Career Growth
10 Actions to Prepare Yourself for Layoffs
You can't stop your company from conducting layoffs, but you can prepare yourself to reduce the negative impact to you and your family.
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Career Growth
A Guide to Creating Your Personal Brand, and Why It Matters
Your personal brand is how others see you. It can be created accidentally, or you can be purpose-driven in making your own brand.
Organizations
A Guide to Writing Status Reports - I'm Not Joking, I Totally Wrote an Article About That
Writing status reports has a bad reputation. Learn how they can be valuable, and a great tool for your toolbox.
Organizations
Stack Ranking, Ratings, PIPs, and Performance Management – A Summary
A summary of the performance management process, from ratings to stack ranking to PIPs, and everything in between.
Organizations
Decisions at Scale. The Ownership Model and Organizational Structure at Amazon.
Amazon's leadership model focuses on ownership and bias for action. Why does this help with decision-making?
Late Career
The Paradox that Great Leaders are Frequently Wrong
Great leaders are bold, and willing to be wrong. Occasional failure is inevitable as a leader.
Managing Up
You're Not Lazy, But Your Manager Thinks You Are - A Guide to Changing How People Perceive You
Perception is reality. You can rail against the unfairness of how others perceive you, or you can work to change that perception.
People Managers
Is Becoming a People Manager Right for You? A Guide to the Positive Aspects of Being "The Boss."
Moving into management is a huge career step. Is it the right step for you?
People Managers
Thinking of Becoming a Manager? You Might Regret It.
There are numerous reasons you might not want to move into management. I walk through a few things to consider.
Organizations
A Complete Guide to Tenets
Tenets are a key tool for delegation and scaling decision-making. Learn how high-quality tenets can be written and used.
People Managers
A Guide to Bare Minimum Management
It can take years to be a great manager. What does it take to be a moderately fine manager?
Late Career
A Guide to the Deep Dive Leadership Principle
Dive deep is a frequently misunderstood leadership principle. This is a complete walkthrough of the exact words used to describe this principle.