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On Generating Ideas
Forget brainstorming. Here's a guideline for exploring ideas together with your team.
Jakub Chodounsky
April 15, 2024
On Generating Ideas
3 minutes by Michał Poczwardowski
Forget brainstorming. I am sharing a guideline for exploring ideas together with your team that promises to deliver some fruitful ideas.
WorkOS: enterprise-grade auth for modern SaaS apps
sponsored by WorkOS
WorkOS supports both the foundational auth as well as complex enterprise features like single sign-on (SSO). It provides flexible and easy-to-use APIs, helping companies like Vercel, Loom, and Webflow become Enterprise Ready. WorkOS also features the Admin Portal that allows you to onboard IT teams to SSO in minutes. Best of all, WorkOS User Management is free up to 1 million MAUs.
4 Secrets Of High-Performing Teams
12 minutes by Eric Barker
Good leaders create a story: This is who we are. This is what we do. This is what we stand for. These are our goals. Might sound silly for a group that’s auditing insurance contracts but it can be the difference between team spirit and feeling like a loose group forced together by bureaucracy.
Brilliant Jerks in Engineering
21 minutes by Brendan Greggs
Should brilliant jerks be tolerated? To explore this, I described two fictional brilliant jerks: Alice, who is selfless, and Bob, who is selfish. This makes it clear that the behavior of selfish jerks, like Bob, should definitely not be tolerated. Bob can kill companies. When CEOs and VCs sometimes say that brilliant jerks may be worth it, I imagine they are thinking of Alice, a selfless jerk, and not Bob.
Simple Ways to Show Appreciation at Work
3 minutes by Christopher Littlefield
Appreciation, like trust, is relationship-based — each interaction we have with someone either strengthens or weakens that invisible connection. The more we feel appreciated, the stronger those bonds become, and the more tension they can withstand when something challenges it.
Explaining the fire
2 minutes by Dan Slimmon
When your site goes down, it’s all hands on deck. A cross-functional team must assemble fast and pursue an organized response. It feels like fighting a fire. So it’s not surprising that formal IT incident management tends to borrow heavily from the discipline of firefighting.
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