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value risk (whether customers will buy it), usability risk (whether users can figure out how to use it), feasibility risk (whether our engineers can build what we need with the time, skills, and technology we have), and business viability risk (whether this solution also works for the various aspects of our business
Marty Cagan • INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group)
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 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
One myth is that American manufacturing has been devastated by trade. The evidence for this is the decline in the American work force engaged in manufacturing production work, from somewhere over 30 percent of American workers in the middle of the twentieth century to somewhere around 5 percent today.
But counting workers is the wrong metric.... See more
But counting workers is the wrong metric.... See more
Arnold Kling • The Trade Myths that refuse to die
So if you’ve been deep in productivity mode, try staring at the stars for an hour. If you’ve been floating in the clouds, go build a spreadsheet. Not just because balance is a virtue, but because crossing the boundary teaches you something you can’t learn any other way.
It’s not weakness to step out of your lane. It’s genius.
So... where have you... See more
It’s not weakness to step out of your lane. It’s genius.
So... where have you... See more
The Wisest People I Know All Believe This
Here’s a simple framework for creating assertions:
“Based on my insight of X, I believe that Y is true. To go a step further, given X and Y, I think we should do Z. I think it’ll work because A and B. If it doesn’t work, there’s a risk of C happening, and I’ll take care of that by doing D.”
Why high performers make assertions: The difference between insights, suggestions, and assertions
“ 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?“