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Skills, Titles, and Stereotypes: Rethinking Rejection Through the Lens of Unconscious Bias Unconscious Bias: The tendency of us as humans to act in ways that are prompted by a range of assumptions and biases that we are not aware of.   This can include decisions or actions that we are not consciously...

The Missing Piece in Strategic Planning: Pricing Strategy Happy New Year! We’re off with 2024, bringing fresh opportunities and challenges. January typically heralds a yearly practice that a majority of businesses do: strategic planning (and, for some organizations, OKR planning as well).  Annual strategic planning is an essential part of...

It Can’t Be Business as Usual It’s been more than a couple of months now since the Ukraine invasion by Russia. What makes this difficult at work right now is that most of the teams I work with have a number of both Ukrainian and Russian team members. One just...

Want to hire for more diversity? Then throw away your culture fit requirement So you want to start having more Diversity in your team and organizations. How do you do that? Well, you can start by throwing away your culture fit requirements and questions when interviewing candidates for your teams. ...

My Not So Normal Career Journey in Tech I recently gave a talk at the eXperience Agile conference held in Portugal last week. I was one of the virtual speakers, under the theme, New Agile Voices. Here’s the video of my talk. I highlighted the early days of my career...

Sorry, Dolly – 9 to 5 it ain’t now. The lines between home hours and work hours have been blurred significantly during the pandemic with remote work.  Even when going to the office was still the norm, the 40-hour workweek has been non-existent for a couple of decades for most...