Sitemap - 2021 - Scarlet Ink
New Job in the New Year? When is it Time to Pull the Plug?
Swim Upstream or Float Downstream – Change Your Environment to Change Your Behavior
Designing Efficient Organizations AKA Meetings Are Terrible and Waste My Time
⚒️ The Trust Equation aka How to Be a Decent Human
Why do the Amazon Leadership Principles Successfully Drive Behavior?
Stoicism is Not Just For Emperors and Hipsters
Why Large Companies are Inefficient, and Growth is Expensive
How to Pass the Amazon Behavioral / Leadership Principles Interview
Project Post-Mortem Meetings — It's About Process Improvement, Not Dead People
A Delegation Question — How Do I Not Overload My Team? Delegating Load Balancing.
Sex, Blood, and Newsletters — Lessons From the First 6 Months
Delegation is Empowerment — The Four Steps to Give Away a Task Today
The Amazon Writing Exercise — Nailing the Written Amazon Interview
A Couple Decades of Unlearning — Lessons on the Path to Director
Your System is Not Perfect and That's Great — Balancing Operational Investments
Two-way Doors Are Great and One-way Doors Are Scary — Thoughtful Decision-Making
5 Whys — A Proven Method to Analyze Root Cause
Master Business Writing — 7 Steps to Results
Customer Obsession and Anecdotes — Unexpected Benefits of Diving Deep
How to Ask Your Manager For a Promotion - Own Your Career!
The Productivity Cost of Growth - Why Larger Teams Fail to Deliver Results
The Value of Clear and Concise Communication
The Remarkable Power of Doing the Hard Things First
The Basics of Why Meritocracy Does Not Exist - The Power of Trust
What's the Worst Case Scenario? Change Management and Predicting Disasters.
Skip-level Meetings - How to Think Broader and Look Further
How to Overcome Imposter Syndrome at Work - Embracing Discomfort
The Self-Driven Career - How to Grow Without an Awesome Manager
What's Broken About Tech Interviewing and a Few Crazy Ideas
Why Amazon is Innovative - Roadmap Before Resources
My Path to Writing a Newsletter, Finances, and Motivation - a Personal Story
Why Stereotypes Aren't Always a Bad Thing - Managing With Patterns
Feedback Is a Gift - The Art of Giving Solicited Advice
How to Embrace Uncomfortable Behaviors to Boost Your Value
Managers Can't Always Be Friendly - Why You Need to Scare Your Employees
Everything You Need to Know About One-on-One Meetings
Why and When Numbers Become a Secret Weapon - Changing Emotional into Factual Discussions
Opinion: Companies should eliminate bias in their compensation processes
Adding Value Through Removal — Why Creation and Building is Overvalued
10 Steps to Write a LinkedIn Profile and Why It Matters
The Impacts of Amazon's Decentralization - A Two Sided Coin
What to Expect from the Amazon Interview and Hiring Process
A First Principles Anecdote - How I Avoided Burnout at Amazon
Why Good Enough is Better Than Perfect
Hit the Ground Running — How to Ramp Up at Your New Job in 3 Weeks
Human Leadership Principles - Respecting the Humans We Work With
4 Patterns in Software Development Projects Which Lead to Failure
How to pass the Amazon Technical / Functional Interview - Questions and Assessments
Why Outcomes Don't Matter; Building Mechanisms as a Leader — The COE Process
Achieve More by Doing Only One Thing a Day
6 Actions a Manager Should Take to Support Their Team Members
Why It's Better to Say No — Setting Personal Boundaries
Interview Mistake #3 - Neglecting Context for the Interviewer
Finding Excellence in Others — Focus on Superpowers, not Weaknesses
The Proven Secret to Forge a Stronger Relationship With Your Manager — Giving and Receiving Feedback
A Simple Explanation of Why Your Manager is Mediocre
How the Amazon Bar Raiser Interview Process Works — Raising the Bar
Interview Mistake #2: Trash Talking Colleagues
The Hoax That You Can Win a Relationship