Sun.Nov 18, 2018

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Video: Successfully Navigating Today's Career Maze

Sachin Rekhi

Video: Successfully Navigating Today's Career Maze. Slides: Successfully Navigating Today's Career Maze. In August I got invited back to LinkedIn to give a talk. But what was surprising is they were interested in me giving a very different type of talk than I've normally done. Instead of sharing best practices on product management or entrepreneurship, they were most interested in me sharing my career journey, the risks I took and trade-offs I made along the way, and the lessons I've learned in

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“I’ll Quit Unless…”

Mironov Consulting

(This post isn’t specific to product management, but a manager’s view of problematic communications. Not everyone on our teams expresses themselves clearly.). Over the years, I’ve had a handful of direct reports come to me with employment ultimatums: “I’ll quit unless…” That’s a high-stakes way to open a conversation, something hard to un-say. As someone who tries to communicate clearly and encourages coworkers to do the same, I take these folks at their word: if I’m unable to deliver what’s req