7 | First Year at Microsoft: My Top 10 Learnings

Closing up an incredible first year at Microsoft, I take some time in this episode to share my top 10 learnings from the year. This is less a tech vignette and more what I've learned from peers, colleagues, leaders, and customers over the past 12 months.

Episode 7 of the The Data Binge podcast, hosted by Derek Russell, titled "7 | First Year at Microsoft: My Top 10 Learnings" was published on July 1, 2018 and runs 34 minutes.

July 1, 2018 ·34m · The Data Binge

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Closing up an incredible first year at Microsoft, I take some time in this episode to share my top 10 learnings from the year. This is less a tech vignette and more what I've learned from peers, colleagues, leaders, and customers over the past 12 months. This is a great listen if you work in a big organization and strive to further develop your effectiveness with teams, increase your emotional IQ, or better understand your self development journey. Thanks for listening! Here are the high level Top 10 Learnings: 1) Understand how colleagues are incentivized 2) Schedule "Learning Time" 3) Protecting peoples time, the best gift you can give 4) Being prescriptive, is far more powerful than just educating 5) Be an energy multiplier 6) Power of positivity 7) Your really good at something, focus on what that something is - be clear about strengths & weaknesses 8) The value of asking for help: 9) Have a team of coaches/mentors 10) Lead with empathy, and strive for inclusion

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