Leading Tech Teams in Uncertain Times
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Claims five concrete practices: lead with context, enable discovery, use constraints, embrace difference, and plan to start again. Evidence includes a one‑week fix that succeeds with a colocated room, pizza, whiteboards and all‑hours access; Gandhi gathering 60,000 followers by marching; AI summarizing reports but not replacing preparedness; creativity rates falling from 98% (ages 3–5) to 2% (adults); CD‑ROM era yearly releases vs continuous delivery; a teen’s alarm‑clock project misread as a bomb.
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chapters (20)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:17The Golden Era of the Dot Bubble
- 4:11Software Development in the Dot Bubble
- 6:43What happened in 2020
- 11:39CD ROM days
- 13:49Volatility complexity and ambiguity
- 15:33Vuka
- 16:05Leading with Context
- 20:39Enabling Discovery
- 21:04Benny Anderson
- 22:00Discovery
- 23:59Complexity
- 24:30MC Jagger
- 27:32Ambiguity
- 28:08First Person to See
- 29:56How to Handle Ambiguity
- 30:45Esther Blenda Nordstrom
- 32:12Starting Again
- 37:39Tetris
- 38:27Questions
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