#culture
7 posts
- Passive-Aggressive Managers Are Organizational Parasites
Stop making excuses for passive-aggressive managers. They are not misunderstood introverts or conflict-averse leaders. They are parasites destroying...
- Performance Reviews: A Guide for Modern Leaders
Annual performance reviews are a failure theater that helps no one. Here's what actually works.
- Engineering and Product Collaboration: Breaking Down Silos
'This isn't what we asked for.' Five words that strike dread into every engineering team. Five words that signal a fundamental breakdown in the...
- Keep Your Hands Dirty: Why Executives Who Stop Doing The Work Destroy Companies
The Executive Trap I've seen it happen a dozen times: A brilliant engineer becomes CTO and suddenly decides their job is 'managing the engineering...
- Most PMs Are Too Afraid to Say No
The product management profession has a cowardice problem. Most PMs will build anything a loud customer demands rather than face an uncomfortable...
- The Product Manager's Guide to the Perfect Breakfast
Your company's obsession with meetings is destroying your product team's ability to think. Breakfast is the canary in the coal mine.
- If You're Serious About Building, You Need to Be in San Francisco
Remote work is great for lifestyle optimization. It's terrible for building world-changing companies. If you want to build something that matters, San...