Gauge and Taiko that can help.

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Podcast: Thoughtworks Technology Podcast (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Realising the full potential of CD
Pub date: 2020-06-25

To get the full benefit of continuous delivery, it pays not to just think about delivering software into deployment, but thinking about the value that’s being delivered. In this episode, our co-hosts Alexey Boas and Rebecca Parsons are joined by ThoughtWorkers, Ken Mugrage, Arvind SV and Scott Davis, to explore continuous delivery in terms of business value — not just the number of builds that have run or pipeline instances.

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Podcast: Hjernekassen (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Hjernekassen pÄ P1: IvÊrksÊtter
Pub date: 2020-10-19

Hvorfor risikerer nogle mennesker alt, og starter nye projekter igen og igen? Hvad er det, der driver en ivĂŠrksĂŠtter? Hvad skal der til for at blive ivĂŠrksĂŠtter? Hvad er det kedelige ved lĂžnarbejde? Vi har eksperter i studiet. VĂŠrt: Peter Lund Madsen.

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Podcast: The New Stack Podcast (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: DataOps: The Basics and Why It Matters
Pub date: 2020-09-30

For this latest episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack hosts guest speakers Dina Graves Portman, developer relations engineer for Google, Emilie Schario, internal strategy consultant, data, for GitLab, and Nicole Schultz, assistant director of engineering for Northwestern Mutual to discuss how DataOps is defined and why its application in the context of DevOps is particularly relevant in today’s highly complex and increasingly distributed environments.

Like DevOps, Schario describes DataOps as workflow-related, but it extends much further to help resolve data-management challenges.

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Podcast: Supertanker
Episode: Supertanker: KĂžrer internettet i grĂžften?
Pub date: 2020-08-25

Det sku' vÊr' sÄ godt! Og det var det vist egentlig ogsÄ i nogle Är. Men nu' det mÄske skidt; internettet. Til at begynde med var det en Äbenbaring af hurtig og nem kommunikation over enorme afstande, pÄ tvÊrs af alle mulige skel og med et kÊmpe potentiale for demokratisering af snart sagt hvad som helst. Alt lÄ Äbent og tilgÊngeligt, hele verden var inden for rÊkkevidde. Og det var ikke tilladt at kommercialisere de nye muligheder. Men pÄ et tidspunkt begynder det at skride. Nogle begynder at sabotere elementer af kommunikationen, andre begynder at kommercialisere omrÄder af nettet, og flere og flere begynder helt frivilligt at benytte gratis ydelser, som sÄ bare skal finansieres pÄ anden vis. I dag rÄder nogle af de store og stÊrke over cyberspace pÄ mÄder, vi ikke bryder os om. De hÞster menneskelige data, fjerner tilbud, de ikke synes skal vÊre der, og kvÊler eller kÞber tiltag, der kan true deres magtposition. Vi oplever verden gennem nogle fÄ techgiganters prisme og forÊrer dem vores liv, sÄ de kan sÊlge dem videre. Medvirkende: Michael ØrnÞ, direktÞr i Statens IT, nÊstformand i Dansk ITs bestyrelse. Mikkel Flyverbom, professor MSO, Institut for Ledelse, Samfund og Kommunikation, CBS. Carsten Ortmann, tilrettelÊgger og vÊrt. (Sendt fÞrste gang 25. august 2020).

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Podcast: The Psychology Podcast (LS 66 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Robert Sutton || Good Leaders vs. Bad Leaders
Pub date: 2020-07-30

Today it’s great to have Robert Sutton on the podcast. Sutton is Professor of Management Science and Engineering and Professor of Organizational Behavior by courtesy at Stanford. He co-founded the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP) and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design which everyone calls the d.school. Sutton received his PhD in Organizational Psychology from the University of Michigan and has served on the Stanford faculty since 1983.


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Podcast: The Psychology Podcast (LS 66 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Spencer Greenberg || Effective Altruism, Mental Health, & Habit Change
Pub date: 2020-09-10

Today it is great to have Spencer Greenberg on the podcast. Spencer is an entrepreneur and mathematician and founder of Spark Wave — a software foundry which creates novel software products from scratch, designed to help solve problems in the world using social science. For example, scalable care for depression and anxiety and technology for accelerating and improving social science research. He also founded clearerthinking.org, which offers free tools and training programs used by over 250, 000 people which are designed to help you improve decision making and increase positive behaviors. Spencer has a PhD in Applied Math from NYU with a specialty in Machine Learning. Spencer’s work has been featured by numerous major media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Independent, Lifehacker, Fast Companyand the Financial Times.

Check out sparkwave.tech/conditions-for-change where you can apply the results of scientific studies to your habit development, from making a decision to cultivate a habit, to taking action, and finally, continuing that habit.

Time Stamps

[00:01:40] How the Effective Altruism movement works

[00:02:55] The role of emotions in Effective Altruism

[00:04:03] How Spencer applies Effective Altruism in his work and companies

[00:06:27] How cultivating automatic if-then rules can improve your life

[00:10:42] How to handle depression using behavioral activation

[00:12:05] Introversion and the hierarchical nature of personality

[00:14:58] Personality traits that are not captured by the Big Five model

[00:18:04] How it is easier to present a scientific finding compared to explaining that finding

[00:20:20] The “psychological immune system and the five categories of behaviors for dealing with difficult situations

[00:20:55] Facing reality and clarifying distortions of thinking

[00:21:27] Feeling-based and emotion-based strategies for dealing with difficulty

[00:22:10] Action-based strategies for dealing with difficulty

[00:23:27] Refocusing techniques for dealing with difficulty

[00:23:42] Reframing and finding the silver lining

[00:29:47] Whether or not the Big Five personality traits are inherently valenced (i.e. positive or negative)

[00:31:03] Personality as a distribution of traits

[00:33:22] Finding optimal levels of different personality traits

[00:33:59] Tips for forming new habits

[00:38:22] How to determine why behavioral change is not happening

[00:42:07] Tips and heuristics for sparking structured and unstructured creativity


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Podcast: Agile Uprising Podcast (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Agile Organizational Design with Jeff Anderson
Pub date: 2020-06-21

We talk all the time about changing organizational structure...but we always end up with some sortof hierarchy. And what about "teams that don't change"...is that really agile? In this week's episode Jeff Anderson, author of Agile Organizational Design, sits down with hosts Ben AuYeung, Colleen Johnson, and Jay Hrcsko to discuss his book. And there's even a Lantern Corps reference!

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Agile By Design, Jeff's firm

Agile Organizational Design on Leanpub

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Podcast: Agile Uprising Podcast (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: The Flow Manifesto & Flow-based Leadership with Jeff Pray
Pub date: 2020-06-28

This week's episode is all FLOW, FLOW, FLOW! Andy Cleff and Jay Hrcsko are joined by fellow agile coach Jeff Pray to discuss two of the concepts he uses while coaching the concept of flow in the enterprise. His Flow Manifesto is a re-imagining of the Agile Manifesto but specific to the concept of flow, and his white-paper on Flow-based Leadership is how Jeff escapes teaching leaders and executives all the agile jargon by simply teaching them why "flow" is important to them. Enjoy!

The Flow Manifesto

Flow-based Leadership by Jeff Pray

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Podcast: Agile Uprising Podcast (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Making Sense in Times of Uncertainty with Dave Snowden & Andrea Tomasini
Pub date: 2020-07-05

Dave Snowden, Andrea Tomasini and Richard Dolman chat with Andy Cleff and Colleen Johnson to explore the most crucial leadership challenge of the day: Making Sense in Times of Uncertainty Dave Snowden is founder and chief scientific officer of Cognitive Edge. His work is international in nature and covers government and industry looking at complex issues relating to strategy and decision making. He has pioneered a science based approach to organisations drawing on anthropology, neuroscience and complex adaptive systems theory. He is a popular and passionate keynote speaker on a range of subjects, and is well known for his pragmatic cynicism and iconoclastic style. Andrea Tomasini is one of the founders of agile42. His background includes experience in product development, system architecture, business and strategic analysis, lean coaching, organizational change, and agile leadership. Andrea has trained and coached a diverse range of teams and helped many companies in various industries in implementing agile methods like Scrum. These days, Andrea works primarily as a Strategic Coach, supporting Agile Leaders in the process of transforming their organization, strategy, and culture to achieve greater agility and resilience. Being an international expert in the area of Agile Leadership, he is currently pioneering data capture and analysis methods in complex organizational structures and working on a book on ORGANIC agility.

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Episode: Book Report: Reinventing Organizations by Frederic Laloux
Pub date: 2020-07-26

"Teal"? What does that even mean? Join Jonathan Schneider, Andy Cleff, and Jay Hrcsko as they discuss the book that every agilist references and yet nobody seems to have read, Frederic Laloux's Reinventing Organizations. Is it worth the read? Listen and find out!

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Episode: Right to Left with Mike Burrows
Pub date: 2020-10-11

Digital. Lean. Agile. These words come loaded with so much baggage, how do you as a leader even begin to comprehend, let alone deliver a "transformation"? In this week's episode we sit down with Mike Burrows, author of the book Right to Left: The digital leader's guide to Lean and Agile (and a few others :)) to discuss his views on agility, how to get leadership in on the journey, and they touch on Agendashift, Mike's work in the Kanban space, and various other topics. Enjoy!

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Episode: Rob Skillington on Metrics Collection, Uber’s M3, and OpenMetrics
Pub date: 2020-06-26

In this podcast, Rob Skillington, co-founder and CTO at Chronosphere, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant. Topics discussed included: metrics collection at scale, multi-dimensional metrics and high-cardinality, developer experience with platform tooling, and open standards related to observability.

Why listen to this podcast:

  • Over the past ten years the requirements related to monitoring and alerting, and the approach taken to implement this, has changed considerably. Compute is now ephemeral and dynamic, services are more numerous, and engineers want to instrument more things. Scalability of a monitoring solution is vitally important.
  • One of the challenges with metric data is the limited information for providing context for collected values. This can be solved by using multi-dimensional metrics. Dimensions of a metric are name-value pairs that carry additional data to describe the metric value. High dimensionality can lead to high cardinality.
  • Uber’s M3 metrics collection system initially used open source components such as Cassandra and ElasticSearch for storage and indexing. As the scale of usage of M3 increased, these OSS components were gradually replaced by custom components, such as M3DB.
  • Building an effective user experience for operational tooling, especially observability-foused tooling, is vitally important. Engineers will be interacting with these tools on a daily basis. They will also be relying on these tools for both alerting and being able to locate and understand what is occurring during production issues.
  • Open standards are vitally important for interoperability. The OpenMetrics project is an effort to create an open standard for transmitting metrics at scale, with support for both text representation and protocol buffers.

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Episode: Nora Jones on Resilience Engineering, Mental Models, and Learning from Incidents
Pub date: 2020-07-03

In this podcast, Nora Jones, Co-Founder and CEO at Jeli and co-author of O’Reilly’s “Chaos Engineering: System Resiliency in Practice, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant. Topics discussed included: chaos engineering and resilience engineering, planning and running effective chaos experiments, and learning from incidents.

Why listen to this podcast:

  • The chaos engineering and resilience engineering fields, although inextricably linked, are often incorrectly conflated. Resilience engineering is focused on “identifying and then enhancing the positive capabilities of people in organizations that allow them to adapt effectively and safely under varying circumstances.
  • The UX of internal or engineering-focused tooling, such as chaos experimentation tooling, is extremely important. However, engineers that create these tools often overlook the value of UX, or don’t have the relevant skills in user design research to undertake this.
  • We all work in socio-technical systems. It is important to take the time to understand both aspects. Developing empathy and working alongside teams that you are trying to influence is essential. It is extremely important to continually work to build correct “mental models of a system.
  • The before and after of running a chaos experiment is as important as running the experiment itself. However, the aspects of planning, creating effective hypotheses, and analysing and disseminating the results are often under-resourced.
  • Incident analysis can be a catalyst to help you understand more about your system. The Learning from Incidents website, alongside books such as Sidney Dekker’s The Field Guide to Understanding Human Error and Scott Snook’s Friendly Fire, can provide excellent background information to these topics.

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Episode: Stefan Prodan on Progressive Delivery, Flagger, and GitOps
Pub date: 2020-07-28

In this podcast, Stefan Prodan, developer experience engineer at Weaveworks and creator of the Flagger project, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant. Topics discussed included: how progressive delivery extends the core ideas of continuous delivery; how the open source Flagger Kubernetes operator can be used to implement a progressive delivery strategy via canary releasing with an API gateway or service mesh; and the new “GitOps toolkit that has evolved from the Flux continuous delivery operator.

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Episode: Ana Medina on Chaos Engineering, Game Days, and Learning
Pub date: 2020-08-10

In this podcast, Ana Medina, senior chaos engineer at Gremlin, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant. Topics discussed included: how enterprise organisations are adopting chaos engineering with the requirements for guardrails and the need for “status checks to ensure pre-experiment system health; how to run game days or IT fire drills when everyone is working remotely; and why teams should continually invest in learning from past incidents and preparing for inevitable failures within systems.

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Episode: Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais on Team Topologies
Pub date: 2020-09-28

In this podcast, Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais, co-authors of the book Team Topologies, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant. Topics discussed included: the role of a modern software architect, how team design impacts software architecture, creating “team APIs in order to reduce cognitive load, and the benefits of building a “thinnest viable platform.

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Episode: Derek Weeks on the 2020 DevSecOps Community Survey Results
Pub date: 2020-06-05

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Derek Weeks of Sonatype about the results of the 2020 DevSecOps Community Survey and the All Day DevOps conference.

Why listen to this podcast: ‱ If you’re doing DevOps correctly then DevSecOps is already a part of it ‱ Organisations with mature DevOps practices have more security tools and security is more tightly integrated into the overall environment ‱ Organisations with mature teams have a higher percentage of happier developers within their organizations than the immature ones ‱ Happy developers are 3.6 times more likely to pay attention to security ‱ In organisations with unhappy developers the primary cause of friction in the development process is management, in happy environments it is other developers

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Episode: Scott Ambler on Disciplined Agile and Agile Beyond Software Teams
Pub date: 2020-06-15

In this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Scott Ambler of Disciplined Agile about the DA toolkit and taking agile beyond software devlopment

Why listen to this podcast

‱ Disciplined Agile is a toolkit which provides a view of agile adoption at four levels – software development, DevOps, IT departments and whole enterprise ‱ The toolkit provides context and questions to help you to make better choices for the specific context each team is working in and to do process improvement ‱ Consistency across teams should not be a goal of agile adoption – each team is different, and they must inspect and adapt in ways that work best for their context. There is no one size fits all ‱ Guided continuous improvement gives teams and organisations a head start on improvement by identifying patterns that have worked elsewhere, showing the choices available and the trade-offs that need to be made between different approaches ‱ Good governance is all about motivation, enablement, monitoring and transparency, ideally with an automated framework – not bureaucracy and manual checks. Transparency over false predictability

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Episode: Lanette Creamer on Exploratory Testing and Technical Testers
Pub date: 2020-06-22

In this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Lanette Creamer about the need for technical skills by testers and the importance of exploratory testing.

Why listen to this podcast:

‱ Despite the importance and value it provides, software testing is not a particularly respected profession ‱ Testers with development skills and developers with testing skills can communicate effectively with each other and pairing results in faster bug identification and removal ‱ Unit tests are an asset of confidence ‱ Testers have an ethical responsibility to think beyond the intended use of the code, considering what could happen and how the product could be misused ‱ Exploratory testing is an approach where instead of trying to prove that the software works, the goal is discovery

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Episode: Quinn Slack of Sourcegraph on Moving to Fully Remote and Zoomcations
Pub date: 2020-07-06

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Quinn Slack, CEO of Sourcegraph, about becoming a fully remote company, ways to improve communication and collaboration and the value of Zoomcations

Why listen to this podcast:

‱ If working remotely really is optional then it’s really important not to put any subtle pressure that says to people that they need to be in the office – it causes stress and confusion ‱ Coming into a half-empty office feels like being in a disaster movie, and generates subtle pressure on people to come into the office ‱ Working remotely is a forcing function that causes you to tackle problems which get ignored when working in person, such as how you onboard new people and how you encourage collaboration ‱ Making all policies and way-of-working public and visible enhances collaboration and communication ‱ Zoomcations (taking a week and working completely asynchronously, without attending any synchronous meetings) allow for deep work and expose communication & collaboration shortcomings in organisation systems

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Episode: Bas Vodde on LeSS, LeSS Huge and Descaling for Agility
Pub date: 2020-07-13

This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Bas Vodde, one of the formulators of Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) about how LeSS is designed to descale an organisation rather than scaling up to cope with complexity

Why listen to this podcast:

‱ LeSS is based on the idea of de-scaling and reducing complexity rather than scaling to cope with complexity ‱ A characteristic of LeSS adoptions is that the concepts of projects and programs tend to completely disappear in favour of product-based working ‱ With LeSS, you have always one Product Owner for the entire product. Product owners per team are considered to be an exceptionally bad idea from a LeSS perspective ‱ LeSS is based on having largely stable, cross-functional teams working on customer centric functionality ‱ LeSS is based on a set of ten principles which guide the approach, and then imperical feedback based on experiments and constant learning

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Episode: Sandra Davey on Purposeful Aligned Governance and Product Management
Pub date: 2020-08-21

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Sandra Davey, Chair of Choice Australia and founder of The Product Space about governance with clear objectives and the current state of product management.

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Episode: Rashina Hoda on Pandemic Programming and Agile Nations
Pub date: 2020-08-17

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Dr Rashina Hoda or Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, about the Pandemic Programming study, the importance of research into human factors in software development focusing on the programmer experience, how biases impact software design and what it means to be an agile nation.

