# Leadership and Management

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## What Special Forces Can Teach Us About High-Impact Engineering Teams

DevFeed: [What Special Forces Can Teach Us About High-Impact Engineering Teams](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/what-special-forces-can-teach-us-about-high-impact-engineering-teams-38737.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://codecapsule.com/2025/03/04/what-special-forces-can-teach-us-about-high-impact-engineering-teams/>)

Author: Emmanuel Goossaert

Published: 2025-03-04T21:59:28Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Code Capsule](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/code-capsule.md>)

Topics: [cos](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cos.md>)

Tags: [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [hierarchy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hierarchy.md>), [leadership](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/leadership.md>), [leadership-and-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/leadership-and-management.md>), [leadership-and-management-leadership-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/leadership-and-management-leadership-management.md>), [management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/management.md>), [organizational](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/organizational.md>), [team](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/team.md>), [tech](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tech.md>)

### AI overview

The article compares the French Special Forces' direct reporting structure with high-performing engineering teams. It argues that reducing hierarchy can speed decisions, preserve objectives, and improve feedback, drawing partly on the author's experience leading a large web ecommerce engineering organization at adidas.

### Source excerpt

There's a reason Special Forces bypass traditional military hierarchy, and it's the same reason high-performing tech teams should too. Being French and having an interest in organizational structures and cultures, it was logical that I ended up learning about how the French military is set up. I spent time learning... The post What Special Forces Can Teach Us About High-Impact Engineering Teams first appeared on Code Capsule.

## Performative Leadership: From Cargo Cults to OKRs

DevFeed: [Performative Leadership: From Cargo Cults to OKRs](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/performative-leadership-from-cargo-cults-to-okrs-38735.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://codecapsule.com/2023/09/25/performative-leadership-from-cargo-cults-to-okrs/>)

Author: Emmanuel Goossaert

Published: 2023-09-25T20:47:50Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Code Capsule](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/code-capsule.md>)

Topics: [Agile](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/agile.md>), [context](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/context.md>), [Google](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google.md>), [intel](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/intel.md>)

Tags: [agile](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agile.md>), [andy-grove](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/andy-grove.md>), [business-processes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/business-processes.md>), [cargo-cults](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cargo-cults.md>), [conformity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/conformity.md>), [consulting](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/consulting.md>), [corporate](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/corporate.md>), [corporate-culture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/corporate-culture.md>), [corporate-identity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/corporate-identity.md>), [corporate-rituals](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/corporate-rituals.md>), [critical-thinking](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/critical-thinking.md>), [culture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/culture.md>), [executive-leadership](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/executive-leadership.md>), [human-psychology](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/human-psychology.md>), [industry-standards](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/industry-standards.md>), [leadership](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/leadership.md>), [leadership-and-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/leadership-and-management.md>), [leadership-and-management-business-processes-cargo-cults-conformity-corporate-culture-corporate](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/leadership-and-management-business-processes-cargo-cults-conformity-corporate-culture-corporate.md>), [management-practices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/management-practices.md>), [okrs](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/okrs.md>), [organization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/organization.md>), [organizational-behavior](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/organizational-behavior.md>), [performative](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performative.md>), [processes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/processes.md>), [rituals](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rituals.md>), [workplace-dynamics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/workplace-dynamics.md>)

### AI overview

The article argues that leadership tools and organizational practices are often transferred from the local contexts where they worked into other companies through consulting and training, where their original purpose can be lost. It uses OKRs as a central example and states that the author found no empirical evidence that OKRs improve cost efficiency, profits, or stock price, while citing reported difficulties and potential harms from implementation.

### Source excerpt

Unveiling the corporate cargo cult and how industry standards shape a homogenized leadership culture. The post Performative Leadership: From Cargo Cults to OKRs first appeared on Code Capsule.

## Solution-Oriented Coaching, or the Lost Art of Effective Conversations

DevFeed: [Solution-Oriented Coaching, or the Lost Art of Effective Conversations](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/solution-oriented-coaching-or-the-lost-art-of-effective-conversations-38734.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://codecapsule.com/2023/08/23/solution-oriented-coaching-or-the-lost-art-of-effective-conversations/>)

Author: Emmanuel Goossaert

Published: 2023-08-23T09:24:04Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Code Capsule](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/code-capsule.md>)

Topics: [Job](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/job.md>), [help](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/help.md>), [decision-making](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/decision-making.md>), [Framework](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/framework.md>), [Learning](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/learning.md>)

Tags: [coaching](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/coaching.md>), [decision-making](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/decision-making.md>), [effective](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/effective.md>), [leadership](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/leadership.md>), [leadership-and-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/leadership-and-management.md>), [leadership-and-management-leadership-management-mentoring-sfbt-solution-focused-solution-focus](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/leadership-and-management-leadership-management-mentoring-sfbt-solution-focused-solution-focus.md>), [management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/management.md>), [managerial-roles](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/managerial-roles.md>), [mentoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mentoring.md>), [reports](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reports.md>), [sfbt](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sfbt.md>), [solution-focused](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/solution-focused.md>), [solution-focused-brief-therapy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/solution-focused-brief-therapy.md>), [solution-focused-coaching](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/solution-focused-coaching.md>), [solution-focused-leadership](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/solution-focused-leadership.md>), [solution-oriented](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/solution-oriented.md>)

### AI overview

This article explains how Solution-Focused Brief Therapy techniques can be adapted into Solution-Focused Coaching for workplace conversations with direct reports and peers. It draws on the author's three years of personal experience, covering the framework's basics, workplace use, limitations, and further resources.

### Source excerpt

Solution-focused coaching is a way of using therapy techniques in order to lead better conversations with direct reports and peers at work. The post Solution-Oriented Coaching, or the Lost Art of Effective Conversations first appeared on Code Capsule.