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Kurt Vonnegut, Joe Heller, and How to Think Like a Mensch
Why Your Job is Becoming Impossible to Do: The Tragedy of Well-Intentioned Organizational Overload
This LinkedIn piece considers why, in many organizations, there are many intrinsic and extrinsic rewards for people to add organizational friction and few incentives for removing friction. ... Continue Reading »
12 Books That Every Leader Should Read
To Scale Up Fast, Sometimes You’ve Got to Slow Down: Waze Shows The Way
This LinkedIn piece describes how Waze CEO Noam Bardin—despite pressures from investors to go in a hiring spree and to accelerate product development, instead instituted a hiring freeze and paused product development for six weeks so his people could figure out why most people who downloaded this ... Continue Reading »
How Do You End a Meeting? Netflix’s HR Rebel Asks Two Simple Questions
My LinkedIn piece is based on an interview with Patty McCord, a key architect of the Netflix culture. McCord explains the two questions she asks at the end of every meeting to help spare people from unnecessary confusion and frustration. ... Continue Reading »