John Cutler Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

John Cutler

@viktorcessan I forget, have you read Geoffrey West's "Scale" ?

John Cutler

@jakesaper @jakecadams @Amplitude_HQ I love this One thing to consider is that the North Star moving is an *output* of focusing on the meaningful inputs that matter. A sorta Bill Walsh "focus on the game, and the score takes care of itself". It really is the interplay of inputs and NS metric

John Cutler

“Every day we waste energy and create pain from misdiagnosing a paradox and treating it as a problem to solve and then fighting over the two poles.” Barry Johnson Polarity Management: Identifying and Managing Unsolvable Problems

John Cutler

lots of teams are lured into the ability to customize Jira to do whatever it can do... but you always run the risk of shipping your org chart and your tools... use enabling constraints wisely. just because you *can* doesn't mean you *should*

John Cutler

“Evolution involves the survival of the fitting, not just the survival of the fittest” “Collaboration is often as common as competition” Images of Organization, Gareth Morgan https://t.co/jOzJ3yfxbo

John Cutler

I just make them up. The Orange Juice Method The Theory of Pickles and Cucumbers 5 Focusing Questions Amazon's 7 Pager (the forgotten method) DOH-KRs Discovery Ouija Board Framework Dante's Inferno (7 level Customer Pain Framework) Violinists, Cellists, and Bassists https://t.co/sICdogtxc2