Posts from Awesome Folks #125

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

Author

Emily Webber
October 11, 2024

Hello folks,

It’s been a fairly normal week of workshops and Zoom calls, which is good. I’m enjoying a break to normality before my time is again disrupted by life things for a few more weeks. So, here’s to the normal, predictable, and boring; it’s great.

One exciting thing this week is that I’ve started planning Agile in the Ether IRL 2025 with a small group of co-organisers. I’m excited about getting us together again; it’s such a lovely community. (This event is closed to people in the Slack community. To join the community, you need to join a meetup)

Enjoy this week’s posts, and happy Friday.

Emily

People and Culture

How Good Is Your Job | Take the Quiz

Take our careers quiz today to find out how your job compares to others in your industry. See how you score on job intensity, worker voice and job security.

howgoodismyjob.com

How to Give Busy People the Time to Innovate

Eric Athas

Most companies are full of really busy people, which makes it hard to slow down and focus on trying new things. At the same time, stopping everything to focus on innovation can leave day-to-day tasks neglected. So, how can leaders make sure workers are able to balance operational necessities with innovation?

hbr.org/2024/10/how-to-give-busy-people-the-time-to-innovate

How to Develop Continuous Learners

Wendy Tan and Joo-Seng Tan

Explore four key elements for developing the learning agility needed for career growth and organizational innovation.

sloanreview.mit.edu/article/how-to-develop-continuous-learners

How Hard Should Your Employer Work To Retain You?

Charity Majors

Recently we learned that Google spent $2.7 billion to re-hire a single AI researcher who had left to start his own company. As Charlie Brown would say: “Good grief.” 🙄 This is an (incredibly!) extr…

charity.wtf/2024/10/11/how-hard-should-your-employer-work-to-retain-you

Organisations and Systems

No Managers, No Problem? Our 12-Month Experiment in Running a Bossless Organization

Pim de Morree

Last year, we acquired a traditional aerospace company Indaero and transformed it into a self-managing one. One year in, here's an update on where we…

www.corporate-rebels.com/blog/no-managers-no-problem

Shift Your Leadership from “Power Over” to “Leading Through”

Kim B. Clark, Jonathan R. Clark, and Erin E. Clark

The traditional approach to leadership is best described as the pursuit and maintenance of power over people. However, this isn’t the most effective method. The “leading through” paradigm engages middle managers and employees of all levels so that leadership is a collaborative effort which leaves everyone feeling valued, seen, and in turn, more motivated.

hbr.org/2024/10/shift-your-leadership-from-power-over-to-leading-through

Approaches for Teams

Team Norms: What They Are And How To Establish Them

Beth Messich

Discover how co-creating an explicit set of team norms helps high-performing teams collaborate and work more efficiently.

peoplemanagingpeople.com/personal-development/leadership-management/team-norms

3 common reasons product teams get stuck (and how to get them unstuck)

Jackie Colburn

Do your teams get stuck spinning out on an issue for months at a time? Do they seem to have a lot of meetings, but not a lot of results…

jackiecolburn.medium.com/3-common-reasons-product-teams-get-stuck-and-how-to-get-them-unstuck-b9b1f600624c

Other Things

Malcolm Gladwell’s New Take on Tipping Points

A conversation with author Malcolm Gladwell updating popular ideas about virality and human behavior.

hbr.org/podcast/2024/10/malcolm-gladwells-new-take-on-tipping-points

I’m enjoying this advert from Hill of Hainault Toyota dealer; more of this to-the-point advertising, please.

@hillsofwoodfordtoyota

We love hills of hainault #fyp