30. Miscommunication problems
Companies don’t have communication problems, they have miscommunication problems. The smaller the company, group, or team, the fewer opportunities for miscommunication. As Osmo Wiio said, “If communication can fail, it will. If a message can be understood in different ways, it will be understood in just that way which does the most harm.”
- 00.
- Start here
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- An obligation to independence
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- Work isn’t war
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- Small teams
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- Profit motive
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- Err on the side of do
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- Shape Up every six
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- We don’t sell you
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- 8/8/8
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- NOTASAP
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- The Fortune 5,000,000
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- Don’t emulate the office
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- Hours aren’t equal
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- On repeat
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- Meetings aren’t free
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- Bury the hustle
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- The trap of marginal thinking
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- Politicking
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- Two tokens of customer service
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- Pay people, not addresses
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- Small tech
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- Know no
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- Stayups
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- Thoughting vs. thinking
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- Fixed
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- Disagree and commit
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- Kick in the face, kick in the ass
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- Broadly speaking
- 28.
- Shots on goals
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- JOMO not FOMO
- 30.
- Miscommunication problems
- 31.
- Easy?
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- Ruby on Rails
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- Planning is guessing
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- Sleep on it
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- Companies aren’t families
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- Context > consistency
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- What’s in a name?