Take Away

  • Chapter 10
    • Don’t micromanage. Let people do their best and have a safety net just incase they fail
    • Feeling micromanage sucks, give people the freedom to be successful
    • One thing too ask is about timelines, I always underestimate how long it will take to complete something. Ask how it will take to complete something and be honestly with how long it actually took you to solve
  • Chapter 11
    • There are no winner or losers, just properly supported facts
    • Always have an odd number of people when decision making and selection options based on majority rule.
    • Inform other this meeting will be for decision making and their input is required.
    • How do tackle making a decision when it is gut based feeling and cannot provide data?
  • Chapter 12
    • A good design discussion minimizes the risks to a project while maximizing the gains for the project.
    • Remember a design meeting is not about you convincing other about your ideas, but to utilizes everyone strength to make a overall better project
    • create a document with different options, few details and send for review to a small group of people to get feedback asap.
    • document the decisions
    • the document is a living document ie can be updated
    • have allies that agree with final design ie the review team
  • Chapter 13
    • Just take meeting notes and share with everyone post meeting.
  • Chapter 14
    • Align with leadership goals
      • prevents frustration for both parties
      • allows you to be elevated over peers who are not aligned
  • Chapter 15
    • Give credit to people/teams
    • Helping other is shows you value them
    • This create good will that can be returned
    • everyone enjoyed being valued
  • Chapter 16
    • Shared Responsibility
    • Notice the pattern and provided facts as to why this is not sustainable
    • provided process improvements that can either eliminate or greatly reduce them.
  • Chapter 17
    • Take Responsibility
      • take charge of an “area”
      • protect others who are not responsible for that area
      • update all involved parties