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David Marquet on the Difference Between Red-Work and Blue-Work

Published: Sept. 4, 2017, midnight

This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the\xa0QCon conferences.\n\nIn this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to David Marquet about his keynote talk at the recent Agile 2017 conference and his book \u2013 Turn the Ship Around.\n\nWhy listen to this podcast:\n\n - Create organizations for the future that have the right balance of thinking (blue-work) and doing (red-work)\n - The person doing the work has much more contextual information about the situation than any manager or commander\n - Empowerment on its own is not enough \u2013 strong technical/domain knowledge is a necessary precondition\n - Match the language you use to the type of activity being done \u2013 thinking vs doing, blue-work or red-work\n\nMore on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ http://bit.ly/2grZxbR\n\nYou can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq\n\nSubscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq\nLike InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8\nFollow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ\nFollow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq\nWant to see extented shownotes? Check the landing page on InfoQ: http://bit.ly/2grZxbR