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.
Unconscious Bias @ Work | Google Ventures
A Google Ventures talk on how unconscious biases shape product decisions, hiring and workplace interactions.
Gabe Newell: Reflections of a Video Game Maker
Gabe Newell, founder of Valve, gives a talk at the LBJ School on productivity, economics, political institutions and the future of corporations.
steve jobs on why xerox failed
A short clip of Steve Jobs explaining why Xerox failed, arguing that product people lose out to sales and marketing people once a company becomes dominant.
I just want to serve 5 terabytes.
A short satirical video, originally titled Broccoli Man, in which an engineer who only wants to serve 5 terabytes gets tangled in Google's internal resource and production processes.
CNN, Feynman and the Challenger disaster
A June 1986 CNN interview with physicist Richard Feynman about the Challenger disaster and the management failures he found while serving on the investigating commission.
Pointing and Calling Japanese Safety Standard at Railway Companies & Toyota (HD)
A short documentary clip of Japanese railway workers and Toyota staff using pointing-and-calling, a safety practice of physically pointing at and naming things while working.
How Boeing Lost Its Way
A Bloomberg documentary on how Boeing's failures around the 737 Max crashes followed a shift in company culture and cost-cutting.
What is it Like to Work for Elon Musk?
A 12-minute clip from Joe Rogan's podcast in which former NASA astronaut Garrett Reisman describes working for Elon Musk at SpaceX.
Steve Jobs: Sale/Marketing People vs. Product People
A short clip of Steve Jobs explaining how sales and marketing people take over mature companies from product people, leading to product decline.
Technical leadership and glue work - Tanya Reilly | #LeadDevNewYork
Tanya Reilly's LeadDev talk on glue work, the invisible coordination and support tasks engineers do that keep teams successful but can hurt careers.
Founders@Google Presents: The Cultural Anthropology of Stack Exchange
Joel Spolsky's 2012 Google tech talk on the cultural anthropology of Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange.
Steve jobs on why xerox failed
A short clip of Steve Jobs explaining why Xerox failed to capitalize on its inventions.
How to start a movement | Derek Sivers
In a six-minute TED talk, Derek Sivers uses footage of a dancing man at an outdoor festival to show how a movement starts.
AWS re:Invent 2020: Working backwards: Amazon’s approach to innovation
An AWS re:Invent session explaining Amazon's Working Backwards process, where teams start from customer needs and write a press release and FAQ (PR-FAQ) before building.
"Design in Practice" by Rich Hickey
Rich Hickey's Clojure Conj 2023 talk on design in practice, covering problem statements, decision matrices, choosing precise words and making decisions in a team.
Red Bead Experiment with Dr. W. Edwards Deming
Excerpts from W.
Blitzscaling 08: Eric Schmidt on Structuring Teams and Scaling Google
Stanford Blitzscaling class session where Reid Hoffman interviews Eric Schmidt about structuring teams and scaling Google.
The Cult of Conformity in Silicon Valley
Y Combinator partners Michael Seibel and Dalton Caldwell discuss how startups shifted from attracting outsiders to status- and money-seeking conformists.
Inno-Versity Presents: Greatness by David Marquet
Retired submarine captain David Marquet explains, with drawings, how he turned the USS Santa Fe around by treating his crew as leaders rather than followers.
One Hacker Way Rational alternative of Agile - Erik Meijer
Erik Meijer gives a provocative talk presenting what he calls a rational alternative to Agile, arguing against Scrum-style practice.
What it's Like to Work at Valve
Valve News Network goes through over twenty accounts from ex-Valve employees, mostly from Glassdoor, about what it is like to work at Valve.
Adam Ruins Everything - Why You Should Tell Coworkers Your Salary
A four-minute Adam Ruins Everything segment on why employers discourage workers from sharing salaries.
The Expert (Short Comedy Sketch)
A comedy sketch of a business meeting in which an engineer, the expert, is asked to do impossible things like draw red lines with blue ink.
Carl Icahn: "I Fired 12 Floors of People"
A short clip in which Carl Icahn tells the story of his first activist investment and of firing 12 floors of people, arguing activism need not be short term.