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Posts from Awesome Folks #11
Emily Webber
May 20, 2022
Hello!
This week, I have lots going on as I enter into the house selling and buying process. Taken from previous experience, I expect a lot of frustration and shouting "why is this so broken" to be happening over the coming months. With that in mind, I have spent most of my spare time looking at Rightmove and not blog posts. But here are a few things that caught my eye.
Happy reading and happy Friday
Emily
People and culture
How to build and scale a Staff+ engineering community
The public visibility of these roles has overtaken our internal processes for cultivating the individuals who inhabit them.
Organisations and systems
Setting up a product function from scratch – Maggie Crowley on The Product Experience
What would it be like to join a new company and set up a new product from scratch? On this week’s podcast, we spoke to Maggie Crowley all about her experiences of doing this and her best tips. We also had some time to discuss best practices with metrics and hypotheses in product.
Setting and measuring goals
How to make product decisions with transparency and trust by Ellen Gottesdierner
Healthy product decision-making is a sign of a healthy product team. In this ProductTank London talk, product coach Ellen Gottesdierner highlights some of the dysfunctions around decision making and offers ways to overcome them.
Tools and approaches for teams
Three myths about high-performing teams
There’s a lot of talk in the industry about building high-performing teams. Everyone who has come across Accelerate [1] and DORA [2] knows that
Icebreakers you can steal for a better meeting (I promise)
What kicks off a day of collaborative work on a good note? How do you create a sense of camaraderie amongst colleagues or perfect strangers? The truth is simple: icebreakers. Now, bear with me, because I know there’s a perception that they’re old school, or fluffy, or even cheesy.
How the Best Teams Keep Good Ideas Alive
Leaders face rising pressure to include more voices in day-to-day decision making. Soliciting diverse perspectives across the organizational hierarchy makes good business sense: It’s been shown to improve innovation and help employees feel valued and avoid burnout.
Team Alignment in 3 hrs: What, So What, Now What x 1–2–4-All (With free Mural template)
The situation is volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous, overwhelming (VUCA”O”). We have an immediate, mission critical challenge to tackle. We need team alignment, and as leader I am tempted to exercise strong command — I am thinking “Now’s not the time for democracy.
Other thoughts
Daydreaming is better than doomscrolling Carry a book everywhere
My friend Anna is a novelist and a reader. By which I mean: she reads books. Lots of books. After all, if you’re going to be a novelist, you need to do a lot of reading. You need to know what else is out there. You need to understand what the publishing world is interested in.
