Career
How to Make Progress on Your Long-Term Career Goals (via HBR)
- Decide what you don’t want
- Narrow things down to a few avenues
- Make progress on the fundamentals
- Take stock of your emotional and mental energy
Overcoming Self-Doubt in the Face of a Big Promotion (via HBR)
- Myth 1: I need to please everyone
- Myth 2: My vision needs to be ready-made and perfect
- Myth 3: I am not safe
- Myth 4: I will be seen as lazy, selfish, and self-indulgent
Conflict
Managing a Polarized Workforce (via HBR)
- Common myths about conflict… (1) people who disagree with us are uninformed/unintelligent, (2) disagreement makes people defensive, (3) disagreement is bad.
- This article could probably be summarized as “seek to understand rather than persuade.”
- Signal you are receptive by (1) hedging your claims, (2) emphasizing where you both agree, (3) acknowledging other perspectives, and (4) reframing things in positive terms.
Hiring
5 Ways Managers Sabotage the Hiring Process (via HBR)
- Looking for people to fix or rescue
- Looking for people to validate your view
- Having boundaries that are too broad (e.g., we’re all family here)
- Micromanaging, which shows lack of trust
- Not having any boundaries (i.e., laissez-faire environment)