How to optimize your time (and calendar!) to be happier & more effective at work — Work is never-ending, there will always be more work, the second your finish one meeting, project, or task, there will be another waiting, and if there isn’t you’ll find one or make one up. It took me years to get to where I am now with calendar management, and it’s…

Self-assessments & promo statements that get results for you and your team. — Why write self-assessments at all? For many people, writing a self-assessment is part of their reoccurring performance review process, but did anyone ever actually teach you how to do it? Writing about your own accomplishments can be difficult for a multitude of reasons. You don’t remember all the things you did, you don’t know what…

Team rituals must constantly be growing and scaling to the team’s size, shape, and evolving needs. — I’ve managed teams between 5 to over 50 people, grown teams from zero to 20 in less than a year, and manage project portfolios that were a single tightly related product with a small number of features to a monolith like Google Search with 7+ distinct product areas with tenuous…