jonfazzaro

[jonfazzaro]

"If there aren't existing relationships between business stakeholders and the Data Team, unleashing Generative AI on an organisation is unlikely to work."

#in #ai #lean #agile #organizationaldevelopment

[jonfazzaro]

"No manufacturer ever got rich by underpaying his agency. Pay peanuts and you get monkeys."

#in #wealthgap #salary #peanuts

[jonfazzaro]

"Policy change is necessary, but most essential is a change of heart."

#billionaires #wealth #extraction

[jonfazzaro]

"A Carnival cruise ship's worth of typical Meta posters — context-allergic boomers that sometimes literally pray to chain letters and memes — and an upper layer of bewildered journalists who spent the last 15 years on Twitter ignoring these people."

#threads #socialmedia

[jonfazzaro]

"If you've found a way to make a living, the challenge in making a life is to find the guts to think about the size of your work container."

#in #work #life #balance

[jonfazzaro]

"This is a political and technical improvement in the way of working. Where it is practiced, teams are more successful in building products that satisfy the needs of the product community."

#in #leansoftware #userstories #smaller #sooner

[jonfazzaro]

"The single most powerful thing you can do in a relationship, whether it's personal or professional, is to give someone 100% of your attention."

#in #management #leadership #coaching #attention

[jonfazzaro]

"This is the same type of advice that is given to juniors. Listen, learn, and improve. So why are managers not doing the same?"

#in #management #learningorganization #continuousimprovement

[jonfazzaro]

"The people actually running companies are not motivated primarily by business success. Business success is part of how they're getting what they actually want – status, freedom, power. This is part of why you see so many more XP consulting companies than XP product companies."

#in #extremeprogramming #businessagility #consulting

[jonfazzaro]

"This is not something large language models like GPT-4 will ever be able to do. Their architectures are static and feedforward, incapable of recurrence or iteration or on-demand exploration of novel possibilities."

#in #ai

[jonfazzaro]

"Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness."

#in #work #rest #balance

[jonfazzaro]

"Should something be said, should it be said by me, and should it be said now?"

#in #leadership

[jonfazzaro]

"Culture follows structure (in large groups). This is why purely 'mindset' approaches such as organizational learning are not very sticky or impactful by themselves in large groups."

#in #organizationaldevelopment #culture #mindset

[jonfazzaro]

"But over the last quarter-century or so, the idea of disruption has also metastasized into a sort of cult, the credo of which holds that everything is to be disrupted, all the time, and that if you're not changing everything, you're losing." movefastandbreakthings

#in #disrupt #change #layoffs #movefastandbreakthings

[jonfazzaro]

"I had so many unmet needs in my life that I was terrified of ever saying what I wanted out loud. Relief washed over me when I realized Maynard James Keenan would say it for me."

[jonfazzaro]

"The competing firms involved in the culture industry aren't in the business of decontaminating countercultures or diluting subcultures; both are merely felicitous and predictable secondary effects of cultural-industrial profit-seeking." culture

#punk #profit #culture

[jonfazzaro]

"As managers, we can be so afraid of micro-management that we risk moving into passive territory. We're made to believe our main job is putting people in position to grow, and then going hands off to give them the space to do it. But that's like encouraging a climber to take on a harder route, cheering them as they start while you check out TikTok instead of holding fast to the rope."

#in #management