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Rita McGrath - Seeing Around Corners: 6 Questions for Rapidly Adaptive Organizations
m.youtube.comGrey Hair-type projects the problems to be addressed are somewhat more familiar, at least some of the tasks to be performed (particularly the early ones) are known in advance and can be specified and delegated. The opportunity is…
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David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm
You want problems solved by the right people who can do it most effectively.
John Seiffer • Output Thinking: Scale Faster, Manage Better, Transform Your Company
Each quarter we try to study an admirable company and discuss it with our Operating Group managers and board members. We focus on high performance conglomerates that have demonstrated at least a decade of superior shareholder returns.
Ryan • Mark Leonard Letters
But success is also about getting many small changes right and doing them fast, so they can accrue big performance gains.
Stefan H. Thomke • Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments
The best way to solve a management problem, he believed, was through “creative confrontation”—by facing people “bluntly, directly, and unapologetically.”*
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
Fantastic advice, for software builders:
Headline driven development
Here is a simple process for shipping software projects that works. First, decompose the project into a stream1 of headlines. Then pick an aggressive date to ship the first headline and work like hell to meet that date. Have everyone work only on one headline at a time– the upcomi
... See moreNone of this improvement came from a deep entrepreneurial insight or from innovation. It was all just management—just undoing the accumulated clutter and waste from years of entropy at work.