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Why It Takes Forever to “Get to Staff”
3 changes to accelerate your Staff promotion
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Akash Mukherjee
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How to Impress in High-Stakes Presentations
7 steps to bring out the X-factor in your next executive presentation
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Akash Mukherjee
14
5 Writing Tips to Overcome the Blank Page
My Engineering Brain Hates Writing: Here's How I Cope
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Akash Mukherjee
10
That Extra Focus on Solution is Hurting Your Leadership
How being solution-oriented almost cost me my TL-ship
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Akash Mukherjee
30
The Sweet Spot Between Too Much and Too Little
How Senior engineers balance over-engineering and under-engineering
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Akash Mukherjee
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Not Sure What’s Killing Your Team’s Productivity?
5 strategies that helped our team fight boredom and get engineering excellence award at Google
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Akash Mukherjee
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Engineering Project Estimation
5 tricks to be less wrong when estimating engineering projects
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Akash Mukherjee
13
Your Guide to Ensure OnTime Delivery
4 key strategies that helped our team get 💩 done
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Akash Mukherjee
4
Is There a Shortcut to Rapid Growth in Software Engineering?
Tips that can save you from feeling burnt out
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Akash Mukherjee
6
Tech Leads, Listen Up: Silence Doesn't Equal Agreement
How I was accidentally derailing my meetings and what I did to fix it
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Akash Mukherjee
4
7 Pitfalls to Avoid When Leading Remotely
The remote leadership lessons I learned the hard way (so you don't have to)
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Akash Mukherjee
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3 Tips to Unlock Your 360 Leadership
Habits that boosted my confidence to influence larger organizations
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Akash Mukherjee
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