PickVidsBest Management, leadership & organizations Videos
The 79 Management, leadership & organizations videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 3 introductory, 6 intermediate, 70 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a talk. What they share is that one speaker finishes a claim, and the examples exist to hold that claim up. Channels you will keep seeing include TED, LeadDev, Talks at Google.
Moneyball - Firing people
A short Moneyball clip showing a manager telling a player he has been cut, directly and without softening the news.
DICKS: Do you need to be one to be a successful leader?
Filmmaker Max Joseph's 35-minute video essay asks whether you have to be a jerk to be a successful leader.
- Startups - David H. Hansson, Partner at 37signals -TWiST #E337
A This Week in Startups episode in which Jason Calacanis interviews David Heinemeier Hansson of 37signals.
Steve Jobs Content vs Process
A three-minute clip of Steve Jobs arguing that great products come from people who care about content rather than process.
The puzzle of motivation | Dan Pink | TED
Dan Pink's TED talk argues that traditional carrot-and-stick rewards often fail for creative work, drawing on the candle problem and social science research.
David Heinemeier Hansson-Unlearn Your MBA (Entire talk)
David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails and partner at 37signals, argues that planning is guessing and startups should focus on today.
#NoEstimates (Allen Holub)
Allen Holub's keynote arguing that estimation is harmful, particularly in Agile, and presenting planning approaches based on data and flow instead.
Gabe Newell: On Productivity, Economics, Political Institutions, and the Future of Corporations
Gabe Newell of Valve speaks at UT Austin's LBJ School on productivity, economics, political institutions and the future of corporations.
First Follower: Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy
Derek Sivers annotates a short clip of a lone dancer at a festival, showing how a first follower turns a ridiculous act into a movement.
OODA Loop & Evolutionary Epistemology of John Boyd by Chuck Spinney
Chuck Spinney, a long-time associate of John Boyd, presents Boyd's thinking on the OODA loop and evolutionary epistemology.
What I Wish I Had Known Before Scaling Uber to 1000 Services • Matt Ranney • GOTO 2016
Matt Ranney of Uber talks at GOTO Chicago 2016 about what Uber learned from growing past 1,000 production microservices.
The Original Skunk Works – Nickolas Means | The Lead Developer UK 2017
Nickolas Means tells the story of Lockheed's Skunk Works and how its engineers built the U-2, SR-71 and F-117 under tight deadlines and budgets.
What's It Really like Working at Valve?
People Make Games interviewed 16 current and former Valve employees to examine how the company's no-bosses, no-titles structure works in practice, and where it falls short.
Mikey Dickerson Velocity NY 2014 Keynote: "One Year After healthcare.gov..."
Mikey Dickerson's keynote at Velocity NY 2014, one year after the healthcare.gov launch failure.
Disruptive Innovation - Clayton Christensen (Part 2)
Clayton Christensen explains disruptive innovation using the steel industry, showing how mini-mills beat incumbents from the low end.
Designer's Digest - Steve Jobs on the role of product and marketing people.
A three-minute excerpt of a Steve Jobs interview in which he describes how monopolies let sales and marketing people displace product people, rotting a company's product sensibility, with Xerox as the example.
Reinventing Organizations
Frederic Laloux presents his research on self-managing, purpose-driven organizations, followed by Q&A.
Why 90% of Managers Are GARBAGE (The Professional Lie) | Steve Jobs
A short clip of Steve Jobs arguing that the best people are self-managing and that professional managers who cannot do the work add little.
How Will You Measure Your Life? Clay Christensen at TEDxBoston
Clayton Christensen's TEDx talk applying business theory to personal life.
Assholes are Ruining Your Project. Donnie Berkholz (RedMonk).
Donnie Berkholz of RedMonk gives a Monki Gras talk arguing that abusive, toxic contributors damage open source projects.
Passion | David Mitchell's SoapBox
David Mitchell's Soapbox rant on employers who demand passion and enthusiasm from workers, using satire to skewer fake workplace passion.
Agile Project Management with Kanban | Eric Brechner | Talks at Google
Eric Brechner, a Microsoft Xbox development manager, presents his Kanban approach for agile project management at Talks at Google.
MindSpring Presents: "Greatness" by David Marquet
An animated adaptation of Captain David Marquet's talk on greatness, based on his book Turn the Ship Around!.
Your Brain at Work
David Rock gives a Google Tech Talk based on his book Your Brain at Work, using neuroscience to explain why focus and productivity are hard at the office.