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The Art of Performance Reviews: Best Practices for Managers
The end of the year is approaching and that means performance review cycles are going to be coming to a close. While it is not necessarily the most fun process, it is an essential exercise for most companies to ensure there is a standard being observed across teams. Regardless of the company or process maturity,…
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A Meditation for the Emerging Leader
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” — Unknown If you want to be a leader, there are responsibilities. In fact, just by wishing the mantle, a great responsibility is incumbent on you. It is the charge of every leader to make things better;…
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Code to Command: The Delegation Shift
I was beginning to read the book Who Not How, when a sudden reminder surfaced. Prior to that moment, I had agreed to wrap up a stalled project with a summary of tasks completed and tasks remaining to complete the MVP. There was a possibility that the visionary partner on that startup was willing to…
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Ad-hoc Arrangements
Every micro era in an organization (whether it’s happening higher up, or in your typical team of individual contributors) has different problems which need to be met with what I’m calling “ad hoc arrangements.” There is such a thing as processes which are intended to be fairly indefinite, and then there’s these things. Let’s delve…