How People Work, Live! — Dan Hon and Hillary Hartley — notes

On Friday I sat in on How People Work, Live!, Dan Hon's regular live show, a spin off from his workshop of the same name.Basic premise: how well you work with other people matters as much as how good you are at the work.This time Dan was talking with Hillary Hartley, formerly of 18F and Ontario's first chief digital officer.It was live from 5pm BST on Friday, so I didn't have the energy to write full notes. Instead – ahem – here's some things that caught my attention from Dan and Hillary's chat. (Dan might share a full recording at some point.)Thanks for talking openly, Dan and Hillary!Recon before persuasionHorizontal leadership is changing things across silos you don't own. No authority, so it runs on influence, credibility and trust.Map people on authority versus trust. Then what they care about.Who can say yes? Who can quietly kill this without me knowing? Whose turf am I on?It's rarely just one person in the hierarchy. It's the committees set up to shepherd things along.Fixed…