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A phenomenon that I have witnessed occurring to tech executives in all sizes of companies and with varying degrees of experience is that they trigger […]

This article is part of a series on managing managers. I was flicking through my dusty copy of High Output Management recently and I was reminded of this […]

Wouldn’t it be great to grow our careers in line with who we are? To find a career and job that seems to fit us […]

Let me share one of the open secrets of consultants: sometimes, a big part of our work relies merely on listening to people in the […]

Life as an IC, or as a manager of ICs, usually follows a predictable cadence. Perhaps you plan your time and your activities around fixed […]

Unprecedented. A word we’ve heard a lot over the past year. It’s been used to describe the restrictions to daily life, the scientific response and […]

Crossing the Digital Rubicon The Covid-19 lock down disrupted the workplace in a way no one could ever have imagined and amongst the chaos and […]

This article is part of a series on managing managers. What’s the best way to level managers up that are reporting to you? It’s by understanding […]

A simple and powerful question to ask as a manager is “What problem are we trying to solve?”. It seems ridiculous to even spend time […]

Helping someone solve a specific problem is very rewarding and usually involves very targeted coaching, but it is mentoring that I personally find the most […]

This article is part of a series on managing managers. When I was writing my book, I referred to “skip-level meetings” in the text. My copyeditor left […]

This article is part of a series on managing managers. Making the switch to managing managers, and hence managing many teams, can be taxing on the […]