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Speaking for Geeks: Your Slides (December 12, 2015) Tips and tricks for creating great slides.

Speaking for Geeks: Writing Your Talk (December 12, 2015) Don't wait until the night before the talk to write it. Crazy, I know.

Speaking for Geeks: Tell a Story (December 12, 2015) Telling a story keeps your presentation focused, keeps your audience interested, and makes it easier for you to remember your talk.

Speaking for Geeks: Where to speak (December 12, 2015) You've got a great idea for a talk. How do you find conferences to submit it to?

Speaking for Geeks: Getting your session accepted (December 12, 2015) Your conference speaking submissions are not getting accepted because they're bad. Here's how to make them better.

Speaking for Geeks: What Should I Talk About? (December 12, 2015) Don't wait for that conference to come calling before you start planning for it.

You should speak at conferences. Yes, you. (December 12, 2015) Developers, you should give talks at conferences and your local meetups. It's easier than you think, and you'll improve your career.

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Should individual people have OKRs?

May 14: A good OKR describes and measures an outcome, but it can be challenging to create an outcome-focused OKR for an individual.

10 OKR traps and how to avoid them

May 8: I’ve helped lots of teams implement OKRs or fix a broken OKR process. Here are the 10 most common problems I see, and what to do instead.

AI is Smart, But Wisdom Requires Judgement

May 3: AI can process data at lightning speed, but wisdom comes from human judgment—picking the best imperfect option when facts alone don’t point the way.

Decoding Product Leadership Titles

Mar 18: Not all product leadership titles mean what they sound like. ‘Head of Product’ can mean anything from a senior PM to a true VP. Here’s how to tell the difference.

What branding can teach about culture

Jan 8: Culture is your company’s point of view in action—a framework guiding behavior, even in the unknown. You can’t copy it; it must reflect your unique perspective.

Think Systems, not Symptoms

Dec 15: Piecemeal process creation frustrates teams and slows work. Stop patching problems and start solving systems. Adopting a systems thinking approach helps you design processes that are efficient, aligned with goals, and truly add value.

Your Policies Aren’t Your Culture

Dec 13: Policies guide behavior, but culture is the lived norms and values of your team. Policies reflect culture -- they don’t define it. Netflix’s parental leave shift didn’t change its culture of freedom and responsibility. It clarified how to live it.

Lighten Your Process Burden

Dec 7: Everyone hates oppressive processes, but somehow we keep managing to create them.

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