Topic
company culture
- How Cultures Accumulate
- Images Of Organization
This book is dense and fascinating. Highly recommended to anyone intrigued by how companies, organizations, or groups in general operate — the driving psychologies behind different types of orgs.
- The Cynefin Framework
- Coordination Headwinds
Transaction costs are unavoidable, and with a scaling team, these drags of coordination slow every team down. It's a law of business physics. Here's Venkatesh Rao, commenting on this excellent slide deck from Alex Kom…
- Big Firms Need to Be Sluggish
Arnold Kling raises interesting points here about the nature of big companies. The incentives and physics of large company dynamics essentially demand that they move slowly. Sometimes this slowness looks like indecisi…
- Anti Portfolio Theory of Product
Often you hear product teams talking about their roadmap in investor-like terms. Managing their upcoming initiatives like a financial portfolio, distributing their bets among things of various categories, sizes, and r…
- Against Recurring Meetings
I have a bone to pick with recurring meetings. They've become a scourge that's been amplified with fully distributed teams. What may start with clear intent as a space for a team to coordinate continuous work eventual…
- Don't Confuse Motion With Progress
When I read Cal Newport's Deep Work a few years ago, one of my favorite ideas in the book that I keep coming back to in conversations is the idea of "busyness as a proxy for productivity". Here's how he puts it: In th…
- Hard Edges, Soft Middle
Have you had that feeling of being several weeks into a project, and you find yourself wandering around, struggling to wrangle the scope back to what you thought it was when you started? It's an easy trap to fall into…
- Peak Meeting Efficiency
An epic post from Steven Sinofsky about all forms of meetings, when to use them, when not to use them. The list of dysfunctions and countering tactics is full of gems. The thing is that most people say they don’t want…