Culture
The Efficiency Fallacy 6 minutes read.
Well written post from Harel Ben-Attia. "Some would say that teams are expected to find the optimal solution and not the minimal one, but from my experience in many cases it's only a local optimum, still aimed to solve a minimization problem" - Harel's insight on taking the superposition principle into the decision making process is a great advice if you want to make better decisions over time. Also, I see strong correlation to the post I've shared above (Beyond the cost of center mentality), as we don't put enough emphasis on measuring latency over time. Figuring out the impact on latency over time as part of the tradeoffs considered, can help us further improve our decision making skills.
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Vision, Mission, Strategy 3 minutes read.
One of the areas I believe the most successful companies are really great at is sharing their vision across the different teams in the organization. Just look at Google: their vision of "organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful" propagated to the various different teams, not only their core search engine team. This is how they manage to stay so innovative, e.g. Google Maps, Google Glass or even Google's self-driving cars. If you're leading a team, try to define your own vision, mission and strategy and see how it aligns with the business.
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Marketing to a Mission 5 minutes read.
The team at Wistia decided to switch from product-based marketing to a mission-based marketing. Not only I believe it contributes a lot to their ability to better educate their community, but I also think that it could help build a better culture at the company as the alignment is much stronger than the specific product they're working on. It would help them to experiment with new features and even new products as long as the mission remains the same. The well-known advice of "Fall in-love with the problem you're trying to solve, not with your current solution" applied to content marketing.
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