{{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/40/images/1055997875.jpg" title="Why Our Leaders Fail Us and Then Save Us: The Preventable Problem Paradox |" link="https://medium.com/@shreyashere/why-our-leaders-fail-us-and-then-save-us-the-preventable-problem-paradox-872614ec3293" domain="medium.com" date="2020-10-08" tags="leadership, psychology" excerpt="Have you ever wondered why a smart company like Facebook is also the undisputed World Champion of Self-Inflicted Debacles? Or, why Google falls prey to avoidable mistakes — across its products…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/40/images/1055997582.jpg" title="How I Structured Engineering Teams at LinkedIn and AdMob for Success | Firs" link="https://firstround.com/review/how-i-structured-engineering-teams-at-linkedin-and-admob-for-success" domain="firstround.com" date="2020-10-01" tags="leadership, product, tech" excerpt="LinkedIn’s SVP of Engineering shares the team structure and mindset that clinched its $2.5B IPO." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/images/bookmark-placeholder.jpg" title="Why senior engineers get nothing done | Swizec Teller" link="https://swizec.com/blog/why-senior-engineers-get-nothing-done" domain="swizec.com" date="2020-09-23" tags="leadership, tech" excerpt="You start a new job and it's amazing. Code all day, clear objectives, easy guidelines, ship a bunch of features be a hero. Then something happens and suddenly you get nothing done. 🤔" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/41/images/1055997455.webp" title="Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule" link="http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html" domain="paulgraham.com" date="2020-09-23" tags="leadership, productivity, tech" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/41/images/1055998989.jpg" title="How to keep the plates spinning in software development | by Mike Reid | Hu" link="https://medium.com/humans-of-xero/how-to-keep-the-plates-spinning-in-software-development-b3df0fb222fc" domain="medium.com" date="2020-09-18" tags="agile, leadership, tech" excerpt="Imagine you have seven plates spinning on top of sticks in front of you. Each is precious and it’s up to you to keep them from toppling over. The last thing you want is a floor full of broken plates…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/images/bookmark-placeholder.jpg" title="If Management Isn’t A Promotion, Then Engineering Isn’t A Demotion – charit" link="https://charity.wtf/p/if-management-isnt-a-promotion-then-engineering-isnt-a-demotion" domain="charity.wtf" date="2020-09-18" tags="career, leadership, psychology, tech" excerpt="I wrote a piece this week about what motivates people to become managers (tldr mostly org dysfunction), and Julian Dunn replied with some typically insightful tweets: (I originally titled this arti…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/41/images/1055998971.jpg" title="The magic ingredient that improves workshop collaboration | by Will Lester" link="https://medium.com/humans-of-xero/the-magic-ingredient-that-improves-workshop-collaboration-6f14d8bc9aba" domain="medium.com" date="2020-09-01" tags="agile, design, leadership, tech" excerpt="I love working collaboratively. I get a real buzz out of getting a group together, grappling tricky problems and bouncing around ideas. At its best, collaboration can be an energising experience. But…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/41/images/1055997922.jpg" title="If software architects' soft skills fail, so does the business" link="https://searchapparchitecture.techtarget.com/feature/If-software-architects-soft-skills-fail-so-does-the-business" domain="searchapparchitecture.techtarget.com" date="2020-09-01" tags="architecture, career, leadership, tech" excerpt="Mark Richards and Neal Ford, authors of 'Fundamentals of Software Architecture,' share real-life examples of why architects must communicate well, and explain how to do it." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/42/images/1055998974.jpg" title="Ice, water, steam: reflecting on the language of agile teams | by James Ber" link="https://medium.com/humans-of-xero/ice-water-steam-reflecting-on-the-language-of-agile-teams-81c18d097c07" domain="medium.com" date="2020-08-31" tags="agile, architecture, leadership, tech" excerpt="Lately, I’ve been thinking about what we need to do to continue our journey towards world-class engineering, and perform at that level over the long term. I’ve also been thinking about how Xero’s…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/42/images/1055998964.jpg" title="Emotional Agility" link="https://hbr.org/2013/11/emotional-agility" domain="hbr.org" date="2020-08-30" tags="health, leadership, psychology" excerpt="How effective leaders manage their negative thoughts and feelings" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/42/images/1055997834.jpg" title="Book Summary: Accelerate. Accelerate — Building and Scaling High… | by Trev" link="https://medium.com/@tdevroome/book-summary-accelerate-c531efe4c34c" domain="medium.com" date="2020-08-12" tags="agile, leadership, management, product, productivity, tech" excerpt="By making meaningful steps to introduce and improve your capabilities in continuous delivery, architecture, product & process, lean practices, and culture — you can create a profound impact on…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/42/images/1055998951.jpg" title="What software teams can learn from music masterclasses - Helen Hou-Sandí" link="https://helen.blog/2020/07/what-software-teams-can-learn-from-music-masterclasses" domain="helen.blog" date="2020-08-11" tags="career, leadership, learning, music" excerpt="I come from a musical background, with degrees in piano performance and piano accompanying and chamber music, and I think a lot about how that’s shaped who I’ve become in web and software development. I’ve even gotten to give a talk relating musicianship skills to programming and" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/43/images/1055998945.webp" title="Research-backed actions to help communicate more effectively" link="https://www.fastcompany.com/90531591/these-13-research-backed-actions-will-help-you-communicate-more-effectively" domain="fastcompany.com" date="2020-07-31" tags="career, leadership, psychology" excerpt="University of Oregon professors offer science-backed strategies to converse and connect with coworkers, clients, and family in a virtual environment." