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It’s Probably Fine

Talkat try! Swift NYC 2019 · 2019-09-09..09-10· [engineering-leadership]
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Claims a concrete framework: four layers: mission, strategy, tactics, execution and actionable heuristics rather than fluffy vision statements. Argues to measure progress not state and uses hiring as a tangible example—focus first on building interview capacity, then scale headcount. Shows tactics as team APIs, prescribes proximate objectives, and insists on tight feedback loops. Offers four practical diagnostics — four questions: clarity, capacity, incentives, feedback — that reveal what to fix and how to verify it works.

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  1. 0:00Intro
  2. 2:52Its Probably Fine
  3. 4:25How do teams improve
  4. 4:55Four layers
  5. 5:13Mission
  6. 7:02Strategy
  7. 8:41Bad Strategy
  8. 9:19Failure Road
  9. 11:08Tactics
  10. 13:03Execution
  11. 13:44Everything Fits Together
  12. 14:36Four Questions
  13. 14:53Tolstoy Quote
  14. 18:03What Actions You Can Take
  15. 18:32Overload
  16. 18:59What to do
  17. 19:51The bottleneck
  18. 20:14Selfmanaging teams
  19. 23:44Incentives
  20. 24:09Organizational hypocrisy
  21. 24:42Feedback loops
  22. 25:13Positive feedback
  23. 25:35Promotions
  24. 25:59Psychological Safety
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