Career Growth
I'll admit a lack of patience for people who prefer to make excuses when they're given advice. It's easier to make excuses rather than do the hard work.
Managing Up
You won't always get along with your co-workers. What can you do to protect yourself?
Mid Career
I regularly receive questions over email and in comments on my newsletter. I decided to answer a few of them in detail.
Late Career
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?
Interviewing
The reflection exercise that helped me find and cultivate a successful relationship with my manager.
Managing Up
Ideas are valuable if they're not simply a desired outcome. A path to an outcome is the core element of a good idea.
Organizations
Frugality isn't simply about saving money. It's about focusing your attention on what matters.
Late Career
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 only focus.
Early Career
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 can use to make career progress.
Late Career
Not all lazy behaviors are valuable, and setting the right (productive) tone with your co-workers is important. But certain lazy traits are valuable, and should be encouraged.
Late Career
Focusing on leading, rather than winning, creates significantly better results for you and your team.
Late Career
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 ensure you still get firsthand knowledge?