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/43/images/1055997888.jpg" title="Blog Posts" link="https://www.learningfromincidents.io/posts/learning-from-adaptations-to-coronavirus" domain="learningfromincidents.io" date="2020-07-22" tags="leadership, psychology, tech" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/43/images/1055997920.png" title="Staff-plus interview processes." link="https://lethain.com/staff-plus-interview-process" domain="lethain.com" date="2020-07-17" tags="career, interviews, leadership, tech" excerpt="When we talk about designing a Staff-plus engineer interview loop, the first thing to talk about is that absolutely no one is confident their Staff-plus interview loop works well. Many loops end up looking for a senior engineer who’s really fast at solving problems, which doesn’t" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/44/images/1055997892.jpg" title="How I Learned to Have Uncomfortable Conversations | Human Parts" link="https://humanparts.medium.com/finding-my-fighting-words-how-i-learned-to-have-uncomfortable-conversations-9c0bb09c50c" domain="humanparts.medium.com" date="2020-06-09" tags="career, leadership, psychology" excerpt="I had 50 painfully uncomfortable conversations with strangers in New York City to practice being assertive under pressure. Here’s what I learned." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/44/images/1055997822.webp" title="The Culture Map: A Systematic & Intentional Tool For Designing Great Compan" link="https://www.strategyzer.com/blog/posts/2015/10/13/the-culture-map-a-systematic-intentional-tool-for-designing-great-company-culture" domain="strategyzer.com" date="2020-06-09" tags="career, leadership, psychology, tech" excerpt="If I asked you: what’s the one thing you’ll do differently tomorrow to make your organization a better place to work, where would you start? How would you design, communicate and implement" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/images/bookmark-placeholder.jpg" title="Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System - The Donella Meadows Proj" link="http://donellameadows.org/archives/leverage-points-places-to-intervene-in-a-system" domain="donellameadows.org" date="2020-05-08" tags="leadership, product, psychology" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/45/images/1055997865.jpg" title="Team Objectives - Overview | Silicon Valley Product Group" link="https://svpg.com/team-objectives-overview" domain="svpg.com" date="2020-03-23" tags="agile, leadership, product, tech" excerpt="After many years of being a very vocal advocate for the OKR (Objectives and Key Results) technique, in the majority of companies I meet, I have stopped recommending the practice. That’s because, in so many companies, even though conceptually the technique is simple and sound, it " >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/45/images/1055997584.jpg" title="How DISC is like the Hogwarts Houses" link="https://athleteassessments.com/how-disc-is-like-the-hogwarts-houses" domain="athleteassessments.com" date="2020-02-19" tags="leadership, learning, psychology" excerpt="Often with behavioral profiles like DISC, being able to apply the concept to something you already know, helps to quickly understand it. If you are familiar with Harry Potter, then this is an excellent platform to better get to know DISC behavioral profiling. Whether you grew up " >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/images/bookmark-placeholder.jpg" title="Work Is Work" link="https://codahale.com/work-is-work" domain="codahale.com" date="2020-01-14" tags="leadership, tech" excerpt="In which returns diminish." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/46/images/1055997604.jpg" title="The software engineer’s guide to asserting dominance in the workplace" link="https://medium.com/feature-creep/the-software-engineer-s-guide-to-asserting-office-dominance-ddea7b598df7" domain="medium.com" date="2020-01-13" tags="leadership, tech" excerpt="As a software engineer, changing jobs is a way of life. Every day, beautiful recruiters from top tech companies reach out to you on LinkedIn with new opportunities, and each new job equals higher pay…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/46/images/1055997850.jpg" title="Do you have what it takes to be an agile coach? - Humans of Xero - Medium" link="https://medium.com/humans-of-xero/do-you-have-what-it-takes-to-be-an-agile-coach-6d702ea6694e" domain="medium.com" date="2020-01-13" tags="agile, leadership, tech" excerpt="Before joining Xero, I used to work in project management. The way we ran projects was to think about people as specialised resources who would be deployed to different initiatives. But there was one…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/46/images/1055997594.webp" title="How to Boost Your Team’s Productivity" link="https://hbr.org/2016/01/how-to-boost-your-teams-productivity" domain="hbr.org" date="2019-12-16" tags="leadership" excerpt="Set clear expectations." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/47/images/1055997838.png" title="How the Best Bosses Interrupt Bias on Their Teams" link="https://hbr.org/2019/11/how-the-best-bosses-interrupt-bias-on-their-teams" domain="hbr.org" date="2019-11-07" tags="career, leadership" excerpt="Strategies to foster equity and inclusion" >}}