The 5-Minute Ceiling
James Clear tells the story of a reader named Mitch who lost 100 pounds. His secret wasn't discipline.
Pep's Two Rules
Champions League stage. Penalty shootout about to begin. Everything on the line.
Pep Guardiola pulls his players aside. His advice
The Tentative Trap
Brian Urlacher made mistakes.
Eight Pro Bowls. Four First-Team All-Pro selections. Hall of Fame. He still missed tackles. Still read
The Learning Lag
You made a change on Monday. Something broke. But which change caused it?
By the time you saw the problem,
Truth Requires Safety
The all-hands: "We need candid feedback. Speak up if you see problems."
Feedback form arrives. Everyone fills it
The Math That Kills Teams
In 1964, IBM bet everything on OS/360.
It would be the most ambitious software project ever attempted. One operating
The Squad Model Failed
Everyone copied the Spotify model.
Squads. Tribes. Chapters. Guilds. The vocabulary spread through tech companies like a virus.
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Three Companies, One Well
April 20, 2010. Deepwater Horizon.
Three companies were responsible for one well: BP, Transocean, and Halliburton.
When the well blew
Structure Changed Behavior
In Season 3 of The Wire, Major Bunny Colvin runs an experiment.
He designates abandoned areas as "free zones&
The Org Chart Ships
In 1967, computer scientist Melvin Conway made an observation.
Organizations design systems that mirror their communication structures.
Not metaphorically. Literally.