My latest ramblings

How to Deal With a Toxic Coworker
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How to Deal With a Toxic Coworker

Address specific behavior directly and privately first, document it if it continues, and involve a manager only once a real pattern exists. Protecting your own reputation and energy matters more than fixing the other person.
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How to Manage Up
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How to Manage Up

Managing up is not sucking up. It is reducing your manager's cognitive load, adapting to how they actually work, and making sure your output gets seen and understood, not just produced.
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How to Get Your First Board Seat
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How to Get Your First Board Seat

Getting your first board seat rarely comes from being a well rounded senior executive. It comes from being known, specifically and narrowly, for one thing a board does not currently have in the room, from someone who sits on two boards himself.
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How to Negotiate a Severance Package
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How to Negotiate a Severance Package

Most severance offers are a starting point, not a final number. Learn what is actually negotiable, what to avoid, and how to ask without risking the offer.
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Career Coaching for AI and Tech Leaders
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Career Coaching for AI and Tech Leaders

Most executive coaches talk about AI. Few actually sit inside the rooms where AI strategy gets decided. This is coaching for AI and tech leaders from someone who does both, on an active AI Governance Committee and a board seat at an AI company.
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