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Episode: Eric Willeke & Ronica Roth on Leadership and Lisa Crispin on the State of Testing in Agile & DevOps
Pub date: 2020-08-28

In this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Eric Willeke & Ronica Roth about supporting leadership through transformation and then he spoke to Lisa Crispin about the state testing in agile and DevOps

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Episode: Jeff Jacobson on the Coaching Profession and Leadership
Pub date: 2020-09-18

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Jeff Jacobson

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Episode: Guillermo De Anda on Shifting Organisational Culture One Small Step at a Time
Pub date: 2020-10-06

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Guillermo De Anda of ProKarma about digital transformations, shifting organisational culture one small step at a time and the importance of managers having a coaching mindset

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Podcast: The Future of Work With Jacob Morgan (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Leadership and Exercise
Pub date: 2020-09-17

Leadership is a lot like working out.

When you work out and really push yourself, you're actually tearing down your muscles.

When you recover and rest, your muscles heal and become stronger.

In other words, before you become bigger and stronger, you first have to go through a process of tearing down and rebuilding.

And a lot is the same for leadership.

If you want to become a better, future-ready leader, you first have to go through a process of tearing down and getting rid of your outdated ways of thinking about work and leadership.

You have to push yourself and be uncomfortable in order to see results later, just like working out.

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Episode: Most Leadership Development Programs are Too Late
Pub date: 2020-09-09

How crazy is this?

Most people don't enter #leadershipdevelopment programs until they are in their 40s, yet they actually become leaders in their 20s and 30s!

This means that most #leaders spend 10-15 years leading others before they are actually taught how to lead.

It's no wonder so many employees around the world aren’t engaged in their jobs--we simply don't have enough leaders who are taught how to lead effectively.

This is because of the outdated "climb the corporate ladder" mentality that has been around for decades.

The idea is you can only be taught how to lead after you spend years working for a company, which we all know is now no longer the case.

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Episode: Bestselling Author Dan Pink on The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
Pub date: 2020-09-13

Dan Pink is the bestselling author of six books including Drive, To Sell is Human, and his newest book, When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing. In 2019 London based Thinkers 50 named Dan the 6th most influential management thinker in the world.

He has contributed to Fast Company, Wired, The New York Times, Slate and others. And prior to working on his own, he worked in several political positions, including chief speechwriter for Vice President Al Gore from 1995-1997.

Dan has been writing for around 20 years and a lot has changed in the world of work since he first began. But his first book was actually ahead of the game back in 2001 when he wrote Free Agent Nation: How America’s New Independent Workers Are Transforming the Way We Live. He recognized the trend before the iPhone came out and just a few years after broadband internet.

Now the numbers have risen quite a bit and we are seeing a lot more people go off to work for themselves, thanks to advances in technology and the changing relationship between organizations and individuals. And now with the pandemic and we are seeing a lot of people make career transitions and try to do their own thing.

As Dan shares, one of the interesting things that has come about from Covid-19 is the quick move to remote work for so many people. Companies who pushed back on work from home situations for so long because they thought it would never work were forced overnight to set employees up to work remotely. And Dan believes that is a potentially significant, lasting change that will make remote working much more normalized.

The science of time

Dan’s newest book, When, came about while he was trying to figure out the best way to work from home and be productive. He wanted to know when to do work, when to do certain tasks, when to start a project and when to abandon a project, etc


And while he was researching the topic of perfect timing he realized there was a lot of information available, but it was all over the place. And he found that contrary to common belief timing is not an art, it is really a science.

He says, “It wasn't simply, you know, in one domain, it wasn't simply saying in economics. It was in economics, it was in social psychology, but it was also in anthropology, it was in linguistics, it was in molecular biology, it was--there's a whole field called pronto biology. It was in epidemiology. It was in anesthesiology. I mean, there's like, you know, all these different fields and so it took me two years to go through the research.

But what he found over the course of the two years of research has helped him find the best timing for different tasks and allowed him to find his optimal schedule for productivity.

How to optimize productivity (32:52)

Through his research Dan found that spread over the various fields that have studies on time was the conclusion that our performance changes throughout the day. The day turns out to be pretty fundamental and our brain power does not remain constant during the course of a day. We all have daily high points and daily low points that we need to pay attention to. Understanding these basics can help us make better decisions about when to do certain tasks during the day.

One example of this change in performance comes from a study of students in Denmark who took a standardized test. They all had to take the test on computers, but the school didn’t have enough for everyone to take the test at the same time. So some students took the test in the morning and others took it in the afternoon.

And the test results showed that the students who took the test in the afternoon scored systematically lower than the students who took it in the morning. Their scores looked as if the students had missed two weeks of lessons.

There are also studies in hospitals that show that handwashing in hospitals deteriorates significantly in the afternoon. And anesthesia errors are four times more likely at 3pm then they are at 9am.

As Dan shares, “I mean, over and over again, just about every dimension of performance, you see systematic differences in performance based on time of day. And so while you might not always be able to control your schedule, most of us don't have full control over our schedule. It isn't simply the case that these differences are meaningless or that a cup of coffee can cure it. You actually want to take a much more thoughtful, intentional, systematic approach to when you do things in the course of the day.

How should we structure our day?

Based on the findings from Dan’s research it appears there are three types of people. Those who rise naturally early (larks), those who naturally sleep late and wake up late (owls), and people who are in the middle (third birds). Most people are in the middle. And there are multiple tests you can take and instruments to help figure out where you are on the scale, but Dan gives one simple way to figure out which one you are.

First, think about when you would ideally go to sleep, if you had a free day and you didn’t have anything that would require you to sleep at a certain time. Naturally when would you like to fall asleep. Then think about when you would ideally like to wake up in the morning, again if nothing was causing you to wake up (kids, work, noise, etc..). When would you ideally wake up?

Then using those two times find the midpoint of sleep. For example, maybe you would ideally like to go to sleep at midnight and wake up at 8am. Your midpoint of sleep would be 4am. Now if your midpoint of sleep is before 3:30am you are probably a lark. If the midpoint of sleep is after 5:30am you’re probably an owl and if your midpoint is between 3:30am and 5:30am you are probably a third bird in the middle. People in the middle tend to be larkey, but not a full fledged lark.

So taking that information you can find out how to start experimenting to get to your ideal productivity. We all move through the day and experience three periods of time:

  • Peak--the time when we are most vigilant and productive. We are best able to avoid distractions during this time. This is when you should focus on analytic work that requires heads down focus and attention. For larks and third birds this is early in the day. For owls this is late afternoon.
  • Trough--This is a terrible time of day when we see drops in performance. This is when you want to do basic administrative work or work that doesn’t require massive brain power or creativity.
  • Recovery--For 80% of us we hit this point in late afternoon/early evening. This is when our vigilance is down, but our mood is up. This gives us a mental looseness that is good for insight tasks. During this time focus on creative problem solving or things that require divergent thinking.

Even though we can loosely map out the periods of time, not everyone’s daily schedule will be the same. There is no magic routine that works for everyone. There are some out there who say things like you need to wake up at 5:30am to start your morning routine for a successful day. Don’t try to copy and paste what someone else is doing. Experiment with your daily schedule and see where your peak, trough, and recovery happen and work your day around what works best for you.

What to do if you don’t control your own schedule

For those of us who make our own schedules, this can be easy to experiment with and discover. But for a majority of people their schedule is created by the manager or other leaders inside the organization. So what can you do if you don’t control your schedule?

Dan suggests that in this situation you talk openly and honestly with your manager. Let them know these are the hours I am most productive in so I would like to save that time for the most intensive projects.

He gave an example of a guy in Philadelphia who realized he did his best work right away in the morning, but every day the manager had him scheduled in back to back meetings from 9am to 11am. So he talked with the manager and wanting to allow the employee to be productive, they changed things up to make it work.

Also, make the most of the margins you can. Maybe you don’t have full control of your schedule, but maybe there is a half hour during your peak time that you can get good work done. Don’t squander that time using social media, answering routine emails, or talking to a coworker, use it when you can.

How to get over a slump

Another aspect of timing that has an affect on us is beginnings, middles, and ends. And the peculiar thing about midpoints that Dan found in his research is that they can have dual effects. Sometimes they can drag us down and sometimes it fires us up.

Dan gave an example he found from Jonah Berger and Devin Pope based on a study done with the NBA. What they did was they looked at the score of games during halftime and how it worked at predicting the end score of the game. And what they found was teams who were leading at halftime were more likely to win.

But there was an exception. Teams that were trailing by one point at halftime were more likely to win than teams who were ahead by one point at halftime. Being just slightly behind gave players more motivation while being slightly ahead allowed players to feel complacent. This is the same way in our work.

So what we should do is acknowledge the midpoints, imagine you’re a little behind and let it fuel your motivation, let it wake you up rather than let you rollover and become complacent.

Advice for leaders who want to be more mindful of employees’ time

So what can leaders do with this information to help employees get the most of their peak time? First of all, Dan says leaders need to recognize that their team’s brainpower doesn’t remain constant over the course of the day. And that when people do certain tasks has a material effect on their performance so you have to be intentional about it.

He says, “These leaders are intentional about what to do, they all have to do lists and strategic plans and all that. They're intentional about how they do stuff because they have, you know, they have coaches, they have learning and development and training departments. They're intentional about who does stuff because they have an HR department that hires people. But when it comes to when they do stuff as leaders or when their team does stuff, they think it doesn't matter. And it matters. Evidence is overwhelming that it matters. So my best advice is to give the “when a seat at the table.

Also, be aware that every project has a beginning, a middle, and an end and all of these points have an effect on us. Picking the right date for a project to start gives you a better chance. And pay attention to the midpoint and let it motivate your team instead of letting it discourage them.

Be intentional about timing and the effect of time. Because whether or not you pay attention to it you make a choice. We either make choices intentionally or our timing decisions happen by default.

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Episode: How the Former CEO & Chairman of Best Buy Transformed the Company
Pub date: 2020-09-28

Hubert Joly is the former Chairman and CEO of Best Buy. Currently he is a professor at Harvard Business School, he is on the board of two companies--Johnson & Johnson and Ralph Lauren. He is coaching and mentoring a number of CEOs and senior leaders and he is writing a new book which is set to come out next May titled: The Heart of Business: Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism.

Hubert was elected a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum. He was honored as one of the 25 most influential executives of the business travel industry in 2006 and 2009 by Business Travel News Magazine. He was voted one of the top 100 CEOs on Glassdoor in 2017 and 2018. And he was named one of the best CEOs in the world by the CEOWorld Magazine.

He didn’t always dream of being a leader. In fact, when he was 10 years old he wanted to be a vet and then in high school, he felt his career would be in economics. After college, he spent 12 years at McKinsey & Company as a consultant before ultimately realizing he wanted to lead a business. And he has led quite a few companies through turnarounds and major digital transformations.

How Hubert Transformed Best Buy

When Hubert was first approached about the position of CEO at Best Buy the company was struggling. It was on the brink of closing. Most people would have run away as fast as they could, not wanting to be attached to a failing company. But Hubert did his due diligence, he visited several locations, spoke with employees, and thought about what could be done to turn the company around. And he ultimately took the job.

He realized early on that while everyone gets excited about technology and gadgets and love using them, a lot of times we need help figuring out how to use them. So Hubert knew Best Buy had to be able to help people solve technology issues and answer questions.

Hubert also saw the need for displaying actual working products on the shelves instead of boxes with products inside. Looking at shelves of boxes is not inspiring, people need to be able to see and experience the products for themselves.

So he saw a lot of opportunities to improve Best Buy. He says, “I felt that there was an opportunity. That we have enough assets and that because the problems were self inflicted, we could effectuate a turnaround. So I told the recruiting committee of the board, look, I want the job and here's my eight page memo on what I'm going to do if you guys recruit me and I never looked back.

Hubert says there are four levers in a turnaround. They are to grow the revenue line, cut costs, optimize benefits, and then if the first three are not enough, as a last resort you go after the headcount or redeploy people.

The three ways to cut costs before cutting your headcount

A lot of leaders first starting at a struggling organization probably would have thought about cutting back on the headcount first to save money. But Hubert not only didn’t take that route, he actually put more money into training, incentives, wellness, etc


As he shares, “I'm not the cut, cut cut guy. I'm a big believer that in business you have three imperatives in business. One is the people imperative, you need to have good people well trained, well equipped. Then you have the customer or business imperative, you need to have happy customers to whom you sell, you know, compelling services. And then you, of course, have a financial imperative, which is you need money. But the financial performance is an outcome of excellence on the customer imperative, which itself is an outcome of excellence on the people imperative. So it's people, business, finance, and you treat profit as an outcome, not as your singular focus.

Hubert truly believes that leaders should treat humans as a solution to the problem, not as a source of the problem. And we should use headcount reduction only as a last resort.

How to balance profit and purpose

Hubert is a big believer in being focused on purpose and humanity in business and killing the idea of shareholder primacy. The sole purpose of a company can not be just to make money. He still understands that companies need to take care of shareholders, but taking care of them should be an outcome, not the first priority.

People should be at the heart of the business. They are the engine that allows the business to work. So how did Hubert convince the board members and shareholders at Best Buy that purpose and people mattered just as much as profit and revenue?

He shares that part of the issue with past management is that they would tell shareholders a lot of exciting stories about what could be done, but they never delivered actual results. When he laid out his plan for the shareholders and board members at Best Buy he focused on what he calls the say-do ratio--the ratio between what they said they were going to do and what they actually did.

There were plenty of opportunities, but the shareholders needed to see that they could actually be executed. So every quarter Hubert would give them progress reports with tangible results. Leaders need to keep shareholders in the journey. Give them hope and confidence that things are going to work, but be honest and open with them and keep them in the loop.

As long as you are delivering and focusing on that say-do ratio you should keep your eye on the prize. Don’t let shareholders sway you too much. Hubert says, “I think management teams that use the short term focus of the investors as an excuse to not do the right thing, I think are completely misled. I have found that if you go to the investors, and share with them, what you're doing, the investments you're making, the return you're expecting, they'll believe you and follow you. And then in the end, during our second phase, I actually told our investors our purpose is not to make money.

When leading Best Buy Hubert believed the purpose of the company was not to make money, it was to enrich lives through technology by addressing key human needs. He made it clear that they were not in the business of selling TVs, they were in the business of understanding what it is people are trying to do in their life and being there to advise and support them. But when you run your business with that mindset, the money will be the outcome.

The danger that leaders need to avoid

In the past people looking to become leaders were taught that being smart was really important. It was believed that if you wanted to be a great leader you had to know it all, have all the answers, you had to be able to solve any problem, and show others that you are intelligent.

Hubert sees that as a danger for leaders. Having this mindset makes it easy to fall into the trap of power, fame, money and glory. While these things on their own are not necessarily bad, they are easy to get wrapped up in. Leaders who make decisions based solely on gaining more power, fame, money or glory usually end up in scandals and disasters.

Instead leaders should lead with humility, integrity, transparency and empathy. Leaders no longer have to know everything, they can look to the people around them for ideas, solutions, and results.

The five Bs of purposeful leadership

In order to avoid the traps of power, fame, money, and glory Hubert says leaders need to reset. And he gives 5 Bs that leaders should focus on in order to truly be purpose driven and centered on their people.

  • Be clear about your purpose as a human being--What drives you in life? How do you want to be remembered? What do you want to contribute? Make sure you lead with those things in mind and make sure the company you work for aligns with your purpose. And this also means you understand the purpose of others around you and what drives them.
  • Be clear about who you serve as a leader--Your focus should be on the people around you, not yourself. If you are serving yourself or your boss, that’s a problem.
  • Be clear about your role as a leader--Your role as a leader is to create an environment in which others can be successful. It’s not to be the smartest person in the room or to know it all.
  • Be a value driven leader--Having integrity is fundamental
  • Be an authentic leader--You have to be able to be vulnerable and genuinely connect with people around you.

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Episode: What Are You Doing to Look After Yourself?
Pub date: 2020-09-29

One aspect of the servant mindset is practicing self-care.

This is something we often forget, especially in times of crisis.

You won’t be able to serve others if you are not your best self.

So make sure you’re taking care of yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.

Even with the pandemic, I still make time to exercise each day, eat healthy, and spend time working on #chess because these things make me happy!

What are you doing to look after yourself during these tough times?

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Episode: That Will Never Work: Netflix Co-founder on How They Beat the Odds
Pub date: 2020-10-05

Marc Randolph is the co-founder and founding CEO of Netflix. He also served on the board of Netflix up until 2003. And Netflix wasn’t his only startup, he’s founded or co-founded 6 other successful startups. He is also the author of the bestselling book, That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea.

From very early on Marc was entrepreneurial. As a kid he was always trying to find problems and unique ways to solve them. He sold seeds door to door, did candy arbitrage, he even carried a notebook around with him to write down invention ideas he had. He was always starting clubs and groups and coming up with products throughout high school and college. And as Marc shares, one of the keys to being an entrepreneur is practice, practice, practice.

In his early career Marc had a small startup that he was helping run. After the company was sold he had to find something else to do so he went to work at another startup company which just happened to be led by a man named Reed Hastings.

How Netflix came to be

Marc and Reed ended up carpooling to work each day so they got to know each other pretty well. One day they found out that the startup they were working for was being acquired and they both would be losing their jobs in the merger. So they had to figure out their next move.

Marc had several more ideas for products and companies so he wanted to continue his successful journey with startups (he had done 5 previously). But Reed wasn’t as eager to start another company, he had other plans. But they came to an agreement that if Marc came up with a great idea Reed would be the angel investor and he would share the board.

So Marc got to work to come up with the next winning idea. And as they carpooled into work Marc would pitch Reed his ideas. And after many not so great ideas such as personalized dog food and customizable shampoo, Marc pitched an idea that at the time didn’t make sense, but that later on would become Netflix. They both agreed that in theory the idea was a great one. The only problem was that at the time he came up with the idea of video rental by mail the only video format was the VHS cassette which was heavy and expensive to ship. So that idea at the time was discarded with the dog food and the shampoo.

