Taking the temperature
What do you do to keep an eye on how your team is doing – as individuals and a team? A less-structured meeting (or part… Read More »Taking the temperature
What do you do to keep an eye on how your team is doing – as individuals and a team? A less-structured meeting (or part… Read More »Taking the temperature
The basic principle is that when you’re recruiting, you should be seeking to raise the average of your team, bringing in people who increase the… Read More »Raising the average (2)
My first post about The Onion looked at interesting problems as systems of networked sub-problems, and suggested that our solutions will mirror this structure. The… Read More »The Onion (2): a model for solving interesting problems
This post is a sketch of a way of thinking about how problems work, and what we need to do to make our solutions (“the… Read More »The Onion (1): understanding interesting problems
Seth Godin has written a lot about education – Stop Stealing Dreams (TED talk and longer e-book) is a good place to start. Then it’s… Read More »Seth Godin on transforming education
A problem is interesting when… 1. It’s important to someone Presumably because solving it will make things better.* The problem won’t be important to everyone,… Read More »Interesting problems: a definition
Whether you’re improving your own work or helping others improve theirs,* it pays to spend time talking about who is responsible for what – and… Read More »Responsibility
That next person you hire – are you lowering the average, or raising the average? ‘Cause if you’re lowering the average of your team because… Read More »Seth Godin on recruiting: raise the average
I love WhatsApp voice messages. Through the wonder of the voice message (and especially after the introduction of the wonderful voice-record lock) I have better… Read More »WhatsAppterview
These are two great episodes from the BBC’s excellent 50 Things that Made the Modern Economy. Episode: Robot The robots are coming! Sort of. Featuring… Read More »They’re (not quite) taking our jobs: Tim Harford on robots, spreadsheets and automation in the workplace