Tag: leadership
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find your customer
Compensation theater: Everyone cares about the compensation (base salary, bonus, and stock). That’s the data they care about, but where did this pile of compensation come from? Who decided how big it is? And how is it allocated? It is a long, complicated, and large process that began over a year ago. Every meeting I…
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How AI change your software development organization
A catch-up with Purnima Padmanabhan, GM of the Tanzu Division at Broadcom, on what her team has actually learned shipping enterprise software with AI for the last year and a half: code generation is the small part, beautiful code is the new uncanny valley, and you cannot solve the agent boundary problem from inside the…
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find out what actually mattered, scrap the rest of of governance
Map the last 10 decisions that actually mattered, ones that moved budget, shifted a timeline, or changed who owns what. Where did they really get made, and who was in the room? Hold that against your governance charter. If the two lists don’t match, habit is running your business. 🔗 Governance: New Strategy, Old Hands…
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Do less
For most of modern history, we’ve invested perhaps 10% of our energy in ‘be’ and 90% in ‘do’. The AI era invites (demands?) something closer to the reverse. That’s not a comfortable shift for an industry that prides itself on shipping, but might be the most important thing we build next. 🔗 The Identity Crisis…
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AI use isn’t about firing people, it’s about making the people you already have more productive. You have to change your corporate system/culture to adapt to that: However, when finance leaders seek to identify where this return appears in terms of headcount shifts or cycle-time compression, the answers are less clear. These gains remain trapped…
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Be well known around the company, do some personal marketing, “have an impact” on other teams and make sure people know about it. // When there’s blood on the boardroom floor, there is no “I” in team. 🔗 Microsofts Ex-VP of HR Shares How to Avoid the ‘Underperformer’ Label
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The Octopus Organization is a great collection of organization anti-patterns. This week, one of the co-authors, Jana Werner talks with Whitney and Coté about those patterns and her own experiences. They go over topics like reading habits, the role of business books, decision making, ownership, curiosity in organizations. practical steps to avoid common corporate anti-patterns,…
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Scoping questions for business books
What type of organization is this book for? IBM or Facebook or OpenAI? Netflix or Warner Brothers? Mercedes or Tesla? Alaska or Belgium? Delta or SpaceX? HSBC or Square? Does this apply to management, employees, VCs, Wall Street investors, or customers? Feel free to pick multiple, but explain. Is this a playbook for how a…
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Execs have little knowledge or how things actually work, giving then false hopes on how AI can improve things and replace workers
“In our recent survey of 1,400 U.S.-based employees, 76% of executives reported that their employees feel enthusiastic about AI adoption in their organization. But the view from the bottom up is less sunny: Just 31% of individual contributors expressed enthusiasm about adopting AI. That means leaders are more than two times off the mark.” And: “This…
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“White Collar Elitism” America’s ‘Simon Sinek’ Problem
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Corporate culture can just be a tool to match the needs of the moment.
The conclusion here is clear: the industry will want different things from you as it evolves, and it will tell you that each of those shifts is because of some complex moral change, but it’s pretty much always about business realities changing. If you take any current morality tale as true, then you’re setting yourself…
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Five Vide Coding Lessons for the Enterprise – ‘In an enterprise, the “context window” isn’t just a technical term; it’s the accumulated technical debt, undocumented tribal knowledge, and complex dependencies that hold your systems together. A new developer or a new AI tool can’t simply be dropped in and expected to understand this history. The…
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The more senior engineers get, the more results matter – “as you become more senior, you’re increasingly graded on results. Interns are graded on effort.”
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How to Lead an All-Hands After Delivering Bad News – “Create a shared mental model to make sure your team understands what the new context means for how they work together.”
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It’s Not About “Nice” – ”So next time you read about organizations moving away from ‘nice,’ what they’re really doing is voluntarily choosing to lower their own performance and demotivate their talent.”
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Why Bro Culture Still Holds Teams Back at Work –
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The Titan Who Couldn’t Let Go – Founder mode case study: “There’s a pattern here, and it’s bigger than Hughes. Obsession works–in short bursts, in narrow contexts, with clear feedback loops. But scale it up, let it harden into infrastructure, and it starts to rot the system from the inside. Hughes structurally disallowed any process…
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One ‘Bad Apple’ Correct Interpretation – On the use and mis-use of “bad apples.”
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5 Questions to Help Your Team Make Better Decisions – (1) What Would Happen if We Did Nothing? (2) What Could Make Us Regret This Decision? (3) What Alternatives Did We Overlook? (4) How Will We Know If This Was the Right Decision? (5) Is This Decision Reversible?
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The Peter Principle – by Nicholas Decker – “Promotions are used as incentives, even if they don’t always match future competence.”
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