Over the years, I’ve found or developed a variety of tools that have been very helpful. I’ll be posting a number of them to this blog and referring to them in various posts, but I thought it would be handy to have a single place to find them. It’s in the same spirit as the “In My Bag” photos that you may have seen, showing what people find useful or fun to carry around with them. The New York Times used to run this series, and it’s also a popular tag on Flickr.
- My Job – as I describe in a blog post, this is a one-page snapshot of the activities that I needed to do in my job as a general manager of an engineering team. I used it as a north star every week to figure out what to focus on.
- Cracking the Nut – a model for analyzing a wide variety of problems and figuring out what to do. I show how to use it in a four part series of posts: How To Make (Almost) Any Decision, Tackling a Messy Problem, Heart of the Analysis, and Wrapping It Up.
I hope that you find these useful in your own work.
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