"Peer-management. Promise what you’ll do in the coming week on internal Yammer. Deliver – or publicly break your promise – next week." This idea of commitments

"Peer-management. Promise what you’ll do in the coming week on internal Yammer. Deliver – or publicly break your promise – next week." This idea of commitments as value keeps coming up. It's difficult to explain to many technologists who see their value as measured in work, middle managers who see their value measured in negative time. If you just take the problem you are solving, express it functionally in terms of what goes into it, and what it will produce when it is solved, committing to that creates value for others. If you've seen Ray Dalio's "economic machine" video, commitments are are not unlike creating credit that facilitates spending, which creates growth. I get there are dodgy anti-patterns for creating fake commitments and fake credit that project managers tend to use, but a team that is creating growth doesn't need people like that.