Making Skip-Level 1-on-1s Useful
Skip-level 1-on-1s are one of those practices that sound obviously good and usually deliver almost nothing. You block thirty minutes with someone two layers...
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Tagged #communication
4 articles tagged #communication.
The Underrated Skill of Writing Good Tickets
I have spent a fair amount of my career watching brilliant engineers ship the wrong thing. Not because they were careless, and not because they lacked the...
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Managing Up Without Losing Yourself
Early in my career I thought managing up was a euphemism for office politics, the kind of thing people did instead of shipping. I was wrong, but not entirely....
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The Quiet Power of Writing Things Down
Early in my career, I believed that the strongest engineers were the ones who could hold the whole system in their heads. They could talk through a payment...
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