In corporate meetings, oftentimes one person figures out a problem and comes up with a solution. Equally often, multiple people in the meeting like the re-iterate the point in their own words, adding 5–10 minutes more to the meeting. Once the epiphany and decision is made, everyone should just close the issue, and move on. No need for people to comment on it more. For example, in one company I worked for we were discussing a software product name.

This post is pretty old and possibly out of date. There’s an updated version of it in my book, Monolithic Transformation. In contrast to the way traditional organizations operate, cloud native enterprises are typically comprised of self-motivated and directed teams. This reduces the amount of time it takes to make decisions, deploy code, and see if the results helped move the needle. More than just focusing on speed of decision making and execution, building up these intrinsically motivatedteams helps spark creativity, fueling innovative thinking.

Healthcare Shift to the Cloud Quickens

“cut another 30,000 jobs” - shedding droves of people happens at big tech companies a lot. I always wonder how their system got so inefficient that they hired this many extra people. It’s a strange problem once you start thinking through it: each of those hires was thought to be needed to be profitable, and now all the sudden they’re not needed…? Hewlett Packard Enterprise to cut 30,000 jobs

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