The High Five!

Greg found an interesting and timely read: Research: New Hires’ Psychological Safety Erodes Quickly via Harvard Business Review. Discussion about onboading, toughened managers and leaders, and embracing soft skills ensues.

The Hit List:

• Reading: Why write?
• Recommending: Relax & Remix: A 4-Week Journal to Get Unstuck and Evolve Your Life
• Riding: Trek FX+ 2
• Listening: Hold by Wild Nothing
• Reading: 3 Ways Your Soft Skills will Bring out the Best in Your People by Marcel Schwantes on LinkedIn

In this episode, Brett and Greg continue the conversation about decision-making, inspired by the CFO article Only 36% of Executives Say Their Decision-Making Style Aligns with the Organization’s. This conversation focuses on the lack of confidence in decision-making and impostor syndrome some leaders experience.

The Hit List:

• Reading: The balance of tools and culture
• Processing: The META Trending Trends: 2024
• Watching: House of the Dragon (season one)
• Reading: The end of work spouses and office besties: Why, now more than ever, work is not your family

In this episode, Greg introduces The ineffable importance of corporate communication, an article he found on TidBITS about products losing trust with users over poorly communicated app updates. It inspired thoughts about building trust via communications and maybe a relevant story from the past,

The Hit List:

• Reading: Find Hidden Cameras While Traveling
• Watching: How to make the juiciest steaks
• Watching: Brats
• Reading: Surgeon General demands warning label on social media apps

In this episode, Brett and Greg discuss decision-making in leadership teams, which was prompted by the CFO article Only 36% of Executives Say Their Decison-Making Style Aligns with the Organization’s. The article is full of interesting statistics, but the conversation focuses on what to do when you disagree with a decision your leadership team is making.

The Hit List:

• Reading: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

• Listening: Tigers Blood by Waxahatchee
• Reading: How the Modern World Changed Your Body
• Reading: The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi
• Using: Bear
• Wearing: ICC Team of the World

In this week's episode, Greg introduces The Purpose of a System is What It Does, a part of a new series that Anil Dash is publishing on Systems. The article considers a broader perspective and application of systems, but Same Team brings it back to what we know: organizations, teams, systems, and processes.

The Hit List:

• Reading: Harnessing Scarcity: 7 Lessons From a Dry Well by Dan Rockwell “The Leadership Freak”
• Listening: A La Sala by Khruangbin
• Reading: The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson
• Listening: We by Arcade Fire
• Watching: Gozilla Minus One

The High Five: More Same Team Time for Brett and Week Four of The Dice for Greg!

This week's episode focuses on a topic that came up with Same Team Partners through an article Brett found called Is the Party Over for Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches? The article touches on how Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches are being let go of organizations that went through agile transformation. Essentially, their job is done there, so now what?

The Hit List:

• Listening: Alchemy by Disclosure

• Reading Mountain Gazette
• Following: Jean Kang on Linkedin
• Reading: The art of asking smarter questions
• Reading: What would Bowie Do

The High Five: Summer Fridays! Yay!

In the first installment of the new podcast, Brett and Greg dig in on the topic of "stack ranking employees," which Greg first heard about on the Hidden Brain podcast, Hot take: it's gross, and leaders should take more responsibility for low performers.

Each week, Same Team Partners share "The Hit List," a quick hit on what they're reading, listening to, watching, following, and using. This week's Hit List includes:

• How I’m doing the Internet in 2024
• Shopkeeping: Stories, Advice, and Observations by Peter Miler
• Only God Was Above Us by Vampire Weekend
• Sleep with me podcast
• Is the party over for Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches
• Sarasa Finepoint Zebra Clip Pen and Field Notes