How To Present Yourself As A Strategic Leader In A Job Interview
Learn how to present yourself as a strategic leader in a job interview. Ask insightful questions and highlight your leadership potential to impress hiring managers.
'Jekyll and Hyde' leaders do lasting damage, new study shows
There's only one thing worse than an abusive boss—and that's a boss who thinks they can make up for their bad behavior by turning on the charm the following day. That's the key finding from a new study ...
Cracking the Trust Code: The 3 Steps Formula
How to build and maintain trust with anyone
5 Things I Learned the Hard Way as a Manager of Managers
Leaders don’t become great because of their power but because of their ability to empower others
Great products transcend the Usability vs. Utility debate
Stop making users choose between power and simplicity
Simple, Subtle Ways Managers Undermine Their Authority
And the easy fixes that will help take back control
Individual contributor designers are cross-functional leaders
Interview with Madhavi Jagdish about her career path from leading a team to leading with craft
Designers Finally Have A Seat At The Table. Now What? - Fast Company
Companies are finally listening to designers, writes Google Ventures' Kate Aronowitz. Here's what designers need to do now.
KPI is an imperative tool for UX designers
Some tools allow us to move pixels and some affect the bigger picture.
Why designers need to speak business
One of the most rewarding things with having a newsletter is getting insight into your subscribers every day lives. People will reply to…
Leading with Craft
A series about hands-on career paths in the design industry.
How To Be A Better UX Manager
Dive into the real struggles of management and how to overcome them.
You Don’t Need to Be “the Boss” to Be a Leader
Three ways to grow your influence at work.
The split decision: IC or manager?
How to choose the right career path for you.
Why Invisible Employees Have the Best Ideas
What I learned about leadership and listening as a 22-year-old intern
Inspiring a generation that doesn’t aspire to climb the career ladder
Gen Z are truly mould-breakers when it comes to attitudes towards work and employers need to better understand how to develop their talents.
Who are you going to promote — the ‘strong leader’ or the ‘real mother hen’?
While advising a CEO on gender equity, I sat in on discussion with his team about whom should receive a promotion. I noticed that they…
5 Essential Leadership Skills and How to Build Them
If you want to become a better leader, start practicing these skills.
Breaking through siloed roles in design
If you’re a product designer, at some point, you must’ve been part of projects involving multiple teams, only to find that miscommunication…
More ICs, fewer leaders: This Head of Design is feeling the pressure
A Head of Design messaged me on LinkedIn after seeing one of my posts. We’d never spoken before, but she asked if we could chat, so we set…
UX leadership is failing (and what we can do about it)
Design spent years trying to get a seat at the leadership table. But in too many cases, the inability to drive real impact is resulting in…
Powerful Lessons From Teaching That Made Me a Better Manager
Lessons for the office I honed in the classroom
Tell Your Team To Be Lazy → Watch Productivity Soar
A counterintuitive strategy for delivering results
How to Ask for Help Without Looking Helpless
You can’t know everything, but the good news is you don’t need to. So long as you have this skill
The Good Side of Leadership
How aspiring leaders can guide their followers toward success
Improved Self-Awareness Can Make You a Better Leader
Know yourself; lead yourself
Tackling Complexity: How to Create Simple and Effective Organizations
Six practical actions to root out excess complexity and keep costs from creeping back.
A Manager’s Checklist for Long-Term Success
In my previous article, “The Myth of the First 90 Days”, we discussed the importance of making an immediate impact as a new engineering…
When the CEO Doesn’t Get It
Product leaders and CEOs think differently, and that’s fine. Instead of resisting, partner with your CEO. Here’s what you need to do.
The Myth of the First 90 Days
Making an Immediate Impact as a New Engineering Manager