The Hard Parts of Growth

The Hard Parts of Growth

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Learning to make decisions in a new space — Listen, Document, Decide

Learning to speak up

Holding a great skip-level 1:1

Human needs are universal; product solutions are unique

Leadership hack: Building trust takes trust

Leadership hack: Feed my own feedback loop

Soliciting hard feedback

Dealing with hard feedback

2 quick tricks to make giving feedback easier

Two secrets that keep me growing as a manager

Enjoying Public Speaking (or 10 Tips for Faking It)

Build leaders faster — share the ambiguity

Layering a team (and getting layered)

Creating delight: 90% “how”, 10% “what”

Making it through a work fire

Recognizing the tradeoff between a tangible benefit and an intangible cost

Reframing “Giving myself what I need is selfish” to “Giving myself what I need is a service to the people around me”

Making my calendar work for me

Find your central product metaphor

Onboarding a new leader onto your team (or joining a team as a new leader yourself)

Leadership hack: Upgrade my self-image from "1.0" to "2.0" (and repeat)

Lessons I learned from becoming a manager

Turning “What a failure” into “What a useful experiment”

It’s not prioritization until it hurts

6 ways to get user empathy without leaving your house

If we can make a product work for *anyone*, it usually works better for *everyone*

To make something simple, make it predictable

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