This month I joined the Jenewein Leadership Bootcamp. You may have read from Wolfgang Jenewein on LinkedIn or listened to his great podcast already. It was an inspiring 3 days experience with many interesting & mindblowing aspects. I am still processing all the topics that were brought up and it gave me a push into lots of directions where I still have room for improvement & development.
Other than that: This was November. We saw some crazy events around the probably most watched company in the world, when Sam Altman had to leave, joined Microsoft and became CEO of OpenAI again in just a few hours (and the whole leadership team went through a rollercoaster). And here are some more interesting articles.
Storytelling
- Emily Carmichael is a screenwriter and on YouTube she is challenged with coming up with a storyline in 7 minutes. Following her impressingly shows, how pictures in your head can be created although the story itself contains only few words and descriptions. A great lesson in storytelling.
Working together
- The way we work is changing. Here is a report from the innovation work on meetings & meeting rooms technology at Microsoft.
Product Development
- John Cutler on Loom on Measuring Velocity, Productivity, Efficiency, and Emojis.
- Are you skipping your Double Diamond? Or are you having trouble facilitating it? Left-shifting work is a dangerous endeavor. Andy Budd comes up with an approach to slowly build up your Double Diamond skills and still get your products into the market.
Tools
Ayayay
- Use generative AI for establishing UX? Here you go.
Mythbusting
- One of the terms that I heard very often in my career was "If you can't measure it, you can't manage it". It was often used as an end-all-discussions argument and some attempt to argue the necessity of measuring performance. Seems we all got it wrong. It was only part of the sentence and it meant completely the opposite.
Learning new stuff
- On Apple Notes.
- Why we should stop lazy loading images by Jason Grigsby
Leadership
Do you still have one of your 2 HBR story slots available this month? Why not dig into delegation poker insights: when Tannenbaum and Schmidt in 1958 layed down the foundation of the leadership continuum?
- What is the leadership continuum? on mindtools.com
- Harvard Business Review: How to choose a leadership pattern? with references to the 1958 and 1973 articles of Tannenbaum and Schmidt
- Here are the slides of Uwe Friedrichsen's talk he held on a conference. It's about how our world is changing and how it affects our approach to technology in a business context.