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The Intensity Dial: Knowing When to Escalate and When to Back Off
🎁 Bonus: 4 diagnostic questions + an AI prompt 🎁
 • Irina Stanescu
How to Pick Your Battles: A Simple Framework for Addressing Issues at Work
Not all issues are made the same, so how can you use kindness to determine which issues are worth confronting and which aren't?
 • Irina Stanescu
This Costs Nothing and Doubles Your Impact
A guide for expressing recognition at work
 • Irina Stanescu
8 Common Meeting Pitfalls and What You Can Do to Avoid Them
I can't count the number of times I've been in meetings thinking, "I can't wait to get back to real work." Meetings often feel like the bane of a…
 • Irina Stanescu and Anemari Fiser
The Wrong and Right Way to Deliver Bad News to Your Manager
Breaking bad news to your manager can feel like dropping a bomb. If you get it wrong, it can blow up in your face and make things worse. But if you get…
 • Irina Stanescu
Show, Don’t Tell: How to Multiply Your Chances of Changing People's Minds
Many years ago, I was tasked with leading the engineering team in charge of the re-architecture of the delivery experience in the Uber Eats Eater App…
 • Irina Stanescu
Don't Just Manage Up, Manage Higher!
A comprehensive guide on how to connect with your skip-level manager
 • Irina Stanescu
The Dance Between Getting Managed, Self-Managing, and Managing Up
How much is too much? How much is not enough? How to diagnose and fix the imbalance between them?
 • Irina Stanescu
Influential People Don’t Network, They Build Social Capital
Wouldn’t it be nice to always be able to pick up the phone to ask for a job referral when you need one, no questions asked? Or to ask for an intro to…
 • Irina Stanescu
Top 5 Mistakes Most People Make When Trying to Influence Others
Far from being an elusive art reserved for the charismatic few, influence is, in fact, a teachable and learnable skill.
 • Irina Stanescu
The #1 Skill That Determines How Far You'll Go In Your Career
Whether you're an individual contributor or a leader, through proper influence you can get people to voluntarily comply, concede, or change. Who doesn't…
 • Irina Stanescu
5 Signals I’m Looking for When Interviewing Software Engineers
Based on hundreds of interviews for Big Tech companies and startups
 • Irina Stanescu
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