All of the Weekly Pulse written by William Meller are listed here in order to show the work, research, ideas, opinions, reflections, perspectives, studies, and knowledge shared.
Weekly Pulse 2023
Week 03, 2023
#1 - When Teams Can’t Decide
#2 - How to Raise an Independent Thinker
#3 - How Apple is Organized for Innovation
#4 - Beyond the Holacracy Hype
#5 - Making Yourself Indispensable
#6 - What Is Portfolio Management
#7 - Book Notes: The 5 Essential People Skills - Dale Carnegie
Week 02, 2023
#1 - Which Kind of Collaboration Is Right For You
#2 - What Parents Need to Know About the Coming Metaverse
#3 - No boss? No Thanks
#4 - Where Did the Long Tail Go?
#5 - Reinventing Your Personal Brand
#6 - What Is Program Management
#7 - Book Notes: 4 Disciplines of Execution
Week 01, 2023
#1 - Stop Making Plans Start Making Decisions
#2 - A To-do List Won’t Help You Master Your Life
#3 - Manage Your Organization as a Portfolio of Learning Curves
#4 - The Long Tail
#5 - Why do so Many Strategies Fail
#6 - What Is Project Management
#7 - Book Notes: The Principles of Scientific Management - Frederick Taylor
Weekly Pulse 2022
Week 51, 2022
#1 - Management Time: Who’s Got the Monkey
#2 - If You Encounter Any of These “Monster” Managers … Run
#3 - Having Trouble With Your Strategy Then Map It
#4 - AI in the Workplace: Paving the Way For Man-Machine Collaboration
#5 - The New Productivity Challenge
#6 - What is Kanban
#7 - Book Notes: Doing Agile Right - Darrell Rigby, Sarah Elk, and Steve Berez
Week 50, 2022
#1 - The Right Way to Manage Expats
#2 - The Myth of Multitasking: Why Fewer Priorities Leads to Better Work
#3 - Managing in the Knowledge Economy
#4 - 3 Common Fallacies About Creativity
#5 - The One Thing You Need to Know About Managing Functions
#6 - What Is Scrum
#7 - Book Notes: Doing Agile Right - Darrell Rigby, Sarah Elk, and Steve Berez
Week 49, 2022
#1 - The Set-up-to-Fail Syndrome
#2 - Pipelines, Platforms, and the New Rules of Strategy
#3 - Innovation at the Speed of Information
#4 - Dunbar's Number: Why We Can Only Maintain 150 Relationships
#5 - Designing the Hybrid Office
#6 - What Is Agile
#7 - Book Notes: The Unicorn Project - Gene Kim
Week 48, 2022
#1 - Cracking the Code of Change
#2 - Revisiting Agile Teams After an Abrupt Shift to Remote
#3 - What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team
#4 - Incentives and the Two Types of Motivation
#5 - Drive Innovation with Better Decision-Making
#6 - What Is Lean
#7 - Book Notes: The Phoenix Project - Gene Kim, George Spafford, and Kevin Behr
Week 47, 2022
#1 - Meeting the Challenge of Disruptive Change
#2 - A Lack of Leadership Roles for Women Even in the Metaverse
#3 - Why We Buy Things We Don't Need
#4 - What Happened When Zapier Cancelled Meetings for a Week
#5 - Feeling Stuck or Stymied
#6 - What is Design Thinking
#7 - Book Notes: The DevOps Handbook - Gene Kim, Patrick Debois, Jez Humble, and John Willis
Week 46, 2022
#1 - The Brand Report Card
#2 - 12 Simple Daily Tasks That Will Energize and Simplify Your Life
#3 - How Apple is Organized for Innovation
#4 - What Happened After Zappos Got Rid of Workplace Hierarchy
#5 - Persuading the Unpersuadable
#6 - What is a Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
#7 - Book Notes: The Lean Machine - Dantar P. Oosterwal
Week 45, 2022
#1 - Why Should Anyone Be Led by You
#2 - When Does Intelligence Peak?
