Tag: career
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Be well known around the company, do some personal marketing, “have an impact” on other teams and make sure people know about it. // When there’s blood on the boardroom floor, there is no “I” in team. 🔗 Microsofts Ex-VP of HR Shares How to Avoid the ‘Underperformer’ Label
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Corporate culture can just be a tool to match the needs of the moment.
The conclusion here is clear: the industry will want different things from you as it evolves, and it will tell you that each of those shifts is because of some complex moral change, but it’s pretty much always about business realities changing. If you take any current morality tale as true, then you’re setting yourself…
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“rust out,” the new “burn out”
The never ending quest to keep doing what you’re good at and get better at it…rather than making another PowerPoint about what you worked on last week. // “One of the biggest contributors to rust out is spending your energy in places that don’t align with your unique talents and skills. In my own experience,…
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How to increase your surface area for luck – “One distinguishing feature I’ve noticed among people who are unusually successful is that they just try a lot of stuff – socially, intellectually, professionally. It’s the rate of experimentation, the number of shots on goal, that provides the magic, not the percentage of successes, which might…
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The more senior engineers get, the more results matter – “as you become more senior, you’re increasingly graded on results. Interns are graded on effort.”
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Always talk salary first – working with tech recruiters
Whitney has a LinkedIn problem Our second episode of the Software Defined Interviews reboot is up: Whitney and Coté talk with Sidney Miller about tech recruitment. They talk a lot about the process from both sides: people hiring and people looking for jobs. Plus, some thoughts on working at Neiman Marcus. Find Sidney in LinkedIn.…
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How to Keep Learning at Work — Even When You Feel Fried – Enterprise Mindfulness: find out what you want to focus on and personally find valuable, then use your own motivation to structure work that fits your own goals. Also: try to have less toil/cognitive load.
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101 things I would tell my self from 10 years ago – “You are high in neuroticism, a trait that correlates with worse social relationships and an unhappier life. Sorry; there’s not much you can do about it other than be aware of it. Its saving grace is that it means you are attuned to…
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28 Questions to Ask Your Boss in Your One-on-Ones – Good things to talk about in your meetings if you can’t think of anything else.
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Why Are You Doing This? (Wrong Answers Only) – Some of these are mostly (only?) for companies focused on profitless-growth and raising their valuation (startups and recently IPO’ed tech companies). If you’re at a company focused on cashflow and more long term share price, many of them are what you should be doing. In the…
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Google is not hardcore enough, or…wait…maybe it sounds like a great place to work – a Rorschach test
*If I had more time, the Excel macro jokes would be better.* *Suggested sound track for this episode:* download share download share Embed this albumsmallmediumlarge Email: – – – Sorry, this track or album is not available. Sorry, this player does not support your browser. Your browser must either support native…
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“No, you don’t want to have to compare yourself to that”
If end up liking this episode, I’d appreciate some feedback with a simple click on the like/thumbs-up button, or just a comment that says so. Also, referring it to a friend and otherwise sharing it to drive more subscribers is much appreciated. I CRAVE THE VALIDATION. 2023 Resolution # Er is een fout opgetreden. JavaScript…
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Publishing Versus Orchestrating
Publishing Versus Orchestrating You can focus on short term delivery, or long term delivery. Do you follow the Twitter drama day-to-day, or just wait every week or two to see what happened? Do you write an article in a day or two, or write a 40 page PDF in a month, 120+ page book in…
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Link: How to take, and benefit from criticism
“Taking criticism is the search for actionable feedback.” Related: curiosity is a good shield against the world crushing your self-confidence. Original source: How to take, and benefit from criticism
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Link: For Women and Minorities to Get Ahead, Managers Must Assign Work Fairly
“For many women, the disparity in assignments comes back to what we’ve called maternal wall bias — a set of negative assumptions about mothers’ competence and commitment. After having a child, mothers come back to work to find that their best projects and clients have been reassigned to colleagues. In some cases, women report that…
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Link: The parent trap: can you be a good writer and a good parent?
“I had experienced being judged as a mother, when I periodically left my son with my husband from the age of six months – he is six now – to go away to write. I only departed for a week at a time. But who knows what I might have done had I lived in…
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Link: Why Are We Still Talking About the ‘Millennial Problem’ in the Workfor
“All the ‘demands’ millennials have that people think are so outrageous are things everyone wants–work/life balance, recognition when they do a good job, a sense of purpose–this is all stuff managers should be giving to their employees, anyway,” says Michael Greer, a digital marketing consultant who has led employee training and development initiatives for over…
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Want a promotion? Cheer up and be on time
Beards considered a career retardant: “For men, that may mean getting rid of a beard or mustache, since almost one-quarter (24%) of these managers objected to facial hair.” Other fun facts like don’t be a sour-puss. Want a promotion? Cheer up and be on time
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We are afflicted with the same disease. It’s hard (impossible?) to find a day job that is consuming so we look for other stuff to fill that void, which of course just makes us insane As one of my friends put it. Indeed!
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Advice for being an industry analyst
Occasionally, my fellow analysts ask me for advice on being an analyst. Here’s an edited up version of one of my recent emails: Learn how to listen to yourself, focus You have to learn to trust your intuition about what you focus on, your own style and voice, and, most importantly for monetization, how you…
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