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Tradeoffs are easiest to make if they are expressed in the same units. How can a developer decide if it is better to save a week, save $10,000, or add new features?
Lean Software Development
Mary Poppendieck and Tom Poppendieck
It’s often said that bullies and narcissists have low self-esteem. But [research](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-8721.00053?casa_token=125WwpKqfXYAAAAA:xrVaU0pmX5v71guDiJzw4e1km766wnXStlbnl1yaaapf2cFh7gjfmnd6b4ZXGQ4UoWenpraMoloa) paints a different picture: Narcissists actually have high but *unstable* self-esteem. They crave status and approval and become hostile when their fragile egos are threatened—when they’re insulted, rejected, or shamed. By appealing to their desire to be admired, you can counteract their knee-jerk tendency to reject a difference of opinion as criticism.
Persuading the Unpersuadable
Harvard Business Review
If there isn’t a spiritual dynamic at work in the struggle, if the struggle for social justice is thoroughly disenchanted, then it’s destined to be a battle against other human beings, against the Bad People—the Good People trying to wrest power away from the Bad People.
Reviving Old Scratch
Richard Beck
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