Posts from Awesome Folks #105

A weekly round up of blog posts I've been reading

Author

Emily Webber
May 03, 2024

Hello folks,

Spring is springing, finally (well, almost). I wish you all light jackets and long evenings.

This week has been all about catching up with old friends and making new ones. Yesterday evening was the Liverpool Digital People social, which has started to coalesce. Many of us have met a few times now, and it shows. Full disclosure: I started the meetup to meet local people with similar interests after moving to Merseyside; it’s a great way to feel connected to a new area. I highly recommend it.

Enjoy this week’s posts, and happy Friday.

Emily

People and Culture

Before You Start Collaborating with Someone, Talk About Your Work Styles

By Anke Thiele

When you’re working with new people, spending time upfront to have an explicit and open conversation about each other’s work styles and preferences can prove to be one of the best time investments. This “style alignment” conversation can lay a foundation for trust and understanding and help you set agreements for how to successfully work together.

hbr.org/2024/05/before-you-start-collaborating-with-someone-talk-about-your-work-styles

Organisations and Systems

The Purpose Experiment: From Dream to Crushing Reality - Blog

By Tine Bieber

In late 2016, while searching for a thesis topic for my master's degree at Business School, I aimed to challenge the status quo and bring fresh…

www.corporate-rebels.com/blog/the-purpose-experiment

Outcomes and Objectives

The Anomalies of Disruption | Scott D. Anthony

By Scott D. Anthony

The examples of Apple, Uber, and Tesla strengthen our ability to predict the impact of in-process innovations.

sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-anomalies-of-disruption

Using Temporal Landmarks for Effective OKRs Adoption

By Christina Wodtke

Anyone familiar with Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) knows that the heartbeat of this framework is its rhythm—how it times and maps our aspirations to our real-world clock and calendar. It’…

eleganthack.com/harnessing-temporal-landmarks-for-effective-okr-cadences

Getting real with Jobs to Be Done - Bob Moesta (CEO & Founder, The Re-Wired Group)

We've all heard about the Jobs to Be Done framework - but do you know how to really make the most of it? We went straight to the source - Bob Moesta, who developed the approach alongside Harvard Business School's Clayton Christensen - to really get into the approach.

www.mindtheproduct.com/getting-real-with-jobs-to-be-done-bob-moesta-ceo-founder-the-re-wired-group

Facilitation and Decision making

4 tips to level up your facilitation skills

By Jackie Colburn

If you lead meetings or workshops regularly, you know things are going well when sessions feel productive, seamless, and collaborative. So, how do you access more of that and minimize the hard stuff, like disengaged or disruptive participants? Here are my favorite tips to help you do just that!

www.jackiecolburn.com/blog/4-tips-to-level-up-your-facilitation-skills

Are You Asking the Right Questions?

A conversation with IMD Business School’s Arnaud Chevallier on simple changes to improve your decision-making.

hbr.org/podcast/2024/04/are-you-asking-the-right-questions

Team Approaches

Thoughts on value stream mapping in IT and software development

By Jason Yip

What is now commonly known as “Value Stream Mapping” was originally called “Material and Information Flow Analysis”, that is, the idea is to understand how material moves through a system, what information is provided to support that movement, and how that information is provided. The act of creating this map, which requires observation and investigation, exposes opportunities for improvement.

jchyip.medium.com/thoughts-on-value-stream-mapping-in-it-and-software-development-db1ea2336646

Other Things

Everything’s breaking everywhere all at once

By Jessica Zwaan

Something went wrong somewhere. You didn’t manifest this in a single one of your daily pages. You’re tired of fixing, and just want to…

jessicamayzwaan.medium.com/everythings-breaking-everywhere-all-at-once-8eca9b2d4b51