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How to Make the Most of Your 1:1 Meetings with Employees

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How to Make the Most of Your 1:1 Meetings with Employees
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Setting up a trade show booth

I’ve attended many trade shows in my career. Small ones like local job fairs (which can be hit and miss depending on how well it’s marketed) or Chamber of Commerce stuff (those don’t usually generate revenue for a company, but they’re good for local networking). I’

Setting up a trade show booth
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Platform Team Pattern

Pro - Easier to staff Platform teams are typically the easiest to understand (everybody is working on Android, or everybody is working on microservices in node, etc.). Since the tech stack is very explicit, recruiting is more manageable (e.g., everyone can phone screen in theory). Pro - Technology Alignment

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Patience is a Manager's Best Friend

One of the hardest things to learn as a manager is to have patience. You’ve likely been told over and over that patience is a virtue. But this wars with everything you’ve done in your career to get into management. All of that was * have a sense of

Patience is a Manager's Best Friend
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Teams are people, not resources

I work with people. It’s not uncommon to run across folks that still use the language of “resources” when talking about people or teams. I think this language emphasizes the wrong philosophy. Resources is a “nice” term when you don’t have to care about feelings, people, life, problems,

Teams are people, not resources
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Surviving in the Job Market: 3 Mistakes You Should Never Make

I spend a lot of time with people trying to get them to look more than one step ahead of where they’re going. They’re optimizing for the short term - to get through the week and go out on Friday, to get to the next vacation, etc. Most

Surviving in the Job Market: 3 Mistakes You Should Never Make
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Teams are People, not Resources

It’s not uncommon to run across folks that still use the language of “resources” when talking about people or teams. I think this language emphasizes the wrong philosophy. Optimistically this is just an engrained speech pattern in people that have been working for a long time, but I think

Teams are People, not Resources
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Stand Out in a Crowd: Tips for Being the Memorable

My son and I talked about him getting a summer job the other day. Around here, getting a job as coffee barista is one of the choice teenager jobs. My comment to him was: Be the person they remember, not the person they forget. What do I mean? There are

Stand Out in a Crowd: Tips for Being the Memorable
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Adapting to the Challenge: Why Managers Learn on the Job

Most managers have to learn how to do their job while actually doing their job. This is equivalent to asking pilots to figure out how to fly while taking off, flying, and landing the plane. Unfortunately, every person on the team is along for the ride while their manager learns

Adapting to the Challenge: Why Managers Learn on the Job
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I work *with* People

For the past 20 years, I’ve said I work with people instead of people working for me. I’ve been a lead, manager, director, etc. and I’ve worked for my fair share of bosses. I’ve worked for small R&D teams, large contracts, startups, and large Fortune

I work *with* People