LinkedIn Archive
Posts
75short pieces I've written on LinkedIn over the years — on managing self, leading people, navigating transformation, showing up for others, and the craft of product and AI. Grouped into five buckets so you can read by mood, not by date.
29 posts
Personal Leadership
Managing self, finding purpose, setting a bar.
- ↗Mistakes I wish I had not made (part 1)
- ↗Mistakes I wish I had not made (part 2)
- ↗10 lessons for MBA students / professionals
- ↗Choose to be excellent
- ↗Raising the stakes for ourselves = recipe for disaster
- ↗Gap vs Gain
- ↗How do I stay to be the youngest person in the room?
- ↗Lessons from Uber drivers
- ↗Person, Purpose and Path
- ↗Your value proposition
- ↗Every situation and every person can teach us
- ↗Where do you see yourself 10 years from now?
- ↗Effort vs Impact
- ↗Say no to notifications!
- ↗We can determine to be not poor
- ↗An impactful journey with Mr Mahindra
- ↗Are you tiring yourself out?
- ↗Do a few things really, really well
- ↗Awakening, Assets & Access
- ↗Love will keep us alive!
- ↗Action is a great distraction
- ↗Stakeholder centricity IS customer centricity
- ↗O-C-D: Observing. Contributing. Driving.
- ↗Sam is here — being a reliable person
- ↗Never vilify a person
- ↗Being a Noogler
- ↗Perceptions matter
- ↗Career Volume
- ↗I love Googlers — taking on the mission to work for them
07 posts
People Leadership
Hiring and managing others.
- ↗Good manager vs Nice manager
- ↗A source of durable inspiration: hiring people better than you
- ↗First 90 days as a manager
- ↗How should I deal with my team member who feels underappreciated and insecure?
- ↗How do I manage this person that I have hired from another org?
- ↗Keeping the gadfly alive
- ↗What do I like most about being at Google?
23 posts
Organizational, Economic & Home Climate
Stakeholders, transformation, recession, and operating in a suboptimal world.
- ↗Managing senior stakeholders
- ↗How to land a transformation?
- ↗Stakeholder management — additional notes
- ↗Expectation mismatch to exceptional match
- ↗Learned helplessness: quiet quitting
- ↗Winter is the time to build
- ↗Coping and thriving in a largely suboptimal world
- ↗5 most powerful force multipliers in business
- ↗Shadow of the leader and shade of the team
- ↗Rocks, pebbles, sand and water
- ↗Leading global teams outside the HQ
- ↗Planning & alignment
- ↗Talk & fear about slowdown / recession is a good thing
- ↗A loss is not a loss till you book it
- ↗Making RTO successful
- ↗How do I know that my partner is the right person for me?
- ↗Tomorrow is a better day
- ↗Value Creation → Value Capture → Value Communication
- ↗How to determine that you should pivot your career?
- ↗Imagination creates reality
- ↗Earn more, save more, grow more
- ↗Where there is no love, there is no business
- ↗What these politicians won’t do
05 posts
Championing & Serving
Allyship, sponsorship, and serving to lead.
04 posts
Product Leadership
The role and the craft.
07 posts
AI
Where the moat is going, and how organizations absorb it.
A note on these
Some are observations from a hallway conversation. Some are answers to questions colleagues asked me. Some became the starting point for the working frameworks at Thought Leadership. Read in any order.