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Initially I thought this is just a fluff piece with some idealistic goals. Turns out it has actual, detailed examples of how a leader can cultivate culture. Th

Initially I thought this is just a fluff piece with some idealistic goals. Turns out it has actual, detailed examples of how a leader can cultivate culture. This is super valuable because a lot times it's not intuitive how a leader's action leads to people behaving certain ways.

elg0nz 7y ago
Kate Matsudaira is an amazing tech leader and writer who covers topics from culture and process, to Distributed Systems and Architecture, I cannot recommend her essays enough. Some of my favorite pieces from her: http://katemats.com/distributed-systems-basics-handling-failure-fault-tolerance-and-monitoring/ http://katemats.com/distributed-systems-basics-handling-fail... http://katemats.com/paradox-autonomy-recognition/ http://katemats.com/paradox-autonomy-recognition/ http://katemats.com/lean-software-development-build-v1s-and-v2s/ http://katemats.com/lean-software-development-build-v1s-and-...
bsder 7y ago
I'm still waiting for one of these "cultural thought leaders" to put their money on the table and build a group that blows everybody's doors off. I view them like those peddling "investment secrets"--if they were actually that valuable, they sure wouldn't be sharing.
- krageon 7y ago
  A lot of what they say is really obvious, except if you are an incredibly toxic individual. The core problem with this is not that it won't work IMO, it's that the right people won't internalise the advice. If you were genuinely questioning whether this advice makes a difference, I'm happy for you. You've apparently never had to see the examples of where it is not applied. I can tell you from experience that working in a team with one or more toxic leaders is like dying a slow death every day you come to work.
- Dowwie 7y ago
  https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/11/science/falcon-heavy-launch-spacex.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/11/science/falcon-heavy-laun... What kind of culture do you think could pull off such a complex, high-stakes mission that lasted not even fifteen minutes? The entire mission was Livestreamed. It was amazing. History was made. The doors were literally blown off. The points that the author made in the article are represented in a body of academic study and were validated at companies such as Google some time ago. These aren't her own novel findings, but she does a good job summarizing into a single article.

elg0nz 7y ago

Kate Matsudaira is an amazing tech leader and writer who covers topics from culture and process, to Distributed Systems and Architecture, I cannot recommend her essays enough. Some of my favorite pieces from her: http://katemats.com/distributed-systems-basics-handling-failure-fault-tolerance-and-monitoring/ http://katemats.com/distributed-systems-basics-handling-fail... http://katemats.com/paradox-autonomy-recognition/ http://katemats.com/paradox-autonomy-recognition/ http://katemats.com/lean-software-development-build-v1s-and-v2s/ http://katemats.com/lean-software-development-build-v1s-and-...

bsder 7y ago

I'm still waiting for one of these "cultural thought leaders" to put their money on the table and build a group that blows everybody's doors off. I view them like those peddling "investment secrets"--if they were actually that valuable, they sure wouldn't be sharing.

krageon 7y ago
A lot of what they say is really obvious, except if you are an incredibly toxic individual. The core problem with this is not that it won't work IMO, it's that the right people won't internalise the advice. If you were genuinely questioning whether this advice makes a difference, I'm happy for you. You've apparently never had to see the examples of where it is not applied. I can tell you from experience that working in a team with one or more toxic leaders is like dying a slow death every day you come to work.
Dowwie 7y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/11/science/falcon-heavy-launch-spacex.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/11/science/falcon-heavy-laun... What kind of culture do you think could pull off such a complex, high-stakes mission that lasted not even fifteen minutes? The entire mission was Livestreamed. It was amazing. History was made. The doors were literally blown off. The points that the author made in the article are represented in a body of academic study and were validated at companies such as Google some time ago. These aren't her own novel findings, but she does a good job summarizing into a single article.