#3 - 15 tiny ideas that quickly drain stress from your life
#4 - How to Combat Virtual Meeting Fatigue
#5 - What Evolution Can Teach Us About Innovation
#6 - What is OKR - Objectives and Key Results
#7 - Book Notes: This is Lean - Niklas Modig, Pär Åhlström
Week 44, 2022
#1 - Building the Emotional Intelligence of Groups
#2 - Redesigning the Post-Pandemic Workplace
#3 - 8 Outrageous Tips That Will Save You Time
#4 - What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team
#5 - Leadership That Gets Results
#6 - What Is 4DX - The 4 Disciplines of Execution
#7 - Book Notes: Management 3.0 - Jurgen Appelo
Week 43, 2022
#1 - Conquering a Culture of Indecision
#2 - Simple Behaviors That Make Others Want to Listen to You
#3 - Some Reflections on Being Off Social Media
#4 - Enterprise Agility: Buzz or Business Impact?
#5 - Managing Our Hub Economy
#6 - How to Define Goals - S.M.A.R.T.
#7 - Book Notes: Reinventing Organizations - Frederic Laloux
Week 42, 2022
#1 - Harnessing the Science of Persuasion
#2 - The Best Leaders in the World Are “Quiet Managers”
#3 - Managing in the Knowledge Economy
#4 - The Coronavirus Effect on Global Economic Sentiment
#5 - Don’t Let Age Get in the Way of Entrepreneurship
#6 - The Elements of Value
#7 - Book Notes: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team - Patrick Lencioni
Week 41, 2022
#1 - Primal Leadership: The Hidden Driver of Great Performance
#2 - How Companies Can Help Midlevel Managers Navigate Agile Transformations
#3 - Persuade Your Company to Change Before It's Too Late
#4 - How to Think Clearly
#5 - Beyond Theory Y
#6 - The Magic Circle of Johan Huizinga
#7 - Book Notes: Agile - Andre Faria Gomes
Week 40, 2022
#1 - Blue Ocean Strategy
#2 - Are Your Team Members Lonely
#3 - How Incumbents Survive and Thrive
#4 - Strategy for a Digital World
#5 - Teaching Smart People How to Learn
#6 - Mastering Your Learning with ShuHaRi
#7 - Book Notes: Lean Thinking - James Womack and Daniel Jones
Week 39, 2022
#1 - Tipping Point Leadership
#2 - When Waterfall Principles Sneak Back Into Agile Workflows
#3 - Process Improvement, The Agile Way
#4 - Revenge Bedtime Procrastination
#5 - Your Strategy Has to Be Flexible
#6 - The Yerkes-Dodson Law
#7 - Book Notes: Scrum - Jeff Sutherland
Week 38, 2022
#1 - The One Number You Need to Grow
#2 - Are We in the Metaverse Yet?
#3 - More-Experienced Entrepreneurs Have Bigger Deadline Problems
#4 - How to Make Your Culture Work with Agile, Kanban & Software Craftsmanship
#5 - Your Strategy Should Be a Hypothesis You Constantly Adjust
#6 - The Schneider Culture Model
#7 - Book Notes: The Agile Organization - Simon Reay Atkinson and James Moffat
Week 37, 2022
#1 - Is Silence Killing Your Company
#2 - The Ultimate Learning Machines
#3 - In-Depth Career Planning Process for Positive Impact
#4 - Just Move: Scientist Author Debunks Myths About Exercise And Sleep
#5 - The Best Companies Know How to Balance Strategy and Purpose
#6 - The Kano Model
#7 - Book Notes: The Enterprise and Scrum - Ken Schwaber
Week 36, 2022
#1 - How to Pitch a Brilliant Idea
#2 - The Hard Truth About Business Model Innovation
#3 - Skilled Incompetence
#4 - To Start a New Habit, Make It Easy
#5 - The CEO View: Defending a Good Company from Bad Investors
#6 - The SWOT Analysis
#7 - Book Notes: Scaling Lean - Ash Maurya
Week 35, 2022
#1 - Fear of Feedback
#2 - Why Agility Pays
#3 - The Best Digital Business Models Put Evolution Before Revolution
#4 - The Frustration with Productivity Culture
#5 - The Stretch Goal Paradox
#6 - The Contingency Theory
#7 - Book Notes: The Art of Agile Development - James Shore and Shane Warden
Week 34, 2022
#1 - Fair Process: Managing in the Knowledge Economy
#2 - Dunbar's Number: Why We Can Only Maintain 150 Relationships
#3 - Meeting the Challenge of Disruptive Change
#4 - Life Is Not a Game
#5 - To Sound Like a Leader, Think About What You Say, and How and When You Say It
#6 - What is The Peter Principle
#7 - Book Notes: The Peter Principe - Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull
Week 33, 2022
#1 - The Young and the Clueless
#2 - 1,000 True Fans
#3 - Tim Ferriss Show with Kevin Kelly
#4 - Lessons from Levi’s’ Digital Transformation
#5 - Your Strategy Won’t Work If You Don’t Identify the New Capabilities You Need
#6 - Agile Manifesto for Software Development: Principles and Values
#7 - Book Notes: Practices for scaling Lean and Agile - Craig Larman
Week 32, 2022
#1 - Saving Your Rookie Managers From Themselves
#2 - A To-do List Won’t Help You Master Your Life
#3 - Why Leaders Resist Empowering Virtual Teams
#4 - Better Ways to Green-Light New Projects
#5 - The Fastest Path to the CEO Job, According to a 10-Year Study
#6 - X&Y Theory by Douglas McGregor
#7 - Book Notes: Scrum and XP from the Trenches - Henrik Kniberg
Week 31, 2022
#1 - What Kind of Happiness Do People Value Most?
