Quick reads: Week 41

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Understanding that we're playing a game with implicit rules

This piece deliberately spotlights the subjective aspects of organizational life. While companies strive for objectivity in all areas, there's an overlooked undercurrent of subjectivity that significantly impacts work, and careers.

Work is Not School: Surviving Institutional Stupidity

For 16+ years, we master the rules of school. Study hard, get good grades, follow the formula and ultimately merit wins. Then we enter the workforce and none of it works quite like we thought. This becomes painfully obvious as you rise higher in the org. Even seasoned veterans forget

Problem Solving in practice: Eight Disciples vs Toyota Practical Problem Solving

Strengths and Weaknesses of the Eight Disciplines Problem Solving (8D)

Here are (again) the nine disciplines of the Eight Disciplines Problem Solving:

Product Team Health Signals

Flow (...)

Structured approach to learning

Higher decision authority (...)

Real product strategy (...)

Acute challenges, but fewer chronic, lingering elephant-in-the-room type challenges (...)

TBM 26/52: Product Team Health (and Performance) "Signals"

Note: I did a short video on high work in progress you might find interesting On to this week’s post… A team member at Amplitude recently asked the following question: How do you figure out whether teams are more mature or less mature so quickly? After challenging the notion of maturity (not my favorite word), I explained the following: