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How can one determine the most effective method for establishing a success metric for a quarterly objectives?

My manager recently took on the additional role of Frontend Architect, and he's asked me to step up and assist with day-to-day responsibilities for the team. Currently, I hold the position of ...
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What does "Chief Engineer Emeritus" means?

Recently I've came across a few profiles on LinkedIn with title as "Chief Engineer Emeritus". What does Chief Engineer Emeritus means in an organization ?
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9 answers
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How should Directors deal with an overbearing branch Manager?

Talking about a branch manager who gets great pipeline and conversions, the numbers all look right, but employee turnover is very high. His high standard for his staff, requiring high work ethic and ...
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Duplicate project activities in corporate R&D

I work for a large corporate providing HW/SW that often lacks alignment between sites across the world. In the past three years I was fortunate enough to be allocated to a corporate project where we ...
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How to manage repetitive no-work or no progress with some of your teammates or employee? [closed]

Here are a couple of things about myself: I'm a co-founder and joined the start-up after 1 year. I have real SWE, Architecture and management experience in many other start-ups in Silicon Valley. I ...
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Dealing with people that point out mistakes in public

I'm leading a new department at a new company I've been there for a couple months. I have someone who used to do some of the duties in that department. This person seems to find ways to call me out on ...
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5 votes
4 answers
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Fighting for leadership

I'm a new leader to a company and for the company a new department. I'm trying to establish myself as a leader of the department. Before me there was another person in another department managing the ...
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Transitioning from specialist to manager role

I have recently transitioned from an individual contributor at senior scientist level to a team lead role, where the first task has been to build my own team from scratch. It has been an interesting ...
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How can I learn to lead at the client as a mid-level software developer in the workplace?

I was externally hired by a company to help them with software development. All people at the client are software developers too. I was asked to lead them, but I don't know how. I'm quite introverted, ...
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Soliciting suggestions from entire group of subordinates - good idea?

I am a member of the managerial team at a large international school. I coordinate about 40 staff members. I am considering emailing them at the beginning of next academic year, and possibly at the ...
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4 answers
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Fear about people getting better than the leader

I am a senior software engineer who is starting with leading. I was following a course on Udemy where they say, "Don't be afraid that your reports get better than you. You should encourage that! ...
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How to handle management's expectations of new team members?

For context I'm a .Net Senior Software Engineer and Team lead. I recently started my current position and the majority of my team members are performing well. However, due to the general shortage of ....
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Moving all Designers to a single team

I've just joined a SaaS company as Head of Design in which I'm leading a team of Product Designers. I learned after a couple weeks that there are also designers under the Marketing team who seem to be ...
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I cannot get promoted in a very large organization no matter what I try, what am I doing wrong? [closed]

I have worked for the last 10 years in a very large organisation as a software developer. I work on a complete bespoke payment solution that processes about 1 million dollars in new payments each day. ...
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4 votes
4 answers
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Too many cooks/leaders problem solutions

I am working in the Startup world and noticed that often there is a problem of too many people jumping on the issue, wanting to lead it, make decisions etc I know it from Corporate world it was ...
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