Stop focusing on getting sh*t done, to achieve a future goal. Stop being productive.

As a leader, you have to look at your own behaviors before you ask others to change," says Jannes Smit.

Stay flexible. In a fast-changing environment, objectives can stop being relevant, so it should always be easy to modify them, together with the key results.

Our research doesn’t conclusively explain this, but we have a few ideas about why this might be the case.

The sweetest two words in any negotiation are “that’s right."

The documented instances of technological regression on the Australian mainland, and the example of Tasmania, suggest that the limited repertoire of Native Australians compared with that of peoples of other continents may stem in part from the effects of isolation and population size on the development and maintenance of technology.

Empowerment is the fruit of the other three. It is the natural result of both personal and organizational trustworthiness, which enables people to identify and unleash their human potential.

The world’s chip industry, as well as the assembly of all the electronic goods chips enable, depends more on the Taiwan Strait and the South China coast than on any other chunk of the world’s territory except Silicon Valley.

When priorities shift within the team, pass situational awareness both up and down the chain. Don’t let the focus on one priority cause target fixation. Maintain the ability to see other problems developing and rapidly shift as needed.

All architectures become iterative because of unknown unknowns, Agile just recognizes this and does it sooner.