#2 - What Parents Need to Know About the Coming Metaverse
#3 - The Social Economics of Work and Productivity
#4 - How Collaboration Needs Change From Mind to Marketplace
#5 - Strategy for Startups
#6 - What Can We Learn From Instagram Rolling Back "TikTok Style" Changes
#7 - Book Notes: Kanban and Scrum by Mattias Skarin and Henrik Kniberg
Week 30, 2022
#1 - What You Don't Know About Making Decisions
#2 - Scale vs Speed: Why Organizations Slow Down
#3 - Forgotten Stakeholders: Forming Team in an Outsourced IT Environment
#4 - Think Globally, Innovate Locally
#5 - How to Excel at Both Strategy and Execution
#6 - The Pomodoro Technique
#7 - Book Notes: The Pomodoro Technique by Francesco Cirillo
Week 29, 2022
#1 - What Leaders Really Do
#1 - A Survival Guide for Leaders
#2 - The Long Tail
#3 - Where Did the Long Tail Go?
#4 - YouTube Extremism and the Long Tail
#5 - The Leader’s Calendar: How CEOs Manage Time
#6 - The Taylor Bathtub and Management Changes
#7 - Book Notes: Organize for Complexity - Niels Pflaeging
Week 28, 2022
#1 - What Leaders Really Do
#2 - Double Loop Learning in Organizations
#3 - Parenting: Who is it really for?
#4 - Revamping Your Business Through Digital Transformation
#5 - Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy
#6 - Neophobia: The Fear of New Things
#7 - Book Notes: Agile Project Management with Scrum - Ken Schwaber
Week 27, 2022
#1 - What Leaders Really Do
#2 - Double Loop Learning in Organizations
#3 - Parenting: Who is it really for?
#4 - Revamping Your Business Through Digital Transformation
#5 - Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy
#6 - The Habit Loop
#7 - Book Notes: Succeeding with Agile - Mike Cohn
Week 26, 2022
#1 - Transforming Corner-Office Strategy Into Frontline Action
#2 - Parkinson’s Law
#3 - The Project Economy Has Arrived
#4 - Reframing Growth Strategy in a Digital Economy
#5 - Is Execution Where Good Strategies Go to Die
#6 - The One Thing Philosophy: A Guide to Improve Your Focus
#7 - Book Notes: Managing Agile Projects - Sanjiv Augustine
Week 25, 2022
#1 - The Work of Leadership
#2 - How New Top Managers Use Control Systems as Levers of Strategic Renewal
#3 - The Concept of "Ba": Building a Foundation for Knowledge Creation
#4 - How to Manage ‘Invisible Transitions’ in Leadership
#5 - What Most People Get Wrong About Men and Women
#6 - How to Stop Saying You Don't Have Time and Get Things Done
#7 - Book Notes: Creating Agile Business Systems - Amar Gupta and Amit Mitra
Week 23, 2022
#1 - Taking The Stress Out of Stressful Conversations
#2 - There’s a S.M.A.R.T. Way to Write Management’s Goals and Objectives
#3 - The Socially Intelligent Leader
#4 - How to Combat Virtual Meeting Fatigue
#5 - Smart Leaders Focus on Execution First and Strategy Second
#6 - The Spotlight Effect And Social Anxiety
#7 - Book Notes: Agile And Iterative Development - Craig Larman
Week 22, 2022
#1 - Radical Change, The Quiet Way
#2 - The Myth of Multitasking: Why Fewer Priorities Leads to Better Work
#3 - The AI Revolution
#4 - Why Every Executive Should Be Focusing on Culture Change Now
#5 - How The Most Successful Teams Bridge the Strategy-Execution Gap
#6 - The VUCA World
#7 - Book Notes: Agile Product Management with Scrum - Roman Pichler
Week 21, 2022
#1 - The Necessary Art of Persuasion
#2 - Revisiting “The 4-Hour Workweek”
#3 - The First Rule Of Being Your Own Boss? Be Authentic
#4 - Redesigning the Post-Pandemic Workplace