It just so happened that at a later date Reed found an article about a new technology called the DVD and realized this could be the missing piece to an otherwise great business idea. So they went and got a used music CD and a small envelope and they mailed it to themselves to see what would happen. And in less than 24 hours they had the small envelope with an unbroken CD in their mailbox and they knew they had something.

How to scale culture

As Marc shares culture is not just what you say, it’s not something that you put up on posters around the office, or some catch phrases that you come up with in a meeting. He says, “Culture is how you act. It's how you are, it's the things you do. And even more importantly, culture springs from how the founders and the early employees act with each other, with their employees, with their customers. And so, huge amounts of the Netflix culture arised organically, from the way that Reed and I behaved, the way that I treat people, the way I worked with people before.

When Netflix first started as a company they had a very small staff of around 20 or so people and most of them had worked together before in other companies. So it made it easier to maintain a culture at that point. Marc says he knew that he could ask an employee to take ownership of a project due in two weeks and then know that in two weeks they would show up with the results no matter what. The small team worked really well together and had a culture of mutual respect, trust, and ownership.

But that gets hard to maintain when your company grows and you have 100, 500, or 1,000+ employees.

“When you get bigger, something happens where someone shows up late, or they show up but don't have everything done. And a lot of managers would say, Oh, this isn't good. Okay, we can't have that happen. Everybody, I want status reports. I need to know if there's gonna be a problem in advance. So everyone needs to send status reports. And everyone goes, Oh, status reports. And then someone else shows up and they're there on time with it all done, but they spent too much. And many managers will go, Oh, I can't let that happen. Okay, I need to pre-approve anything over $100 to make sure you don't make a spending mistake. I need everyone to send expense reports. And then everyone goes, oh, god expense reports.

And as Marc goes on to share what happens over time is you build the company in a way that protects you from people with bad judgment, but along the way with these added rules, steps, and processes you are simultaneously driving the people with good judgment crazy. And that is how you lose good employees.

So what the team at Netflix decided early on was that they would build a company just for people with good judgment. People that they knew they could count on, people that weren’t afraid to work hard and take ownership of things and in exchange the leadership team could give employees freedom and the ability to make their own decisions. And while Marc admits there was a time when they almost lost the culture as they grew, ultimately they have been able to keep it with intentionality, even now with almost 9,000 employees.

How Netflix overcame a 40% decrease in workforce

Up until the spring of 2000 Netflix was doing great. They had been offering monthly subscriptions, they had no due dates and no late fees and people were loving it. But then the dot com bubble burst and they were in trouble. They were on the brink of going broke and they needed help fast. Marc and his team were actually exploring selling Netflix at that point.

But they also had another idea that they felt could save the company from ruin and that was to pitch an idea to Blockbuster. And while it may seem odd now because Blockbuster isn’t even around anymore, back in 2000 business was booming for them. They had 9000 locations and Netflix saw an opportunity to make a partnership. Basically they were hoping that Blockbuster would agree to a blended model, which would mean they would continue their current in-store business, but they would also give customers the option of ordering a movie online, having it delivered to their house, and then dropping it back off to a Blockbuster location in person or vice versa, picking a movie up in person and then mailing it back in.

But Blockbuster wasn’t interested. They said no to Netflix, and they decided to use that model but to do it on their own. So not only did Netflix not get the rescue they were hoping for, but now they had another competitor. But that didn’t stop them. They realized there would be no one to save them, they would have to save themselves and that just pushed them to work harder.

But even though they were working hard to figure out a solution, they were still bleeding cash. Marc and his team knew they had a tough decision to make. They were going to have to say goodbye to some people on the team. They had to lose 40% of the employees. And as Marc shares it was the most painful decision he has ever had to make, especially because a lot of these people were hired by Marc himself.

After reducing the workforce the Netflix team went into survival mode. They got back to the nitty gritty of the business to figure out ways to bring costs down, turn visitors into subscriptions more quickly, and how to run things more effectively. Marc says they had some big breakthroughs, but they also had a lot of luck involved in bringing them out of this tough time.

The greatest lesson Marc has learned

Marc has started six successful businesses, he has mentored hundreds of early stage entrepreneurs, he has been a CEO, a board member, and an investor. Along the way he has learned a lot, but his biggest piece of advice for leaders looking to create great companies where people want to work is to empower people to make mistakes.

He says, “The thing that I've learned over and over and over again, is that there's no such thing as a good idea. That too many companies believe that there are good ideas and the people who have them, that the proportion of good ideas commensurate with how high you are in the company. And I learned that's just ridiculous, and that the only way to find out whether ideas are good or bad is to try them. And so the trick is not building an organization just good at coming up with ideas, but building an organization which is tremendously good at trying thousands of bad ideas.

In order to do that leaders not only need to allow their people to make mistakes, but they also have to give people the power to make decisions. This is incredibly hard to do, but as Marc shares just because it is hard doesn’t change the importance of doing it. Marc believes that the most effective way to build a culture of innovation and risk taking is to demonstrate it at the top.

Also, when it comes to entrepreneurship Marc believes that while anyone can have a good idea, “The singular difference between an entrepreneur and someone else is a predisposition to action. Everyone thinks of ideas, a small number of people say let's do something about it.

Randolph’s Rules for success

Marc’s dad imparted eight rules for success to him as a young adult, and he still looks at this list everyday, in fact it’s hanging up above the sink in his bathroom. So I asked Marc to share what these eight rules are. They are:

  1. Do at least 10% more than you are asked
  2. Never, ever, to anybody present as fact opinions on things you don’t know. Take great care and discipline.
  3. Be courteous and considerate always--up and down
  4. Don’t knock, don’t complain--stick to constructive, serious criticism
  5. Don’t be afraid to make decisions when you have the facts on which to make them
  6. Quantify where possible
  7. Be open-minded but skeptical
  8. Be prompt

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Episode: Matt Ridley on How Innovation Works
Pub date: 2020-08-31

What's the difference between invention and innovation? Could it be that innovation--the process of making a breakthrough invention available, affordable, and reliable--is actually the hard part? In this week's EconTalk episode, author Matt Ridley talks about his book How Innovation Works with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Ridley argues that we give too much credit to inventors and not enough to innovators--those who refine and improve an invention to make it valuable to users. Along the way, he emphasizes the power of trial and error and the importance of permissionless innovation.

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Episode: Michael Kremer on Economists as Founders
Pub date: 2020-10-21

Michael Kremer is best known for his academic work researching global poverty, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2019 along with Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee. Less known is that he is also the founder of five non-profits and in the process of creating a sixth. And Kremer doesn’t see anything unusual about embodying the dual archetypes of economist and founder. “I think there's a lot of relationship between the experimental method and the things that are needed to help found organizations, he explains.

Michael joined Tyler to discuss the intellectual challenge of founding organizations, applying methods from behavioral economics to design better programs, how advanced market commitments could lower pharmaceutical costs for consumers while still incentivizing R&D, the ongoing cycle of experimentation every innovator understands, the political economy of public health initiatives, the importance of designing institutions to increase technological change, the production function of new technologies, incentivizing educational achievement, The Odyssey as a tale of comparative development, why he recently transitioned to University of Chicago, what researchers can learn from venture capitalists, his current work addressing COVID-19, and more.

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Episode: The Internet of "Garbage" with Grant Wood - Ep 128
Pub date: 2020-09-29

Why is the Internet bursting with so many abysmal digital products these days and what can we expect in the future? What can you do about it?

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Episode: What will Software Disrupt Next? with Jeff Myhre - Ep 129
Pub date: 2020-10-06

With all the disruption happening because of COVID we are seeing more and more innovation happening in the software space. So, what is next? Join the conversation with Jeff Myhre from Excel SoftSources!

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Episode: #24 - Ekonomen och skribenten Katrine Marçal om hur hur kvinnors uppfinningar marginaliserats i uppfinningarnas historiebeskrivning.
Pub date: 2020-10-22

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Episode: Using Event Modeling to Architect Event-Driven Information Systems ft. Bobby Calderwood
Pub date: 2020-09-30

Bobby Calderwood (Founder, Evident Systems) discusses event streaming, event modeling, and event-driven architecture. He describes the emerging visual language and process, how to effectively understand and teach what events are, and some of Bobby's own use cases in the field with oNote, Evident System’s new SaaS platform for event modeling. Finally, Bobby emphasizes the power of empowering and informing the community on how best to integrate event streaming with the outside world.

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Episode: Building an Apache Kafka Center of Excellence Within Your Organization ft. Neil Buesing
Pub date: 2020-10-14

Neil Buesing, an Apache KafkaÂź community stalwart at Object Partners, spends his days building things out of Kafka and helping others do the same. Today, he discusses the concept of a CoE (center of excellence), and how a CoE is integral to attain and sustain world-class performance, business value, and success in a business. Neil talks us through how to make a CoE successful, the importance of event streaming, how to better understand streaming technologies, and how to best utilize CoE for your needs. This includes evangelizing Kafka, building a Proof of Value (PoV) with team members, defining deliverables as part of that CoE, and understanding how to implement Kafka into your organization.

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Episode: TM Forum & MEF Buddy Up on Telco APIs
Pub date: 2020-10-08

This episode of Quick Talk, a TM Forum podcast, is all about how Open APIs save telcos time and money. Host Liz Coyne, TM Forum's CTO, George Glass, and MEF's CTO Pascal Menezes discuss the two industry association's joint efforts to align their APIs per the request of their largest telco members. TM Forum announced the collaboration as part of its Digital Transformation World Series event happening online until November 12, 2020.

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Episode: Orange "Googles IT," TikTok Boom! and Telco Earnings Insight
Pub date: 2020-08-12

On this episode of Quick Talk, a TM Forum podcast, host Liz Coyne and TM Forum's chief analyst, Mark Newman, discuss the partnership of Orange and Google and their thoughts around public cloud, edge computing and 5G. They also chat about telco Q1 2020 earnings and even talk about Trump taking on TikTok and Microsoft's interest in owning the social media platform's US business. 

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Podcast: Finding Mastery (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Mark Manson on The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fck
Pub date*: 2020-09-09

This week’s conversation is with Mark Manson, the #1 New York Times Bestselling author of Everything is Fcked: A Book About Hope and The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life, the mega-bestseller that reached #1 in fourteen different countries.

Mark’s books have been translated into more than 50 languages and have sold over 12 million copies worldwide.

He runs one of the largest personal growth websites in the world, MarkManson.net, a blog with more than two million monthly readers and half a million subscribers, making him one of the largest and most successful independent publishers in the world.

Mark’s writing is often described as ‘self-help for people who hate self-help’ — a no-BS brand of life advice and cultural commentary that has struck a chord with people around the globe.

And the same can be said for this conversation – it’s a no BS, candid look into Mark’s upbringing, what inspired him to start writing, and why he’s a fervent believer of getting to the truth.


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Podcast: The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: #91 Russ Hudson: The Pursuit of Presence
Pub date: 2020-09-01

Author and co-founder of the Enneagram Institute, Russ Hudson, explains how the Enneagram was developed, how it helps us grow personally and with others, the nine interconnected personality types and what it means to be present.

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Episode: Balancing Teams and Technology with Catherine Murphy - Ep. 119
Pub date: 2020-06-30

Catherine Murphy, COO of Zipnosis joins us to share her experience in how to balance the needs of the product team, customers, and technology throughout her career in healthcare.

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Episode: How to Build the Right Product with Creg Schumann - Ep 123
Pub date: 2020-08-20

Creg Schumann joins us to talk about how building a product is sometimes like rasing a puppy!

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Episode: How to Hire a Developer with Anthony Ticknor - Ep 124
Pub date: 2020-08-25

Anthony Ticknor from Irish Titan joins us to discuss best practices for hiring managers and developers in today's market.

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Episode: Forget the Myths: How Entrepreneurs Can Succeed in Real Life
Pub date: 2020-07-20

Wharton’s Ethan Mollick talks about his new book 'The Unicorn’s Shadow' and the myths that hold entrepreneurs back.

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Episode: What Will the World Look Like in 2030?
Pub date: 2020-09-08

Big economic, technological and demographic changes are coming, and the pandemic is accelerating many of them, Wharton’s Mauro Guillen says in his new book.

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Pub date: 2020-09-06

Robotternes indtog vil ikke fþre til et þdelagt arbejdsmarked og massearbejdslþshed. Og i virkeligheden buldrer den teknologiske udvikling slet ikke afsted – den tþffer faktisk lidt trégt derudaf. Ja, ikke engang vékstparadigmet behþver vi at frygte, fordi véksten forandrer sig med den fjerde industrielle revolution.

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Podcast: The Future of Work With Jacob Morgan (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How to Eliminate Bureaucratic Red Tape, Bad Excuses, and Corporate BS
Pub date: 2020-07-12

Martin Lindstrom is a New York Times bestselling author of seven books including Buyology, Small Data, and his upcoming book--The Ministry of Common Sense: How to Eliminate Bureaucratic Red Tape, Bad Excuses, and Corporate BS (Jan 2021).

Martin is the founder and Chairman of Lindstrom Company, a global branding and culture transformation firm working with Fortune 100 companies in more than 30 countries. He has advised companies such as Mattel, Pepsi, Burger King and Google. Martin has been ranked on the Thinkers50 list for 3 years in a row and TIME Magazine named him one of the “World’s 100 Most Influential people.

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Have you ever had to deal with rules or guidelines at work that don’t really make sense? Have you ever had a great idea for your organization that would save time or money only to have the idea killed as it went up the corporate command chain? I’m sure we’ve all experienced this bureaucratic red tape in our careers and this is exactly what Martin is trying to combat. He is trying to bring common sense back into the workplace.

How innovation is killed

For the past 20 years, Martin has been working with companies to transform their brand and corporate culture. And what he found was that every company has an immune system that works as a defense mechanism for change.

He says, “Companies have it (the immune system) because as soon as they migrate from being a small startup company to become a real serious bureaucracy, what happens is that people are protecting what they already have. And through that, they create processes and compliance and rules and guidelines. And all that becomes almost an invisible straight jacket, which is almost sucking the oxygen out of the room in terms of innovation and transformation.

He gave an example of something he experienced while working with McDonald’s many years ago. The company had come to Martin to help reinvent the happy meal. Martin and his team came up with a great concept of redesigning the meal to be healthy, but fun. They realized that in order for kids to eat healthy there had to be a narrative that made the food cool, fun and exciting. They came up with a story where the broccoli was the bushes in the forest, and the tomatoes and the cucumbers were tools and weapons in the story along with all of the other food. They tested this on kids and they loved it. Parents loved it. The McDonald’s franchisees loved it. So McDonald’s gave the green light to pilot the idea across Europe. After two years the company went to launch the new happy meal and guess what it was? The old happy meal food with an apple added.

After that experience Martin realized he needed to understand the “immune system and actually address the lack of common sense that happens with bureaucratic red tape and corporate command chains. Since then they have actually hired psychologists to join the team at the Lindstrom Company.

Why companies need to think like entrepreneurs

So what can companies do to start removing the red tape and stop killing innovation? Martin says they need to go back to the concept of entrepreneurship. One key trait entrepreneurs have is they see the world through the eyes of a customer or a consumer, they don’t see things through the eyes of a business person. Usually the reason an entrepreneur is starting a new business or service is to fill a gap they experienced so they are the consumer. They have felt the pain or frustration on the consumer side, so they know how to make the experience great for others. But what happens over time is the company grows and the entrepreneur starts getting nervous about others stealing their idea or that some of their 3000+ employees will mess up the company brand or philosophy. That’s when the safety net comes in, in the form of rules, regulations, policies, etc...And slowly the company starts seeing the world from the inside out instead of the outside in. This is when the common sense starts fading away.

As Martin shares, “When you lose a sense of common sense it is quite often because you lose contact with the consumer, the customer. Really the people who are paying your salary, and you need to reconnect with the real world. And most companies today believe that they’re doing that through data, they believe that the spreadsheets and all these statistics and research studies are telling them the truth. But the reality is, there's one little thing missing. And that thing is empathy. The ability to put yourself in the shoes of another person and feel what that person is feeling. And as soon as that happens, it's almost like you're resetting the whole mindset. And that's where common sense is coming back.

The six roadblocks to common sense

In Martin’s new book he lays out six of the most common roadblocks to common sense. They are:

  • Bad customer experience--The company is not feeling the pain the customer feels so no one inside the company acts on behalf of customers to fix problems. The way to fix this is through empathy--finding ways to put yourself in your customer’s shoes.
  • Politics--There are two issues in this roadblock. First not knowing what other people in other departments or divisions are feeling and not caring. And the second issue is the KPIs that are not aligned.
  • Technology--Technology is a wonderful thing, but there are always multiple issues with it throughout the day that can be a time waster and it can build frustration. We spend around 15% of our day fixing tech issues. It can be a tool or a weapon
  • Meetings and PowerPoints--Not only do we have too many meetings, but almost everyone is multitasking in them and the culture most companies have created around meetings is toxic. They run over, everyone has their own agenda, people are trying to show off instead of be productive. We cannot be productive if we spend all our time responding to emails and sitting in meetings.
  • Rules, regulations, and policies--There are a lot of rules, regulations and policies inside of organizations that just don’t make sense. We have to be able to question rules and eliminate them if they are not reasonable.
  • Compliance and Legal--A lot of times people in this function of the company say no just for the sake of saying no. When this function has too much power, it can destroy your company and how it evolves. You have to have the right balance between keeping the company safe and secure, but also they have to be service minded and remember that any rules put in place should be sensible and be for the best of everyone involved.

How do we get back to common sense?

