communications
- Data is a compass not a map”
- “Vision and intuition help you identify the right mountain, data helps you get to the top.”
Bits and Bobs 5/19/25
To start to figure out your own incentive architecture, ask yourself the following line of questioning:
- What are you incentivized by?
- What decisions do you own or influence through that incentive?
- What are each of your stakeholders incentivized by?
- What decisions do they own or influence through that incentive?
- What incentives would the change you want
Abby Covert • Incentive Architecture before Information Architecture - Abby Covert, Information Architect
Incentive architecture is management work.
If concrete consulting is for the problems organizations already know they have to solve, amorphous consulting is for the problems organizations can’t put words to yet.
Vaughn Tan • Amorphous consulting
“ If they are the ones with the power, you can’t convince anyone to change what they are doing. Unless somehow you can change their incentive. “
Abby Covert • Incentive Architecture before Information Architecture - Abby Covert, Information Architect
“What if you need to convince someone to change?“
If a high performer suddenly starts being upset about lots of little things, it’s usually one big thing.
In order of probability, it’s usually one of the following:
In order of probability, it’s usually one of the following:
- they’re faced with a challenge they’re struggling with and don’t like doing a bad job
- personal life issues
- yhey have a new, bad manager
- they have an underperforming peer they depend on
Stay SaaSy on Substack
- What about this doesn’t work for you?
- What would you need to make this work?
- It seems there’s something here that bothers you?
Yan-David Erlich • Yanda's Negotiation Cheat Sheet
When your taste is ahead of your skill, you are not happy with the work you produce.
Stop a minute and think about it: all the times you are dissatisfied with your work, it just means that your taste for what is good is ahead of what you are able to create.
This conflict is good — in fact, it is what allows your skill to grow. You have a reference of... See more
Stop a minute and think about it: all the times you are dissatisfied with your work, it just means that your taste for what is good is ahead of what you are able to create.
This conflict is good — in fact, it is what allows your skill to grow. You have a reference of... See more