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How to make your boss care about your initiative by Jeff Gothelf: Keep your boss engaged by reframing work as business problems with data-backed impacts and providing proactive, brief updates tied to their goals.
Why Flow Efficiency Matters More Than Ever in an Era of Cost Cutting by Ken Rubin: Prioritize flow efficiency over cost-cutting in uncertain times, as it leads to faster delivery, smarter savings, and stronger competitive advantage by reducing waste and delays.
A Goal is Not a Number by Tristan Hood: Goals should be qualitative outcomes, not numbers. Numbers measure progress, but chasing them as goals can lead to unhealthy behaviors; focus on the true, deeper “why.”
Six things to do when you’ve inherited underperforming or difficult staff – Part 2 by Dr Hayley Lewis: Differentiate “confronting” from “confrontational”. Support is crucial alongside challenge, as is recognizing desired performance and having a strong manager support network.
Product Management 101 #20 Opportunity Solution Tree by Sebastian Straube: Teresa Torres’s Opportunity Solution Tree helps teams innovate by systematically identifying customer needs, generating diverse solutions, and validating them through experiments.
Myths Save Lives by Gapingvoid: Humans are primarily moved by mythic stories, not just data. These powerful narratives shape identity and drive progress, and while they can be dangerous, our challenge is to choose them wisely.
You’re Fired! by Barry Overeem: Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters should be willing to risk being fired. This willingness is essential for them to effectively address organizational impediments and foster necessary change without being constrained by job security.
