Saved by Mo Shafieeha
The Curse of Culture
When I started my first business, it never crossed my mind that I was creating a culture as well as a company. I didn’t even realize that companies had cultures, let alone that the culture might actually affect the business’s performance. It was only fifteen years later—when my wife, Elaine, joined the company—that I began to think seriously about
... See moreBo Burlingham • Street Smarts
I think there is a similar fallacy for how we consider engineering organizations. Many of today’s “best practices” have been drawn from long-established internet companies like Google. However, the problem with copying their current practices on the basis of their success is that most of those companies found near-invincible business models that... See more
Moxie Marlinspike • The Magic of Software; Or, What Makes a Good Engineer Also Makes a Good Engineering Organization
Many CEOs model a successful leader whose methods they haven’t internalized or whose best practices don’t apply to their company.