Conforming to Mediocrity and Core Hours, Essays and Conversations with Susan Parente, SPaMCAST 829

In SPaMCAST 829 we will continue to expose the sometimes insidious impact of groupthink. Groupthink can lead a team to accept less challenging work, be misaligned with priorities, and poorly assess urgency and importance. The pressure to conform and maintain agreement can result in suboptimal decision-making, hampering effectiveness. We will also have a visit from Susan Parente who will bring her Not A Scrumdmentalist column to the podcast. In this installment, Susan tackles the need for core hours for teams of all types. Master Work Intake! This episode is brought to you by Mastering Work Intake by Jeremy Willets and myself. Buy a copy and begin to control the flow of work for your team and organization. Simply put if you don't control work intake IT CONTROLS YOU! Order a copy of the book from the publisher - https://bit.ly/474ul6G or Amazon - https://bit.ly/474ul6G Re-read Saturday News Chapter 4 of How To Be A Stoic by Massimo Pigliucci (buy a copy and read along) is titled "Living According To Nature." Nature is defined as the community and world. In Meditations, Marcus Aurelius states, "Even chance is not divorced from nature." The laws of nature and physics define what is possible and we live within those possibilities/boundaries. There are several ideas within this chapter, I want to highlight two beginning with the relationship between nature and community. Week 1: Logistics and Opening Thoughts Week 2: The Unstraightforward Path Week 3: A Roadmap For The Journey Week 4: Some Things Are In Our Power, Others Are Not Week 5: Live According To Nature Next SPaMCAST SPaMCAST 830 will feature a conversation with Jeremy Berriault. Jeremy has a new book, "Beyond The Framework: Cultivating Agile Growth." The back cover states, "Organizations that fail to embrace agility (small a-agiity) risk fading into obscurity." We will discuss the rationale behind that statement.