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August 2024

Work Enemies: Actions You Can Take to Protect Yourself From Bad Relationships
You won't always get along with your co-workers. What can you do to protect yourself?
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Dave Anderson
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Six Reader Questions About Meetings, Feedback, Communication, and Ideas
I regularly receive questions over email and in comments on my newsletter. I decided to answer a few of them in detail.
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Dave Anderson
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Senior Engineer or Senior Citizen? How Can Vintage Tech Workers Age Like Fine Wine?
Experience in some careers is viewed as universally positive, but that's not necessarily the case in tech. Why is that, and what can you do about it?
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Swipe Right On Your Next Manager — The Ideal Manager Exercise
The reflection exercise that helped me find and cultivate a successful relationship with my manager.
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July 2024

How Senior Leaders Evaluate Ideas — And a Story of Amazon's 3-Year Planning Process
Ideas are valuable if they're not simply a desired outcome. A path to an outcome is the core element of a good idea.
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Dave Anderson
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How Frugality Creates Innovation in Products and Apparently Movies
Frugality isn't simply about saving money. It's about focusing your attention on what matters.
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You Should Be a Product Owner — Plus a Story of Dave Being a Jerk
Stepping outside your job role is a critical behavior for senior leaders. But everyone should consider their job as their area of specialty, not their…
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Dave Anderson
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6 Mechanisms Which Drive Personal Career Success
These mechanisms relate to your ability to focus on your priorities, drive your career forward, and network over the years. Small but critical tools you…
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6 Behaviors of Lazy People That Create Career Success
Not all lazy behaviors are valuable, and setting the right (productive) tone with your co-workers is important. But certain lazy traits are valuable…
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Dave Anderson
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June 2024

Are you Leading or Winning? You Can't Win a Promotion.
Focusing on leading, rather than winning, creates significantly better results for you and your team.
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Dave Anderson
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Why Senior Employees Need to Audit and Verify Things for Themselves — It's Not (Only) That We Don't Trust You
As a junior employee, you learn everything firsthand. As you grow in seniority, you begin to learn things second and thirdhand. How do you audit to…
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