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“The finding with the most leadership relevance is this: employees’ optimism and, more import…#
“The finding with the most leadership relevance is this: employees’ optimism and, more importantly, how fair they perceived the process to be, in both interpersonal treatment and the quality of information they received, predicted which profile they landed in. Fairness, not enthusiasm, was the lever.”
https://andiroberts.com/leadership-questions/team-members-resisting-change
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“If we want agents critiquing all PRs and full integration suites that our agents can easily ru…#
“If we want agents critiquing all PRs and full integration suites that our agents can easily run against, you can imagine why GitHub feels like a little bit of a relic. There is also some sense in which the output of code is kind of a compression of the work put into it. It would be nice if agents could communicate in a higher bandwidth way (traces, etc.).”
https://benedict.dev/software-factory
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“Chances are, they will never see a budget spreadsheet, but they will certainly feel the conseq…#
“Chances are, they will never see a budget spreadsheet, but they will certainly feel the consequences of a budget where you did not successfully argue for headcount growth by drawing a clear line from strategy to product to features to the additional resources your team needs to get the job done in the coming year.”
https://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-mario-meeting/
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This is true for all types of organizational communication. It’s especially critical if that co…#
This is true for all types of organizational communication. It’s especially critical if that communication is likely to affect delivery timelines.
“The real power lies in having a shared language at the company, not in the table’s definitions.”
https://www.theengineeringmanager.com/growth/code-yellow-code-red/
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“Incident count doesn’t measure system health; it measures how willing people are to declare …#
“Incident count doesn’t measure system health; it measures how willing people are to declare an incident.”
https://greatcircle.com/blog/2026/05/26/incident-metrics-mirage/