Believes about mistakes can prevent teams from working at full speed. Your culture about mistakes makes the difference between being a top performing and someone from the heap. So, knowing how to approach mistakes in the most productive way and building a culture around that is a skill that will make the difference.

One of my favorite frameworks for providing negative feedback is the CEDAR™ model from Anna Wildman. CEDAR is an acronym for the steps involved in providing feedback.

Mindsets are a set of believes that you acquire during your life that shortcut your decision making. They are based on stories, cultural approach to problems and are shortcuts to the complexity we find in life. They help us in arriving to conclusions quickly and to make decisions effortless but some of them limit our possibilities. Identifying those mindsets allow us to increase our chances of success.

Technical debt are decisions we make during development that we know are not optimal because they require more work to get optimal but we decide to deal with the consequences because we see more value in delivering at that time.

The importance of using the right metrics
"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

Success] requires less routine deployment of well-learned skills and more “thinking through” and “figuring out” of challenging new problems. Indeed, the pursuit of any challenging goal often involves actively analyzing tasks and then planning, self-monitoring, and revising strategies.