Leadership
Your job, and the four times it completely changes.
What you personally do all day, how you decide, how you write, and how you stay useful as the thing you built outgrows your direct reach.
The job changes four times
Builder, multiplier, architect of the machine, then steward of the strategy. Each transition invalidates the habits that got you promoted.
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What your boss is carrying
The person you report to is carrying two or three specific worries, and almost none of your work is pointed at them. Find out what they are and solve one.
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Complaints and proposals
A complaint hands someone a problem plus the work of deciding what to do about it. A proposal hands them a decision. Same information, completely different weight.
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Hard conversations
Have it early, plainly, and once. Early means the second occurrence, not the first and not the fifth, because that's when a thing stops being an incident and becomes a pattern.
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You don't know half their story
You're comparing your full interior record against someone else's edited exterior, and losing. Compare against yourself twelve months ago and against the job you want to be able to do.
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