Posts tagged with Management
Upwards Status Updates
An inevitability when conducting 1:1s is providing status updates. It's a safe default; if there isn't a set agenda or a set of immediate problems to solve, and neither party is up for diving deep…
Another Management Malpractice
Whenever an individual or a company garners fame and fortune, there's often intense interest in their processes and behaviors. The thinking is that there's some sort of secret sauce or hidden wisdom in how they operate,…
The Arrogance of Adolescence
I recently attended a conference for engineering leaders based in San Francisco. It was a 2-day affair, and along with the usual talks and networking, the organizers smartly set up their venue for roundtables, 1:1s, and other peer-…
Flattening the Organization
It's a fateful coincidence that 2 of the most consequential social networks of the past decade—Twitter and Facebook—have undergone substantial layoffs in the past year, for different reasons. At the same time, the CEOs of both…
Review: The Culture Code
"Culture eats strategy for breakfast," so the saying goes. I learned that lesson early on in my first management classes, via books like The Score Takes Care of Itself. The idea is to build a strong cultural foundation…
Meeting Culture
Meetings are terrible, right? Certainly, meetings get bloated with too many participants—the stereotypical "this could have been an email" type of get-together that always feels like it'd run better with half as many folks.…