We have all probably experienced at least one of the six roadblocks, if not all six. So how do we start moving our organizations back to common sense? Martin’s advice is, “First of all, acknowledge there is an issue. Number two, map down what the issues are. And the best way you can do that is to look around in your office everyday, take photos and map this down. Then the third thing is then to categorize it. The fourth thing is to create a whole new business model around it. So you actually are both earning money while you're fixing the problem at the same time. And the fifth issue I would suggest, is really to celebrate this whole thing internally.

Why should we celebrate internally? A lot of times we want to change, but we don’t dare to. He gives an example of a group of chickens he had that were kept in individual cages for 6 months and then the cage doors were opened for them one day. They all went out the door of their cage for 30 seconds and then went straight back to the cages. So in order to get them to come out he had to put corn in front of their individual cages and each time he would put the corn further and further outside the cage.

Martin says, “That little piece of corn just outside the chicken case, I call a 90 day intervention. These are short lived, very quick changes you make in the organization. And what you do is whenever you succeed, you're celebrating that throughout the organization. And the celebration is really important, because if you celebrate when picking up the first corn, all the other chickens are looking around, and they feel Wow, I want to feel that too. And it kind of justifies or verifies, or at least it somehow tells the world this is the right thing. And it changes the culture as a consequence of that. And if you continue having these small wins, time after time, certainly it's solidified the fact that we are on the right path. And that's where you have a transformation of a culture happening. So really what I'm saying here is it's super important for you not to just have these long term goals and talk about what's happening five years from now is the goal still fine. But you have to break it down to small bite sized things and celebrate it every time. And I think the key problem in organizations today is that companies are setting those small goals sometimes, but they're not celebrating the success of them, the victories, and that's just as important as fulfilling them.

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Episode: Why Nurturing Talent Will Help Companies Survive the Pandemic
Pub date: 2020-06-29

Great leaders develop talent on a continuous basis, according to Tuck School of Business professor Sydney Finkelstein. In a conversation with Wharton’s Peter Cappelli, he explains why that’s more important than ever.

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Episode: What Poker Can Teach Us about Making the World a Better Place
Pub date: 2020-07-02

Wharton’s Katherine Milkman talks with psychologist Maria Konnikova about her new book, ‘The Biggest Bluff,’ and how we can make decisions in an environment in which we have very little control.

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Episode: How to Write a Successful Conference Abstract | Streaming Audio Special
Pub date: 2020-02-04

Learn how to write an abstract for conference submissions and call for papers with tips from Tim Berglund, chair of the Kafka Summit Program Committee. Whether you're giving a talk for the very first time or you consider yourself to be an experienced speaker, these guidelines will help you craft a strong story that stands out from the others.

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Podcast: Agile Uprising Podcast (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Intent Based Leadership with L. David Marquet and Andy Worshek
Pub date: 2020-06-07

This is the second in a series of conversations co-sponsored by Agile Velocity and Agile Uprising that explore effective leadership from a number of different viewpoints. Panelists are L. David Marquet and Andy Worshek both with Intent-Based Leadership.

Expert on leadership, former submarine commander, and author of Amazon #1 Best Seller: Turn the Ship Around!, Captain David Marquet imagines a workplace where everyone engages and contributes their full intellectual capacity, where people are healthier and happier because they have more control over their work, and where everyone is a leader.

Andy Worshek is a keynote speaker, guest contributor and Intent-Based Leadership expert. He served with Captain Marquet on the USS Sante Fe as Combat Systems Department Chief, later advancing to Chief of Boat on the USS Cheyenne.

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Podcast: The Tim Ferriss Show (LS 81 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: #439: Tools of Titans — Derek Sivers, BJ Miller, and Christopher Sommer
Pub date: 2020-06-10

Welcome to another episode of The Tim Ferriss Show! It will showcase some of my favorite advice and profiles from the audiobook of Tools of Titans. Thousands of you have asked for years for the audiobook versions of Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentors, and they are now available. Go to audible.com/ferriss for more details or to download.

Today’s episode will focus on Tools of Titans and features the introduction of the book, as well as the profiles of Derek Sivers, BJ Miller, and Christopher Sommer.

Just a few notes on the audiobook's format: I recorded the introduction and selected three fantastic, top-ranked narrators to handle the rest, along with some surprise appearances from friends.

The short bios, which you will hear at the beginning of each profile, are read by Kaleo Griffith. Ray Porter reads the bulk of each profile including all of my own words. Ray actually narrated my first book, The 4-Hour Workweek, and did an incredible job. Quotations from female guests are read by the wonderful ThérÚse Plummer.

The audiobook of Tools of Titans contains the distilled tools and routines I’ve gathered after interviewing hundreds of world-class performers.

Everything has been vetted and applied to my own life in some fashion. The techniques, strategies, and philosophies in Tools of Titans have made me more effective, saved me years of wasted effort and frustration, and helped me navigate many periods of darkness and uncertainty. The advice has truly made me a happier, healthier person and changed my life. I hope that they help change yours as well.

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Episode: Steve Crago on Coaching, Mentoring and Facilitating Effective Teamwork
Pub date: 2020-06-08

In this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Steve Crago about how leaders need to be coaches, being a good mentor and facilitating effective meetings

Why listen to this podcast

‱ There is an expectation that leaders are able to be effective coaches for their teams today ‱ There are tools such as the Leadership Circle Profile that can help you understand your own strengths and weaknesses ‱ You don’t necessarily need to work on weaknesses – often enhancing areas of strength can give better results than focusing on improving areas of weakness ‱ To effectively mentor someone in an area you need to have deep knowledge and experience working in that domain ‱ Facilitation is a skillset that is about helping others achieve their goals in a collaborative session

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Episode: #85 Bethany McLean: Crafting a Narrative
Pub date: 2020-06-09

Best-selling author of The Smartest Guys in the Room and All the Devils are here, Bethany McLean, discusses how to write a story, the behaviors of CEO’s, visionaries and fraudsters and so much more.

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Episode: The Agile Narrative with Michael Levine - Ep 117
Pub date: 2020-05-26

Michael Levine, author of "People Over Process: Leadership for Agility" joins us to discuss how agile transformations happen at the cultural level before any process overhauls can successfully happen.

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Episode: The price of reuse
Pub date: 2020-01-24

For any large, multinational enterprise, there’s a dilemma at the heart of their software architecture. Centralization promises to save costs, providing a standardized template for how to do things and not waste effort reinventing the wheel. But local markets have unique characteristics, whether that’s customer behavior, regulations or the competitive landscape.

In this episode, our co-hosts Alexey Boas and Zhamak Dehghani are joined by Sriram Narayan, an advisory consultant for ThoughtWorks India. Together, they explore the price of reuse: the challenges and trade offs for architects that arise from a centralized blueprint for IT.

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Pub date: 2020-03-06

Continuous delivery has gained huge traction in the enterprise, but it means many different things to many different people. In this episode, our regular host Rebecca Parsons is joined by two special guests — and former ThoughtWorkers — Dave Farley and Jez Humble, who in 2010 co-authored the landmark text on the subject, Continuous Delivery. Together, they explore the engineering disciplines continuous delivery and look at the implications this has for the enterprise.

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Pub date: 2020-04-02

Digital transformation has rapidly become an over-used buzz phrase. But the concepts behind it — of putting technology expertise at the core of business leadership — remain critical to delivering new business value.

Our podcast regular, Mike Mason is joined by his co-author, Gary O'Brien to talk about the practical lessons detailed in their new book, Digital Transformation Game Plan.

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Pub date: 2020-06-01

Often, discussions around continuous delivery focus on things that cutting edge companies are doing — at the cost of ignoring those companies that are quietly succeeding with CD. Our hosts, Mike Mason and Alexey Boas caught up with software consultant Pete Hogdson to hear about his new book that explores the practices continuous delivery. The book looks at those companies succeeding with CD, and the common principles they share — such as reducing batch sizes — even while the way they apply those principles varies wildly.

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Episode: Dealing with Risks and Dependencies in Agile Transformation w/ Tom Furland
Pub date: 2019-10-22

When it comes to Agile Transformation, every organization struggles with managing risks and dealing with dependencies. Identifying the most critical dependencies and finding a way to break them can be challenging. But, depending on your organization’s goals for transformation, there may also be dependencies that just aren’t worth decoupling.

In this episode of SoundNotes LeadingAgile Senior Consultant, Tom Furland, talks with Dave about how to handle Risks and Dependencies during Agile Transformation. We explore how to understand where decoupling is possible and why orchestration is so critical to creating flow within the organization, regardless of which dependencies remain.

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Episode: ElevateAgile: The Business Value of Agility w/ Marty Bradley
Pub date: 2019-10-31

At ElevateAgile, LeadingAgile Principal Consultant, Marty Bradley, led a session called "The Business Value of Agility." The talk focused on the question of how organizations measure and understand the business benefits of adopting an Agile approach. All too often, organizations make a decision to "go agile" without defining the outcome they hope/want/expect from changing their approach to work. Without a solid understanding of the impact you are seeking, deciding whether your approach to creating things, or the things themselves, are delivering desired business value.

In this episode of SoundNotes, Marty and Dave explore some of the key takeaways from Marty's session at ElevateAgile and ways an organization can understand the value Agile provides.

Marty's presentation from ElevateAgile The Business Value of Agility

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  • On Twitter at twitter.com/mrsungo
  • On his personal site at: dave.prior@leadingagile.com

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Episode: Creating an Organizational System that Supports Business Agility w/Dennis Stevens
Pub date: 2019-11-14

At Elevate Agile 2019, LeadingAgile Chief Methodologist, Dennis Stevens gave a presentation called "What Every Agile Organization Has In Common" (link below). In this episode of SoundNotes, Dennis and Dave go deeper on some key themes from the presentation. The interview focuses on how Senior Leadership can create an organizational system that supports Business Agility. This work goes beyond simply adopting Agile practices at a team level, and looks at how the whole organization needs to have a structure and governance model in place that can sustain its ability to respond to rapidly changing market conditions.

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Links Mentioned In the Podcast * What Every Agile Organization Has in Common - Dennis Stevens at Elevate Agile 2019 * Building an Organization That Can Embrace Change w/ Dennis Stevens - This is the SoundNotes Podcast that discusses how to incorporate market sensing capabilities into strategic planning

Contacting Dennis Stevens * Web: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/dennis-stevens/ * Twitter: https://twitter.com/dennisstevens * Email: dennis@leadingagile.com

Contacting Dave Prior If you’d like to contact Dave you can reach him at:

  • LeadingAgile: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungo
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrsungo
  • Email: dave.prior@leadingagile.com

If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to dave.prior@leadingagile.com

And if you're interested in taking one of our upcoming Certified ScrumMaster or Certified Scrum Product Owner classes, you can find all the details at https://www.leadingagile.com/our-gear/training/

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Episode: How Leaders Create Agile Organizations w/ Lee Wiesehuegel
Pub date: 2019-11-21

Lee Wiesehuegel is a Managing Consultant at LeadingAgile where he helps organizations incorporate an Agile approach by transforming how they work. One of Lee’s primary areas of focus is working with leaders to help them understand how critical their support is at the team level. In this episode of SoundNotes, Lee and Dave discuss some of the things that leadership can do to enable Coaches and ScrumMasters to create and sustain high performing, learning teams that can consistently deliver value.

At the start of the interview, Lee also shares his advice for those who are interested in transitioning to a coaching role and some of the key things he looks for when he interviews potential coaches.

Links Mentioned In the Podcast Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition by Lyssa Adkins

Contacting Lee Wiesehuegel * Web: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/lee-wiesehuegel/ * Email: Lee.Wiesehuegel@leadingagile.com

Contacting Dave Prior If you’d like to contact Dave you can reach him at:

  • LeadingAgile: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungo
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrsungo
  • Email: dave.prior@leadingagile.com

If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to dave.prior@leadingagile.com

And if you're interested in taking one of our upcoming Certified ScrumMaster or Certified Scrum Product Owner classes, you can find all the details at https://www.leadingagile.com/our-gear/training/

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Episode: Creating Safety for Leadership w/ Tim Wise
Pub date: 2019-12-12

Safety is a popular topic in the Agile space that comes up when we have conversations about what it takes to create an environment where Agile can take root and thrive.

When we talk about transforming organizations, we talk about things like creating a safe environment where people feel that they have the agency and support to run experiments in order to get better at working together and delivering value for the customer. This conversation often centers around teams and the individual team members, but rarely do we take the time to consider what safety looks like for leadership. Aren’t they at risk as well?

There may be leaders in your organization who are supporting or sponsoring the transformation effort, but what if it doesn’t take? What impact will it have on them? When it comes to organizational change, we know leadership has to adjust their approach as well, but this conversation often focuses on how the things they learned to do under a traditional model will get in the way of a successful Agile Transformation. We tell them what not to do: we tell them to leave the teams alone to figure out how to self-organize, we tell them to be supportive and let go of many of the practices that helped them reach their leadership position. It may come across as though we are simply taking things away from them, and this language of loss is unlikely to leave them feeling like they are operating from a place where they have the agency they need and the support they need to begin running experiments that will help them learn to grow into the Agile leaders we want and need them to be.

In this episode of SoundNotes, LeadingAgile Senior Consultant, Tim Wise, and Dave Prior explore:

  • What it means to create safety for leadership
  • What Agile Transformation asks of leaders and the risks they face
  • How leaders can begin moving toward an approach that demonstrates adopting an Agile mindset
  • What types of behavior are needed to foster a safe environment for the teams and team members to employ Agile practice to deliver value for their customers

Links From This Podcast * Turn the Ship Around - David Marquet * Team of Teams - General Stanley McChrystal * 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen R. Covey * Speed of Trust - Stephen M.R. Covey * Extreme Ownership - Jocko Willink * The Responsibility Process - Christopher Avery * Jordan Peterson + 12 Rules for Life + Podcast + YouTube * Agile Day Atlanta

Contacting Tim * Email: tim@leadingagile.com * LeadingAgile: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/tim-wise/ * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timwise/ * Twitter: https://twitter.com/timswise

Contacting Dave * Email: dave.prior@leadingagile.com * LeadingAgile: http://www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/ * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungo/ * Twitter: http://twitter.com/mrsungo * Personal blog: http://drunkenpm.net

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Feedback/Questions If you have comments on the podcast or have questions for the LeadingAgile coaches that you’d like to have addressed in a future episode of LeadingAgile’s SoundNotes, you can reach Dave at dave.prior@leadingagile.com

LeadingAgile CSM and CSPO Classes For information on LeadingAgile’s upcoming public CSM and CSPO classes, please go to: http://www.leadingagile.com/our-gear/training/

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Episode: Work Bifurcation and Change Control w/ Ross Buermann
Pub date: 2020-01-09

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

In this episode, LeadingAgile Senior Consultant, Ross Buermann shares an approach that involves bifurcating the work of creating the documentation so that we can create and deliver in smaller increments. Those smaller pieces can be modified and maintained in a more efficient manner than they would be in a traditional approach. In the same way that we want to break development work down into small increments, we can also break down the documentation. Ross and Dave also discuss an approach to storing the documentation which allows for an easier approach to change control and maintenance.

Ross has a background in highly regulated environments where the documentation is often treated as being more valuable than the product itself. During the interview, Ross explains how, and why, this approach is so valuable to teams and organizations adopting an Agile approach.

The Iliad

If you’d like to check out The Iliad, Ross recommends the translation by Richmond Lattimore https://amzn.to/37EDfZE

Contacting Ross

  • Web: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/ross-beurmann/
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rossbeurmannzcea/
  • Email: Ross.Beurmann@leadingagile.com

Contacting Dave

  • Email: dave.prior@leadingagile.com
  • LeadingAgile: http://www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungo/
  • Twitter: http://twitter.com/mrsungo
  • Personal blog: http://drunkenpm.net

We Need Reviews If you like this podcast, we'd be very grateful for reviews or feedback in iTunes. It will help us create more visibility for this podcast so that we can reach more people. Click here to leave us a review or post feedback.

Feedback/Questions If you have comments on the podcast or have questions for the LeadingAgile coaches that you’d like to have addressed in a future episode of LeadingAgile’s SoundNotes, you can reach Dave at dave.prior@leadingagile.com

LeadingAgile CSM and CSPO Classes For information on LeadingAgile’s upcoming public CSM and CSPO classes, please go to: http://www.leadingagile.com/our-gear/training/

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Episode: Impact Mapping w/ Will Evans
Pub date: 2020-01-16

It can be easy to get swept up in discussions centered around making sure that the work being done by development teams is in sync with what the stakeholders identified as the highest priority. While this is definitely an important factor to consider, it is also critical to make sure that we have identified and prioritized the issues and problems we need to solve to achieve the organization’s strategic goals. Impact Mapping is a tool that can be used to create a conversation between stakeholders and teams to understanding which problems need to be addressed first to ensure we are having the greatest possible impact on delivering different outcomes for our customers and for the business.

In this episode of SoundNotes, LeadingAgile Managing Consultant, Will Evans spends time with Dave Prior discussing Impact Mapping.

During the podcast you will learn:

  • What Impact Mapping Is
  • Why it works
  • How it can help your organization make informed decisions about which problems to solve first in order to reach your strategic goals
  • How you can get started using Impact Mapping within your organization

Resources to Get You Started

  • The Art of Impact Mapping Video https://youtu.be/y4Rj05YVg_E
  • Nudge by Thaler and Sunstein https://amzn.to/2tiwZby

Contacting Will

  • Web: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/will-evans/
  • Email: will.evans@leadingagile.com
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/semanticwill

Contacting Dave

  • Email: dave.prior@leadingagile.com
  • LeadingAgile: http://www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungo/
  • Twitter: http://twitter.com/mrsungo
  • Personal blog: http://drunkenpm.net

We Need Reviews If you like this podcast, we'd be very grateful for reviews or feedback in iTunes. It will help us create more visibility for this podcast so that we can reach more people. Click here to leave us a review or post feedback.

