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Stop saying “does that make sense?”
Your ideas are strong. Your phrasing shouldn’t be the weakest person in the meeting.
Dec 5
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Mateja Verlic Bruncic
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Assertiveness: the survival skill Bear Grylls forgot to mention
A practical guide to staying clear, calm, and confident when the work gets messy — and why assertiveness is the real survival tool in modern…
Dec 2
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Mateja Verlic Bruncic
Clothes don’t make the person — and titles don’t make the leader
Nice clothes help. A nice title helps. But if that’s all you’ve got… good luck leading anyone past Monday.
Dec 1
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Mateja Verlic Bruncic
November 2025
Burning daylight… or the candle at both ends?
If everything is urgent, nothing is strategic — because urgency alone isn’t a strategy, and speed alone isn’t progress.
Nov 27
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Mateja Verlic Bruncic
Mind the gap: the leadership lesson with a volcano twist
We all manage the gap between expectations and reality, and leaders shape it most at work. My lesson came at an unexpected moment — but exactly when I…
Nov 24
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Mateja Verlic Bruncic
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In which a garbage can teaches us about leadership
Understanding decision-making when complexity outruns structure
Nov 20
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Mateja Verlic Bruncic
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Debating physics in a room full of poets
Why engineering leadership often feels like reasoning in an unreasonable system
Nov 17
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Mateja Verlic Bruncic
The MacGyver School of Leadership
When to improvise, when to step back, and how to scale beyond duct-tape solutions.
Nov 15
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Mateja Verlic Bruncic
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Between Code and Culture — the messy middle: Why I’m starting this newsletter
Lessons from building teams, scaling systems, and leading through complexity.
Nov 15
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Mateja Verlic Bruncic
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