Thanks for welcoming me to beautifully cool Edinburgh, Turing Fest! Below are the slides and links to the books, talks, etc mentioned. Please do shout if I have forgotten anything.
Books & Tools & Talks Mentioned in This Talk
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- First Break All The Rules by Marcus Buckingham
- Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink
- If you don’t have time to read Drive, watch this fab sketchnote video of one of Dan’s talks
- Stumbling on Happiness by Dan Gilbert
- Jessie Link’s excellent talk on retrospectives at The Lead Dev in New York last year
- Spotify’s Health Check approach
- Sam Barnes’ talk which includes some tips on how to help teams observe & measure how they think they are doing — so you can judge the impact of changes
What you said about focusing on the right problems at the right time. Couldn’t agree more. Many people of today live in constant anxiety, always worrying about the future instead of focusing on what’s right in front of them. The present moment.