Want to Learn How Things Really Work at Your New Job? Talk to the People at the Bottom
New research shows that people of all ranks look to low-level peers for information about organizational social norms.
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Weekly newsletter about leadership, technology, books and anything else we felt compelled to share with others
Year 4 - Edition 22
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.
New research shows that people of all ranks look to low-level peers for information about organizational social norms.
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Systems design is invisible to people who don’t know how to look for it. At least with code, you can measure output by the line or the bug, and you can hire more programmers to get more code. With systems design, the key insight might be a one-sentence explanation given at the right time to the right person, that affects the next 5 years of work, or is the difference between hypergrowth and steady growth.
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I think it’s easy to underestimate the extent to which our tools can constrain our thinking, if the way they work goes against the way we work. Conversely, great tools that parallel our minds can multiply our creativity and productivity, by removing the invisible friction of translating between our mental models and the models around which the tools are built.
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Effective leadership uniquely blends human qualities - influence, empathy, courage, and results. This latter quality always brings the question of productivity - how effective are you at producing results through enabling others?
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The dirty secret of Silicon Valley is that most great product teams follow a system that resembles waterfall (gasp!) to launch new innovative features/products repeatably.
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Happy reading!
The Editors at A Fistful of Links