#5 - The Age of Continuous Connection
#6 - The Tuckman Model of Team Development
#7 - Book Notes: Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide - Kenneth S. Rubin
#1 - The Discipline of Innovation
#2 - The Real Meaning of Freedom at Work
#3 - The Ivy Lee Method: Daily Routine Experts Recommend for Peak Productivity
#4 - 10 Things Your Corporate Culture Needs to Get Right
#5 - The Feedback Fallacy
#6 - Short Story of the Donkey, the Tiger, and the Lion: When Arguing is Futile
#7 - Book Notes: Lean Software Development - Mary and Tom Poppendieck
#1 - The Core Competence of the Corporation
#2 - Great Attrition or Great Attraction? The Choice Is Yours
#3 - The Artificial Intelligence Revolution
#4 - The Benefits and Risks of Rehiring a Boomerang Employee
#5 - The Hard Truth About Innovative Cultures
#6 - A Philosophy for a Happy Life, by Sam Berns
#7 - Book Notes: Coaching Agile Teams - Lyssa Adkins
#1 - How Management Teams Can Have a Good Fight
#2 - How to Turn Everyday Stress Into Optimal Stress
#3 - Who Has the Next Big Idea
#4 - Responses to Disruptive Strategic Innovation
#5 - Your Approach to Hiring Is All Wrong
#6 - The Internet of Things (IoT)
#7 - Book Notes: Agile Software Engineering - Orit Hazzan and Yael Dubinsky
#1 - What Is Strategy
#2 - Reviving the Art of Apprenticeship to Unlock Continuous Skill Development
#3 - How to Get at What You’re Good At
#4 - A Dynamic View of Strategy
#5 - Begin With Trust
#6 - The Impostor Syndrome
#7 - Book Notes: Changing Software Development - Allan Kelly
#1 - Values in Tension: Ethics Away From Home
#2 - The Journey to an Agile Organization
#3 - Creating the Lean Startup
#4 - Closing the Gap Between Strategy and Execution
#5 - How to Protect Your Job in a Recession
#6 - The Matthew Effect
#7 - Book Notes: Agile Software Development - Alan S. Koch
#1 - Making Differences Matter: A New Paradigm for Managing Diversity
#2 - The Future of Work After COVID-19
#3 - Free Agent Nation
#4 - Strategy as a Way of Life
#5 - Crucibles of Leadership
#6 - The Cynefin Framework
#7 - Book Notes: Agile Excellence for Product Management - Greg Cohen
#1 - Building Your Company's Vision
#2 - How Concept Sprints Can Improve Customer-Experience Innovation
#3 - What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team
#4 - The Hard Truth About Business Model Innovation
#5 - Cultural Innovation
#6 - Our Careers and Our Identity Capital
#7 - Book Notes: Agile Estimating and Planning - Mike Cohn
#1 - We Need Better Managers, Not More Technocrats
#2 - Successfully Transitioning to New Leadership Roles
#3 - Warning: Habits May Be Good For You
#4 - The Great Leap: Driving Innovation From the Base of the Pyramid
#5 - Getting Serious About Diversity
#6 - What is Reverse Mentoring
#7 - Book Notes: Build Your Dream Network - J. Kelly Hoey
#1 - The Power of Talk: Who Gets Heard and Why
#2 - Change Management: Lessons From Japan
#3 - Creating the Lean Startup
#4 - The Hard Truth About Business Model Innovation
#5 - How to Promote Racial Equity in the Workplace
#6 - Ikigai: The Japanese Philosophy to Find Purpose
#7 - Book Notes: Agile Development and Business Goals - Bill Holtsnider and others
#1 - Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail
#2 - The Great Attrition: Wanting the Best, Keeping the Worst
#3 - I’m a Copy Machine
#4 - Picking the Right Approach to Digital Collaboration
#5 - The Circular Business Model
#6 - The Parkinson's Law
