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Friendly discussions about life, business, engineering, and learning between Dima Malenko and Slava Rudnytskyi.

  1. 1 FEB

    Uncontrollable

    📺 Watch this episode on YouTube Dima and Slava have read a book about business processes and discus what it means to follow “process approach”. Book “Unmanageable. What you need to know about business processes?” (in Ukrainian)Processes vs. ProjectsWhat is a good, useful description in a process?From stockpile of policies to process approachBusiness processes interact with organisational structure and cultureOptimisation of business processes is a common demand from Ukrainian businesses

    40 min

  2. 6 JAN

    Leadership

    📺 Watch this episode on YouTube. Dima and Slava discuss how management relates to leadership, signs that can point to lack of leadership, and what leadership misses can entail. Management is the process of planning, organizing, and controlling resources to achieve objectives efficiently and predictably.Leadership is the ability to offer compelling vision and inspire, influence, and guide people toward a shared goal.Failure modes of management without leadershipNo value added by a manager at their level on managerial hierarchyManager not having an opinion about team’s role and placeManager not taking responsibility for their decisions and actionsManager acting as an external consultant to the teamCoaching leadership style

    30 min

  3. 03/12/2025

    Estimation

    📺 Watch this episode on YouTube. Dima and Slava discuss the complexities of estimation in business contexts and the challenges of striking the balance between ambition and realism. Estimation, forecasting, and projectingDesired level of confidence for the estimate makes a differenceShort-term vs long-term estimation50/50 goalsBenchmarking is helpful when you do something novelWorking backwards can help in planning projectsIs your thing really a special snowflake?Illusion of precision, or precision biasRealistic estimated vs ambitious goalsEstimation and benchmarking was also discussed in Biweeklycast #36 How Big Things Get Done.

    31 min

  4. 16/11/2025

    Ambiguity

    📺 Watch this episode on YouTube. Dima is doing his best to explore a particular flavour of ambiguity and Slava keeps him in check by sticking to definitions and anchoring the discussion to reality. Ambiguity – the quality of being open to more than one interpretationIs ambiguity merely a lack of proper definitions?Approaches that help in dealing with ambiguityExplicit definition of how success looks likeClear definition of the problem to be solvedValidate hypothesis with real-world inputsAt times, dealing with ambiguity requires a leap of faith

    29 min

  5. 26/10/2025

    Good strategy, bad strategy

    📺 Watch this episode on YouTube Dima and Slava explore Richard P. Rumelt’s book Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters and share insights they took away from the book. https://www.amazon.com/Good-Strategy-Bad-Difference-Matters/dp/0307886239https://www.amazon.com/Strategy-Safari-Through-Strategic-Management/dp/0743270576The Kernel of Strategy: diagnosis, guiding policy, coherent actionsWhat does coherence have to do with policy and strategy?Building on your strength is a great foundation of strategyBad strategy is the result of a leader who’s unwilling or unable to say “No”Cut through that “strategic fluff” with focus on concrete and specific elementsDon’t trust examples from business books. Do your own research6 reflections after reading the bookRating the book: 3 and 5 out of 10The greatest closing quote ever by Dima Malenko: “Think for yourselves!”Check out other bookclub episodes of Biweekly

    30 min

  6. 16/10/2025

    Strategy

    📺 Watch this episode on YouTube. Dima and Slave talk about what strategy is and what strategy isn’t. From Wikipedia: Strategy is a general plan to achieve one or more long-term or overall goals under conditions of uncertainty.Dima’s characteristics of a strategyMulti-step plan, a “pattern of decisions”Built on a particular world viewAims at global (long-term) maximumDoes not rely on competitors making favourable choicesRequires agency and ability to executeDifferent flavours of strategy: business strategy, product strategy, etcNot every entity needs a strategyVision without execution is a daydream. Execution without vision is a nightmare.

    27 min

  7. 06/10/2025

    Priorities

    📺 Watch this episode on YouTube. Dima and Slava count priorities and discuss how having to count priorities is a problem in and of itself. Dilution of terminology: priorities, KPIs…“Focus” is a good alternative that is expressly singularPriority: importance vs orderingDoes priority get most time or the best time?One with 10 priority tasks gets to choose what the true top priority isPriority management cultures: collective and individualDoes need for prioritisation arise having a lot more work that one can do?Have a stack of priorities and be very explicit about themLimit number of top priority items that you have at any given time

    32 min

  8. 27/08/2025

    62: Season finale

    📺 Watch this episode on YouTube Dima and Slava discuss the end of the second season of Biweeklycast and talk about what to expect in the upcoming third season.

    21 min
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Friendly discussions about life, business, engineering, and learning between Dima Malenko and Slava Rudnytskyi.

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  • Creator
    Biweeklycast
  • Years Active
    2016 - 2026
  • Episodes
    69
  • Rating
    Clean
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