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Things I've written down.
Mostly tutorials and lessons learned. Occasionally a rant. Posts get longer the closer I get to a deadline.
- #leadership#performance#culture#business
People versus performance is a false choice
Businesses often treat employee outcomes and company performance as competing systems. The separation creates the dysfunction leaders then blame on one side.
- #leadership#culture#business#values
Your values are easiest when money is cheap
A company’s values are easy to fund during growth. Constraint reveals whether they guide difficult decisions or merely describe comfortable ones.
- #leadership#feedback#management#careers
Critical feedback is an act of care
Withholding difficult feedback protects the manager from discomfort. It does not protect the person who has lost the opportunity to respond.
- #leadership#planning#prioritization#management
When thirty priorities means none
A long priority list is often an avoidance mechanism: every group keeps its work, while the company avoids deciding what matters most.
- #leadership#alignment#decision-making#culture
Consensus is not alignment
A meeting can end without disagreement and still produce no commitment. Alignment is visible in what happens after everyone leaves the room.
- #leadership#culture#feedback#management
False kindness
A culture that minimizes disagreement and withholds critical feedback may feel kind. Often it is only delaying the cost of telling the truth.
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Career Identity Planning
It’s 1:1 time, someone is sitting across from you asking for career advice, and you’re stuck. They don’t know what they want to do and it’s hard for you to...
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Engineering Leveling
I’ve been around enough startups recently (especially Australian ones) to have noticed a pattern of confusing titles, stunted career opportunities and early promotions stunting…