What's your job, like really? - by Benyamin Elias
“If I did everything my bosses asked me to do, I’d get fired.”| diamondpencils.substack.com
“If I did everything my bosses asked me to do, I’d get fired.”| diamondpencils.substack.com
What managers do all day, and how great managers multiply themselves| diamondpencils.substack.com
Career growth means new skills, not just getting better at the old ones| diamondpencils.substack.com
Why you should never *set out* to build a process| diamondpencils.substack.com
“Often I will carry a conversation back to details a client provided but then rushed past.| Diamond Pencils
The most important thing you can do to avoid misjudging something’s importance is to avoid lonely numbers.| Diamond Pencils
Because we’re dopamine-seeking creatures and we love making progress, your career has probably included some moment where you wanted to go into management.| Diamond Pencils
The Creative Tack is not passive, it does not wait until an impasse is reached.| Diamond Pencils
Before I was a meddling executive myself, I used to lose sleep over executive meddling.| Diamond Pencils
About 5 years ago I was so stressed at work that a blood vessel popped in my eye.| Diamond Pencils
I started writing this newsletter because there are soft skills that nobody teaches you, and that will quickly become the limiting step on your career advancement.| Diamond Pencils
The City of Los Angeles has perhaps the clearest example of an approval process that was designed to fail.| Diamond Pencils
If you’re a manager and your reports don’t regularly talk to each other, in what sense do you have a team?| Diamond Pencils
“A manager’s output = The output of his organization + The output of the neighboring organizations under his influence. Why?| Diamond Pencils
“Communication with others takes place when they understand what you're trying to get across to them.| Diamond Pencils
When I googled “how to get what you want at work,” everything was about how you can’t get stuff without asking for it.| Diamond Pencils
Let me hit you with an incredibly obvious statement| diamondpencils.substack.com
The "soft" skills that nobody teaches but are what make people actually successful at work. Click to read Diamond Pencils, by Benyamin Elias, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.| diamondpencils.substack.com
You need a company with a great market and a great product that’s *essential* to the people who use it. Take your skills there.| diamondpencils.substack.com
What I've learned about how to get things done| diamondpencils.substack.com
Why people don't leave stressful jobs, and sometimes don't even realize how stressed they are.| diamondpencils.substack.com
No one does this, and it's the story behind all the worst meetings| diamondpencils.substack.com
“Spot the comers on your staff, and plan their careers.| diamondpencils.substack.com
I got a text from my friend a few weeks ago: “My boss quit.| diamondpencils.substack.com
“If you give a good idea to a mediocre team, they will screw it up.| diamondpencils.substack.com
“According to the story, Damocles was pandering to his king, Dionysius, exclaiming that Dionysius was truly fortunate as a great man of power and authority without peer, surrounded by magnificence.| diamondpencils.substack.com
“I’m not very interested in individual performance; I’m only interested in team performance.| diamondpencils.substack.com
Who knew making a mistake could lead to more trust and responsibility?| diamondpencils.substack.com
