Interviewing
When interviewing, particularly for technical positions, many people over value their technical preparation, and don't consider the importance of personality and leadership preparation.
Mid Career
If you've found yourself on someone's bad side, what strategies can you use to turn things around?
Personal Dave Posts
Tech industry workers are amazingly lucky. Great income with a (generally) healthy job market? It's time to take advantage of that luck.
Late Career
Layoffs have left many teams underresourced. The inevitable result is employees feeling stressed, and working long hours. Here are some approaches to improving your situation.
Mid Career
Bias for Action has long been one of my favorite leadership principles. Not just because it's a critical leadership skill, but because I'm quite impatient.
People Managers
A hotly debated topic is how technical an engineering manager needs to be. I dive into the topic, including ways a non-technical leader can learn.
Early Career
When you're asked questions — do you literally answer just those questions, or do you try to answer the root question behind them?
Managing Up
How others perceive your performance and your work is heavily influenced by your communication skills. Influencing others is key to long-term success.
Mid Career
Employees are often distrustful of their business partners when they're asked to give estimates. Instead, build your communication skills to take advantage of the estimation process benefits.
Early Career
Everyone should intend to be a leader in their career. You can only lead "us", you can't lead "them".
Mid Career
Amazon's brutal culture of high-standards and transparency creates great results, and sometimes hurt feelings. And I'm not sure the latter is avoidable.
People Managers
A story of too much work, too many reports, and perhaps too much ambition.