Why You Should Send a Weekly Summary Email
At its core, the weekly email has two headings with 3–5 short bullet points each: achievements this week and priorities next week. Under the former, you list the 3–5 most important things you got done this week, under the latter, the 3–5 most important things you want to get done the following week.
^ADJ: Communicating progress, and maintaining momentum is significant - and check-ins like the above help this, but 50% of the magic is having the writer think about what they are writing and defining in their own mind what next.
Do you know how each person likes to work is a good article to get you think about different styles - we have used a few tools including Working Genius to help managers with these discussions.
Learning the Recipe of Pleo Engineering’s Cultural Secret Sauce | by Sean Bolt
One of the main reasons people list for why they apply to Pleo and why they choose to stay is the culture.
^ADJ: Building culture deliberately is hard work, so loved some of this thinking,
"Knowing our culture and values helps us understand our “secret sauce” that Jim Collins talks about" - this is critical, what is your secret sauce?
How We Manage Incident Response at Honeycomb
Dealing with the unknown, limited cognitive bandwidth, coordination patterns, psychological safety and feeding information back into the organization.
^ADJ: I identified with: "Incidents need to be part of a feedback loop. This is where the rubber meets the road, and the things we learn there are related to much older decisions based on the organizational culture, its priorities and its practices."
The Making of a Corporate Athlete
If there is one quality that executives seek for themselves and their employees, it is sustained high performance in the face of ever-increasing pressure and rapid change.
^ADJ: I think the high-performance pyramid is well worth a review,
The Surprising Reason Europe Came Together Against Putin
A major advance in translation technology means that Ukrainians can inform and debunk in real time. The world hasn’t seen a weapon quite like it before.
^ADJ: I included this article as introducing technology can have impacts well beyond initial thinking of impact - done right it can have 10x impact, and that's when the strategic alignment of your technology spend can really make a difference.