
The Royal Marines say that elite performance is a state of mind. I can show you what that looks like when building cross functional tech teams. @commandodev
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Clarity and consistency come before scale. Trying to go straight there means chaos.
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Innovation and Insurgency.
Why is it so hard to do innovation in a big organisation and what can we do to ensure that small organisations are able to keep innovating as they grow?
linkedin.com/pulse/innovatio… via @LinkedIn
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"Learning from Leadership on the Front Lines" - An Interview with Roderic Yapp | The Transformative Leader Podcast 070 — The Ghannad Group bit.ly/2YoEPxm
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Check out plantsavers.co.uk 💯 Selling plants from garden centres and nurseries that would otherwise be closed. So happy with my delivery!
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Anyone done any work on modelling logistics/supply chains with #Haskell? Can you point me to any libraries or DSLs for building networks or supply and demand. Let's say I wanted to model samples sent to labs with different capacities and test execution times. What should I read?
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Haskell-ide-engine and Ghcide teams are joining forces to work on a single Haskell IDE. See neilmitchell.blogspot.com/20… for details. With @cocreature, @alan_zimm and many contributors from both sides.
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I really like my interval functor. Linear, areal, volumetric, & hyper-orthotopic delimited regions; sampling; union & intersection; lots of goodness.
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1/ Heads up!
I'm preparing a guide to fixing organisational problems in scaling software development teams.
I'd love to talk to you if you're a founder or leader dealing with this! Things I'll cover (feedback welcomed):
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What have been people's biggest pain points scaling dev teams and orgs past social inflection points (10-16, 30-50, 50-100, 150+).
My research suggest commonalities, but I want to hear a wide range of other people's experience. Will collate and report back.
RT for reach pls 🙏
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KGS153 | 4 Behaviors All Good Leaders Have In Common Which One Are You Missing with Former Royal Marine Roderic Yapp and Kingsley Grant by The Kingsley Grant Show: Where Emotional Intelligence and Leadership Skills Intersect • A podcast on Anchor bit.ly/36yKJ0l
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People running tech companies that are 100% located in an expensive city at the moment, what are your plans for 2020?
32%Stay centralised
44%Remote, keep the office
24%Embrace remote work 100%
25 votes • Final results Ben Ford retweeted
Who's doing cool things in functional programming/startups in Zurich? I'm in town for a few days till early new year and have time for coffee and needing out 😁
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December can be a busy month for #RoyalMarines; in Action since 1664 - The Admirals Regiment - attack on the Dutch Smyrna fleet; Possibly the first action where Marines were used, come and see 26 examples of Marines in action this month search #December royalmarineshistory.com



















