My latest ramblings
How to Make Career Decisions
Most career decisions are made with the wrong information at the wrong time. Here is the framework that changes that and how to use it before the next opportunity appears.
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.
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.
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.
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.