How to build organizational resilience
By encoding resilience into an organization’s culture, engineering teams can be better equipped to tackle the unknown and unexpected.
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Weekly newsletter about leadership, technology, books and anything else we felt compelled to share with others
Year 4 - Edition 18
A Fistful of Links is a weekly newsletter about leadership, technology, books, and anything else we felt compelled to share with others, brought to you by Og Maciel and Mirek Długosz.
By encoding resilience into an organization’s culture, engineering teams can be better equipped to tackle the unknown and unexpected.
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Give the best interview of your life.
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As I was deciding what to write about next, I was surprised to find that two separate essays I’d been planning to write were actually the same.
The first is about how to ace your Y Combinator interview. There has been so much nonsense written about this topic that I’ve been meaning for years to write something telling founders the truth.
The second is about something politicians sometimes say — that the only way to become a billionaire is by exploiting people — and why this is mistaken.
Keep reading, and you’ll learn both simultaneously.
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Because of the massive move from office to home office due to the global Corona pandemic, leaders will have to massively shift from KPI-management (Key Performance Indicators) to CPI-leadership (Caring For People Indicators) if they want their teams to survive and their people to remain engaged.
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So, you’re a product manager, and following your success in launching a new product last year, you’ve been promoted to product manager of your organization’s flagship product ‘20-Year-Old-Monolith-Beast’, just as the organization embarks on a much-needed modernization initiative. There’s a bit of a smell around the transformation, and many of your stakeholders are pushing for an MVP (minimum viable product). They’ve heard that’s the best practice so what should be the MVP for this? You’re struggling to find one that makes sense, and so now you’re thinking you might not be up to the job. Don’t stress! It’s not you, it’s the MVP. It’s not up to the job. Let’s unpack why MVP is not the right tool for legacy modernization.
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Happy reading!
The Editors at A Fistful of Links