Year | # | Title | # | Moral | Year | Created | Modified | Place | DocType | Ready? | Category | |
| 1983 |
| 3 | | | | | | | | | |
| 12 | What's the Next Step? | | People work harder, and take pride in, achieving new levels, even if "in place" | 1983 | 02/27/2006 | 02/13/2023 | IDC | Story | Yes | People Mgmt | |
| 143 | Bowling and Curtains | | With a good scoreboard, you don't need feedback from a manager | 1983 | 05/08/2006 | 03/29/2024 | IDC | Story | Yes | People Mgmt,Measurement | |
| 416 | Double the Estimate | | If project time is difficult to estimate, make it time-fixed | 1983 | 10/27/2016 | 09/27/2022 | DBC | Story | Yes | Project Mgmt | |
| 1984 |
| 3 | | | | | | | | | |
| 13 | Build the Throwaway | | Build a prototype to meet a basic need; embellish later | 1984 | 02/27/2006 | 11/20/2023 | IDC | Story | Yes | Project Mgmt,Innovation | |
| 220 | Playing with toys | | A sense of play is more adult than you think | 1984 | 09/24/2007 | 09/27/2022 | IDC | Story | Yes | People Mgmt | |
| 454 | The Parade | | In the midst of a crisis, try to remain calm and improvise where you need to. | 1984 | 02/27/2017 | 12/20/2021 | IDC | Story | Yes | Crisis,Improv | |
| 1985 |
| 5 | | | | | | | | | |
| 14 | The Wine Bet | | An audacious goal is powerful | 1985 | 02/27/2006 | 02/13/2023 | IDC | Story | Yes | People Mgmt | |
| 15 | Counting the Simple | | Increasing client contact with good, helpful people, increases sales | 1985 | 02/27/2006 | 02/13/2023 | IDC | Story | Yes | Measurement | |
| 81 | A Red-Button Party | | When you find a problem, celebrate: it's an opportunity to ratchet up the quality | 1985 | 02/27/2006 | 02/13/2023 | IDC | Story | Yes | Change Mgmt,People Mgmt,Quality | |
| 84 | Teaching an employee to fish | | Teach a worker how to fish and they don't need a hand-out. | 1985 | 02/27/2006 | 11/20/2023 | IDC | Story | Yes | Leadership,People Mgmt | |
| 536 | The Grenade | | Don't take the hand grenade problem; give it back | 1985 | 09/08/2022 | 06/15/2023 | IDC | Story | Yes | Leadership,People Mgmt | |
| 1986 |
| 2 | | | | | | | | | |
| 16 | Taking the Wrong Job | | Doing something you don't like to do is not a way to move up | 1986 | 02/27/2006 | 02/13/2023 | IDC | Story | Yes | People Mgmt | |
| 85 | House Calls For Kids Shoes | | Exceptional service becomes legendary, it gets retold and retold and retold. | 1986 | 02/27/2006 | 10/27/2023 | DBC | Story | Yes | Service | |
| 1987 |
| 5 | | | | | | | | | |
| 17 | How to Work for a Sonofabitch | | Figuratively go around to other's side of the table and get angry at the problem facing us, rather than each other. | 1987 | 02/27/2006 | 02/13/2023 | DBC | Story | Yes | People Mgmt | |
| 18 | Seven Hundred Names, One at a Time | | Great service is a relationship and its personal | 1987 | 02/27/2006 | 02/13/2023 | Home | Story | Yes | Service | |
| 19 | Service Legends II | | Excellent service is legendary | 1987 | 02/27/2006 | 02/13/2023 | Home | Story | Yes | Service | |
| 20 | The End of Coding | | Feature freeze, or the point at which all required features has been added to the system, is the mid-point of the development cycle, not the end-point | 1987 | 02/27/2006 | 02/13/2023 | DBC | Story | Yes | Project Mgmt | |
| 150 | The rising star and the problem employee | | An over-concern for the problem employee is an under-concern for the rising star | 1987 | 05/21/2006 | 05/18/2017 | DBC | Story | Yes | Leadership,People Mgmt | |
| 1988 |
| 2 | | | | | | | | | |
| 132 | The Scoreboard | | Objectives and metrics are about putting points on the board! | 1988 | 05/05/2006 | 03/29/2024 | DBC | Story | Yes | Measurement | |
| 562 | Criticize in Private | | To build team trust, praise in public; criticize in private | 1988 | 09/16/2022 | 01/08/2023 | DBC | Story | Yes | People Mgmt | |
| 1989 |
| 3 | | | | | | | | | |
| 21 | The Catered Lunch | | Team selected awards can be simple, inexpensive and powerful | 1989 | 02/27/2006 | 02/13/2023 | DBC | Story | Yes | People Mgmt | |
| 116 | A reunion lesson about stress | | Reduce stress by giving people control over their work | 1989 | 04/30/2006 | 02/13/2023 | Drew | Story | Yes | People Mgmt | |
| 480 | Loma Prieta | | When the ground moves, hang on | 1989 | 10/07/2017 | 10/07/2019 | DBC | Story | Yes | Crisis | |