Posts from Awesome Folks #156

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

Author

Emily Webber
June 06, 2025

Hello folks,

I’ve been deep in workshop design this week, a place I enjoy. I work within constraints to create a framework for engagement and contribution, and Liberating Structures is always a great help.

I’ve also enjoyed following the journey of the first group of course enrollments for my Communities of Practice course; I really enjoy hearing others’ stories and experiences.

The phases of a Community of Practice Potential The community begins life as loose networks of individuals that hold the potential to become more. Forming Members get immediate value from joining up, start to build connections and align around a shared purpose Maturing The community increases its membership, depth of knowledge shared and value of interactions. Self-sustaining The community has enough momentum to keep itself going and is part of the organisation norms. Learn more, including how to grow, supercharge and measure communities of practice in or across organisations. Building Successful Communities of Practice An online self-paced course with Emily Webber tacit.pub/learnCoPs

If you’d like to join the course, there are a few coupons left for a 15% discount. Use coplaunch15 before Monday (while places remain). Sign up at https://tacit.pub/learnCoPs

Enjoy this week’s posts, and happy Friday.

Emily

People and Culture

Transform teams and boost your EQ with this invisible leadership skill

Jackie Colburn

Some of the most effective and motivating leaders know how to create an environment where people feel safe to think, speak, and contribute…

jackiecolburn.medium.com/transform-teams-and-boost-your-eq-with-this-invisible-leadership-skill-30f879a854db

Merit-Based Management Demands DEI

Stephanie Creary, Marla Baskerville, Y. Sekou Bermiss, Atira Charles, Anthony C. Hood, Quinetta Roberson, Sean Edmund Rogers, Flannery Stevens, and Alexis Nicole Smith

Though many critics view them as contradictory concepts, DEI practices are essential for achieving true meritocracy.

sloanreview.mit.edu/article/merit-based-management-demands-dei

Giving Voice to Values Requires Rehearsal

Margaret Heffernan.

..and narrative imagination

heffernanm.substack.com/p/giving-voice-to-values-requires-rehearsal

Outcomes and Objectives

Consequence Scanning for AI Procurement and Adoption: Play Testing!

Careful Industries

Do you work in or with local government, creating or purchasing AI tools and services? Come along to one of our free workshops in June to help test a new version of Consequence Scanning

www.careful.industries/blog/2025-6-consequence-scanning-for-ai-procurement-and-adoption-play-testing

How to recognize OKRs masquerading as strategy

Jeff Gothefl

OKRs are not strategy. Here’s how to recognize when they’re pretending to be.

jeffgothelf.com/blog/okrs-are-not-strategy-heres-how-to-recognize-when-theyre-pretending-to-be

Other Things

Github Copilot can make commits now. But who owns the code?

Chantal Kapani

GitHub’s Copilot has stepped out of the passenger seat – raising questions about accountability and authorship.

leaddev.com/software-quality/github-copilot-make-commits?utm_source=leaddev&utm_medium=RSS

What does it mean for culture when ‘intelligence is on tap’? - Eat Sleep Work Repeat

First of two episodes going deep on how AI is going to impact work - and consequently workplace culture. This week's discussion is with Alexia Cambon from Microsoft. Alexia is Head of Research on Copilot & Future of Work. Last month her team released the Work Trend Index Annual Report. It’s one of the most

eatsleepworkrepeat.com/what-does-it-mean-for-culture-when-intelligence-is-on-tap