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Don't Add More Metrics!
If you're already struggling to hit targets, don't add more! Recommendations for improving performance without overcomplication. SHOW LINKS: - Tilted…
4 years, 10 months ago
Tech Lead, Team Lead, Manager, Mentor
Squirrel rants about matrix management and then Jeffrey calms him down by describing self-managing team structures that work better. They agree that …
4 years, 11 months ago
DataSciOps?
Squirrel tweets about isolated data-science teams, and Jeffrey tells stories of close collaboration between engineers and data scientists, even pairi…
4 years, 11 months ago
Mo’ Complaints, Mo’ Better
Squirrel and Jeffrey shock a leader they're coaching by telling him to aim to increase complaints. It turns out that Amy Edmondson, ALCOA, and Toyota…
4 years, 11 months ago
Chris Clearfield: How To Solve Impossible Problems
Our old friend Chris Clearfield explains how he helps leaders identify and fix overwhelmingly complicated organisational problems. SHOW LINKS: - Chri…
4 years, 11 months ago
In Praise of Avoiding Conflict
Jeffrey and Squirrel show you how to use "paradoxical agenda-setting" to help ensure a team or organisation is really committed—or to find out why co…
5 years ago
Managing the Rapid-Fire Exec
Squirrel tells the story of an exec who operates at warp speed and leaves his director of technology behind in his wake. How can we best handle these…
5 years ago
Surprise! Why are you being so hostile?
Squirrel tells the story of a conversation that took a sudden difficult turn, and we discuss methods like the Disarming Technique for handling surpri…
5 years ago
Status in Meetings: We are All Primates
A listener asks us about why social hierarchy and popularity norms matter so much in team discussions. We riff on a number of ideas this inspires inc…
5 years ago
CITCON 2021 Part II: Taylor was Right
At #citcon Virtual 2021, Andy Parker makes the case that Fredrick Taylor, whom we sometimes like to bash as the father of the feature factory, create…
5 years ago