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The Selfish Meme: How Organisational Memes Define Culture
The Selfish Meme is a mental model that allows us to build a framework around some tools and techniques that might help us to guide positive cultural change within an organisation. Frequently, we have to battle against the organisation itself and the “Corporate Immune System”. Sometimes we managed to “win” the battles and the war and effect positive and lasting change.
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Maintaining Mental health on Software Development Teams
Working on a software development team often means dealing with stress, anxiousness, and tight deadlines. Research has shown developers to have considerably higher chances of experiencing mental health issues than their counterparts, who perform mechanical tasks. Check out these nuggets of wisdom for stabilizing developers’ mental health, shared by Beetroot’s HR psychologist.
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Q&A on the Book Unleashing the Power of Diversity
The book Unleashing the Power of Diversity by Bjørn Z. Ekelund describes the Diversity Icebreaker, an experiential communication exercise where people learn about themselves and others. The differences are named Red, Blue and Green, a language of diversity that is relevant for interaction, problem solving, giving feedback, and creating inclusiveness and trust.
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Q&A on the Book Managing the Unmanageable
The book Managing the Unmanageable by Mickey W. Mantle and Ron Lichty provides rules, tools, and insights to manage programmers and teams. It explores how to hire and develop programmers, onboard new hires quickly and successfully, and build and nurture highly effective and productive teams.
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Author Q&A on the Book The Innovation Revelation
David Lowe has written the book The Innovation Revelation: A story about satisfying customer needs. The book tells the fictional story of Charlie Blades who is a manager in the IT department of a retail company in London, faced with disruption from outside and old ways of working inside. The story explores how changes in workplace culture and practices can result in better outcomes.
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Book Review: Developer, Advocate!
Developer, Advocate! is a set of interviews with prominent technologists, covering what drives their interest and enthusiasm in the industry. The brevity of each interview provides direct information and insight that can be read separately at any time, in any order, enabling those with busy schedules to read, put down, and repeat.
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Q&A on the Book Quantum Leadership
The book Quantum Leadership by Frederick Chavalit Tsao and Chris Laszlo brings to light the power of direct-intuitive practices – such as meditation, nature immersion, art, and exercise – to transform a leader’s consciousness to the highest point of leverage for entrepreneurial creativity that embeds social purpose.
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How Structure, Process, and Rules Make People Free
There is a widespread belief that rules, structure and processes inhibit freedom and that organizations that want to build a culture of autonomy and performance need to avoid them like the plague. In this article, we want to debunk that myth. Nurturing a culture of freedom and responsibility at scale is an organizational design problem
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Great People Deserve Great Managers: Managers Effectiveness Index at Kronos Incorporated
Kronos transformed their managers’ capability by introducing a Manager Effectiveness Index (MEI), which consists of codifying the role of managers and measuring their effectiveness. The company turned their employees’ performance process upside down by asking their employees to rate their managers’ performance and effectiveness twice a year.
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Did You Forget the Ops in DevOps?
Kris Buytaert, a DevOps pioneer, takes us through his journey in the last 10 years of helping organizations go through the adoption hype cycle and sorting out misunderstandings in their transformations.
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Q&A on the Book Change-Friendly Leadership
Friendliness is the core denominator for active and willful participation of people when being affected by change, according to Rodger Dean Duncan. In his book CHANGE-friendly LEADERSHIP, he explores how to effectively lead and manage change, transition, and implementation issues in organizations.
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Q&A on the Book Agile Leadership Toolkit
Agile leadership is the art and craft of creating the right environment for self-managing teams. The book Agile Leadership Toolkit by Peter Koning is a practical book that supports existing agile managers and leaders in growing their agile teams and creating the right environment for them.