Paved With Good Intentions

Never, ever say you disagree! Instead, use the Agree, Build and Compare framework from Crucial Conversations to arrive at agreement. This technique avoids getting dug-in with a defensive posture that leaves you no where to go in the conversation.

This video is based on this article that I wrote:

https://jameswilson.io/agree-build-and-compare/

And the work of Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan and Al Switzler in Crucial Conversations:

https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-Conversations-Talking-Stakes-Edition/dp/0071771328

Structuring an organizing with teams that are assigned ownership of value-drivers (products, features, services), and individuals that are appointed as directly responsible for specific outcomes sets up the foundation for self-organization, empowerment and autonomy. Ownership and accountability are related but crucially different. Ownership refers to what a team is responsible for designing, implementing and supporting. It’s a more permanent construct than accountability which is assigned to an individual for a specific outcome, which may be permanent or until the outcome is achieved. Having clearly defined ownership at the team level and accountability at the individual level empowers the team to self-organize around it’s purpose lead by individuals who have agency to achieve what the business expects from them.

This video is based on the article I wrote here:

https://jameswilson.io/accountability...

Episode #2: For the last two years I've kept a red soft-cover Moleskine notebook with me at almost all times. It's in this notebook that I invest a bunch of time every Sunday night planning out the coming week by hand. I use a page-per-day method. I find that the physical tax of re-writing items you don't get done, combined with the limit of a single page per day makes for a surprisingly effective productivity workflow.

This video is based on the article I wrote on this topic:

https://jameswilson.io/hand-written-p...

When I worked at Amazon, I learnt the benefit of writing to a fixed document length: either 1 page or 6 pages and nothing in between -- and always as a narrative! In this episode of Paved With Good Intentions I'll talk about the benefits of this writing style for the author and the reader. The amount of clarity you gain around your own thinking, and the improvement in your ability to concisely communicate it worth every minute spent writing documents using this method.

This video is based on these two articles:

https://jameswilson.io/the-importance...
https://jameswilson.io/my-writing-pro...