Career
Essays on navigating your career.
The Job Decision Matrix
By far, my most popular essay. Hundreds of folks have used the tool embedded in this post to get clear on their thinking (and feelings) about their career and the next job.You are Thinking of Your Career Trajectory Wrong
Most people think about their career trajectory as being like a bell-curve or that of a cannon ball fired from a cannon. For 99% of all successful people, this is completely the wrong way to think about it.Merit Badges: A Mental Model for Success
My favorite way of thinking about my own success in life. I’ve gotten great feedback that this was helpful to others.Leadership
Write the tenets. Build the mechanisms. Practice on purpose.
Tenets
Write the tenets that settle arguments before they start. Debate them while you still have energy.Mechanisms
Good intentions are never enough. A complete closed loop: the tool, the adoption, and the inspection.Tig's Toolbox for Product Management
The inventory of posts I send people who want to get better at the job: the work, working backwards, writing it down, choosing, and mechanisms.Execution
Work backwards. Inspect the plan. Keep the dates.
Work Backwards From The Customer
Never start with the technology. Start with the customer experience, then invent what has to be true.The 5Ps
Purpose, Principles, Priorities, People, Plan. Inspect any plan and see which P is missing.The Most Dangerous Lie in Project Plans
Plans that fake the people. If the names are not real, the date is not real.Hiring
Excellence starts and ends with who you let in the door.
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