A System for Managing Up [Friday Highlights]
Every Sunday evening, I would go through my notes, reassess and reprioritize all my tasks, rifle through the good ideas, then update those papers on a computer and print out a new version for the week.
Tony Fadell • Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
Then Sunday night I’d email the whole list out to my management team. Each item had a name attached to it. Everyone could look at the top of the list to see what I’d be focused on that week, what they were accountable for, and what the next major milestones were. And every Monday, we’d have a meeting about it.
Tony Fadell • Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
As performance review season gets underway in many places now & through Q4, here’s a rough model to help you think about how you are perceived in almost every mid-sized to large company.
Your work is generally observed and perceived [0] by others along the following 3 dimensions:
1) Content: this is about the insights & ideas you have, the propos... See more
Schedule a 30-minute meeting with yourself, each Monday morning or Friday afternoon, to look at your upcoming week and note meetings and deliverables you need to get ahead of.When you hear of priority or strategy changes happening up the ladder, ask yourself: how could this impact our team, and what could we start prepping now?When everything is go... See more