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Start With Your Vision — Not With Goals. Measure What Really Matters.
Goals Without Vision Are Worse Than Useless. They can lead you in an expensive wrong direction.
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Dave Anderson
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Don't Let Others Run Your Life — Cut Your Schedule Like a Slasher Movie
If you don't make hard choices to focus on your top priorities, then you're choosing to fail at your top priorities.
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Dave Anderson
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A Three Topic Article — Interviewing, Multiple Choice Management, and My Holiday Gift Guide
Sometimes you have a single topic, sometimes you have three. Today is a 3-fer.
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Six Reader Questions About Meetings, Feedback, Communication, and Ideas
I regularly receive questions over email and in comments on my newsletter. I decided to answer a few of them in detail.
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Dave Anderson
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Changing How Others Perceive You. Most Importantly, Those Who Dislike You.
If you've found yourself on someone's bad side, what strategies can you use to turn things around?
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Dave Anderson
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Reckless Bias for Action — A Tale of Immaturity and Impatience
Bias for Action has long been one of my favorite leadership principles. Not just because it's a critical leadership skill, but because I'm quite…
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How to Estimate Projects Without Being Absolutely Hosed
Employees are often distrustful of their business partners when they're asked to give estimates. Instead, build your communication skills to take…
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Dave Anderson
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Discover Exactly Why Insisting on High Standards is a Thorny Issue
Amazon's brutal culture of high-standards and transparency creates great results, and sometimes hurt feelings. And I'm not sure the latter is avoidable.
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You Don't Have to be a Manager to be a Leader Because Leadership != Management
Leadership is a way of relating to others. Management is an organizational construct. Many leaders are not managers, and (unfortunately) some managers…
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Don't Let Your Soft Skills Block Your Career - Overcoming Mental Blocks
Everyone recognizes that hard skills can be a blocker for their career, and that means everyone focuses on strengthening their hard skills. Soft skills…
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Failed and Successful Stories of Work-Life Balance
Work-life balance isn't simply giving away free food, or lots of vacation days. It's often about what skills an employee can develop and use to set…
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Dave Anderson
The Ten Commandments of Maintaining Legacy Code
Maintaining legacy code is a major part of software engineering. Learn how to do it well.
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Dave Anderson
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