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TBM 41/51: Why Goal Cascades are Harmful (and What to Do Instead)
Overpowered Metrics Eat Underspecified Goals
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Some ways to build this habit:When reviewing new designs, always bring people back to “what problem are we trying to solve here?”When you get a hint that team members are misaligned (e.g. quoting data not everyone has seen, optimizing for different goals, shifting priorities), just say “We may be misaligned on this, what’s your understanding of X?”... See more
Lenny Rachitsky • 14 Habits of Highly Effective Product Managers
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Engineering organizations today have ballooned to huge numbers of people, but these huge engineering organizations don’t exactly have a reputation for high velocity output. Some of this is the result of what happens with products at scale: it is just fundamentally faster and easier to iterate, improve, or change a product with 100 users than it is ... See more
The magic of software; or, what makes a good engineer also makes a good engineering organization
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An organization that does conventional goal-setting will have agreed on shared goals but not on the acceptable/unacceptable tradeoffs in achieving those shared goals.
vaughn tan • Unpacking Boris
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Conventional goal-setting sucks because it overlooks the actually important part of agreeing on goals collectively, which is to also agree on what you’re willing (and unwilling) to give up to achieve those shared goals. By not paying attention to what tradeoffs stakeholders believe are (or aren’t) acceptable, conventional goal-setting makes conflic... See more
vaughn tan • Unpacking Boris
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On the topic of goals, the academic research agrees with your intuition: Having goals improves performance.113 Spending hours cascading goals up and down the company, however, does not.114 It takes way too much time and it’s too hard to make sure all the goals line up.
Laszlo Bock • Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead
Traditional goal-setting does not focus at all on making explicit and clarifying the acceptable and unacceptable tradeoffs in achieving those shared goals.
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