Thoughts about people, technical work, and the conditions that help teams do good work. An honest archive: only published pieces appear here.
If you're leading an engineering team and wondering why innovation feels stalled, the answer usually isn't that your people lack ideas. It's that your environment isn't designed to surface them.
Read entryThe first step in building on your employees' strengths is to identify what those strengths are. This might sound simple, but it can be more complex than it seems. People are often modest or unaware of their own capabilities, which means you may need to dig a little deeper to uncover their true potential.
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