Lessons in building great teams
summary
Six concrete lessons with examples and outcomes make this useful not vague career fluff. Resilience comes from a life story that survived genocide and refugee camps and informs daily grit. Culture scales across 30+ nationalities at Tech Open Air through weekly cooking. Process becomes product at Bloomberg where a year of requirements enabled a global payroll built by about 50 engineers in five cities. Scrappy design at Slack produces role handbooks made in two weeks, still live today, so slay constraints works.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 0:16Lessons in Building Teams
- 3:03Building Culture every Day
- 5:27Innovating through Process
- 6:05The Global Payroll System
- 7:36Promoting Transparency
- 7:47Transparency
- 9:54Finding Your Team Story
- 12:26Slaying Constraints
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