#7 - Book Notes: Agile Game Development with Scrum - Clinton Keith
#1 - Discovery-Driven Planning
#2 - Three Keys to Building a More Skilled Postpandemic
#3 - I am a Saboteur
#4 - The Practices That Set Learning Organizations Apart
#5 - When Your Culture Needs a Makeover
#6 - My Personal 6 Levels of Reading
#7 - Book Notes: Agile Coaching - Rachel Davies and Liz Sedley
#1 - How Brands Can Enter the Metaverse
#2 - Unleashing the Power of Communication in Agile Transformations
#3 - Ten Habits to Boost Your Happiness
#4 - Virtual Collaboration Won’t Be the Death of Creativity
#5 - Our Work-from-Anywhere Future
#6 - The Project Economy
#7 - Book Notes: Becoming Agile in an Imperfect World - Ahmed Sidky and Greg Smith
#1 - The Psychology Behind Meeting Overload
#2 - Strategy for a Digital World
#3 - This is My Brain on Coffee
#4 - Toxic Culture Is Driving the Great Resignation
#5 - Using the Balanced Scorecard as a Strategic Management System
#6 - The Dunning-Kruger Effect
#7 - Book Notes: Agile Career Development - Mary Ann Bopp, Diana A. Bing, Sheila Forte-Trammell
#1 - Why Change Programs Don’t Produce Change
#2 - Enterprise Agility: Buzz or Business Impact?
#3 - When Data Creates Competitive Advantage
#4 - 11 Realities About Being Productive
#5 - People Aren’t Meant to Talk This Much
#6 - The Stockholm Syndrome
#7 - Book Notes: Head First, A Crash Course in Positivity - Steve H. Lawton
#1 - Major Sales: Who Really Does the Buying
#2 - That Discomfort You're Feeling Is Grief
#3 - Why Decentralization Matters
#4 - More Tasks, More Ideas
#5 - What You’re Getting Wrong About Burnout
#6 - The Conway's Law
#7 - Book Notes: Agile Business - Bob Gower
#1 - Negotiating Your Next Job
#2 - Getting Brand Communities Right
#3 - How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity
#4 - Getting Things Done Guru David Allen and His Cult of Hyperefficiency
#5 - Maximizing Agile Productivity to Meet Shareholder Commitments
#6 - The Flux Mindset
#7 - Book Notes: The Defining Decade - Meg Jay
#1 - When Machine Learning Goes Off the Rails
#2 - The Rules of Co-opetition
#3 - The New New Product Development Game
#4 - I’m not languishing, I’m dormant
#5 - What Makes Some People More Productive Than Others
#6 - Understanding Business Agility
#7 - Book Notes: The Lean Startup - Eric Ries
#1 - When Machine Learning Goes Off the Rails
#2 - The Rules of Co-opetition
#3 - The New New Product Development Game
#4 - I’m not languishing, I’m dormant
#5 - What Makes Some People More Productive Than Others
#6 - Understanding Business Agility
#7 - Book Notes: The Lean Startup - Eric Ries
#1 - How to Retrain Your Frazzled Brain and Find Your Focus Again
#2 - Revisiting Agile Teams After an Abrupt Shift to Remote
#3 - What Children Lose When Their Brains Develop Too Fast
#4 - If You Encounter Any of These “Monster” Managers … Run
#5 - The Project Economy Has Arrived
#6 - The Spotlight Effect and Social Anxiety
#7 - Collaboration Tools Are Managers' New Best Friends
#8 - Book Notes: Quiet Leadership - David Rock
#1 - Carol Dweck Revisits the Growth Mindset
#2 - The Physics of Productivity: Newton's Laws of Getting Stuff Done
#3 - Nassim Taleb: What do I mean by Skin in the Game?
#4 - Incentives and the Two Types of Motivation
#5 - Your Job Doesn’t Have to Be Your Passion
#6 - What is the Great Resignation
#7 - Book Notes: Agile IT Organization Design - Sriram Narayan
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