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And in the modern workscape we desperately need people with the ability to see big picture solutions. That’s where being a polymath has certain advantages.

Harvard Business Review • In Defense of Polymaths

The importance of deep focus work in early startups specially for engineers

Spotify • Leading Async Engineering Teams & Building Hardware with Andrew Conner from Levels

While the manager’s own work is clearly very important, that in itself does not create output.

Andrew S. Grove • High Output Management

Agility needs to emerge in an agile way. Empowerment, experimentation, respect for people, self-determination, learning, everybody bringing their brains to work and continuously improving how they do what they do, are core tenets of an agile and lean mindset. The work itself is emergent and so is improving the system of work for that work.

Jonathan Smart • Sooner Safer Happier: Antipatterns and Patterns for Business Agility

Information work increasingly asks employees to handle more complexity—but we should not have to self-manage our own productivity in imperfect systems laid atop programmer thinking to simply do our work.

Matt Alston • Your Project Management Software Can't Save You

1. A shared purpose and values.

Jeffrey Bussgang • When Community Becomes Your Competitive Advantage

In many organizations, we can become bogged down by the short-term and the actions with instrumental value: what does this task require and what will it get us? Or each employee simply becomes so busy or specialized that they do not have the bandwidth to explore more broadly at an individual level.