Tag: personal-growth
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The Surprise Update: How Not Telling Anyone About Changes Broke Everything
There’s nothing quite like logging in on a Monday morning, coffee in hand, ready to start the week… only to discover that the entire environment is on fire. Builds fail. Deployments hang. Services that were working fine on Friday now throw errors no one’s ever seen before. At first, you think it’s a small glitch.…
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The Performance Review That Was Written Before You Walked In
Performance reviews are supposed to be about growth. That is the story, at least. An honest conversation about your contributions, your progress, and your future at the company. A chance to celebrate what you did well and to align on where you can improve. In reality, they are usually just a carefully scripted performance of…
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The Great Talent Purge: Firing the Most Useful People Without a Backup Plan
Every company says “people are our greatest asset”. They put it on posters, they write it in strategy documents, and they repeat it at town halls like a holy mantra. But when the time comes to make decisions, there’s always that one toxic boss who decides the best move is to fire the very people…
The Toxic Boss 