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Issue 37: Risk and Uncertainty
Know the difference between risk and uncertainty. Then get started.
Issue 36: Measure Second. Align First
Don’t assume that having a measurable goal means that everyone’s aligned on how to achieve it.
Issue 35: After the Layoff
Layoffs are rarely the end; they are often just the beginning of a much harder process.
Issue 34: Scaling CS
CS can be a driver of scale, but without discipline it is more burden than boon.
Issue 33: Celebrating Hypocrisy
The road to burnout is paved with acts of operational heroism.
Issue 32: The Peril of Consensus
Without clear decision-making authority, good ideas die in the quicksand of consensus.
Issue 31: The Goals You UNset
The best-run teams have the discipline to ask not just What should we do? but also What should we stop doing?
Issue 30: Why Broken Processes Don’t Get Fixed
The arc of client-facing work always bends toward urgency. Take people off the assembly line and give them the responsibility to work on the important stuff.
Issue 29: Flexibility
Is being flexible limiting your growth and profitability? Here’s how to ensure that doing right by your customers doesn’t mean doing wrong by your business.
Issue 28: Quality
Never compromising on quality may be bad for your business if you don’t actually know what quality is.