🤿 Untangling GenAI, Introverts, Diversity and Teamwork, Goal Setting, Team Memory, Aging Code: TMW #349

Hello, welcome to the week!

There are two fantastic in-person CTO Craft Bytes events happening this week: a panel in London in which we'll dig into what Generative AI actually means for us as technology leaders, and our first Mixer for CTOs in Edinburgh, Scotland. If you're in the neighbourhood for either, do drop in and say hello! Details are below.

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CTO Craft Con: Culture and the CTO | London 7-8 November

CTO Craft Con will bring together over 250 Chief Technology Officers and other senior technology leaders from the most exciting start-ups, scale-ups, unicorns, and big tech companies to elevate their engineering culture in London, 7-8 November 2023.

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Meet the CTO Craft Coach, Francis Lacoste | CTO Craft

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CTO Craft Bytes

CTO Craft Bytes: Untangling GenAI

This Bytes event is brought to you in partnership with QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey and will be in person.

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CTO Craft Bytes: Edinburgh Get Together

Join us for our first ever in-person CTO Craft Bytes in Edinburgh, Scotland!

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Cutting through the noise – Scaling Teams in a Candidate - Rich Market

Register now for Cutting through the noise – Scaling Teams in a Candidate - Rich Market on crowdcast, scheduled to go live on September 15, 2023, 12:30 PM GMT+1.

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Reads of the Week

Introverted Leadership: Ways to Shine as an Introvert Leader

Not sure if introverted leadership can be successful? Can an introvert be a leader? Learn the ways to become a great manager as an introvert.

Lighthouse - Blog About Leadership & Management AdviceJason Evanish

How Does Diversity Affect Teamwork? | David Burkus

In this article, we will explore the importance of psychological safety and shared understanding in diverse teams.

David BurkusDavid Burkus

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Leadership, Strategy & Business

The Communicator’s Advantage - Nathan Broslawsky

Good communication is often hailed as a cornerstone of effective teamwork and organizational success. However, it’s more than just a buzzword; for skilled communicators, it’s a ticket to greater understanding and awareness within their organization. And, coupled with strategic thinking, this organiz…

Nathan BroslawskyNathan Broslawsky

The Corporate Rebels Handbook: Goal-Setting (and Celebrating…

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Tips & Tools for New Managers | Management 3.0

What does it take to manage and lead a team? Tips and tools you need to thrive as a new manager:

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How to Not Completely Suck At Planning

Or how to suck a little less.

Management MattersAshley Sole

Culture, People & Teams

Are Remote Workers and Their Organizations Drifting Apart?

U.S. employee engagement is rebounding -- but remote workers are feeling less connected to their company’s mission and purpose than ever before.

GallupJim Harter

Team memory, organisational sharing and serendipity in distributed workplaces - Emily Webber

Reading Time: 7 minutes How do we know what’s going on when we’re working in remote or hybrid organisations? How do we get the right information to the right people, find what we need and bump into ideas that can lead to something else? Distributed workplaces make it hard, but not impossible. This p…

Emily WebberEmily Webber

13 Characteristics To Create A Sustainable, High-Performance Culture

Best practices to create a sustainable high-performance culture that ensures organizational alignment and maximizes productivity.

People Managing PeopleLiz Lockhart Lance

How Interview Questions Reveal the True Organizational Assumptions & Culture, Part 5 - Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant

I started this series with many specific concerns about a particular interview question: “The product owner and dev team cannot decide on a sprint goal, even after hours of discussion. They (the team) feel that the tasks for the sprint are too varied to manage to a single sprint goal. What should th…

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Technology, Operations & Delivery

Aging Code

Aging your code isn’t about resisting progress; it’s about ensuring that when progress happens, it’s built on a rock-solid foundation.

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Death by a thousand microservices

The software industry is learning once again that complexity kills

Renegade Otter

An Agile focus on value

If you implement Scrum ceremonies, you are technically doing Scrum, but are you embracing an Agile philosophy? Is your team engaged in productive work valued by the stakeholders?

Agile Alliance |Donald “Mark” Haynes

Five signs that product and engineering friction is slowing your company’s growth

A solid working partnership between product and engineering is critical to a scaleup’s success by both improving the quality of the product and its time to market. And yet it’s common to find that in growing scaleups, there can be a divide between these two groups. Conflicting mindsets and lack of c…

ThoughtworksBrandon Fleisher

Stress, Wellbeing & Growth

Diverse teams and psychological safety

There�s been a surge of interest recently about the importance of psychological safety, and rightfully so. But like many good things, it’s better not to have too much of it.

Management-Issues.comDavid Livermore

Stop saying “fail”

Language shapes our perception of setbacks. Use words other than “failure” to describe situations and to suggest the next step.

A Smart BearJason Cohen

How to Support New Workers’ Mental Health

We usually think of new entrants to the workforce as young people and recent graduates, but the cohort can also include existing workers entering new types of employment, such as frontline workers transitioning to office work, gig workers moving to salaried roles, or people moving from unpaid caregi…

Harvard Business ReviewBernie Wong,

My Experience with Burnout & Fatigue

I vividly remember the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, a time when I was launching my new business venture. I’d meticulously…

Heart SpeakSteven North

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