Tag: leadership
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Invisible Competence
When someone constantly prevents problems, other people don’t see the problems that were prevented. It’s like someone make complex things look simple and everyone sees the simplicity of the outcome, but not the complexity that was managed behind it. Therefore…
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Making Changes When Change is hard: Lessons from the “Digging Alone”
I was asked to fix a broken, complex, organization-wide process that had been building up incorrectly for over a decade, leading to massive operational inefficiencies. The ask was to fix it solo, across 100+ teams, with no formal authority, and…
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The Paradox of Big Tech: Innovation vs. Bureaucracy
Bureaucratic Trap is a known dilemma in big tech when they hire the best and brightest talent to drive massive innovation and revolutionary change. Examples are legacy tech companies recruiting overqualified or talented candidates in the hope they can transform…
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Being Amazonian: Numbers Beat Stories
Not Being “Amazonian” Makes You Not Valued by Amazon hiring managers during interviews. Being Amazonian (a person who works for Amazon) means many peculiar things but one thing stands out: be specific and give numbers! If a hiring manager in…
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The One Trait That Makes Followers Die for Their Leader
Let’s say there are great leaders who make followers walk from one end of the world to the other like Alexander the Great, build the impossible like rockets to Mars, or push followers to their limits like Jensen Huang of…
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Heroism
Once at work, I was told: “We do not need heroes, so don’t play the hero. Instead, focus on building sustainable processes.” So I did. I built a process that was widely adopted and praised. But within a few months,…
