A quick recap in case this is the first time you read this…
My plan for the weekly insight pills is rather simple: to make a weekly consolidation of stuff that called my attention, relates to the overarching theme of this blog/newsletter, and share it across over here. With some comment of my own on top.
To ease the access to the previous issue, here are the 3 latest:
Time to think and win
I thought the below post by Tom Goodwin was very insightful and I am hopeful for the same. You get what you focus and incentivize… If the metric was raising money and growing the team, then we can’t quite blame only the worsening of the economic background, can we?
That’s somewhat connected to what I presented here as my perspective on the tech layoffs. As well to my take here on the interplay of strategy, plans and execution.
Speaking about layoffs, do we get a contagious disease too?
Jeffrey Pfeffer makes a compelling argument, in this interview, that we should be worried the layoffs being largely driven by copycat behavior, although I would imagine that being the propagation effect not the, so to speak, original sin… For that one, I’d stick to the position Tom Goodwin’s take above and my perspective on the layoffs as previously posted.
And part of the equation to sort it out might be recognizing…
That, as well put together by Tom Goodwin again (see post below), we are in probably in a transition of management eras. But as a nice discussion which followed in the comments pointed out, it would be an error to think of that as full replacements. It is rather layered, so we still get, and in fact need attributes from the previous eras too. It turns out that things get a bit messy sometimes – and we might fall into applying old eras methods to problems of different nature (e.g., over-hiring, and then having to let go when there is more scrutiny and discernment around investments returns, when one of the key advantages of a digital world is that you can scale by other means).
Rethinking is also about (re)simplifying…
And Rob England’s post below is a good reminder that we know how to do it but often just allow that to happen in critical emergency situations. I guess here again worthwhile the ‘tragedy of the perpendicular’ (feat. Dave Aron).
So… it’s a wrap for this week…
And I hope you found this insightful. I would love to ‘hear’ if you have any feedback or even some suggestion on what I am doing here.
by Rodrigo Sperb, feel free to connect (I only refuse invites from people clearly with an agenda to ‘coldly’ sell something to me), happy to engage and interact