People think his team got robbed at Michigan. His response was a ‘masterclass’
WMU coach Lance Taylor could have joined the chorus of angry responses to a controversial loss at Michigan, but he chose a different path.
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9 Laws Every Manager Should Know (And Most Break Daily)
The unwritten rules of management... finally written down.
every company needs a cassandra
an ai agent for the socially expensive work of organizational dissent
The Tenth Man Rule: How to Take Devil’s Advocacy to a New Level
A reflection on the Tenth Man Rule, a form of institutionalised devil's advocacy. How can we benefit from a professional pain in the neck?
The Eight Load-Bearing Humans Every Civilization Needs
Every civilization runs on eight irreducible roles. AI is hollowing out the derivative layer on top of them. Which layer does your life actually rest on?
Every society runs on the same small set of irreducible jobs, the people who grow food, heal bodies, build and fix things, move goods, transmit knowledge, defend surplus, settle disputes, and hold communities together.
Categories of leadership on technical teams
overall direction • people management • project management • technical leadership • example divisions of labor
Five Leadership Lessons from Robert Mueller
His critical refrain — “If you have integrity, nothing else matters. And if you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.” — matters especially now.
How to hire people who are better than you
If you don't hire people better than you, the organization gets bigger, not better. But how do you hire for something you don't understand?
Welcome to the Room
A lesson in leadership by Satya Nadella When I was Promoted to Technical Fellow, I was “invited to the room”, joining Microsoft’s other Senior Executives. It was really something. Achieving t…
A lesson in leadership by Satya Nadella
How to build team spirit | Psyche Guides
The glue, or spirit, that binds certain teams is not mystical – you can cultivate it by changing how you work together
Richard Jefferson: These are the 3 best leaders I played with in the NBA
Richard Jefferson played with more than 100 teammates in his 17-year NBA career. He explains why three leaders stood out above the rest.
Thermostats | Another Rodeo
Tuning team temperature
The Leadership Test No One Wants: Delivering Bad News Well | Nancy Duarte | MIT Sloan Management Review
When a situation goes wrong, leaders need to decide whether to fix it, bounce back, shut it down, or move on.
The Power of Being an Amateur
Strategically trying something new can help leaders break free from entrenched ways of thinking.
The more you become “somebody” in your chosen field (recognized, accomplished, authoritative), the more your thinking tends to calcify, limiting your flexibility and creativity.
Consistently put yourself in situations where you are a complete beginner.
Lessons from U.S. Army Special Ops on Becoming a Leader
How to cultivate initiative, emotional confidence, imagination, and strategic vision.
That success was measured on multiple scales, including:
Integrity Mental agility Sound judgment Innovation Leads by example Develops others Gets results
The Destructive Power of Unbridled Optimism
Jonathan Dunnett wrote an article titled The Secret, Destructive Power of Unbridled Optimism.
Is generosity the most underrated leadership skill?
Leadership isn’t about a title or position — it’s about generosity, says organizational expert Joe Davis. Drawing on his extensive experience as a people manager, he shares three essential tips for leaders to unlock the potential of their teams by listening generously, embracing…
Startup-CTO-Handbook/StartupCTOHandbook.md at main · ZachGoldberg/Startup-CTO-Handbook
The Startup CTO's Handbook, a book covering leadership, management and technical topics for leaders of software engineering teams - ZachGoldberg/Startup-CTO-Handbook
When Expressing Gratitude to Employees, Timing Matters
Extensive research has indicated the benefits of showing gratitude to those around you, including your colleagues or employees. However, a new study suggests that the timing of these expressions can make a big difference. Through two experiments and an analysis of a top…
The Uncomfortable Truth: A 3X Founder's Guide to Intellectual Honesty
Crossbeam CEO and co-founder Bob Moore shares his tools for quashing biases in pursuit of the truth at every stage of company building.
openness to — and active pursuit of — the truth, even when it proves you wrong.
partnerships ecosystem platform
6 Essential Leadership Skills — and How to Develop Them
The way we work has changed — and so has leadership. Leaders are under new pressures to perform at higher levels and adapt quickly to changing demands. In this article, the author shares advice from three leadership experts and outlines the six skills leaders need to succeed: 1)…
How to manage people's behavior- Fast Company
These two principles are equally powerful and critical to manage behavior, but the order matters.
