Skills
Handing work over so that it survives you
Most handovers transfer the instructions and lose the reasons, which is why the receiving person is fine…
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Skills
Learn the domain, not only the tool
Tool knowledge is what gets you shortlisted and domain knowledge is what makes people listen to you, and…
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Skills
When a strength quietly turns into a liability
The behaviour that made you valuable in your first years is often the same behaviour that holds you at that…
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Skills
Leading a small piece of work when nobody reports to you
The first time you are put in charge of something, the authority to direct people is exactly what you do…
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Skills
Telling a client they are wrong
Disagreeing with someone who is paying is a different problem from disagreeing internally, because the…
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Skills
The months after a visible failure
Containing a problem takes a day; the reputational part takes considerably longer, and most of what…
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Skills
Using a number in an argument without misleading anyone
Figures carry more weight in a workplace discussion than the reasoning behind them usually deserves, and…
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Skills
The first time you are on the other side of an interview
Being asked to help assess a candidate exposes how crude hiring decisions really are, and it changes how…
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