- Quick note: Friday wins and a case study in ritual design | Kellan Elliott-McCrea
"Culture is what you celebrate. Rituals are the tools you use to shape culture." Smart work, needs serious thinking about.
- The New Wilderness (Idle Words)
Required reading.
Tag: management
Bookmarks for March 6, 2018
- How to Rands – Rands in Repose
This really isn't a bad guide to basic tech management – making sure your team know what the score is regarding their line manager, and what he's about.
Bookmarks for June 27, 2016
- A Manager’s FAQ
Absolutely superb stuff in here.
- BREXIT & Its Terrifying, Never-Discussed Consequences For Northern Ireland (with tweets) · shockproofbeats · Storify
All I can do is hope this person is wrong. I don't think the worst they fear will happen, but I also don't think this will help the peace process, *at all*.
Bookmarks for September 2, 2011
- Monsters of Grok: fake band t-shirts for history's greatest thinkers by Jeremy Kalgreen
I just need to decide which of these to buy.
- It's Not Just Standing Up: Patterns for Daily Standup Meetings
This is an excellent summary of how to run an effective daily stand-up meeting, and how to fix problems with it, should they arise.
Bookmarks for July 30, 2009
- Bishopsgate – FICTIONAL LONDON: Gothic London: City of the Deranged and Disorderly Dead
A talk in December. Anyone interested? Speak up sharpish, because every time I see one of these things, it sells out before I get round to buying tickets, and that's not happening this fucking time, so if you want me to grab you a ticket, speak up bloody quickly.
- Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
Superb encapsulation of the impact of meetings on two differently scheduled kinds of staff. Should be required reading for all managers, as it will help them understand why the makers they need to meet with are often resistant to the idea of another meeting.
Bookmarks for July 15, 2009
- Essay: Dumb-dumb bullets – July 2009 – Armed Forces Journal – Military Strategy, Global Defense Strategy
Whenever anyone asks me why I hate meetings and powerpoint, I am just going to point them at this. If the purpose of a presentation in a meeting is to get decisions made, then the decisions made as a result are likely to be flawed. The information should be circulated in a sensible manner pre-meeting.
- Words For Print Vs Words For Web | > jim rossignol
Yes. Clever stuff. Worth the read. Ties up with some back-of-the-mind thoughts I'm having at the moment.
- Meeting Ticker
This should be up on the a screen in every meeting room, ever.
- tedr*tumblr: Right on Trent
Trent Reznor nails the future of not just the music business, but more or less any creative economy. Barring, of course, the disruptive new technology that will be invented next month that will render his notions moot. But y'know, it's a good summary of what everyone should have been doing for the last few years.