Articles

Good Enough Is Enough!

Let’s ship. Let’s screw up. Let’s improve and ship again.

15 hrs ago • Danil Lopatkin | Make It Work

OKR in Small Teams. Scarcity, Trade-offs and Focus

How to set OKRs with capacity in mind and within the constraints of small teams

Feb 19 • Danil Lopatkin | Make It Work

Job Design in Small Teams: Trying on a Harvard Framework

What happens when a corporate framework meets a team without slack

Feb 12 • Danil Lopatkin | Make It Work

Sweet Dreams of Learning for Small Teams

Why most education and leadership advice is built for a reality we don’t have

Feb 4 • Danil Lopatkin | Make It Work

The Overperformer’s Challenge in a Small Team. Managing the experience

A paired reflection on overperformance and sustainability in small teams

Jan 27 • Danil Lopatkin | Make It Work and Diana

A small team and a magical tool: a cosmic journey of hitchhikers through over-complexity

Exploring how small teams struggle with control, understanding, and integrating complex systems. Together with Douglas Adams

Jan 20 • Danil Lopatkin | Make It Work

Taming the Team Routine: Reflections on small teams and the forgotten maintenance from a broken elevator.

On how to make routine part of small-team work

Jan 15 • Danil Lopatkin | Make It Work

Capacity building in small teams

How small teams can build capacity beyond daily survival and grow stronger

Jan 14 • Danil Lopatkin | Make It Work

Borrowing from the Future

Why small teams keep running out of time, energy, and sanity, and don't perform

Jan 12 • Danil Lopatkin | Make It Work

Conceptual thinking is the best cover for scarcity

How strong ideas can compensate for weak resources

Jan 11 • Danil Lopatkin | Make It Work

Digital maturity vs Tool fetishism. Small teams and digitalisation

Signs you’ve crossed from smart use into tool obsession

Jan 10 • Danil Lopatkin | Make It Work

How Constraints Drive Creativity and Innovation in small teams

Based on an article by Acar, Tarakci, and van Knippenberg

Jan 9 • Danil Lopatkin | Make It Work

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