6 Common Leadership Styles — and How to Decide Which to Use When
Research suggests that the most effective leaders adapt their style to different circumstances — be it a change in setting, a shift in organizational dynamics, or a turn in the business cycle. But what if you feel like you’re not equipped to take on a new and different…
How to Talk to Your Team About a Decision You Disagree With
When you’re part of a company’s management structure, there will be moments when you’ll have to represent a decision your bosses made that you don’t agree with to your team. Carrying the proverbial flag on behalf of the powers-that-be won’t feel good, but that’s part of the job…
15 Quotes on the Unparalleled Power of Example
Discover the power of examples in shaping our lives. Explore quotes on example and how they inspire us to reach new heights.
Currencies (On Motivating Different People) (Ed Batista)
A theme in my practice is the leader who's seeking to increase employee motivation. In this context it's important to bear in mind the work of Frederick Herzberg, a 20th century psychologist who had a profound influence on our understanding...
5 Types of Stories Leaders Need to Tell
Storytelling is an important leadership skill, and executives who want to succeed should master five types of narrative: Vision stories, which inspire a shared one; values stories that model the way; action stories that spark progress and change; teaching stories that transmit…
When your coworker does great work, tell their manager
Talking About a Difficult Decision — When You Can’t Share All the Details
When you have to communicate a difficult organizational decision to employees, it’s hard to know how much information to provide when you can’t be fully transparent yet. Saying nothing can undermine people’s trust in your motives and compassion, whereas saying too much can leave…
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What Do We Owe Our Teams?
Many of my discussions with product leaders (CPOs, VPs and others who manage teams of product folks) are about the substance of product management: portfolios, competing stakeholders, pricing & packaging, tarot cards as a revenue forecasting model. Last week, though, in my…
The Culture Map: How to Navigate Foreign Cultures in Business
The Art of Leadership: Lessons from Art Blakey
Let Your People Shine
What working as a military psychologist taught me about coaching people
3 tips for coaching people, from a former military psychologist
Carl Braun on Communicating Like a Grown-Up
Industrial genius Carl Braun believed that clear thinking and clear communication go hand in hand. Here the guide on writing productively to get things done.
‘The first year is the hardest’: How college football coaches get their new teams to buy in
Some coaching transitions do the unthinkable, like Sonny Dykes and TCU. Others flounder, like Scott Frost and Nebraska. How, and why?
What Is Psychological Safety?
What exactly is psychological safety? It’s a term that’s used a lot but is often misunderstood. In this piece, the author answers the following questions with input from Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson, who coined the phrase “team psychological safety”: 1) What…
High Variance Management
How should you manage a team that is trying to achieve results out of the ordinary?
GitHub - kuchin/awesome-cto: A curated and opinionated list of resources fo
A curated and opinionated list of resources for Chief Technology Officers, with the emphasis on startups - kuchin/awesome-cto
How Great Leaders Communicate
Transformational leaders are exceptional communicators. In this piece, the author outlines four communication strategies to help motivate and inspire your team: 1) Use short words to talk about hard things. 2) Choose sticky metaphors to reinforce key concepts. 3) Humanize data…
Does your company suffer from broken culture syndrome? | MIT Sloan
Whether it’s caused by culture clash, cultural inertia, or total toxic collapse, broken culture syndrome can sink an organization. But there’s a way out.
How to Encourage Your Team to Give You Honest Feedback
Far too often, team members expect to be given downward feedback, but unless they’re explicitly invited to offer upward feedback, they won’t know that it’s even an option. As a manager, it’s your job to ask your employees for feedback on your own performance. How else will you…
Learnings of a CEO: Wade Foster, Zapier | Y Combinator
Today, Zapier automates work by connecting with over 5,000 apps. The company has been profitable since 2014 and is valued at $5B – with 700 employees working remotely. Wade, Zapier CEO, shared his learnings growing into the role of a growth-stage CEO.
Medium
I became an engineering leader accidentally. I now realize that this taught me the single most important thing about leadership. Effective…
Medium
How Great Leaders Respond to Negative Criticism in the Digital Age
Corporate leadership today is more public than ever before thanks to digital communication and the web. The status quo has been upended by the ease with
Tribal Leadership: The Key To Building Great Teams
Have you ever wondered about internal organization dynamics and why some groups of people (who aren’t on the same team) are more successful than others? Why different “tribes” inside the organization seem to be at war with one another lowering performance in increasing politics?…
Medium
Unintuitive Things I’ve Learned about Management (Part 1) I first started managing people seven years ago, three years after I graduated and got my first design job. At the time, I was woefully …
42 Rules to Lead by from the Man Who Defined Google's Product Strategy
Former Google SVP of Products Jonathan Rosenberg on the quintessential lessons every leader needs to learn.
How to Say "No" to Your CEO's Random Product Ideas
The reality is that you will never prioritize the CEO’s "great" new idea. Here's how to let your strategy say "no" for you.