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Recommended by Daniel Walters

The Lateral Lens

By Charles Lambdin

Lateral thoughts on project management, product design, and business strategy

One of the most insightful publications exploring the paradoxes of modern work and how to navigate for better results.

- Daniel Walters

Navigating the Future

By Ben Hogan

Dive into the fascinating world of AI with me!

Keep up with developments in AI and cut through the hype with practical implications for your business.

- Daniel Walters

Customer Obsessed Engineering

By Zac Beckman

Elevate your career, execute with confidence, and build your customer obsessed mindset. Advice from an ex-Accenture Director, startup veteran, CTO.

Heidi Helfand's Newsletter

Periodic thoughts on Dynamic Reteaming - how we thrive through changing teams while delivering software and other topics related to the people side of software.

Heidi's Dynamic Reteaming book was instrumental in helping us improve our practises of internally recruited teams. I am quickly learning her publication and knowledge extend well beyond this topic.

- Daniel Walters

Clear-sighted Leadership

By Tze Chin Tang

I write for leaders seeking clarity and insight in an ever-complex world. My mission is to empower you with the vision to navigate human systems in pursuance of innovation, performance and health.

Tze is a creative, passionate coach with knowledge at the intersection of quality, agility, learning, development and more.

- Daniel Walters

Thinking in Bets

By Annie Duke

Decision making in an uncertain world.

Engaging in decision-making means engaging with uncertainty - a great companion to Annie Duke's book.

- Daniel Walters

The Upstream, Full-Stack Journal

By Mike Goitein

Going Upstream to fast-track Product Manager impact through Strategy, Continuous Discovery, & OKRs

Find out how common product and engineering practices connect with strategic thinking.

- Daniel Walters

OutcomeEdge by Felipe Castro

Actionable advice about building outcome-driven cultures, transforming to the product model, and OKR.

One of the original proponents for outcome-oriented OKRs.

- Daniel Walters

Strategy in Praxis

By JP Castlin

Incoherent ramblings about complexity-coherent strategy.

JP Castlin on strategy

- Daniel Walters

Software Design: Tidy First?

By Kent Beck

Software design is an exercise in human relationships. So are all the other techniques we use to develop software. How can we geeks get better at technique as one way of getting better at relationships?

Kent Beck of XP, 3x and much more - as relevant as ever.

- Daniel Walters

Trigger Strategy (formerly Tom Kerwin)

By Tom Kerwin

Strategy and sense-making for leaders operating in ambiguity, uncertainty and complexity – from the adaptive strategy consultants at Trigger Strategy Group

Connecting the practices of design, product and engineering for an adaptive strategy.

- Daniel Walters