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📚 Operating Principles for Top Performers
- How top performers make others better (featured in Business Insider) 🏆
- What having a strong point of view really means 🏆
- How to (unknowingly) lose your credibility at work
- Why extreme ownership is the key to success
- How to avoid the trap of "fake" busy-ness at work
- How to work iteratively while still retaining autonomy
- The art of building trust via first-principles thinking
- Why more presence doesn't always bring more visibility
- How to push back at work (5 principles)
- Can a junior person actually influence without authority?
- Do people feel "used" when they work with you?
- Why your "fear" of not getting credit is hurting your work
- Why most people are bad at saying what they actually mean
- The right (and wrong) way to write your performance review
- How to operate like a holistic thinker at work
📚 Writing with Impact; Speaking with Gravitas
- How to write in a "polished" manner at work 🏆
- How to use verbal cues and make people listen to you 🏆
- How to contextualize and tell effective stories (5 tips) 🏆
- What leaders expect when they read your work
- How to be seen as more than "just" a messenger
- Expand your sphere of influence by eliminating "bubbles"
- 10 bad writing habits that are holding you back
- How to achieve daily comms hygiene
- The "Goldilocks" principle of writing strategy plans
- How to be more than just a parrot at work
- How not to sabotage yourself when you write at work
📚 Problem-Solving and Analytical Skills
- How to extract insight from anything 🏆
- Why leading with curiosity is the key to resolving conflict 🏆
- The foolproof way to predict the future
- The 20 types of bullsh*t you'll see at work
- The guide to goal-setting at work (and 5 mistakes to avoid)
- Why telling someone to "be more strategic" is useless advice
📚 My Reflections at Google
- 9 lessons I learned from 9 years at Google 🏆
- My 8 favorite pieces of career advice from Google leaders 🏆
- How to hold effective 1:1 meetings (esp. with your manager)
- On what it actually takes to be a good generalist
- Before you call something "low value" – ask yourself this
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