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The Right Fit: Finding Specialized Tech Career Coach
Providing a step-by-step guide to finding a tech career coach, including where to look and what questions to ask.
Executive Presence Coaching Success Stories to Learn From
Real-life case studies of executives and founders who have significantly benefited from executive presence coaching. What is an Executive Presence? Executive presence is frequently on the minds of...
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Getting to know your Out-Of-Comfort Zone
There is a popular adage that you have to step outside your comfort zone to achieve great things. We see in the popular works of literature, podcasts and movies. Many famous people proclaim that it was stepping outside of the comfort zone that helped them become who...
How to Mitigate First Start-up Risks?
It is a very exciting time for you. You made the plunge and have started your own company. You have pulled away from the crowd and decided to focus on something of your own. In itself it is a very difficult and brave decision, make sure to be proud of that. However,...
How do you handle yourself and lead during a professional crisis?
Chaos… Racing thoughts… Rapid Heart Beat… Overwhelming anxiety… These are all the feelings that come up when we are faced with rapidly changing conditions, when crisis is upon us, when we are called to action. Toning down the drama, the feelings are real whether we...
Urgent vs. Important: How to keep the company afloat?
During the first couple of months after starting a company you are bound to run into the issue of resource constraint. The new work will just keep arriving and the old work will not be started yet. The new tasks accumulate and create anxiety. All of the promises that...
Working in Large Corporation vs Start-Up
Working in Large Corporation vs Start-Up Topic of company stage and scale comes up in many of my conversations. “This company was so dull” and “This company was so disorganized, they never had resources and did not know what they were doing”. Sounds familiar? We all...
Time is money, but over time
How to manage your available time wisely while you still have it. Time is money, they say, when talking about how much it costs for a very busy and important person to attend to a task. Have you considered that it is also very true for you personally at any level of...
Premature Optimizations of All Kinds
How to stop building and start listening? As engineers and engineering managers our minds are wired to build. Give us a problem statement and we will get on solving it. This force is tremendous and makes us very successful at what we do. However, while building or...
Hiring Decisions – A contextual journey perspective
How to improve your hiring fits? As managers we are responsible for hiring the best people for our team. We spent hours sifting through resumes, interviewing and training candidates. However, despite our best efforts, the hires don’t always work out and we are stuck...
How to delegate effectively?
A simple approach to breaking down your heavy workload through delegation principles. If you have not been delegating yet, you must have heard numerous times that you have to do it - “You have too much work, you should delegate!”, “Why don’t you delegate it to...