Feedback/Questions If you have comments on the podcast or have questions for the LeadingAgile coaches that you’d like to have addressed in a future episode of LeadingAgile’s SoundNotes, you can reach Dave at dave.prior@leadingagile.com

LeadingAgile CSM and CSPO Classes For information on LeadingAgile’s upcoming public CSM and CSPO classes, please go to: http://www.leadingagile.com/our-gear/training/

Use the discount code: LA_Podcast to receive a 15% discount on the class.

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Episode: Epics, Features, and Stories, Oh My! w/ Scott Sehlhorst
Pub date: 2020-01-23

If you're confused about the difference between Epics, Features, and Stories—you're not alone. Most of us use these terms to describe different types of items we’d put into a Product Backlog. The challenge is that each organization defines them differently and uses them to mean different things.

In this episode of SoundNotes, LeadingAgile SVP and Senior Consultant Scott Sehlhorst joins Dave Prior to talk about the difference between Epics, Features, and Stories, how the three of them are related, and the value that each brings to the table.

If you have questions about the purpose each serves, how they complement each other, and why people often get them confused, you’ll find answers in this podcast.

Contacting Scott Sehlhorst * LeadingAgile: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/scott-sehlhorst/ * Twitter: https://twitter.com/sehlhorst * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sehlhorst/ * Blog: http://tynerblain.com/blog/

Contacting Dave Prior If you’d like to contact Dave you can reach him at:

  • LeadingAgile: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungo
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrsungo
  • Email: https://www.leadingagile.com/our-gear/training/

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Episode: Executive Leadership as Product Owner w/ Mike Cottmeyer
Pub date: 2020-01-30

This week in SoundNotes, LeadingAgile Founder and CEO Mike Cottmeyer joins Dave to explore the ways in which Executive Leadership plays the role of Product Owner in an organization. During the conversation, Mike reflects back on how his understanding of what it means to be an organizational product owner has evolved as LeadingAgile has grown over the last ten years. Mike shares some of the ways he copes with the challenges of being the Product Owner of an organization that continues to evolve, how he responds to the successes and failures along the way, and his take on one of the most critical things a leader must do in order to be ready for what comes next.

Contacting Mike Cottmeyer If you’d like to contact Mike you can reach him at:

  • LeadingAgile: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/mike-cottmeyer/
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cottmeyer/
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/mcottmeyer
  • Email: mike@leadingagile.com

Contacting Dave Prior If you’d like to contact Dave you can reach him at:

  • LeadingAgile: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungo
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrsungo
  • Email: dave.prior@leadingagile.com

If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to dave.prior@leadingagile.com

And if you're interested in taking one of our upcoming Certified ScrumMaster or Certified Scrum Product Owner classes, you can find all the details at https://www.leadingagile.com/our-gear/training/

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Episode: Tying the Investment Tier Back to Agile Delivery w/ Matt Smith
Pub date: 2020-02-06

In this episode of SoundNotes, LeadingAgile Managing Consultant, Matt Smith, joins Dave for a conversation about why we need to make sure that the investment made in portfolio tiers of the organization ties directly back to Agile delivery, and how we can make sure that is happening. If you are an executive who has responsibility for making decisions about where and how the organization makes strategic investments across the portfolio, this interview may expose some areas of focus that you may want to give more attention.

Many organizations introduce Agile, and begin funding Transformation, at the team level, but they fail to ensure that they’ve created an environment and organizational system that can support those teams, and/or teams who are working on things without understanding why because they don’t have visibility into how they link back to company strategy. This makes it difficult for them to make the best possible choices when developing a product. Throughout the podcast, Matt and Dave talk through examples of how detrimental this disconnect between the head and the body of an organization can be.

Making sure there is a direct line from investment to execution is critical to ensuring you are maximizing the value your organization (and your clients) are getting from your agile delivery mechanism.

Contacting Matt Smith * Web: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/matt-smith/ * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-f-smith/ * Email: Matt.Smith@leadingagile.com

Contacting Dave Prior * LeadingAgile: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/ * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungo * Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrsungo * Email: dave.prior@leadingagile.com

If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to dave.prior@leadingagile.com

And if you're interested in taking one of our upcoming Certified ScrumMaster or Certified Scrum Product Owner classes, you can find all the details at https://www.leadingagile.com/our-gear/training/

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Episode: Lean Portfolio Management w/ Tina Wang
Pub date: 2020-02-21

This week in LeadingAgile’s SoundNotes, Tina Wang spends some time with Dave talking about Lean Portfolio Management. During the conversation, Tina and Dave cover exactly what Lean Portfolio Management is and how it differs from a more traditional approach to Portfolio Management. A good part of the discussion is spent on the topic of how to create alignment from strategic goals at the organizational level down to delivery team execution and the role that funding plays in this.

If you have questions about Lean Portfolio Management or you're curious about how to apply Lean practices and systems thinking to traditional portfolio management to consistently deliver value at a sustainable pace, this podcast is a great place to get started.

For additional content on the LeadingAgile site about Lean Portfolio Management, click here.

Contacting Tina

  • Email: Tina.Wang@leadingagile.com
  • LeadingAgile: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/tina-wang/
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tina-wang-spc/

Contacting Dave

  • Email: dave.prior@leadingagile.com
  • LeadingAgile: http://www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungo/
  • Twitter: http://twitter.com/mrsungo
  • Personal blog: http://drunkenpm.net

Link to the Case Study:

http://info.leadingagile.com/techcasestudy

We Need Reviews If you like this podcast, we'd be very grateful for reviews or feedback in iTunes. It will help us create more visibility for this podcast so that we can reach more people. Click here to leave us a review or post feedback.

Feedback/Questions If you have comments on the podcast or have questions for the LeadingAgile coaches that you’d like to have addressed in a future episode of LeadingAgile’s SoundNotes, you can reach Dave at dave.prior@leadingagile.com

LeadingAgile CSM and CSPO Classes For information on LeadingAgile’s upcoming public CSM and CSPO classes, please go to: http://www.leadingagile.com/our-gear/training/

Use the discount code: LA_Podcast to receive a 15% discount on the class.

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Episode: Agile Transformation vs. Project Management Offices w/ Ross Beurmann
Pub date: 2020-03-05

Ross Beurmann is back! And this week in SoundNotes Ross and Dave discuss ATOs and PMOs. If you aren't familiar with what an Agile Transformation Office is, how it works, why you need it and how it is different from a Project Management Office, this podcast is for you. During the interview, Ross and Dave also discuss what happens to the role of the project manager when you go through Agile Transformation and how the PMO can remain relevant and continue to add value in an organization that is moving through their Transformation to Agile.

Link to the Technology Case Study http://info.leadingagile.com/techcasestudy

Contacting Ross

  • Web: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/ross-beurmann/
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rossbeurmannzcea/
  • Email: Ross.Beurmann@leadingagile.com

Contacting Dave

  • Email: http://www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungo/
  • Twitter: http://twitter.com/mrsungo
  • Personal blog: http://drunkenpm.net

We Need Reviews If you like this podcast, we'd be very grateful for reviews or feedback on iTunes. It will help us create more visibility for this podcast so that we can reach more people. Click here to leave us a review or post feedback.

Feedback/Questions If you have comments on the podcast or have questions for the LeadingAgile coaches that you’d like to have addressed in a future episode of LeadingAgile’s SoundNotes, you can reach Dave at dave.prior@leadingagile.com

LeadingAgile CSM and CSPO Classes For information on LeadingAgile’s upcoming public CSM and CSPO classes, please go to:

http://www.leadingagile.com/our-gear/training/

Use the discount code: LA_Podcast to receive a 15% discount on the class.

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Episode: Connecting Strategy to Execution w/ Marty Bradley
Pub date: 2020-03-12

One of the most critical, and unfortunately, neglected elements of ensuring your teams can deliver the most value possible, is making sure they can see a direct connection between the work they are being asked to execute on and that strategy that work is in service of.

In this episode of SoundNotes, LeadingAgile Principal Consultant, Marty Bradley spends time with Dave discussing why we need to connect strategy to execution and what happens when we don't. During the interview, Marty provides examples which demonstrate why we need to break the work down into small increments of value, how to track their performance at both the strategic and tactical level, how frequently you want to be checking in on whether or not the work is delivering the desired value,, and who needs to be involved in these discussions.

Links from the Podcast

  • Check out a video of Marty's presentation - Develop a Strategy to Embrace Change

Contacting Marty

  • Web: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/marty-bradley/
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martybradley/
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/AskCoachMarty
  • Email: marty.bradley@leadingagile.com

Contacting Dave

  • Email: dave.prior@leadingagile.com
  • LeadingAgile: http://www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungo/
  • Twitter: http://twitter.com/mrsungo
  • Personal blog: http://drunkenpm.net

We Need Reviews If you like this podcast, we'd be very grateful for reviews or feedback in iTunes. It will help us create more visibility for this podcast so that we can reach more people. Click here to leave us a review or post feedback.

Feedback/Questions If you have comments on the podcast or have questions for the LeadingAgile coaches that you’d like to have addressed in a future episode of LeadingAgile’s SoundNotes, you can reach Dave at dave.prior@leadingagile.com

LeadingAgile CSM and CSPO Classes For information on LeadingAgile’s upcoming public CSM and CSPO classes, please go to: http://www.leadingagile.com/our-gear/training/

Use the discount code: LA_Podcast to receive a 15% discount on the class.

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Episode: Leadership vs. Management w/ Ross Beurmann
Pub date: 2020-04-02

In this episode of SoundNotes, Ross Beurmann joins Dave to talk about the difference between Leadership and Management. Although many confuse the two and believe they are the same, they are actually very different things—and this can become extremely apparent during the transition to an Agile approach.

During the interview, Ross explains why it is so important that we gain clarity on the difference between the two, why we want to manage systems, and why it is so important that we inspire teams to manage themselves.

Books Mentioned In This Podcast

  • Turn the Ship Around - L. David Marquet https://amzn.to/2QXOGWD
  • Leadership is Language - L. David Marquet https://amzn.to/2w2mRFj
  • Getting Naked - Patrick Lencioni https://amzn.to/3avNX6A
  • Dare to Lead - Brene Brown https://amzn.to/2JptZ1D
  • We Were Soldiers Once
 And Young - Harold G. Moore https://amzn.to/3dKAvxG

Contacting Ross

  • Web: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/ross-beurmann/
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rossbeurmannzcea/
  • Email: Ross.Beurmann@leadingagile.com

Contacting Dave

  • Email: dave.prior@leadingagile.com
  • LeadingAgile: http://www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungo/
  • Twitter: http://twitter.com/mrsungo
  • Personal blog: http://drunkenpm.net

We Need Reviews If you like this podcast, we'd be very grateful for reviews or feedback in iTunes. It will help us create more visibility for this podcast so that we can reach more people. Click here to leave us a review or post feedback.

Feedback/Questions If you have comments on the podcast or have questions for the LeadingAgile coaches that you’d like to have addressed in a future episode of LeadingAgile’s SoundNotes, you can reach Dave at dave.prior@leadingagile.com

LeadingAgile CSM and CSPO Classes For information on LeadingAgile’s upcoming public CSM and CSPO classes, please go to: http://www.leadingagile.com/our-gear/training/

Use the discount code: LA_Podcast to receive a 15% discount on the class.

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Episode: Product Funding vs. Project Funding with Dennis Stevens
Pub date: 2020-04-23

Over the past few years, there has been an increasing push within organizations to move from a project-oriented mindset to a more product-focused approach. Creating that change in an organization can take considerable work and part of that is how you address funding the work being done.

In this episode of SoundNotes, LeadingAgile’s Chief Methodologist, Dennis Stevens spends time with Dave talking about why this change is necessary, the impact it can have on an organization, some things to watch out for as you make the switch and tips that will help you succeed in bringing this change to your company.

Contacting Dennis Stevens * Web: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/dennis-stevens/ * Twitter: https://twitter.com/dennisstevens * Email: dennis@leadingagile.com

Contacting Dave Prior If you’d like to contact Dave you can reach him at:

  • LeadingAgile: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungo
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrsungo
  • Email: dave.prior@leadingagile.com

If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to dave.prior@leadingagile.com

And if you're interested in taking one of our upcoming Certified ScrumMaster or Certified Scrum Product Owner classes, you can find all the details at https://www.leadingagile.com/our-gear/training/

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Podcast: LeadingAgile SoundNotes: an Agile Podcast (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Training vs Transformation w/ Nathan Hummel
Pub date: 2020-05-14

Training is a vital piece of today’s business climate. It’s typically at the forefront of conversations around development or growth, but what is the correlation or connection between training and actual business transformation? The assumption has been that if my employees only had the knowledge, they would produce different outcomes. While training is an undoubtedly valuable piece of creating large, organizational change, the outcomes that our organizations produce are highly intertwined with a number of factors on which training has very little impact.

In this episode of SoundNotes, LeadingAgile Training Consultant, Nathan Hummel joins Dave to discuss the role training plays in organizational change, how it impacts Agile transformation, and, what else, beyond training, an organization will need to see true lasting change.

Contacting Nathan

  • Web: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/nathan-hummel/
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathan-hummel/
  • Email: http://www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungo/
  • Twitter: http://twitter.com/mrsungo
  • Personal blog: http://drunkenpm.net

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LeadingAgile CSM and CSPO Classes For information on LeadingAgile’s upcoming public CSM and CSPO classes, please go to http://www.leadingagile.com/our-gear/training/

Use the discount code: LA_Podcast to receive a 15% discount on the class.

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Podcast: LeadingAgile SoundNotes: an Agile Podcast (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Outcome-Based Planning w/ Greg DePasquale
Pub date: 2020-05-07

In this episode of SoundNotes, LeadingAgile Managing Consultant, Greg DePasquale explains what Outcome-Based Planning is, how it works, why it's so critical for enabling successful delivery, and how it works at different levels of the organization.

In outcome-based planning, we focus on “a results-driven plan rather than plan-driven results." There is a focus on the Why as opposed to the How. We center around the business outcome we are looking to achieve, rather than making sure we are doing “all the things." If you work in a project-based organization and status is tracked by things done (or percent of a thing done), you are probably more output focused. If you are planning for the results you want to achieve, and you and employ a strategy where we can continue inspecting and adapting towards that desired result, regardless of how many things you can check the done box on along the way, then you are outcome-focused.

Contacting Greg DePasquale: Web: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/greg-depasquale/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregdepasquale/ Email: greg.depasquale@leadingagile.com

Contacting Dave Prior If you’d like to contact Dave you can reach him at:

  • LeadingAgile: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungo
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrsungo
  • Email: dave.prior@leadingagile.com

If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to dave.prior@leadingagile.com

And if you're interested in taking one of our upcoming Certified ScrumMaster or Certified Scrum Product Owner classes, you can find all the details at https://www.leadingagile.com/our-gear/training/

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Podcast: LeadingAgile SoundNotes: an Agile Podcast (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Simply Having Agile Teams Does Not Make an Agile Organization w/ Dragos Dumitriu
Pub date: 2020-05-27

Getting a few teams up and running using Scrum, Kanban, or some other form of Agile is great. But that doesn’t necessarily mean your organization has become Agile.

This week in SoundNotes, Dragos Dumitriu joins Dave for a conversation about the difference between spinning up a few teams and truly achieving business Agility. During the conversation Dragos shares details on some of the common patterns, he sees when organizations begin moving towards an Agile approach, things to watch out for, and some of the conversations you need to be having internally if business agility is something your organization has set its sights on.

Contacting Dragos * Web: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/dragos-dumitriu/ * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dragosd/ * Twitter: https://twitter.com/thewaitlifter * Email: dragos@leadingagile.com

Contacting Dave * Email: dave.prior@leadingagile.com * LeadingAgile: http://www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/ * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungo/ * Twitter: http://twitter.com/mrsungo * Personal blog: http://drunkenpm.net

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Podcast: Software Process and Measurement Cast (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: SPaMCAST 589 - Using Clean Language Questions To Refine Requirements, Virtual Agile, Essays and Discussions
Pub date: 2020-03-08

The SPaMCAST 589 features our essay on using clean language to refine requirements. Clean Language’s pedigree is from psychotherapy and has found a home in coaching. It is also a valuable tool for discovering information about work products. As product managers, product owners, and stakeholders interact with the world and then describe a set of wants and needs they use metaphors. Clean language helps us unpack those metaphors.

We also have a visit from Susan Parente who brings her Not A Scrumdamentalist Column to the podcast. Susan delivers thoughts and ideas about virtual agile. Reach out to Susan at parente@s3-tec.com.

Re-Read Saturday News

This week we tackle Chapter 2 of Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition by Patterson, Grenny, McMillan, Switzler. Chapter 2, titled Mastering Crucial Conversations: The Power of Dialogue. The chapter begins with a quote from Martin Luther King Jr. that highlights the problem with staying silent. “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Week 1 - Logistics, Forewards, and Preface - http://bit.ly/2wls1Mq

Week 2 - Chapter 1: What’s a crucial conversation? And who cares? - http://bit.ly/3a7Kivp

If you do not have a copy or have tossed it at someone during a crucial conversation, it is time to buy a copy. Please use the link https://amzn.to/34RuZ6V (using the link helps support the blog and podcast).

New side venture!

Jon M Quigley and I are starting an online book club to read and discuss the classic books that underpin the lean, quality and agile movements. The name is “Quality, Agile, and Lean Classic Books: Greatness in the Workplace. The first book is Out Of The Crisis by Deming (don’t have a copy — https://amzn.to/32XAH81)

We are starting our dialog on Friday, April 10th and the event will run over 7 sessions (we will avoid as many religious and national holidays as possible). We are only opening 10 seats for each group of sessions. We are changing a one time fee of $3.13 which equates to 4.95 (ish) once Eventbrite factors in their fees to encourage people that sign up to show up.

