thoughtLEADERS, LLC

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Learn how to build and maintain your organization’s culture by studying these six components of high-performing cultures. A high-performing culture is one where people drive performance because of the right behaviors. People in high-performing cultures require less supervision.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 13, 2023

A Retrospective: Santa’s Big Leadership and Culture Change Is there anyone more beloved than Santa Claus? Today, the North Pole is a paragon of human-centered leadership and culture. Santa, Donner, and the head elf had created and took part in a toxic culture of ridicule that led to poor performance.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Learn about four of the most common obstacles to creating a high-performance culture and how to overcome them. You’ll face many common obstacles on your path to building a high-performance culture. Please click the article headline above or go to [link] for more. This is only the beginning of the thought.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

While leaders are often focused on how to transform their organizations — and, specifically, their cultures — an equally difficult challenge is keeping a culture steady. As companies go through big changes, they need to retain the best elements of their shared assumptions, values, and common behaviors.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

There is no agreed way to build and measure high performing engineering teams, let alone to track the success of software engineers. This article explores ways to support individuals and teams right from onboarding and identifies useful metrics which can help make performance factors visible and actionable.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Great corporate cultures are not just good for performance, but for the flourishing and engagement of the people who work in them and to deliver greater meaning and purpose. But oft overlooked is the central role that curiosity plays in crafting an organizational culture.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

“Hi, Karin, our company is growing so fast, I’m not even sure what our CULTURE is. How do I CARVE OUT A TEAM CULTURE?” ” #askingforafriend How to Carve Out A Team Culture Even When Your Company Culture is Lacking Great question! You don’t need to wait for the bigger culture to emerge.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Remote Work Culture: ‘Cultural Fit’ Hiring. ’ When companies hire for ‘cultural fit,’ they’re doing the same thing on an organizational level. Monolithic Company Culture is Less Important During WFH. Regardless of your company culture before COVID-19, that culture is probably very different today.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Performance testing is a hard discipline to get right and many things can go wrong. This article describes a few common problems seen frequently with performance testing and shares tips on how to make your performance testing routine better.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

MAY 10, 2024

Engineering managers can enable software teams to learn and improve, and help them move problems and impediments out of the way. In this virtual panel, we'll discuss how engineering managers support teams, what skills they possess, and how they establish alignment and foster knowledge and experience sharing between teams.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Your Favorite Leadership Articles of the Year. Every year, we count down the best leadership articles of the year, according to your reading and sharing. Which leadership article resonated most with you and why? Which leadership article resonated most with you and why? Top 3 Let’s Grow Leaders Articles of 2022.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 21, 2023

My Feedback Isn’t Working…Performance Management for Repeat Issues You take performance management seriously. askingforafriend Human-centered performance management means giving meaningful feedback that reinforces clear expectations and gives space for emotions, support, and reflection. What can I do?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 16, 2023

Achieve Success Together: How Great Teamwork Turns Talent into Performance Are you ready to learn how great teamwork can propel your organization into high performance? David says, “Taking talent and turning it into performance comes down a lot more to the culture of the team.” or our book Courageous Cultures.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JANUARY 26, 2023

For all these use cases, performance is tremendously important and is greatly impacted by file size. In this article, we’ll look at six ways to optimize Wasm for performance and file size. While Wasm was originally designed for the browser, it turned out to be useful for embedded programming, plugins, cloud, and edge computing.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

One of the first steps you can take to create a high-performing culture is to assess what is and isn’t working in your current culture. An assessment of your current culture gives you an understanding of the starting point for your journey toward building a high performance culture.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JANUARY 2, 2023

With employee turnover expected to reach all-time highs, improving retention must start with a recruiting approach that connects meaning, and a mission, to each position and for every candidate.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Driving a strong business starts with the people who work for your business and those people align on the business through the company culture. A high performing culture is one where people drive performance because of the right behaviors. People in high performing cultures require […].

