Theory and practice for leaders of distributed teams by Michał Parkoła
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Collaboration and Leadership
- 🧱 Three false beliefs
- Three Pits of Team Despair
- 🕯️ Organize your communication around focused work
- 👉 Don’t use the same tools to direct attention and store information
- ✍️ Make it easy for people to understand you
- 💎 Know What You Want
- 🏋️ Train like an athlete
- 🍏 Limits, regeneration and meaning – how not to go crazy in difficult times
- ✉️ De-noise Your Email
- 🤔 How might this make sense?
- ☀️ Make good decisions in difficult interpersonal situations
- 🎖️ Encourage acts of leadership at all levels
- 🚦 You can’t solve problems while angry or fearful
- 🏴☠️ One of Us
- 🤝 A fast decision-making method for teams
- 🏆 How to become a great team
- 🤪 How to stay sane on the road to meaningful outcomes
- 🔎 When in Doubt Clarify the Outcome and Action
- ⭐ Your Work Serves a Purpose: Make That Purpose Visible
- 💛 Make Your Communication Meaningful (For Your Intended Audience)
- 💎 Make Your Communication Concise
- 👀 Make Your Communication Concrete
- ✍️ Communicate Well in Short Chunks of Writing
- 🤩 Don’t rely on “wow” effects
- ⚖️ How to make Very Big Decisions?
- 🧠 Use Trello as a structured whiteboard for distributed brainstorming and online workshops
- ⚔️ Heroic Adventurers vs. Brutish Invaders
- 🔭 How to Start with WHY
- Don’t keep valuable ideas locked up
- 💝 Assume Positive Intent
- 🌲 Enable Knowledge to Grow Over Time with AsyncABC
- 😀 Aim for a 5:1 ratio of positive to negative interactions
- 🍎 First Find the Good
- 📐 Use a consistent information architecture across tools
- 🖼️ Show, don’t tell
- Help Your Team Be More Effective (the Google Way)
- Maximise Collective Intelligence With Empathy
- A Note on Empathy and Compassion
- How to Speak so that People Listen
- Zniszcz autostrady, przetnij sznury
- Nie (de)motywuj mnie!
- Nagrody zawężają uwagę, zabijają kreatywność
Design, Product and R&D
- What do high-performance teams need from their virtual space (that they’re not getting from existing tools)?
- A new operating system for learning
- Thinking tools for Product Owners (my talk at Agile by Example 2014)
- 7 Pitfalls that can Destroy new Product Owners (my talk at Agile by Example 2014)
- How to Design Highly-Usable Dialog Boxes
- The old WHAT vs. HOW debate