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Your standards aren't theirs to take
Why doing good work in bad times is the most revealing thing about you
 • Mateja Verlic Bruncic
Your new direct report doesn't sleep
On leading teams where half the contributors are human and the other half don't care about your org chart
 • Mateja Verlic Bruncic
You are the weather
You went home thinking it was a perfectly normal day. Your team didn't.
 • Mateja Verlic Bruncic
Prepare for the worst, then forget you did
A pessimist and an optimist walk into a bar... err, office. They need each other. They also drive each other insane.
 • Mateja Verlic Bruncic
The invisible org chart won't put itself on your resume
On doing a lot for other people and still having an answer when James McAvoy asks.
 • Mateja Verlic Bruncic
You lost them before you got there
You had the data, analysis and recommendation. They still didn't hear you.
 • Mateja Verlic Bruncic
One person is a complainer
Two people is a pattern. Three is a movement.
 • Mateja Verlic Bruncic
Stop being the decision bottleneck
Four gaps between saying 'you're empowered' and your team believing it
 • Mateja Verlic Bruncic
Your team won't challenge your ideas (that's the problem)
Why teams won't challenge you and how to fix it
 • Mateja Verlic Bruncic
Between Code and Culture
Between Code and Culture
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