Each session will be outlined in the supplemental material provided for the book club. The materials will include definitions of keywords and a series of questions to ponder for each chapter as you read through the book. We are limiting the book club to 10 participants to facilitate ease of discussion of the text and to allow interaction. Tom Cagley and Jon M Quigley will be your guides through the material, posing follow on questions that guide you through the exploration of the work.

Note, we will record each of the sessions in case everyone will not be able to attend every week.

Sign up at http://bit.ly/2IsPPkf

Next SPaMCAST

The SPaMCAST 590 will feature my interview with Nancy Kastl. Nacy and I discussed testing and the future of the testing profession. Is the future of testing purely automation and machine learning? You will find out next Sunday!

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Podcast: Software Process and Measurement Cast (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: SPaMCAST 590 - Future of Testing, An Interview with Nancy Kastl
Pub date: 2020-03-15

The SPaMCAST 590 features my interview with Nancy Kastl. Nancy and I discussed testing and the future of the testing profession. The future of testing is not cut and dry; in the short run more automation and in the long-term more codeless testing and AI might replace entry-level testers. An eye-opening interview!

Nancy’s Bio:

Nancy Kastl is an accomplished professional with over thirty-five years of experience as a consultant, facilitator, and instructor in software quality and testing. As an entrepreneur and consultant, she brings her expertise in strategic planning, quality management, software testing, process re-engineering, and measurement to every engagement.

As the executive director of SPR’s Testing Services, she provides thought leadership to clients, formulates solutions to their needs, and provides daily guidance and oversight to SPRs on-shore testing team in Chicago. She is the founder and President of the Chicago Quality Assurance Association. Nancy is a frequent conference speaker and served as the QUEST conference chairperson for twelve years. She loves photography, being surrounded by nature, and traveling.

Reach out to Nancy on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/nancy-kastl-416170

And check out SPR at https://spr.com/work/

Re-Read Saturday News

This week we continue our re-read of Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition by Patterson, Grenny, McMillan, Switzler with Chapter 3, Start With Heart. This chapter begins to teach the reader “how to dialog. Start with heart means that we have to establish our goal before getting involved in a dialog.

Week 1 - Logistics, Forewards, and Preface - http://bit.ly/2wls1Mq

Week 2 - Chapter 1: What’s a crucial conversation? And who cares? - http://bit.ly/3a7Kivp

Week 3 – Chapter 2: The Power of Dialogue – http://bit.ly/3aO4cMa

Week 4 - Chapter 3: Start With Heart - http://bit.ly/2UbJizK

If you do not have a copy or have tossed it at someone during a crucial conversation, it is time to buy a copy. Please use the link https://amzn.to/34RuZ6V (using the link helps support the blog and podcast).

Book Club Starting Soon

Jon M Quigley and I are starting an online book club to read and discuss the classic books that underpin the lean, quality and agile movements. The name of the book club is “Quality, Agile, and Lean Classic Books: Greatness in the Workplace. The first book is Out Of The Crisis by Deming (don’t have a copy — https://amzn.to/32XAH81)

We are starting our dialog on Friday, April 10th and the event will run over 7 sessions (we will avoid as many religious and national holidays as possible). We are only opening 10 seats for each group of sessions. We are changing a one time fee of $3.13 which equates to 4.95 (ish) once Eventbrite factors in their fees to encourage people that sign up to show up.

More information and sign up at http://bit.ly/2IsPPkf

Next SPaMCAST

The SPaMCAST 591 will feature my interview with Shelisa Bainbridge. Shelisa is the Head of Human Centered Delivery (HCD) at Agile by Design. We talked about human-centered design, why design thinking is important, women in tech and agile, and more. This is a powerful interview with a ton of useful ideas.

Also, I may have some special content in the feed over the next few weeks. A little lagniappe because we all deserve it right now.

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Podcast: Software Process and Measurement Cast (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: SPaMCAST 599 - Tameflow, The Third Way, A Conversation with Steve Tendon
Pub date: 2020-05-10

SPaMCAST 599 will feature my conversation with Steve Tendon. Steve and I talked about his Tameflow books, the genesis of the framework, the Theory of Constraints, and of course Herbie. Steve provides several profound pieces of wisdom for increasing value.

Re-Read Saturday News

This week we complete the content portion of our Re-read with Chapter 11 and the Afterword of Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition by Patterson, Grenny, McMillan, Switzler.

Next week we will have a few words to wrap-up this book and warp into the next book in the series. The envelope please . . . the next book we will re-read is Steve Tendon and Daniel Doiron’s Tame Your Work Flow. The top three books (Tame Your Work Flow, Great Big Agile, and Fixing Your Scrum) in the pool got more votes than all of the other books we have re-read over the past year. Therefore, my intent is to do something radical: declare that I will read all three of the top three books in order. This should take us through the summer.

If you do not have a copy or have tossed it at someone during a crucial conversation, it is time to buy a copy. Please use the link https://amzn.to/34RuZ6V (using the link helps support the blog and podcast). Read previous installments:

Week 1 - Logistics, Forewards, and Preface - http://bit.ly/2wls1Mq

Week 2 - Chapter 1: What’s a crucial conversation? And who cares? - http://bit.ly/3a7Kivp

Week 3 – Chapter 2: The Power of Dialogue – http://bit.ly/3aO4cMa

Week 4 - Chapter 3: Start With Heart - http://bit.ly/2UbJizK

Week 5 - Learn To Look - https://bit.ly/3djnnPX

Week 6 - Make It Safe - https://bit.ly/39p4Xu4

Week 7 - Master my Stories - https://bit.ly/2V1DJUZ

Week 8 - State My Path - https://bit.ly/2XtqTSr

Week 9 - Explore Others’ Paths - https://bit.ly/2ViOGD5

Week 10 - Move to Action - https://bit.ly/2y1ddUb

Week 11- Yeah, But - https://bit.ly/3aSSxeE

Week 12 - Putting It All Together and Afterword - https://bit.ly/3fE5qN2

Next SPaMCAST

The next Spamcast will feature our interview with Sandy Mamoli. Sandy is a world-class coach. We talked teams, and how high performing teams are formed. As a former Olympic athlete, Sandy has a unique perspective and as an Agile Coach, she has a wide range of experience with many types of teams.

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Podcast: Knowledge@Wharton (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Earth Day 2020: COVID-19 Reminds Us Why Science Matters
Pub date: 2020-04-23

Fifty years ago, the first Earth Day was inspired by a scientist. The pandemic teaches us to seek refuge in science again, writes Wharton's Eric W. Orts.

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Podcast: Knowledge@Wharton (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Pandemic Playbook: What Health Care Leaders Can Learn from Management Research
Pub date: 2020-05-12

Wharton’s Lawton R. Burns and Ingrid Nembhard have co-authored a five-point strategy guide for health care leaders during these uncertain times.

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Podcast: The Future of Work With Jacob Morgan (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How to Take Control of Your Time & Get More Done
Pub date: 2020-04-06

Laura Vanderkam is the author of several books on productivity and time management, including Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done and 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think.

These days most of us have been forced to step away from our normal routines, and that can feel stressful and chaotic at times. But as Laura shares, it is all about our internal dialogue and how we shape the way we handle the current situation. “It can be easy to tell ourselves stories about the chaos and how crazy it is and how you can get nothing done. But once you have a story in your mind, you start looking for evidence to support that. And so if your story is, Everything's crazy, I can't get anything done, this is horrible, this is terrible, well certainly you can find a couple of stressful moments in any given day, and then now you've got points of evidence supporting your story. But if you start from the story of, Well, this is challenging, but I am a resilient and productive individual, I will get through it, well you can also find evidence of that. You can celebrate little moments like, Wow, I just pitched a huge project over Zoom and it worked, they said yes.That's wow, great. Or, I managed to have lunch with my family. When does that happen on a weekday? So you can celebrate things like that.

In her book, Off the Clock, Laura shares seven strategies we can use to avoid stress and feel better about the hours we have. They are:

  • Tending your garden--we need to cultivate our time the same way we tend to a garden, and the work is never done
  • Make life memorable--People feel time is more abundant when they do things out of the ordinary
  • Don’t fill time--we are very good at filling time, a lot of times with unimportant things, but it is up to us to be mindful and choose what to do with our time
  • Linger--it is important to slow down and notice things. We need to learn to savor our time
  • Invest in your happiness--It is important to use our resources to spend more time on things we enjoy vs. things that make us wish time away
  • Let it go--Unhappiness stems from a mismatch between expectations and reality. If we can’t change reality, we have to learn to change our expectations
  • People are a good use of time--Interacting with others and spending time with people is never a waste of time

Putting these strategies into practice can help us take charge of our time. The fact is time is going to continue moving on whether we pay attention to it or not. It is so important to be aware of how we use our time because then we can pinpoint areas we need to work on in order to make every second count.

Laura’s advice to leaders of organizations is, “People who feel a sense of autonomy are generally far more happy and more productive. So as much as possible, if you can give people some control over their work, over when they do it, over how they work. I'm a big fan of, now we're all working remotely, but I'm a big fan of allowing people to do that from time to time, if that would make them feel better about it. Of letting people set their own hours, if that is remotely possible. And even people who do have to be scheduled for shift, maybe there could be a lot of input into when those shifts are, that people can work with each other to come up with shifts that they are all happy with, that it's not just decreed from above, that it's things people have a say in. And that can go a long way toward making people feel like they matter.

What you will learn:

  • Seven strategies to avoid stress and feel better about the hours we have
  • Laura’s thoughts on work-life integration and the hustle culture
  • How to change our view of the challenges we face
  • How to savor life’s best moments no matter how busy you are
  • How to make life memorable
  • How to invest in your happiness

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Podcast: The Future of Work With Jacob Morgan (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How to Build A High-Performing Team
Pub date: 2020-04-03

3 Ways to Build A High-Performing Team

People everywhere want to unlock the secret to building a high-performing team. After all, your team often makes or breaks the success of your company. When your team works together well, great things can happen. But often teams are slowed down by inefficiencies and difficulties.

From my experience working in a variety of teams and now assembling and leading my own team of 10 people around the world, here are three things you can implement today to build a high-performing team.

  1. Know strengths and weaknesses. This applies to yourself and the people on your team. Practice self-awareness and know what you’re good at and where you need help, and then find team members to help with your weaknesses. If you’re good at big-picture strategic planning but have a weakness in organization, find someone on your team who has organization as a strength. Optimize the roles people play on the team by keeping each person in their area of strength.
  2. Set clear and transparent goals. For a team to be high-performing, they have to know what they are working towards. Without clear goals, it’s hard to make progress. Make sure everyone on the team is on the same page with the goals, and be transparent about how and why the goals were created.
  3. Give and receive constant feedback. Feedback measures if you truly have a high-performing team. Instead of checking in with employees once a year for an annual review, keep an ongoing dialogue of information going back and forth. Let employees know what they are doing well and where they can improve, and let the feedback go both ways so you can continually improve, as well.

These three high-level strategies can have a huge impact on building and developing high-performing teams. By playing to each person’s strengths, setting common goals, and creating feedback loops, you can turn nearly any team into a high-performing team that works together to make great progress.

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Podcast: The Future of Work With Jacob Morgan (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Think Like a CEO: 3 Questions to Ask Yourself at Work Every Day
Pub date: 2020-04-17

Success at work has a lot to do with how you work, but it also relates to how you think. I’ve interviewed more than 300 top business executives and CEOs for my podcast and books and love to pick their brains about how they think and the habits they follow.

I’ve learned that success at work requires everyday effort and constant evaluation. It’s not something you can dedicate yourself to once, but something to be constantly tweaked and updated.

To be successful, follow the example of top business leaders. Ask yourself these three questions at work every day:

  1. What did I learn today? It’s no secret that the business world is changing rapidly. The things you learned in school or even at a conference a few years ago are likely largely outdated today. To be successful, you must become a perpetual learner. It requires conscious thought and energy to learn something new every day, whether it’s from a conversation with someone, a book, a podcast, or another source. If you start to notice multiple days in a row when you haven’t learned anything, it’s time to re-commit to regular and consistent learning.
  2. What is the best thing I did today? It’s easy to get hung up on what you didn’t accomplish in a day or the things that could have gone better. Instead, reflect on what you did well. What made you feel good, proud, or accomplished? Practice positivity and gratitude and you’ll be amazed by the positive changes in your life.
  3. What can I do better tomorrow? Some of the most successful people I’ve talked to are constantly evaluating themselves and tweaking their approach to work and relationships. Even small updates and changes can lead to big progress over time. Taking time to be self-aware and look for ways to improve sets you on a path for continual progress and development.

As a bonus question, ask yourself who you can help the next day. No matter if you’re a manager or an entry-level employee, there are always people you can help. It doesn’t have to be huge, but reaching out to someone and offering a helping hand shows humility and builds relationships.

Asking yourself these questions at the end of every day only takes a few minutes, but the practice of self-evaluation leads to strong self-discipline and continual improvement. If you want to be a business leader, you’ve got to think like one. And it starts by asking yourself these questions every day.

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Podcast: Allt du behöver veta om ny teknik
Episode: #16 - Henrik Henriksson, vd pÄ Scania. FrÄn rekordÄr till coronakris - sÄ ska Scania resa sig igen.
Pub date: 2020-04-17

RekordĂ„ret 2019 vĂ€ndes snabbt till en ovĂ€ntad och jobbig kris som tvingade Scania att stoppa all produktion och permitterade personal. Henrik Henriksson, vd pĂ„ Scania, berĂ€ttar hĂ€r om hur det var nĂ€r han insĂ„g vidden av coronakrisen, om hur företaget förbereder en Ă„terstart av produktionen och vad det innebĂ€r för resten av Ă„ret. Han svarar Ă€ven pĂ„ frĂ„gor som: Kommer produktionen igĂ„ng till normal nivĂ„ under 2020 - eller dröjer det till 2021? Vad hĂ€nder med rekryteringarna? Är det hĂ€r ett perfekt att omskola existerande personal? Varför Ă€r industrin sĂ„ sĂ„rbar för kriser? Vad hĂ€nder med portföljen inom forskning och utveckling? och mycket mera.


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Podcast: Agile Uprising Podcast (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Project Accounting with Dina Gofman
Pub date: 2020-03-08

Dina Gofman, the author of Forgetting the Money, talks to Brad Stokes about Project Accounting and how applying another lense understanding your projects. Dina has used Project Accounting for her own startups and helped others. Dina’s experience ranges across a multitude of projects and programs within a number of international organisations.

Dina has seen the pain caused when teams forget the money and how to account for the value they bring to the table.

Links:

http://projectaccounting.com.au https://www.amazon.com.au/Forgetting-Money-Dina-Gofman/dp/0646996681

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Podcast: Agile Uprising Podcast (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Work in the Time of Coronavirus with Lisette Sutherland, Mark Kilby, and Johanna Rothman
Pub date: 2020-03-15

Earlier this week we convened a panel of dislocated/distributed/remote work experts to discuss the impacts of the Coronavirus on the world of work, and to offer up some tips, tricks, and hints for those who are new to remote work. Join Lisette Sutherland, Mark Kilby, and Johanna Rothman as they sat down with Jay Hrcsko to have a fun and insightful conversation about this new paradigm, and maybe pick up some ideas along the way!

Lisette Sutherland

Lisette's Website

Collaboration Superpowers Website

Work Together Anywhere: A Handbook on Working Remotely

Mark Kilby

Mark's Website

From Chaos to Distributed Agile Teams: Collaborate to Deliver

Johanna Rothman

Johanna's Website

Johanna's Books on Amazon

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Podcast: Agile Uprising Podcast (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Audit & Compliance in Transformations
Pub date: 2020-04-12

Audit and Compliance...two of the scariest departments to engage in an agile transformation...but should they be? Guest Jon Schneider joins Andrew Leff, James Gifford, and Jay Hrcsko to talk about how to have positive interactions with your audit and compliance folks while you transform, as well as how to build strong relationships with this department going forward.  Enjoy!

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Podcast: Merge Conflict (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 196: Our Future Is Now
Pub date: 2020-04-06

Frank's family enters the world of video conferencing, and so do we! We break down all the options and spiral into random topics because that is our lives now.

Follow Us * Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub * James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub * Merge Conflict: Twitter, Facebook, Website, Chat on Discord * Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface

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Podcast: Finding Mastery (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Marc Randolph on The Creation of Netflix
Pub date: 2020-04-15

This week’s conversation is with Marc Randolph, a veteran Silicon Valley entrepreneur, advisor and investor.

Marc is the co-founder of Netflix, served as their founding CEO, as the executive producer of their web site, and as a member of their board of directors.

Although best known for starting Netflix, Marc’s career as an entrepreneur spans more than four decades.

He's founded or co-founded more than half a dozen other successful start-ups, mentored rising entrepreneurs including the co-founders of Looker Data which recently sold to Google for $2.6B, and invested in numerous successful tech ventures.

He is a frequent speaker at industry events, works extensively with young entrepreneur programs, sits on the board of the environmental advocacy group 1% for the Planet, and chairs the National Outdoor Leadership School’s Board of Trustees.

In this conversation we discuss how he and co-founder Reed Hastings developed the idea for Netflix, how to create a strong organizational culture, and why focus is the key for any entrepreneur.


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Podcast: Conversations with Tyler (LS 64 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Emily St. John Mandel on Fact, Fiction, and the Familiar
Pub date: 2020-04-08

When Tyler requested an interview with novelist Emily St. John Mandel, he didn’t expect that reality would have in some ways become an eerie mirror of her latest books. And Emily didn’t expect that it’d be boosting sales: “Why would anybody in their right mind want to read Station Eleven during a pandemic? she wondered to Tyler. Her reaction was pure bafflement until she found herself renting Contagion and thought about why. “There’s just such a longing in times of uncertainty to see how it ends. Narratives, especially familiar ones, soothe us. It’s fitting then that her latest book has been suggested as “the perfect novel for your survival bunker.

