Vision
How to get buy-in on your ideas?
Keep an idea humble, succinct, and outcome oriented.
Alignment
Communication
How to build a muscle to disagree and/or commit
Thank you for your patience while I took a 1-month hiatus from posting weekly. It wasn't planned at all, the last 4 weeks have been an overload and I didn't have the mental/physical capacity to write on my downtime. Highlights: 1. Got Club Suite seats
Burnout
Presenting 12 page paper to engineering leaders
This past week, I had the biggest personal win in the last 2 years at Amazon. I presented a 12-page proposal to 7 directors proposing to shift the organization from Engineering to UX/Product. Given the leadership team are SDMs, it's a long shot at the moon. I