All Weekly Pulse

All 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.

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Weekly Pulse 2022

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

Week 20, 2022

#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

Week 20, 2022

#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

Week 19, 2022

#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

Week 18, 2022

#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

Week 17, 2022

#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

Week 16, 2022

#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

Week 15, 2022

#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

Week 14, 2022

#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

Week 13, 2022

#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

Week 12, 2022

#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

Week 11, 2022

#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

Week 10, 2022

#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

Week 09, 2022

#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

Week 08, 2022

#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

Week 07, 2022

#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

Week 06, 2022

#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

Week 05, 2022

#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

Week 04, 2022

#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

Week 03, 2022

#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

Week 02, 2022

#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

Week 01, 2022

#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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Weekly Pulse 2021

Week 52 - Special Edition 2021

Week 51, 2021

#1 - Preparing Your Business for a Post-Pandemic World

#2 - How Apple is Organized for Innovation

#3 - Why do We Work Too Much

#4 - What Good Leadership Looks Like During This Pandemic

#5 - Why Time Management Is Ruining our Lives

#6 - What is the Metaverse

#7 - What Are NTFs

Week 50, 2021

#1 - Morning Routines and Strategies

#2 - Unleashing the power of small, independent teams

#3 - Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything

#4 - 56 Foundational Skills Needed To Thrive In The Future Economy

#5 - The Rise and Fall of Getting Things Done

#6 - Project Management Salary Survey 2021

Week 49, 2021

#1 - Pipelines, Platforms, and the New Rules of Strategy

#2 - Knowledge Workers Are More Productive from Home

#3 - How companies can help mid-level managers navigate agile transformations

#4 - How Project Managers Can Stay Relevant in Agile Organizations

#5 - What is the Made in China 2025 Plan

#6 - What is the China 2030 Plan

#7 - What is the China 2049 Plan

Week 48, 2021

#1 - How to stop languishing and start finding flow by Adam Grant

#2 - 3 Common Fallacies About Creativity

#3 - 10 Myths About Creativity You Need to Stop Believing Now

#4 - Are Your Team Members Lonely

#5 - How to Help (Without Micromanaging)

#6 - Are You Really Listening?

Week 47, 2021

#1 - Don’t Let Returning to the Office Burn Out Your Team

#2 - Working With Robots in a Post-Pandemic World

#3 - AI in the workplace: Paving the way for man-machine collaboration

#4 - The Nine Elements of Digital Transformation

#5 - The New Elements of Digital Transformation

#6 - The Transformational Power of Recommendation

#7 - Igniting individual purpose in times of crisis

Week 46, 2021

#1 - For an Agile Transformation, Choose the Right People

#2 - When Collaboration Fails and How to Fix It

#3 - The Art of Innovation, TED Talk by Guy Kawasaki

#4 - Why Agility Pays

#5 - Beyond the Holacracy Hype

#6 - The Tinder Algorithm, Explained

#7 - A summary of the two mindsets by Carol Dweck

#8 - Pocket: organizing what you find to read

Week 45, 2021

#1 - Simon Sinek: do you love your wife?

#2 - Digital transformation is about talent, not technology

#3 - Digital transformation is not about technology

#4 - Do workplace hierarchies still matter?

#5 - The boss factor

#6 - How to work on your goals when you don’t have time

#7 - How to make remote brainstorming work?

Week 44, 2021

#1 - Why companies should add class to their diversity discussions

#2 - The Forgotten Dimension of Diversity

#3 - Inclusive Cultures Have Healthier and Happier Workers

#4 - Why Reverse Mentoring Works and How to Do It Right

#5 - Mentoring Millennials

#6 - How to Brainstorm — Remotely

#7 - How Chinese Retailers Are Reinventing the Customer Journey

Week 43, 2021

#1 - Ladies Who Launch 

#2 - The Collective Intelligence of Remote Teams 

#3 - No boss? No, thanks 

#4 - How to Make Sure Agile Teams Can Work Together 

#5 - What Happened After Zappos Got Rid of Workplace Hierarchy 

#6 - Apple, the iPhone, and The Innovator’s Dilemma 

#7 - Facebook is now called Meta: what does this change in your life?

Week 42, 2021

#1 - The Frustration with Productivity Culture 

#2 - Moving beyond agile to become a software innovator

#3 - How to Raise an Independent Thinker 

#4 - Using agile to accelerate your data transformation 

#5 - The Basic Education in Sweden and Brazil [Portuguese] 

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