She joined Tyler to discuss The Glass Hotel, including why more white-collar criminals don’t flee before arrest, the Post Secret postcard that haunts her most, the best places to hide from the Russian mob, the Canadian equivalent of the “Florida Man, whether trophy wives are happy, how to slow down time, why she disagrees with Kafka on reading, the safest place to be during a global pandemic, how to get away with faking your own death, how A Canticle for Leibowitz influenced her writing, the permeability of moral borders, what surprised her about experiencing a real pandemic, how her background in contemporary dance makes her a better writer, adapting The Glass Hotel for a miniseries, her contrarian take on Frozen II, and more.

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Podcast: Schmidt List (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Innovation through Community with Stiles Anderson -Ep 115
Pub date: 2020-04-16

President at Studio/E, Stiles Anderson joins us to share their process in coaching organizations and individuals to create an impact with innovative ideas and processes.

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Podcast: Allt du behöver veta om ny teknik
Episode: #15 - Elin Öberg MĂ„rtenzon, vd Tengai om rekrytering med sociala robotar och framtiden för HR-tech.
Pub date: 2020-04-03

Elin Àr vd pÄ Tengai AB som tagit över utvecklingen av Furhat Robotics sociala intervjurobot Tengia. Ett lÀrorikt samtal för alla som Àr intresserade av framtidens rekrytering och utvecklingen av digital HR-tjÀnster. Givetvis testar vi Àven att genomföra en intervju med Tengai.


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Podcast: Making Sense with Sam Harris (LS 84 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: #194 — The New Future of Work
Pub date: 2020-03-25

In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Matt Mullenweg about the evolution of distributed work. They discuss the benefits of working from home, the new norms of knowledge work, relevant tools and security concerns, the challenges for managers, the importance of written communication, the necessity of innovating in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, delivery networks as critical infrastructure, economic recovery, and other topics.

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Podcast: LeadingAgile SoundNotes: an Agile Podcast (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Secret to Building the Right Thing w/ Will Evans
Pub date: 2020-03-26

In this episode of SoundNotes Will Evans is back to discuss why behavior trumps empathy and the secret to building the right thing.

During the interview, we explore the difference between traditional Personas and Behavioral Impact Personas. We also talk through how Impact Mapping can be used to move beyond Empathy Maps to deepen our understanding of what motivates people, what their needs are, what things to build, how well they have to perform to be considered valuable, and how to make sure we are solving the right problems for the right people at the right time.

In this podcast, you will learn how Impact Mapping can draw a clear connection between the things we are going to build, the problems we need to overcome, and how to create a change in behavior by specific people that allows us to move toward an outcome that achieves our desired goal.

Will has created a few graphics that we refer to in the interview and you’ll want to download them in order to get the most out of this podcast. You can find links to them below.

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Podcast: The Future of Work With Jacob Morgan (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Best Tips For Changing Jobs
Pub date: 2020-03-25

You’ve decided it’s time for a change and is ready to switch jobs. What should you do now? Switching jobs isn’t something that should be taken lightly, but if you find yourself in a toxic work environment where you can’t advance, it may be time to move on. After you’ve made the decision to look for a new job, here are three things to consider:

Understand why you want to leave People leave their jobs for a huge variety of reasons. Before you leave your job, make sure you’re leaving for the right reason, not a superficial reason like there not being enough perks or your desk not being in the right spot. A good reason to leave your current job is if you feel stuck or if you and your manager don’t get along, even after trying to improve the relationship. Changing jobs is exhausting, so before you get in too deep, make sure you are leaving for the right reasons.

Develop skills In our modern work environment, your skillset is often more important than your job title. Organizations value employees who have the right set of skills. Take the time before you leave your current job to develop skills that will make you desirable and valuable to future employers. Take advantage of programs or trainings your current employer might offer and build a skill portfolio.

Leave on good terms No matter how rocky the time at your current job has been, don’t burn any bridges on your way out. References and resumes still matter, so try to make things right before you leave. The last thing you want is a disgruntled former boss or co-worker making it difficult for you to move on to a new opportunity with a bad reference or a black spot on your resume.

Remember, you are in control of your career path. If you’re in a situation that isn’t getting better no matter how much effort you put forth, it could be time to switch jobs. Don’t take the decision lightly, and once you’ve decided to go, follow these three tips to ensure your job search and transition goes as smoothly as possible.

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Podcast: Finding Mastery (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Chip Conley on Overcoming Limiting Beliefs
Pub date: 2020-03-18

This week’s conversation is with Chip Conley, a boutique hotel entrepreneur who helped Airbnb's founders turn their fast-growing tech start-up into a global hospitality brand.

After selling Joie de Vivre Hospitality, the company he started as a rebel entrepreneur at age 26, Chip wasn't sure what was next.

He could have retired at age 52 but the young founders of Airbnb came calling.

Chip served as Airbnb’s Head of Global Hospitality & Strategy for four years — while also being CEO Brian Chesky’s mentor — and continues today as a Strategic Advisor to the company’s leadership.

Chip wrote about that experience in Wisdom@Work: The Making of a Modern Elder where he shares his unexpected journey at midlife — from CEO to intern.

While writing Wisdom@Work, Chip was inspired to build the world's first "midlife wisdom school," the Modern Elder Academy, with a 3-acre oceanfront campus in Baja California Sur, Mexico.

So why does Chip care so much about this idea of a “modern elder?

It’s because there were a few key points in Chip’s life where something was eating at him
 he knew he wasn’t on the right path but it could have been easy to stay the course.

Chip made the difficult but necessary decision in those moments to make a change and that’s at the heart of this conversation.

This is about authenticity, it’s about being in touch with your core principles, and ultimately, it’s about wisdom.

Chip’s seen it from every angle – entrepreneur, founder, mentor, and continues to make an impact on the next generation.


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Podcast: Allt du behöver veta om ny teknik
Episode: #12 Susanne Timsjö, robotchef pÄ ABB om framtidens robotik.
Pub date: 2020-03-13

Intervju med Susanne Timsjö, robotchef pÄ ABB, om industrins utmaningar, om intelligenta robotar som tar jobben frÄn industriarbetare, om möjligheten för smÄ tillverkningsföretag att anvÀnda mindre billigare robotar i tillverkningen. Podden gÀstas Àven Tomas Berg, Nordenchef pÄ Schunk och han deltar i diskussionen om robotlyftet, flexibel automation och framtiden för svensk industri.

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Episode: #13 Patrick Cordner, chef SC3 (Nationellt IT-brottscentrum)om modernt utredningsarbete.
Pub date: 2020-03-20

Stor intervju med Patrick Cordner, chef pÄ SC3 (nationellt It-brottscentrum). Ett samtal om.* Utredningar om komplexa cyberbrott och andra brott dÀr digitala verktyg utgör navet för brottsligheten. * Polisens behov av digital specialistkompetens, * DataavlÀsning med trojaner och bitcoinbedrÀgerier, * KnarkhÀrvan pÄ darknet och flugsvamp 2.0. * Om nya möjligheter med ai och maskininlÀrning, bitcoinbedrÀgerier.aVrför det Àr sÄ krÄngligt att lÀsa av meddelanden i Whatsapp och Facebook Messenger.


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Podcast: Success Through Failure with Jim Harshaw Jr (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: #229 From Xprize to GitHub, Jono Bacon Shares How and Why to Build (and Join) Communities To Support Your Mission (38:14)
Pub date: 2020-01-06

Action Plan: https://jimharshawjr.com/ACTION Free Clarity Call: https://jimharshawjr.com/APPLY

Building a community to support your mission.

Jono Bacon is a leading community strategist, speaker, author, and podcaster and the founder of Jono Bacon Consulting. He has served as director of community at GitHub, Canonical, XPRIZE, and other companies. His clients include Huawei, Microsoft, Intel, Google, Sony Mobile, Deutsche Bank, Santander, and others. He is the author of the critically-acclaimed The Art of Community and his newest book, People Powered. He’s a columnist for Forbes and founder of the Community Leadership Summit and Open Collaboration Conferences.

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About Your Host Jim Harshaw

My name is Jim Harshaw. And I know where you’re at. You’re working hard and qualified for what you do but you aren’t getting what you want. You have plans on getting to the C-suite or launching a business but ultimate success seems as far away today as ever. You’re in the right place because you can get there from here.

And I can help.

Who I Am

I’m a speaker, coach, and former Division I All-American wrestler that helps motivated former athletes to reach their full potential by getting clarity on what they really want and taking aggressive action to lead their ideal life not just despite their prior failures but because of them.

I’m a husband and father of four. And I’m a serial entrepreneur. I’ve launched multiple successful businesses as well as the obligatory failed one. I’ve been the executive director of a non-profit and have raised millions of dollars. I’ve worked in sales. I’ve even been a Division I head coach. While I was born in a blue-collar home I have spent my life surrounded by Olympians, CEO’s and millionaires.

Jim Rohn said, “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

I’ve been lucky.

I’ve learned the habits of successful people and guess what. You’re just like them. I know because I know your type. You’re programmed for hard work, which is a prerequisite for success, but you’ve never been shown how to use what you know to create the life you want with the tools you have.

I will show you how.

Why You Are Here

You've worked hard to achieve greatness. You’ve set goals and maybe even set records. You’ve definitely failed and you’ve at some point found yourself questioning if you were on the right track.

You need to understand this: You are far more prepared to succeed than those who’ve not tried, competed, struggled and overcome like you have. That’s the value of your education as someone who aims high. You are prepared to be as successful as your wildest dreams will allow.

Here I will teach you, with the help of brilliant minds that have been shaped by failure, struggle, and adversity, to be who you want to be. I sense that you want this because you have read this far.

To take the next step today, click here.

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Podcast: Agile Uprising Podcast (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Agile Coaches: Start, Stop, Continue
Pub date: 2020-03-01

What exactly is an agile coach?  When should you hire one?  Do you ever need to "refresh" your coaching contingent?  And when do you cut them loose?  Join our panel comprised of Coalition member Rob Legatie along with Andy Cleff, Chris Murman, James Gifford, and Jay Hrcsko as they discuss these questions and a ton more!

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Podcast: Engineering Culture by InfoQ (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Diana Larsen on the Origins of Agility and Agile Fluency
Pub date: 2020-02-24

In this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Diana Larsen about the origins of what became agile development, where business agility is header and the agile fluency project .

Why listen to this podcast:

‱ There is a deep history of business improvement initiatives that predates the agile manifesto ‱ It was a part of a cultural movement that was moving more toward more humane workplaces that could deliver more value ‱ When you give people a good environment and good support to do their work, you get better work and better products ‱ The ideas of business agility predate the work in agile development – engaging support structures in organisations to enable change ‱ You can't change one part of a system without it having effects on other parts of the system ‱ The Agile Fluency Model is a tool to help teams diagnose themselves and to expose the system to leadership

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Podcast: The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: #77 Mike Maples: Living in the Future
Pub date: 2020-03-03

Mike Maples, a partner at the VC firm Floodgate, shares how mental models shape his decision-making process, where to find the next big idea, and how to rally people to your cause.

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Podcast: Allt du behöver veta om ny teknik
Episode: #3 Peter Ottsjö och Simon Campanello: Allt om framtidens mobiler.
Pub date: 2019-11-08

2019 har varit ett spÀnnande Är för smarta mobiler. Ny Tekniks experter har testat Ärets prestigelurar. I det hÀr avsnittet fÄr du bland annat svaren pÄ.

-Hur bra Àr vikbara Samsungs Galaxy Fold?

-Vilken Àr Ärets bÀsta mobil?

-Kan man rekommendera en person att köpa en mobil frÄn Huawei?

-Vilka Àr de stora tekniktrenderna och vad kan vi förvÀnta oss av lanseringarna 2020?

Programledare: Per Danielson, chefredaktör pÄ Ny Teknik och Anna Orring, nyhetschef pÄ Ny Teknik.

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Podcast: Allt du behöver veta om ny teknik
Episode: #5 Marcus Boijemyr och Stefan Ytterborn: Vad krÀvs för att gÄ frÄn idé till succéartad startup?
Pub date: 2019-12-06

Den svenska tech- och startupindustrin Àr fortfarande stekhet. Men mÄnga utmaningar vÀntar för att vi ska behÄlla vÄr position. I det hÀr avsnittet berÀttar Marcus Boijemyr om hur Sveriges största startupinvesterare, Almi Invest, jobbar och tipsar om sina tre favoritbolag. Vi pratar med serieentreprenören Stefan Ytterborn om resan att utmana en hel industri med elmotorcykeln Cake. Vi pratar om Slush och hur man tar en plats pÄ Sveriges bÀsta startuplista, 33-listan 2020.

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Episode: #8 Peter Ottsjö: Allt du behöver veta om 5G och lite till
Pub date: 2020-01-31

Hur transporteras och behandlas data i ett mobilnÀtverk? Hur gÄr signalen frÄn din telefon, till radiomasten och ut till internet?

Vad skiljer egentligen ett 5g-nĂ€tverk frĂ„n 3g och 4g? Vad Ă€r millimeterband, beamforming och network slicing? Är strĂ„lningen farlig? Ny Tekniks expert Peter Ottsjö ger svaren.

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Podcast: Finding Mastery (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Decoding Disruptors: Bozoma Saint John, CMO at Endeavor
Pub date: 2020-02-08

I'm excited to introduce you to our new series, Decoding Disruptors, a special edition of Finding Mastery, presented by Microsoft.

For the past 8 years, Compete to Create and I have had the privilege of working with Microsoft, beginning with their CEO, Satya Nadella, and his executive team -- and then an additional 30,000 people across the company.

Microsoft has radically transformed under Satya’s leadership, with his emphasis on building a culture around mindset, inclusion, and diversity, to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

This series is the company’s initiative to celebrate 9 female industry leaders who have disrupted the narrative in their businesses, industries, and communities.

We filmed each episode and created condensed clips based on their insights. You can watch them at decodingdisruptors.com.

We've also decided to release a few of the episodes with extended footage on the Finding Mastery podcast feed – and in this first episode, I sit down with Bozoma Saint John.

You can listen here.

Bozoma's a marketing rock star who has led some of the world’s biggest brands.

She’s currently the CMO of Endeavor, formerly William Morris Endeavor, one of the most powerful talent agency's in Hollywood, that sits at the epicenter of culture.

Previous to that she was at Uber, Apple Music and iTunes, Beats, and PepsiCo.

Bozoma was inducted into Billboard’s “Women in Music Hall of Fame and was also featured on AdWeek’s cover as one of the most exciting personalities in advertising.

All that being said, Bozoma’s superpower is her authenticity.

In this episode, you’ll get a sense of how she unapologetically brings herself into a room and just lights it up.

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Podcast: The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: #74 Jeff Hunter: Embracing Confusion
Pub date: 2020-01-21

CEO of Talentism, Jeff Hunter, teaches how to rewrite damaging narratives that hold us back, how to give and receive helpful feedback, and why confusion can be a good thing.

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Podcast: Schmidt List (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Creating Leadership Breakthroughs with Team Dynamics - Ep 109
Pub date: 2020-02-12

Many organizations struggle to innovate and grow because of failing to remove bias from the hiring process, ignoring internal power imbalances, and failing on diversity initiatives.

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Podcast: Inside Intercom Podcast (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Scale: Tray.io’s VP of Marketing Alex Ortiz on embracing the era of automation
Pub date: 2020-02-13

This week, Brian Kotlyar, Intercom’s Senior Director of Demand Generation, speaks with Alex Ortiz, VP of Marketing at Tray.io about why we shouldn’t fear automation in the workplace.

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Podcast: Knowledge@Wharton (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: PGIM’s David Hunt: Why Investment Firms Need a Meritocratic Culture
Pub date: 2020-02-10

In most investment firms, important decisions are made by senior leaders. But it is more effective to have managers closer to the ground make these calls, says David Hunt, president and CEO of PGIM.

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Podcast: Inside Intercom Podcast (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Miro CEO Andrey Khusid on the art of distributed teamwork
Pub date: 2020-01-16

Miro co-founder and CEO, Andrey Khusid, joins John Collins (Content Director, Intercom) for a chat about future of distributed teamwork and the challenge of scaling a business across continents and timezones

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Podcast: Inside Intercom Podcast (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Scale: From marketplace to SaaS business: How Udemy acquired 80% of the Fortune 100
Pub date: 2020-01-31

Udemy for Business, VP of Marketing Yvonne Chen chats to Brian Kotlyar (Senior Director, Demand Generation at Intercom) and shares how the company built a thriving SaaS business on top of its marketplace.

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Podcast: The New Stack Podcast (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Will Kubernetes Drive Cloud-Native Telcos?
Pub date: 2019-12-05

The New Stack Editor in Chief Alex Williams sat down at last month’s Kubecon to talk about telco’s cloud-native future with Heather Kirksey, VP of community and ecosystems at OPNFV, and Taylor Carpenter, partner and founder of Vulk Coop design and development cooperative. The different collaborative, telecom-focused Linux Foundation and CNCF working groups that Kirksey and Carpenter are a part of have witnessed — and sometimes driven — telco’s move over the last five years from monolithic hardware appliances toward what’s now known as the cloud.

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Podcast: Thoughtworks Technology Podcast (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Cloud migration is a journey not a destination
Pub date: 2019-11-28

The allure of cloud, with its promises of cost benefits, greater stability and more recently as the lynchpin of digital transformation, is well understood. But if such promises are to be realized, tech leaders need to think beyond just lifting and shifting on-prem applications into the cloud.

