Sitemap - 2021 - Scarlet Ink

New Job in the New Year? When is it Time to Pull the Plug?

Swim Upstream or Float Downstream – Change Your Environment to Change Your Behavior

Designing Efficient Organizations AKA Meetings Are Terrible and Waste My Time

⚒️ The Trust Equation aka How to Be a Decent Human

Why Large Companies are Inefficient, and Growth is Expensive

How to Pass the Amazon Behavioral / Leadership Principles Interview

Project Post-Mortem Meetings — It's About Process Improvement, Not Dead People

Your Peers Disagree with Your Promotion, and Commit to Blocking It—Why Your Team Isn't Getting Anything Done

Sex, Blood, and Newsletters — Lessons From the First 6 Months

The Amazon Writing Exercise — Nailing the Written Amazon Interview

A Couple Decades of Unlearning — Lessons on the Path to Director

Master Business Writing — 7 Steps to Results

How to Ask Your Manager For a Promotion - Own Your Career!

The Value of Clear and Concise Communication

The Basics of Why Meritocracy Does Not Exist - The Power of Trust

The Self-Driven Career - How to Grow Without an Awesome Manager

What's Broken About Tech Interviewing and a Few Crazy Ideas

Why Amazon is Innovative - Roadmap Before Resources

My Path to Writing a Newsletter, Finances, and Motivation - a Personal Story

Managers Can't Always Be Friendly - Why You Need to Scare Your Employees

Everything You Need to Know About One-on-One Meetings

Opinion: Companies should eliminate bias in their compensation processes

10 Steps to Write a LinkedIn Profile and Why It Matters

What to Expect from the Amazon Interview and Hiring Process

A First Principles Anecdote - How I Avoided Burnout at Amazon

Why Good Enough is Better Than Perfect

Hit the Ground Running — How to Ramp Up at Your New Job in 3 Weeks

Human Leadership Principles - Respecting the Humans We Work With

How to pass the Amazon Technical / Functional Interview - Questions and Assessments

Achieve More by Doing Only One Thing a Day

6 Actions a Manager Should Take to Support Their Team Members

Interview Mistake #3 - Neglecting Context for the Interviewer

Finding Excellence in Others — Focus on Superpowers, not Weaknesses

The Hoax That You Can Win a Relationship

Interview Mistake #1: Running Your Mouth

Filling Your Headcount — Hiring at Amazon