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Is mood a gift or a skill?
Seth Godin asks and answers in this short post. | learn more
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You’ll figure it out
On management: “A formative idea for a younger me: give the people who work for you a chance to resolve complex issues on their own.” | learn more
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Avoiding the nirvana fallacy
“We know today much more than we knew one hundred years ago. It seems reasonable to expect that in another hundred years, today’s level of knowledge will seem low. If we look at all of the past beliefs that today […]
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Framework for avoiding mediocrity
“Most things by definition are created average. Here is a mental framework for creating exceptional products with examples from Apple.” | learn more
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Amp it up!
From Frank Slootman, former CEO of Data Domain and ServiceNow and now CEO of Snowflake. “There is room up in organizations to boost performance by amping up the pace and intensity. Considerable slack naturally exists in organizations to perform at […]
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Why content is king
“We’re going to analyze media from a systems perspective, and explore the properties that make it a good source of power.” | learn more
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Throwing bodies at the problem
I went searching for examples of adding manpower to solve an immediate problem. I found this instead. Adding headcount has diminishing returns because of indivisibility, ramp-up time, and communications overhead. I am still interested in the inverse: when does it work? If […]
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How to tell an employee they’re not meeting expectations
“Putting an employee on a performance improvement plan is the worst part of being a team leader. But giving tough feedback is a necessary part of the job.” | learn more
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You’re only as good as your worst day
“Across the board, we tend to measure performance by what happens when things are going well. Yet how people, organizations, companies, leaders, and other things do on their best day isn’t all that instructive. To find the truth, we need […]
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Buy don’t build
“Standing up and managing a service or building a custom service is a common desire for engineers. It’s usually a major mistake, that ends up costing a ton of time and money.” | learn more