Posts from Awesome folks #6

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Emily Webber
April 14, 2022

Hello hello,

The UK has a four day weekend starting on Friday, thanks to Easter, so I'm sending this newsletter a day early.

I've also been away this week, so less reading things on the internet and more enjoying the beautiful, but bracing British seaside. Here are the things that snuck in.

Enjoy.

Emily

People and culture

A conversation with Amy Edmondson about psychological safety and the future of work

This is a transcript of my interview with Amy Edmondson for the Leadermorphosis podcast. Amy is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School and author of the books “Teaming” and “The Fearless Organisation.

When Crisis Management Becomes Conflict Management

“I don’t get it,” said a senior executive. “Things are looking brighter and our business is rocketing back. We should be fired up that our normal lives are just around the corner.

Myth: self-managing organisations are diverse, equitable, and inclusive

Many people I speak to think that transitioning to self-management will ‘solve’ diversity, equity, and inclusion. Inspired by books like Reinventing Organisations, the hope is self-management and wholeness will create a utopia of human beings in harmony.

Organisations and systems

How “Engineering-Driven” Leads to “Engineering-Supremacy”

Honeycomb has a reputation for being a very engineering-driven company. No surprise there, since it was founded by two engineers and our mission involves building an engineering product for other engineers.

Setting goals and measuring value

Customer Surveys Are No Substitute for Actually Talking to Customers

I’ll never forget the questionnaire handed to me midway through a flight from Los Angeles to Sydney. It was massive. Page after page of detailed tick-the-box or circle-the-response questions – it seemed to me it would take the full 13-hour flight to complete.

OKR Leadership: Without trust for your teams OKRs fail

I regularly cover the tactical techniques teams need to practice in order to work successfully with OKRs. This week, I am going to start a series of posts that take a look at what it means to lead organizations that use OKRs.

Tools and approaches for teams

Henrik Kniberg : Multiple WIP vs One Piece Flow Example

A short Youtube clip

Pair Product Management

Pair programming is by now a quite well known development technique. Developers that have tried it out and chose to go with it, report that they learn more, feel more productive and in general get more satisfaction out of their work.

Rituals at Work: Teams That Play Together Stay Together

Love them or hate them, team-building rituals can fortify bonds among coworkers and create the shared sense that work is more meaningful, which may be especially critical now as managers look to reconnect colleagues re-adjusting to work life after two years of COVID-19 upheaval.

The four habits of highly effective teams

Here I'm sharing these habits so that you too can make your teams more effective. Effective teams succeed and fail as a group. Every teammate should feel comfortable proposing a change to a section of the codebase they've never touched before.

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