What accounting tells us about innovation
Marco Moreira
Sometimes numbers give us a clearer perspective on the culture of organizations and how people are impacted by it than any one individual story. Let's look at some examples:
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How do you manage culture?
Marco Moreira
I took a trip across a few different countries recently and it dawned on me that I was acting differently at each region we stopped along the journey. Every few days I would change the way I spoke, how fast I was walking, how open or closed to dialogue with the locals I felt, etc. "What's wrong with me?", I thought, but I eventually realized that, in general, I was quickly adapting to the local culture. Sometimes I would do the opposite of the local culture to compensate for it, sometimes I would emulate it directly, without any apparent logic behind my behavior changes.
Read MoreThe staff productivity trap
Marco Moreira
Anybody responsible for prioritizing the work of an innovation group (usually Product Managers - aka PMs) will eventually face what I call the "staff productivity trap". The story goes like this...
Read MoreThe "Joel Test" for Product Managers
Marco Moreira
The product management profession has been around for a long time, but it’s still amazing to me how different the day-to-day job actually is from company to company. It wasn’t long ago that software engineering was on the same boat, so Joel Spolsky, of Microsoft/Fog Creek/StackOverflow fame, wrote the “Joel Test” outlining the best practices at the time. This idea gave engineers a common benchmark beyond their company walls.
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