Welcome to INFUZED. A brand new initiative that aims to help you propel your organization.
I. Company Building
We set ambitious goals for our teams and then get going. While goal-setting is extremely important to create a shared destination, the decisive factor for the eventual outcome is how we go about its achievement.
Setting up a weekly meeting to stay up to date on everything won't propel us forward. In order for a team to move, it is important to thoughtfully design an operating cadence. What do we do when and how?
Elena Verna's & Keya Patel's essay on "Rethinking Your Operating Cadence" is the best and most thorough piece I've come across on the subject. A fascinating read and full of implementable better practices you could apply yourself.
When it comes to collaboration with others, there is one universal truth we all have to accept: people are different!
The beauty of this, it makes us and our organizations better, once we figure out how to gauge our diversity.
One step in that direction is to develop a better understanding of ourselves and of each other. A fascinating and insightful tool to help us on that path is the personality test by 16Personalities. Go try it on yourself and ask your team to take it, too.
Following up on the operating cadence above, how do you know where to go with your product?
A powerful concept is the so-called "North Star Metric". It is the single metric that you are chasing with your entire organization. As Sean Ellis explains, it is "the single metric that best captures the core value that your product delivers to customers".
If you have your's defined, great, keep at it. If not, read Sean's quick explanation on how to find it.
I hope this inspires your thinking for the rest of the week and beyond. Please feel free to share INFUZED with anyone that you think would also benefit from a little dose of inspiration regarding company building, people, and digital products.
If you have any feedback, suggestions, or similar, I am always curious to learn something new or just get better! Just hit reply.
