I find it hard to believe, but apparently, this topic has never popped up on No Kill Switch until now ... Let's talk about your ability to escalate stuff. Without further ado, it's probably the very first skill that comes to my mind when someone asks me: what's the essential skill...
Alt-culture (some call it "anti-culture") is an organization's underground, authentic culture. Different from the officially communicated (internally and externally) one. What are its key characteristics? * it consists of regular/consistent actions, behavioral patterns, values (used in everyday decision making) of the majority of the organization's members - empirically observed, not...
This is not a post aimed to revisit all the principles of conscious career development. This is a post about a nasty trick used by some employers to retain valuable people - by providing them a mirage of what they expect. This is a post about horizontal promotions (HPs). What...
Brutal observation (not just mine, based on conversations with numerous people from various work environments across diverse geographies and cultures): many engineering organizations try to tackle their problems by stacking up more & more complex countermeasures, while the real solutions are, in fact, very simple. But unfortunately, even their most experienced...
Disclaimer #1: for a change, this article does not aim to present an opinionated thesis - treat it more like an open question and an invitation for a discussion Disclaimer #2: I do realize that I should be thankful for having such "dilemmas" - it's only because of the wicked...
(*) in software development (**) during almost 20 years of professional journey -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Career development ain't easy. There's no single path - equally right for everyone. It's highly contextual, dependent on individual strengths, advantages ... and aspirations. And of course, there's the luck factor - you can amplify an opportunity once you face...
