INSIGHTS
Short reads for long careers.
Practical notes on promotions, career changes, leading people and coming back to work.
How to ask for a promotion without sounding like you’re asking
The best promotion conversations don’t start with a request. They start with a case your manager can take into a room you’re not in.
The career-change spreadsheet nobody tells you to make
Changing career feels like one huge leap. In practice it’s a series of small, cheap experiments.
Your first difficult conversation as a manager
You were promoted for being good at the work. Now you need to tell someone their work isn’t good enough.