Elided Branches

Effective delegation is one of the most critical skills a manager can learn. Without effective delegation, you fall victim to micromanaging...

Alignment, in the teamwork sense, means “a position of agreement or alliance.” It is one of the critical qualities that determines success ...

I have a bad habit. I noticed it today as I was leaving a comment in a strategy document. I’d highlighted some text that I found unclear an...

*May also apply to senior ICs Earlier this year, I wrote a piece called “How do Individual Contributors Get Stuck?” This was an attemp...

Occasionally, you may be asked to give constructive feedback on your peers, perhaps as part of review season. If you aren’t a naturally cri...

When I worked in finance ages ago, there was a system used by many (but not me!) that was basically a combination of a gigantic distributed ...

I have agreed to give a guest lecture for a class at Yale , and they’ve asked me to speak about “building and motivating engineering teams” ...