How To Survive Skip-level Meetings

How To Survive Skip-level Meetings

There’s an invitation pending in your calendar. You check it out and subconsciously hold your breath. Something called a “skip-level meeting” is about to happen with your manager’s manager. What you’re going to talk about? You don’t know this person...

Micromanagement

Micromanagement

Everybody hates micromanagement. Want to become the most dreaded leader in your company? Earn your name as a micromanager. But, unfortunately, it’s such a sticky topic that way too many are waving it away as fast as possible as if...

Moving People

Moving People

The time has come: you’re asked to move somebody to another team to help out on another mission-critical project. But how can you “choose” somebody and look into the eyes of the rest of your team members?

Career Development (Part 2)

Career Development (Part 2)

In the first part, we covered the depths of helping individual contributors understand their professional and personal development paths. It’s now (at least somewhat) clear, and it’s time to kick off the whole “development” journey.

Surviving Through The Worst Crisis - War

Surviving Through The Worst Crisis - War

Like everybody, I’m watching and following the stream of news about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with total horror. Since I have team members from all across the world, including Ukraine, I’d like to share a few thoughts on what we...