Friendly discussions about life, business, engineering, and learning between Dima Malenko and Slava Rudnytskyi.
Friendly discussions about life, business, engineering, and learning between Dima Malenko and Slava Rudnytskyi.
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Dima and Slava explore Richard P. Rumelt’s book Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters and share insights they took away from the book.
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Dima and Slave talk about what strategy is and what strategy isn’t.
Vision without execution is a daydream. Execution without vision is a nightmare.
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Dima and Slava count priorities and discuss how having to count priorities is a problem in and of itself.
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Dima and Slava discuss the end of the second season of Biweeklycast and talk about what to expect in the upcoming third season.
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Dima and Slava discuss the practice of Open Feedback Circle and challenges of providing specific and actionable corrective feedback.
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Dima and Slava have read the book “Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialised World” and discuss what it means to be a generalist and what it takes to triumph.
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Dima and Slava start with discussing routines and dealing with them, and discover that there is a lot more than routines out there: habits, behavioural patterns, traditions, and rituals.
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Slava brings three stories from his recent professional practice and together with Dima they discuss using case studies in business training, designing a card game, and running strategic sessions for military units.
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Dima and Slava discuss a report from a foresight exercise by Aspen Digital about second and third order effect of AI, criticize the output, and agree with demise of practical skills driven by different kinds of automation.
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Dima and Slava discuss the spreadsheet mentality and the general difficulties of making data-driven decisions while not loosing the forest for the trees.
Spreadsheet mentality (sometimes called "spreadsheet thinking") refers to an overly mechanistic or reductionist approach to decision-making and management that relies too heavily on quantitative metrics while ignoring qualitative factors and nuance.
Quotes on the topic
"What gets measured, gets managed.” – attributed to Peter Drucker or W. Edwards Deming
"Without data, you're just another person with an opinion." – W. Edwards Deming
"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” – Goodheart’s Law
“Tell me how you will measure me, and then I will tell you how I will behave. If you measure me in an illogical way, don’t complain about illogical behaviour.” – Eliyahu Goldratt
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Dima and Slava discuss all the so familiar ways in which business meetings can fail and share their thoughts on how to prevent meetings from failing.
Meeting is when people get together to achieve a specific purpose
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Dima and Slava discuss the ineffable concept of thought leadership and politely disagree with the author of publication that sparked the discussion.
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Dima and Slava discuss documentation for systems, processes, and so on, and debate how to prevent it from crossing the line from being helpful to being actively misleading.
Just feel it!
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Dima and Slava kind of follow up on the discussion of Customer Development in the previous episode and talk about chains of results in assessment of customer needs.
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Dima and Slava read and discuss "The Four Steps to Epiphany" – a classical book for entrepreneurs and startup founders.
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Dima and Slava follow up on the conversation they started in episode 47 and Dima tries to articulate more precisely what he means by people not being specific enough and gives example of common pitfalls of obscure communication.
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Dima and Slava dive into wonderful season of strategic sessions and try to deduce why everyone does them in December and how to make working on strategy a time well spent.
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Dima and Slava discuss "Founder Mode", an essay by Paul Graham about differences between more founders and hired managers in tech companies.
"An argument can be perfectly biased in two different ways."
"Care about what you do."
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Dima shares his longing for the necessary details and the right level of abstraction, while Slava tries to persuade him that all the details aren't always necessary and everything can be fine anyway.
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From the discussion it is not entirely clear if Dima and Slava talk about procrastination that gets in the way of them accomplishing creative endeavours or all the creative they find to postpone working on hard and important things.
