{"id":1257,"date":"2018-04-13T10:12:32","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T17:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=1257"},"modified":"2018-04-13T10:12:32","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T17:12:32","slug":"five-for-friday-april-13-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/five-for-friday-april-13-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Five for Friday &#8211; April 13, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Quote I&#8217;m pondering: <em>&#8220;Anyone operating with a theory of leadership that assumes that experts know what is best, and that then the leadership problem is basically a sales problem in persuasion, is in our experience doomed at best to selling partial solutions at high cost&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; Heifetz, et al in\u00a0<em>The Practice of Adaptive Leadership<\/em>.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been (re) studying adaptive leadership quite a bit recently, and hit home on a few of my poor-leadership experiences.<\/li>\n<li>What I&#8217;m reading &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnmaxwell.com\/blog\/5-levels-of-leadership\">The Five Levels of Leadership<\/a>, but John Maxwell. I&#8217;ve read one of Maxwell&#8217;s other books, but I&#8217;m finding this one really valuable in forming a model in how leaders grow into\u00a0<em>better<\/em> leaders.<\/li>\n<li>I enjoyed (and shared with my team at Unity) this article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davefarley.net\/?p=247\">Continuous Improvement and Feature Branching<\/a>. Well worth the read.<\/li>\n<li>There was a time when PSP (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Personal_software_process\">Personal Software Process<\/a>) was (well, not popular, but far more interesting than it should have been). I thought of PSP when I read <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2018\/04\/track-your-time-for-30-days-what-you-learn-might-surprise-you\">this article on tracking time<\/a>, but completely without the icky feeling of bean-counting that PSP always gave me. In fact, I&#8217;m going to try tracking what I do for a month purely for self-reflection on my own prioritization. Definitely interesting.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, for all of my readers who enjoy my love of wine, there&#8217;s this article fro National Geographic &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/magazine\/2017\/02\/alcohol-discovery-addiction-booze-human-culture\/\">Our 9,000-Year Love Affair With Booze<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quote I&#8217;m pondering: &#8220;Anyone operating with a theory of leadership that assumes that experts know what is best, and that then the leadership problem is basically a sales problem in persuasion, is in our experience doomed at best to selling partial solutions at high cost&#8221; &#8211; Heifetz, et al in\u00a0The Practice of Adaptive Leadership. 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