Weekly wrap-up #7

A weekly summary of posts I've published on Focus on outcomes, the newsletter for Software Product Leaders seeking to be outcome-oriented.

Idan Levin @_idan_levin

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago

This week’s posts

• Decisions within organisations are influenced by soft and hard incentives part 2 In the follow-up post we walk through various types of incentives at play within organisations and how they influence decisions.

• Two impactful ideas to apply in software product development part 2 I go deeper into the two ideas I shared in an earlier post and the critical components of using each idea in software product development.

• Side-effects of having only team-level goals What happens when there are team-level goals but no organisational-level goals? This post looks into some side effects to be aware of.

• Teams that invest time in a shared vision of the future achieve more What happens when a team is purely reactive and lacks a vision for a better future?

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John Cutler @johncutlefish

goal --> work vs work --> goal