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...
Experience makes you think you've gained an unquestionable license to generalizing :) At least that's what is happening regularly in my case. I tend to believe I see patterns I wasn't able to identify years ago. Maybe I'm right, or perhaps it's hubris (boosted by bias, e.g., things I want...
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...
To make sure it's 100% clear, a short reminder: this blog post represents my private comments, statements, and viewpoints. They should not be associated with my employer - either the current one or the past ones. The opinions quoted in this article have popped up during casual, social conversations, not...
Disclaimer (and a short reminder): this blog post represents my personal observations & opinions. It should not be affiliated in any way to my prior or current employers and (in particular) cannot be treated as an unofficial or official statement on their behalf. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Public cloud is everywhere these days. It's...
Working in many different environments provided me a good perspective on what scaling models are applied by different companies. Today I'd like to spend a bunch of keystrokes on one of the worst scaling models I've ever encountered. I call it: > Scaling by bubbling the problems out How does it...
