Why doesn't advice work?

But they ignore you and suffer the predictable consequences

Author

Jakub Chodounsky
August 19, 2024

Why doesn't advice work?
10 minutes by Dynomight

Someone has a problem, they ask you for advice, and you give it to them. Your advice is impeccable, pragmatic, human, wise. But they ignore you and suffer the predictable consequences. All they had to do is listen. So why didn’t they?

Your developers know how to write code. What slows them down is having to search for the context to know what code to write. Unblocked gives engineering teams the answers they need to get their jobs done – without having to wait on or interrupt their teammates.

Multiply your best engineers by unburdening them from administrative work. What gets lost in the distinction between the engineering track and the management track is the allocation of administrative work. Without explicit attention to administrative work, it becomes implicit, cannibalizing the time of senior leaders, stifling their careers, limiting their creativity, and the organization’s ability to execute.

Stop Team Topologies
11 minutes by Martijn Oost

George Box famously quipped, “All models are wrong; some are useful.” By this logic, Team Topologies is inherently flawed: complex organizations cannot be reduced to just four types of teams and three types of interactions. Team Topologies serves as a tool that encourages organizations to evolve towards more effective ways of operating.

How to build a strategy
38 minutes by Rob Lambert

Strategies are pretty tough to design and build - and often even harder to bring to life. In this article Rob shares some guiding principles.

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