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InfoQ Culture Methods

AUGUST 18, 2022

In response to retaining high performers during an impending recession, employers need to prioritize giving employees recognition to increase retention and engagement. This article explores the power of recognition, what makes recognition meaningful, and how companies can create a culture of recognition in their workplace.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

MAY 23, 2023

This article presents insights into how a socio-technical framework for optimizing a software delivery organization has been set up and brought to the point of regular use. Optimizing a software delivery organization is not a straightforward process standardized in the software industry. By Vladyslav Ukis

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CIO

JANUARY 30, 2024

In this article, we look at why trust is so critical in an enterprise and offer some key approaches for establishing a solid foundation of trust. Without a culture of trust, executives face several formidable challenges: Lack of transparency. Trust is critical and difficult to maintain In an enterprise, trust can be fragile.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

APRIL 15, 2021

The fourth article in a series on how software companies adapted and continue to adapt to enhance their resilience explores the strategies used by engineering leaders to help create the conditions for sustained resilience.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JANUARY 17, 2022

We cannot have high-performing teams without psychological safety. In this article, you will learn practical ideas, interesting stories, and powerful approaches to boost psychological safety in your team. Psychological safety is a work climate where employees feel free to express their questions, concerns, ideas and mistakes.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

APRIL 12, 2022

This article provides the foundations of psychological safety and shows how it has been applied for team effectiveness. It explores how psychological safety supports learning and improvement and how we can foster a psychologically safe culture in tech teams. By Ben Linders.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

APRIL 28, 2023

The DORA metrics are the de facto measuring stick but they can be used incorrectly and drive poor behavior and performance. When using any metrics, a strong focus on the end goal must be maintained. By David Rant

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InfoQ Culture Methods

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Team performance is dependent on safety, teamwork and ongoing learning. Clarity in roles, psychological safety, breaking bad habits and constantly learning are critical to enabling high performance. By Liana Martirosyan.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

In this article we show how we used it to improve the performance of our route editor. A quadtree is a tree data structure that allows the user to partition a two-dimensional space and to quickly find the intersection of objects. By Nina Fursova.

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CEO Insider

JULY 31, 2020

No matter the field, whether it be a sports team or a major company, a strong culture and great leadership stands incredibly vital to its performance. Nobody understands the importance of […].

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InfoWorld

MAY 20, 2024

I once transitioned from a SaaS CTO role to become a business unit CIO at a Fortune 100 enterprise that aimed to bring startup development processes, technology, and culture into the organization. But we also had a lot to learn about deploying highly reliable, performant, and secure applications to our data centers.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

This article reflects on the challenges of determining user experience and effectiveness and how modern techniques such as Real User Monitoring and Application Performance Monitoring can determine the true effectiveness of features.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JUNE 10, 2021

Corporate agile often represents an improvement over what went before but falls short on delivering the high performance management want and quality engineering environment developers dream of. The backlog becomes tyranny. Could OKRs - objectives and key results - reawaken the radical side of agile?

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InfoQ Culture Methods

APRIL 14, 2022

In 2022 and beyond, engineering leaders need to invest in developing a strong engineering culture, using data-driven decision making to lead their teams, and to prioritize people before performance. By Lilac Mohr.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2016

You may have read my 3 part-series on Culture By Design. The response was so overwhelming that I thought it may be worth offering one more piece on the subject of corporate culture. What are the reasons for culture transformation failure? Thus, any cultural change effort falters because of institutional burn-out.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

This article will delve into metrics that can be used for assessing the impact of client-side engineers.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2016

You may have read my 3-part series on Company Culture. In it I suggested that there were 6 levers available to leaders that enable culture transformation. Some people will not be able to make the journey and your culture will change. This will attract different talent to your organization and your culture will change.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

MARCH 4, 2022

Their economic success is due to four cultural imperatives: team autonomy, managerial devolution, deficiency-need gratification, and candid vulnerability. Radically collaborative organizations have recently doubled in number.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 30, 2019

A resilient culture is built one person at a time, winning companies cultivate cultures that enable their people to develop the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties. Resilient people make resilient cultures. It is through that community of leaders that the culture shifts.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 25, 2023

In business, it is widely understood that a company’s culture can play a vital role in its ongoing success. Put simply, a company that enjoys a positive culture is far more likely to benefit from an engaged workforce who enjoy working for the firm. In this article, some of the key ways to achieve this will be discussed.

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