B.6 Leadership, planning, and development

Summary

Reading on strategy, measurement, people, and development. Proposed section.

B.6.1 Strategy and measurement

• High Output Management, by Andy Grove: leading indicators, pairing measures, and objectives and key results.
• Working Backwards, by Colin Bryar and Bill Carr: how Amazon separates controllable inputs from outcomes and reviews metrics every week.

See Metrics for how we apply these ideas.

B.6.2 People and development

• Netflix Culture Memo: a high-autonomy culture built around strong talent, context-sharing, candid feedback, and fewer unnecessary rules.
• From Hierarchy to Intelligence, by Jack Dorsey and Roelof Botha: a model centered on individual contributors, directly responsible individuals, and player-coaches instead of traditional management layers. It argues AI can take on much of the information routing that management layers exist for.

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