In this episode, we’re delighted to welcome a new co-host to our team: Ashok Subramanian, Head of Technology, ThoughtWorks UK. He’s joined by our regular host Alexey Boas and special guest, Alexandre Goedert, Head of Technology, ThoughtWorks Chile.

Together they explore what cloud migration means today, now that the big three cloud platform providers have practically met feature parity. They look at the implications of cloud-to-cloud migration and help uncover some of the hidden costs.

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Podcast: no dogma podcast (LS 30 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: #135 Bob Martin, Clean Agile
Pub date: 2019-12-09

Summary

Bob Martin talks about his new book, the origins of agile, its current state and his hopes for its future.

Details

Who he is, what he does. Frustration and writing his new book - Clean Agile. What agile is, small idea for small teams to execute small projects. "fuss and muss" and the origins of agile; small steps - code, tests and Mercury capsule; bloat and unnecessary processes. Impact of universities on the software field. Agile meeting in Snowbird. Project success and failure, with and without agile, “agile is a feedback mechanism...it tries to get the bad news out as early as possible. What happened to “agile is as small idea; agile as part of a job title. How agile should affect programming, small feedback loops; ceremonies; agile provides lots of data, micro-management. Bryan’s story about chefs and agile, “Agile is the way programmers were seen to behave in the wild. The business and agile, deadlines. No promises, no commitment. Why agile hasn’t changed or been replaced over the years. No scientific studies of agile or programming. Agile certification. Agile has simple riles but is difficult to master. Bob’s hopes for the future of agile. Why he is “Uncle Bob.

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Podcast: LeadingAgile SoundNotes: an Agile Podcast (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: What if You Don’t Have a Product Owner? w/ Sara McClintock & Jeff Streitmatter
Pub date: 2019-10-18

The dilemma of what to do if you don’t have a Product Owner is one of the more commonly recurring questions that I get in the CSM and CSPO classes. In this episode of SoundNotes, LeadingAgile’s Sara McClintock and Jeff Streitmatter join me to talk through the challenges of not having anyone acting as a dedicated PO. During the discussion, we explore why the role is so critical, how not having one impact’s the team’s ability to deliver valuable work that is in sync with company strategy and we offer some tips on how to cope with not having someone to fill this critical role.

Contacting Sara McClintock If you’d like to contact Sara you can reach her at:

  • Web: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/sara-mcclintock/
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saramcclintock/
  • Email: sara.mcclintock@leadingagile.com

Contacting Jeff Streitmatter If you’d like to contact Jeff you can reach him at:

  • Web: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/jeff-streitmatter/
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffstreitmatter/
  • Email: jeff.streitmatter@leadingagile.com

Contacting Dave Prior If you’d like to contact Dave you can reach him at:

  • LeadingAgile: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungo
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrsungo
  • Email: dave.prior@leadingagile.com

If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to dave.prior@leadingagile.com

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Podcast: LeadingAgile SoundNotes: an Agile Podcast (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Understanding The Impact Of Your Investment in Agile Transformation w/ Doug Spencer
Pub date: 2019-12-05

When large enterprises make the decision to invest in Agile Transformation they often do so with the expectation that it will have some positive impact on their ability to deliver. In theory, if we can deliver more of the right things in shorter time frames at a higher quality level, that should provide some kind of quantifiable return on investment.

When the conversation turns to the question of “How is the transformation going? it is common to focus on metrics that center around how many teams or groups within the organization have begun adopting Agile practices, where they are in the journey towards Agile, how individual teams are performing, etc. But what is often harder to understand is what is the benefit, or return on the investment it is making in Agile Transformation.

To put it simply, we’re spending money, we’re doing the things
 but what kind of financial (or other) impact is that money having on the organization and on our system of delivery?

In this episode of SoundNotes, LeadingAgile Principal Consultant, Doug Spencer joins Dave for a conversation about some of the ways you can begin to measure and quantify the impact of an Agile Transformation on your organization at the portfolio level.

Contacting Doug Spencer * Web: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/doug-spencer/ * Email: doug.spencer@leadingagile.com

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  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrsungo
  • Email: dave.prior@leadingagile.com

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Podcast: 25 minuter (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: #141: Konkurrensfördelar & nÀr de bestÄr (Del 2)
Pub date: 2019-11-04

Vi fortsĂ€tter diskussionen om konkurrensfördelar frĂ„n förra avsnittet. BestĂ„ende konkurrensfördelar Ă€r kanske det enskilt viktigaste begreppet inom affĂ€rsstrategi, och i att bedöma varför ett företag Ă€r mer lönsamt eller framgĂ„ngsrikt Ă€n ett annat. I detta avsnitt: * Vad Ă€r konkurrensfördelar – och hur kan de bestĂ„? * 4 anledningar varför det Ă€r svĂ„rt att hitta företag med bestĂ„ende konkurrensfördelar * Varför konkurrensfördelar sĂ€llan bestĂ„r mer Ă€n 5 Ă„r * MĂ„ste man hitta företag med bestĂ„ende konkurrensfördelar? * TvĂ„ rekommendationer för hur du kan spendera din tid

Om du vill lÀra dig (1) alla olika sorters konkurrensfördelar ett företag kan ha, (2) hur man identifierar dessa konkurrensfördelar, och (3) hur man ser om de kan bestÄ över lÀngre tidsperioder som 10-15 Är, kan du kolla vÄr hemsida: Finanskursen. Vi öppnar portarna för Finanskursen 30e november. Tidiga ansökare ges förtur.

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Podcast: 25 minuter (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: #140: BestÄende Konkurrensfördelar: Den ultimata artefakten inom finans
Pub date: 2019-10-28

Att hitta företag som Àr överlÀgsna andra över lÄnga tidsperioder.

BestÄende konkurrensfördelar Àr kanske det enskilt viktigaste begreppet inom affÀrsstrategi, och i att bedöma varför ett företag Àr mer lönsamt eller framgÄngsrikt Àn ett annat.

I detta avsnitt:

  • Vad Ă€r konkurrensfördelar – och hur kan de bestĂ„?
  • Varför konkurrensfördelar sĂ€llan bestĂ„r mer Ă€n 5 Ă„r
  • Steve Jobs stora misstag, enligt Amazons grundare Jeff Bezos
  • 4 anledningar varför det Ă€r svĂ„rt att hitta företag med bestĂ„ende konkurrensfördelar

Om du vill lÀra dig (1) alla olika sorters konkurrensfördelar ett företag kan ha, (2) hur man identifierar dessa konkurrensfördelar, och (3) hur man ser om de kan bestÄ över lÀngre tidsperioder som 10-15 Är, kolla in Finanskursen.

Vi öppnar portarna för Finanskursen 30e november.

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Podcast: Lean Startup (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Reduce Uncertainty and Increase Winning | Chris Cochella
Pub date: 2019-09-03

We recently hosted a conversation between Chris Cochella, Executive Business Coach at Sequoia Group, and Adam Berk, Lean Startup Co. Faculty Member, about the value and application of mental models for extremely uncertain Lean Startup situations.

In Chris and Adam’s conversation, they discuss: - What is a mental model and how can they help you? - What is first conclusion bias and how can it help and/or hurt you? - Three critical mental models that can help the Lean Startup entrepreneur subvert the first conclusion bias.

And much, much more


Lean Startup methods are intended to reduce uncertainty in a highly uncertain environment. Warren Buffett likes to say, “I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars, I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over. As entrepreneurs, we are looking to lower the height of the uncertainty hurdle while making decisions and moving forward. Another way to look at this approach is to create a situation where: heads, I win; tails, I don’t lose much. The Lean Startup approach is all about using all available tools to reduce the hurdle height and increase the likelihood of winning. It’s about stacking the odds in your favor.

Lean Startup is a toolbox full of mental models to stop and interrupt the waste caused by simplistic, fast, and easy “first order thinking like cognitive biases. Applying Lean Startup mental models helps to provide deliberate, valuable “second order thinking to the entrepreneur and intrapreneur that will help reduce uncertainty. While many people are familiar with mental models, we will highlight the value and application of mental models for extremely uncertain Lean Startup situations.

Email us: education@leanstartup.co Follow Lean Startup Co. @leanstartup https://leanstartup.co/education

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Podcast: Lean Startup (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Building A Startup For Long-Term Success | Eric Ries & Alton McDowell
Pub date: 2019-12-11

This conversation between Alton McDowell, Co-head of Technology and Disruptive Commerce at J.P. Morgan, and Eric Ries took place at the Lean Startup Conference in San Francisco.

Eric and his team are known for creating a movement within the startup community and have helped companies make lasting impacts and experience sustainable growth. In this conversation, he talks with Alton about startup trends, lessons he’s learned along the way, and best practices entrepreneurs can follow.

Email us: education@leanstartup.co Follow Lean Startup Co. @leanstartup https://leanstartup.co/education

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Podcast: Software Process and Measurement Cast (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: SPaMCAST 568 - Agile Mindset, Passion, and Experimentation, An Interview With Sandeep Koorse
Pub date: 2019-10-13

This week in SPaMCAST 568 marks the return of Sandeep Koorse. Sandeep brings deep insight into the Agile mindset, passion, and experimentation. All three are required for a healthy team. Sandeep last appeared as part of SPaMCAST 511.

Sandeep is an innovative leader with over 15 years of experience in helping companies achieve higher results through a careful evaluation of their processes and their technology. Known for determining the metrics and behaviors that promote consistent excellence then sharing those values with colleagues through influence and authority. Recognized by peers for exceptional problem-solving abilities, excellent communication skills, and a passion for the community. Reach out to Sandeep at sandeep@koorse.com

Re-Read Saturday News

I am hiking volcanoes this week, literally! The 400+ page copy of Thinking, Fast and Slow has not been in my day pack (it is in the luggage). We will be back next week.

Remember, if you do not have a favorite, dog-eared copy of Thinking, Fast and Slow, please buy a copy. Using the links in this blog entry helps support the blog and its alter-ego, The Software Process and Measurement Cast. Buy a copy on Amazon, It’s time to get reading!

If you have not, check out last week’s installment! Chapter 23: The Outside View http://bit.ly/35dOibJ

Upcoming Events

Pacific NW Software Quality Conference will be held in Portland, Oregon beginning October 14th through the 16th. I will be speaking on the 15th! Register now: https://www.pnsqc.org/2019-conference/

I am doing a webinar on value stream and process flow mapping for The Great IT Professional Organization on October 22, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EST. The registration link is http://bit.ly/2VaFzm3 The webinar is free! I hope you have time to be in the audience!

Next SPaMCAST

SPaMCAST 569 will feature our essay on the 5 types of meetings. Meetings are the most important event in any organization — well that is what it seems like. It can also be said that meetings are the bane of every human that isn’t buying or selling something (and that caveat might be an overstatement). Lets put a name on the 5 most common types in software-centric organizations.

We will also have a visit from Jeremy Berriault who will bring his QA Corner to the podcast!

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Podcast: Software Process and Measurement Cast (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: SPaMCAST 571 - The Art of Saying No, Jiu-Jitsu and Teams, Essays and Conversations
Pub date: 2019-11-03

SPaMCAST 571 features our essay titled the Art of Saying No. I recently presented a workshop on saying no -- a simple word that is very difficult to say. During the session, three specific reasons why participants could not say no generated a huge debate. Today we ask you to decide how you feel about the impact of a history of performance, interruptions, and demands. Feel free to share your opinion.

We will also have a visit from Jeremy Berriault. In the QA Corner this month, Jeremy provides observations about outside interests and their ability to improve focus and reduce burnout. Jeremy’s outside interests are Jiu-Jitsu and his family. Jeremy can be reached at Berriault and Associates Consulting Group or by email at Jeremy.Berriault@Berriaultandassociates.com.

We had planned to have Michael Larsen on the cast this week, however, Mr. Larsen was affected by power outages in the Bay Area of California due to wildfires.

Re-Read Saturday News

In this week’s installment of our re-read of Thinking, Fast and Slow we consider Chapter 25, Bernoulli’s Errors. When I first read the chapter I struggled with how Kahneman’s ideas translated to process improvement and change programs. I was naive enough to believe that the majority of outcomes could be predicted based on the economic outcome. After seeing more than one change program fail even though they could have had a positive return on investment, it dawned on me that the context and preexisting conditions as described in Chapter 25 should play a part in planning for change.

Remember, if you do not have a favorite, dog-eared copy of Thinking, Fast and Slow, please buy a copy. Using the links in this blog entry helps support the blog and its alter-ego, The Software Process and Measurement Cast. Buy a copy on Amazon, It’s time to get reading!

The current installment of Re-read Saturday

Chapter 25 - Bernoulli’s Errors http://bit.ly/32bJ8dV

Next SPaMCAST

SPaMCAST 572 will feature our interview with Michael Larsen -- assuming the fires and Santa Ana winds cooperate. Michael and I will discuss testability. Anyone that has participated in delivering software EVER has wrestled with this problem. Michael brings fresh and actionable insights into how to assure testability.

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Podcast: Software Process and Measurement Cast (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: SPaMCAST 574 - Solutions Architect, An Interview with Ian Reynolds
Pub date: 2019-11-24

SPaMCAST 574 features our interview with Ian Reynolds, chief Solutions Architect at Zibtek We answered the question, What is a solution architect? The discussion coved ideas across starts-ups, medium, and large-sized businesses. Ian paints the solutions architect as an action hero whose raison d'ĂȘtre is to deliver business value.

Ian’s Bio:

Ian is a partner and chief Solutions Architect at Zibtek - a software development firm focused on helping businesses of all sizes in the US to solve their core problems with the software. Ian has spent his career consulting and helping different industries to empower greater profitability and efficiency. He loves to share his experiences and ideas on building the right tools through custom software.

Website: www.zibtek.com

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/zibtek/

Facebook: www.facebook.com/Zibtek/

Twitter: twitter.com/zibtek

Re-Read Saturday News

In this week’s installment of our re-read of Thinking, Fast and Slow we talk about bad events. The chapters in Part 4 of Thinking Fast and Slow are relatively short and punchy, but the ideas aren’t small. I think these chapters are the most useful on a day-to-day basis. Chapter 28 goes into depth on the concept of loss aversion. Loss aversion works because people evaluate outcomes as losses or gains, and losses loom larger than gains.

Remember, if you do not have a favorite, dog-eared copy of Thinking, Fast and Slow, please buy a copy. Using the links in this blog entry helps support the blog and its alter-ego, The Software Process and Measurement Cast. Buy a copy on Amazon, It’s time to get reading!

The current installment of Re-read Saturday

Week 28: Chapter 28 - Bad Events http://bit.ly/33hAgUi

Next SPaMCAST

SPaMCAST 575 will feature our essay on the lightning-rod issue, hybridizing agile methods and techniques. An action many people perform without a good handle on the pitfalls.

We will also have a visit from Jon M Quigley and his Alpha and Omega of Product Development column.

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Podcast: You Are Not So Smart (LS 64 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: 167 - How to Talk to People About Things (rebroadcast)
Pub date: 2019-11-18

In this episode, we sit down with negotiation expert Misha Glouberman who explains how to talk to people about things -- that is, how to avoid the pitfalls associated with debate when two or more people attempt to come to an agreement that will be mutually beneficial.

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Podcast: Supertanker
Episode: Supertanker: Du bliver et urmenneske under pres
Pub date: 2019-11-04

Vi er civiliserede mennesker. Vi har tillÊrt os koder, dannelse og etikette, sÄ vi kan omgÄs mange mennesker pÄ lidt plads uden at ryge i totterne pÄ hinanden. Vi skÊndes sjÊldent om territorium eller fÞde i den moderne civilisation. Men hvis vi bliver pressede, er situationen en anden. Hvis vi f.eks. pludselig ikke har tag over hovedet eller mad i kÞleskabet. Hvis nogen pludselig tager en lederrolle pÄ sig, som vi ikke synes de har fortjent eller er kvalificerede til. Eller hvis nogen ikke trÊkker deres del af lÊsset. SÄ dukker urmennesket op i os, og vi bliver sendt ned i evolutionspsykologiens grundmekanismer. SÄ kan civilisation vÊre civilisation, og etikette og dannelse vÊre lige meget. For sÄ er det den stÊrkeste, der overlever. DR1-programmerne "Øen - en ny begyndelse" undersÞger, hvad der sker, nÄr vi mister alt fra vores moderne samfund - og Supertanker filosoferer over, hvordan psyke og gruppeadfÊrd udfordres under pres. Medvirkende: Lise Lotte Christensen, adfÊrdskonsulent i Dansk Kennel Klub, deltager pÄ Øen. Mathias Iversen, student pÄ sabbatÄr, handicaphjÊlper og pÊdagogmedhjÊlper, deltager pÄ Øen. Henrik HÞgh Olesen, professor i social- og personlighedspsykologi, Aarhus Universitet. TilrettelÊgger og vÊrt: Carsten Ortmann. (Sendt fÞrste gang 4. november).

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Podcast: The Psychology Podcast (LS 66 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: [Rerun] Tim Ferriss on Accelerated Learning, Peak Performance and Living the Good Life
Pub date: 2019-09-19

Three time bestselling author and human guinea pig Tim Ferriss discusses how to become top 5% in the world with a new skill in just 6-12 months. Scott and Tim debunk the 10,000 hour rule, discuss general principles for accelerated skill acquisition, consider what it means to live the good life and take a sneak peak at Tim’s new show The Tim Ferris Experiment.


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Podcast: The Psychology Podcast (LS 66 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: [Rerun] Angela Duckworth on Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
Pub date: 2019-10-03

Angela Duckworth researches self-control and grit, which is defined as passion and perseverance for long term goals. Her research has demonstrated that there are factors that can be more predictive of success than IQ. In this episode we cover some of her findings on grit, including academic and popular misconceptions of this work. We also discuss research on standardized testing, self-control and more.


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