A while back, I reached out to my network to try to expand my sources of engineering management / leadership / general tech-y stuff insights. A bunch of smart people were suggested, and I wrote
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a child in a library will find approximately a million books they want to bring home on every visit… and then those books will disappear around the house.
Requiring meeting participants to turn their cameras on can actively hurt your team members. There are far better ways to confirm that team members are engaged in your conversations.
Lego does an amazing job tailoring their communications to the experience level of the target users of their products. As software people, we can take Lego's model to learn a lot about effective communication.
