Managing Humans by Michael Lopp
any team larger than one needs to define a means to share information.
Process should be written by those who are not only intimately experiencing the pain of a lack of process, but who are also …
Mindfulness in Plain English by Henepola Gunaratana
After taking three deep breaths, breathe normally, letting your breath flow in and out freely, effortlessly, and begin focusing your attention on the rims of your nostrils. Simply notice the feeling …
Multipliers by Liz Wiseman and Greg McKeown
It isn’t how much you know that matters. What matters is how much access you have to what other people know. It isn’t just how intelligent your team members are; it is how much of that intelligence …
Org Design for Design Orgs by Peter Merholz and Kristin Skinner
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” — AFRICAN PROVERB
Product vs. Feature Teams
https://svpg.com/product-vs-feature-teams/
Recall that in product there are always four risks: Value risk (will people buy it, or choose to use it?) Usability risk (can users figure out how to use …
Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach
Our feelings of unworthiness and alienation from others give rise to various forms of suffering. For some, the most glaring expression is addiction. It may be to alcohol, food or drugs. Others feel …
Radical Candor by Kim Scott
To combat permanent labels, Qualtrics cofounder (and my colleague from Juice and Google) Jared Smith came up with the performance ratings “off quarter,” “solid quarter,” and “exceptional quarter.” …
Slack Is the Right Tool for the Wrong Way to Work
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/slack-is-the-right-tool-for-the-wrong-way-to-work
Data gathered by the software firm RescueTime estimate that employees who use Slack check …
Systemantics. The Systems Bible by John Gall and D.H. Gall
NEW SYSTEMS MEAN NEW PROBLEMS
THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF ANERGY IN THE UNIVERSE IS CONSTANT
SYSTEMS OPERATE BY REDISTRIBUTING ANERGY INTO DIFFERENT FORMS AND INTO ACCUMULATIONS OF DIFFERENT SIZES
THE SYSTEM …
The 12 Week Year by Brian P. Moran, Michael Lennington
Execution is the single greatest market differentiator.
The 50% Rule
http://www.ohadsamet.com/2018/07/16/the-50-rule/
Steve Jobs was once quoted that about 50% of his time is unstructured (can’t find the quote now). I think that’s roughly true. Spending time away from …
The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm
A second premise behind the attitude that there is nothing to be learned about love is the assumption that the problem of love is the problem of an object, not the problem of a faculty. People think …
The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier
George Bernard Shaw put it succinctly when he said, “The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
Projects What projects do you need to abandon or postpone? …
The Diary of a Young Girl by Ann Frank
I had to stop yesterday, though I was nowhere near finished. I’m dying to tell you about another one of our clashes, but before I do I’d like to say this: I think it’s odd that grown-ups quarrel so …
The Last Children of Down Syndrome
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/12/the-last-children-of-down-syndrome/616928/
n 2004, Denmark became one of the first countries in the world to offer prenatal Down syndrome screening …
The Little Things by Andy Andrews
Never forget that, as a society, we put men on the moon before anyone thought to put wheels on luggage!
The Manager's Path by Camille Fournier
There are, however, other options. Managers who care about you as a person, and who actively work to help you grow in your career. Managers who teach you important skills and give you valuable …
The Most American Religion
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/01/the-most-american-religion/617263/
There is something classically Mormon about this aversion to wallowing.
In the past few years, Mormons have …
The Outsize Influence of Your Middle-School Friends
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/01/friendship-crucial-adolescent-brain/605638/
As they reach middle school, children drift away from the pure play of running in the yard at recess or …
The Plague Year
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/04/the-plague-year
During the transition to the Trump Administration, the Obama White House handed off a sixty-nine-page document called the Playbook for …