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Managing people
James Currier • Status, Wealth, & Power: Network Effects Demand A New Social Contract
your job is not to manage peoplebut to manage processes and lead peopleYou manage processes on how you expect work to be done, where each person's authority starts and ends, how their careers are made, and how all this can be discussed, and/or changedAdditionally, you are leading people by example and through empathy.
Andreas Klinger • Managing people 🤯 | Andreas Klinger
Most execution problems are culture or strategy problems (misalignment, different strategies). Indicator: does the bandage you applied keep falling off?
Substack • Shreyas Doshi on pre-mortems, the LNO framework, the three levels of product work, why most execution problems are strategy problems, and ROI vs. opportunity cost thinking
My goal is to structure teams around minimizing “coordination headwind,” as described by Alex Komoroske in this deck on seeing organizations as slime mold. The rough idea is that coordination costs (caused by uncertainty and disagreements) increase with scale, and adding managers doesn’t improve things. People’s incentives become misaligned. People... See more