#172 – January 14, 2024
It is surprisingly common for an incentive intended to create one outcome to create the exact opposite
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Incentives and the Cobra Effect
3 minutes by Andrew Bosworth
It is surprisingly common for an incentive intended to create one outcome to create the exact opposite.
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Culture
5 minutes by Mike Fisher
Spend a lot of time thinking about the culture that exists and how necessary it is to shift. Sometimes it is absolutely necessary. If you find yourself in an Autocratic culture, you probably want to shift away from that, no matter the short term costs. Other cultures might work just fine depending on the outcomes that you need to achieve.
Performance Reviews Matter
8 minutes by StaySaasy
Performance reviews matter a lot. In this post we’ll aim to explain why they matter, and give options to trim down your process.
We invested 10% to pay back tech debt
11 minutes by Alex Ewerlöf
Why and how we continuously invested the team bandwidth to pay back tech debt and what were the results?
How to make your team read your mind
9 minutes by Anton Zaides
The worst thing you can do to your team is to not clearly communicate your expectations. Working with unspoken expectations is like solving a puzzle with no picture – everything is much harder than it needs to be.