Tom Dalling

Business Goblin (left) is a character created by friend and colleague Matthew Grey (right).

If I’ve sent you this, it’s because I will eventually need to give you constructive feedback.

Human preface: I’m doing a little side project to see for myself how far AI agents have come and what they’re capable of.

You may have heard managers describe themselves as having a people first leadership style.

In medicine there is the concept of a disease being “subclinical”, and I think the concept can apply to bullying in the workplace.

Below is an excerpt from Tom’s Expectations For Project Management — a private document written for engineers who report to me and who are running projects in a technical lead role, which lists out a set of project management responsibilities and expectat…

This is a short talk I gave a while ago about how complex systems fail, and root cause analysis.

Recently someone said to me “stakeholders only care about milestones,” and something clicked for me.

Work should be completed in a series of small changes, where each change is a polished, fully-working improvement.

The tl;dr is that management is a set of powers and accountabilities that the role confers upon you, whereas leadership is the ability to motivate followers.