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25 2022 April

How To Negotiate Almost Anything

Share Photo by Tyler Lastovich from Pexels When I was a few weeks into business school at Stanford, one of my professors asked us, as...

22 2022 April

The Perfect and the Good

Subscribe now I have a friend who’s a complete perfectionist. Their emails are flawless. Their house is immaculate. Even their handwriting is something to be...

19 2022 April

Dogfooding: How Putting Yourself in the User’s Shoes Changes the Way You See Your Product

Share Wonton with her dog food; follow Wonton on IG I won’t sugar-coat it: Ancestry’s messaging experience was not working well. Deliverability was poor. Delays...

14 2022 April

What Role Do You Play?

Subscribe now In the workplace, everyone plays a distinct part—both in the organization at large and on individual teams. You might be the voice of...

11 2022 April

Avoiding the Pitfalls of Taking on a New Role

Share Perspectives When you begin a new role, you’re full of optimism. You’re starting something brand new, with a fresh set of eyes, and you’re...

07 2022 April

Sharpen the Questions: Individuals

Nearly two decades ago, I went through multiple interviews at eBay for a business role. At the end of each interview, the interviewers asked me...

04 2022 April

Sharpen the Questions: Groups

Subscribe now We had a rule in our team called #saythething: Whenever you walked into a meeting, you weren’t allowed to leave anything unsaid. That...

31 2022 March

Ten Things You Are Doing That Hold You Back

Subscribe now Photo by Luke Helgeson on Unsplash As you read this, there are probably things you are doing right now that are holding back...

28 2022 March

What Is the Best Advice You Have Ever Received?

Share Photo by Toa Heftiba on Unsplash Last week I published the article, What Is the Best Advice You Ever Received, which recounts the words...