Management & Leadership
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Management & Leadership
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A good brief increases the quality and reduces the quantity of conversation
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“It's so simple, yet makes such a difference. Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.'”
— Mary Kay Ash
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If you work on anything worthwhile, sooner or later people will care about it and will want you to send progress updates. These could be quarterly investor updates, weekly updates to your boss, emails to adjacent teams, etc. Here are tips on how to do this well.
Understand your role, and with each update add to the body of evidence that you’re a goo
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the most visionary and effective leaders I've worked with have two seemingly disparate skill sets
1/tastefully guiding strategy and pointing attention towards the right things ta the 30k foot level
2/meticulously getting in the weeds to edit/perfect at the 1 inch level
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I spoke to an ex Shopify employee today. He told me about what employees call a “Toby Tornado”. It made me appreciate Toby Lutke (CEO) even more.
It goes like this: Toby follows random Slack channels across the company. He would sometimes drop a message in one of them and tell everyone that the project they’re collaborating on is canceled. Why? He... See more
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