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Last week I told you that the promotion decision was never whether you were “good”. That it was actually a math problem about your replacement cost.
The promotion went to the person who was about to quit...
“This isn’t about your work. You know that, right?”
Your manager said that an hour ago.
You’re still in your car. You haven’t started it. Your phone is face down on the passenger seat.
The person who got the promotion has been at the...
The scorecard your manager is filling out about you (that you've never seen)
The 90 seconds that determine your promotion, and how to control the narrative
Last week I shared my mentee’s question → her skip-level praised her work publicly while her manager said she “wasn’t ready” for promotion. ↴
"I think I'm about to be laid off. What do I do?"
An old mentee wrote to me yesterday—
“Marina, I’m about 99% sure I’m in the next layoff round. My manager has been weird, I got cut out of two strategy meetings I used to lead, and HR scheduled a ‘check-in’ for next Friday that doesn...
My VP loved it. My manager said I'm not ready.
A new Senior-level mentee asked me this recently:
“Marina, I’m so confused right now.
My VP told me (to my face) that the onboarding redesign I led was ‘exactly what we needed.’ She brought it up in an all-hands. She Slacked my...
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