#4 The Retrospective 27th of May 2024

Chapters (notes below):

00:00::00 Awkward intros
00:00:51 Reflecting on Benoit's (CPTO of Lunii) guest appearance last week and the 4 day work week
00:14:28 What correlates with happiness?
00:28:59 Peter's articles on getting hired as an EM - part 1 & 2
00:32:32 Hands on/Hands off Engineering Managers
00:39:02 You need to have multiple CVs!
00:44:07 Drop some nuggets in your CV
00:46:34 Is AI being used to screen me?
00:51:16 Should I use AI to write my CV?
00:53:01 Hot tips for how to use AI
00:58:08 Clickbaity AI
01:01:59 Four Key Questions for Managers That Boost Team Performance
01:09:32 Trust and performance management
01:15:26 Should I share my answers?
01:18:11 Layoffs and low performers
01:22:58 Low performers, the vampire in your team
01:24:25 Retention risk and tracking over time
01:25:40 Give it three months
01:26:23 How to get started
01:28:09 Share your work at 20% done
01:31:55 Being right the first time and the Ikea Effect
01:34:09 Jeremy's pivot
01:36:48 Should our newsletters be perfect?
01:39:49 Homelabbing woes
01:48:44 Looking forward to next week

Show notes

Our previous show about Lunii’s 4-day workweek experiment:   / urn:li:activity:7199358260410245121  

Peter’s earlier article about a Hungarian company trying the same: https://peterszasz.com/the-end-of-a-4...

Timsons, a family-owned business focusing on employee happiness: https://www.timpson.co.uk/ you can read more about how they are run here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/arti...

The History of Guinness and it’s social impact - https://faithandleadership.com/stephe...

Peter’s newsletter including the activities / happiness correlation research: https://peterszasz.com/week-21-2024-f...

Not the article Peter mentioned, but a great talk on why we should not send money to Africa: https://www.carnegiecouncil.org/media...

Hungarian charity giving targeted help to specific homeless people: https://vanesely.hu/english/

Peter’s articles about Getting Hired as an EM:
https://peterszasz.com/get-hired-as-a...
https://peterszasz.com/get-hired-as-a...

Women less likely to apply for jobs they don’t feel fully qualified for: https://hbr.org/2014/08/why-women-don...

Jeremy: AI prompting article to ask for clarifying questions: https://www.descript.com/blog/article...
Use the Flipped Interaction pattern
Allow the model to elicit precise details and requirements from you by asking you questions until he has enough information to provide the needed output (for example, “From now on, I would like you to ask me questions to...”).Example: From now on, please ask me questions until you have enough information to create a personalized fitness routine.

Growth design website to give tips in design experiences: https://growth.design/

Jeremy’s recent Performance Questions article: https://www.jeremybrown.tech/four-key...

…and the original one about debunking performance rating myths: https://www.jeremybrown.tech/17-debun...

Nine Lies about Work book:   / nine-lies-about-work  

Jeremy’s article about the Baseline Principles for Teams: https://www.jeremybrown.tech/21-basel...

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team book:   / 21343.the_five_dysfunctions_of_a_team  

The 9-Box Performance Evaluation Model: https://www.bamboohr.com/blog/9-box-grid

Jeremy’s article about sharing your work early: https://www.jeremybrown.tech/the-20-p...

…and his earlier one about the IKEA Effect: https://www.jeremybrown.tech/the-ikea...

Peter’s article about Homelabbing for Engineering Leaders: https://peterszasz.com/homelabbing-fo...

Craft Conference 10: https://craft-conf.com/2024