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Weekend Reading – There are no Optimal Decisions
“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” – Theodore Roosevelt Dear all, Due to the long sunny weekend, WR is a bit delayed this week… Last week one of...
Weekend Reading – Elements of a Corporate Operating System
“Operating systems are like underwear — nobody really wants to look at them.” – Bill Joy, Co-Founder of Sun Microsystems Dear all, A while ago, I introduced my thoughts about the elements of a “corporate operating system” as the enablers of success and resilience in...
Weekend Reading – Products & Innovations: More Leadership – Less Process
“Good process serves you so you can serve customers. But if you’re not watchful, the process can become the thing. This can happen very easily in large organizations.” – Jeff Bezos Dear all, It could be just the AIs powering my media feeds getting the wrong...
Weekend Reading – A Time to Scale
Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful.” – George Box, Statistician Dear all, fostered by a rainy May Day, this WR has become a much longer post than intended. If it feels tl;dr, just skip down to the reads. What we do – mostly – at...
Weekend Reading – Results Require Focus and Dedication
"A study at the University of London found that participants who multitasked during cognitive tasks experienced IQ score declines that were similar to what they’d expect if they had smoked marijuana ...” — Forbes Magazine Dear all over the last weeks, a...
Weekend Reading – The Benefits of Product-Based IT
“Organizations that manage IT delivery as projects instead of products are using managerial principles from two ages ago and cannot expect those approaches to be adequate for succeeding in this one. Visionary organizations are creating and managing their Value Stream...
Weekend Reading – A Corporate Operating System: Part 2- Strategy
“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.” — Sir Winston Churchill Dear all, In the previous WR, I introduced my thoughts about the elements of a “corporate operating system” as the enablers of success and resilience in today’s...
Weekend Reading – A Corporate Operating System: Part 1 – Purpose
"The pursuit of efficiency was once a laudable goal, but being effective in today’s world is less a question of optimising for a known (and relatively stable) set of variables than responsiveness to a constantly shifting environment. Adaptability, not efficiency, must...
Weekend Reading – Humans are not Resources
Dear all When I wrote about team topologies a few weeks ago, I introduced you to the idea that different purposes may require different team types and setups to create effective and flow-oriented organizations. Teams In writing this, I stipulated that there is a...
Weekend Reading – Focus Means Saying “no” to Stakeholders
“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the 100 other good ideas that there are." – Steve Jobs Dear all, This year, I have worked with a range of Product- (both in hard- and...
Weekend Reading – Building Effective Organizations Using Team Topologies
“If the architecture of the system and the architecture of the organisation, are at odds. The architecture of the organisation wins." – Ruth Malan, Software Architecture Consultant Dear all Fundamentally, all organizations are made up of teams. Teams are the...
Weekend Reading – Five Key Factors for Agile Success
“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” – Stephen Hawking Dear all, For about ten years now, we have been advising product- and innovation organizations on pragmatic strategies and agile working models. In developing these models with the teams, we quickly...
Weekend Reading – The Laws of Simplicity
“If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for we observe that nature does not employ two instruments where one suffices.“ Thomas Aquinas, Medieval Philosopher and Saint Dear all, A few...
Weekend Reading – Improve Your Agile – not Your Scrum!
“This better way of working should always be leading, not Scrum. If your Scrum is at the forefront, you are either at the early stages of your Scrum adoption OR you're doing something wrong.” Marten Dalmijn, Head of Product at Rodeo Dear all,Recently, well-respected...
Weekend Reading – Are OKRs Worth the Effort?
"Only 55% of the middle managers we have surveyed can name even one of their company’s top five priorities." HBR authors Donald Sull et al. Dear all, "OKRs seem to have become a bit of a management fad." one of our prospects recently started the discussion "Are they...
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