Originally posted on LinkedIn on March 10, 2026. Read and engage with the original post here. Of all the words I ever uttered at work, I don’t think any struck more fear in the hearts of my colleagues and partner teams than “escalate.” The word brought to mind thoughts of failure, getting blamed for […]
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Originally posted on LinkedIn on March 2, 2026. Read and engage with the original post here. Early into my career as a Project Manager, I got some feedback that stopped me in my tracks. I had recently been assigned to the biggest assignment of my career, a true program with ~120 team members across
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Originally posted on LinkedIn on February 24, 2026. Read and engage with the original post here What would you do differently at work tomorrow if you didn’t need the paycheck? Would you finally tell your manager what you think? Push back on a strategy that doesn’t make sense? Share the idea you have been sitting on for months because
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Originally published on LinkedIn on February 17, 2026. Read and engage with the original post here. In 2013, I became a manager for the first time. My team consisted of six software engineers and I was a hybrid technical lead and project manager. I was thrilled to be a manager because I loved working with people. I
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Originally published on LinkedIn on February 9, 2026. Read and engage with the original post here. During my time at Meta, I interviewed over 250 candidates. Mostly Software Engineers and some TPMs. Probably 85% of the interviews I did were Behavioral, and so the topic of work culture came up frequently. When I gave candidates the chance to ask me questions, inevitably I
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Originally posted on LinkedIn on February 2, 2026. Read and engage with the original post here. Last summer, I left Meta after 25 years in tech. I didn’t have a job lined up or a grand plan. I just needed to step away after working quite hard for decades. People asked what I was going to do with
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Originally posted on LinkedIn on January 26, 2026. Read and engage with the original post here. Every PM I talk to eventually brings up the same inevitable question: ‘Is AI going to replace me?’ I totally get it. AI is getting eerily good at things that we always assumed were uniquely human. It writes code, analyzes data, generates schedules and drafts status reports that sound like
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Originally published on LinkedIn on January 19, 2026. Read and engage with the original post here. Recently, I was having coffee and reflecting over my 20+ year career in tech most recently as a Technical Program Manager. It’s funny, I started to really struggle to remember the details of some of the projects I worked on, including
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