Kate Matsudaira, Principal / Urban Influence / @katemats
TECHKNOWLEDGE - JANUARY 2016
Y O U R C A R E E R S U C C E S S F O R M U L A and the conundrum of technical leadership
What happened to merit?
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The new world of tech
STRATEGY
Choose the right game to play
Following your passion is for suckers
Craftsman Mindset*
* For more on this topic you should read So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport
Deliberate practice
…chess players at the highest skill level (i.e. grandmasters) expended about 5000 hours on serious study alone during their first decade of serious chess play — nearly five times the average amount reported by intermediate-level players. Published in 2005 in Applied Cognitive Psychology Journal
Do you have a target?
MAKING IT WORK FOR YOU
• Make a list of the skills you have (or could have) that are rare and valuable.
• What would it take for you be the best in the world at your job? These are your GOALS.
• Carve out time for deliberate practice and learning.
RESULTS
Work on the right things
Fill in the gaps
Manage your manager
Not all bosses are good ones
If a tree falls in the forest, does it make a sound?
Send your status in email
Deliver on your commitment
Be on time
Make the most of your time
• Manage your manager - have regular meetings and ask good questions.
• Share your status. Make your work known.
• Be on time.
• Work hard and make the most of your time.
MAKING IT WORK FOR YOU
INFLUENCE
Influence comes from power
what is power?
3 SOURCES OF POWER
Expertise
Charisma
Relationships
Trust
Hours? Features?
Documentation
MentoringOperations
Maintainability
Innovation & new ideas
Quality
Recruiting
Collaboration
HOW DO YOU ASSESS PERFORMANCE?
HOW DO YOU JUDGE PERFORMANCE?
What is trust?
Build trust
Relationship Architecture
Reputation
Contribution
Elements are based on Kay’s framework from the “Foundations of Corporate Success”
Elements of trust
1. Who are the most influential people at your work?
2. Who do you spend the most time with?
MAKE TWO LISTS
Relationships are like filmstrips
Rebuild burned bridges
Reciprocity
Focus on the long term
Where does success come from?
Infinite powerinfluence
• How can you build better relationships?
• Expand your relationship architecture: make connections with influential people outside your team.
MAKING IT WORK FOR YOU
ATTITUDE
YOU AMAZING YOU
• Do they work more hours?
• Do they have more knowledge?
• How are they different?IMAGINE
IT ’S NOT JUST ABOUT WHAT YOU DO, BUT HOW YOU DO IT.
Be someone people want to work with
• Who is the person you admire most at work?
• What do they do differently?
• How do they make you feel?
IMAGINE
Be open
Bring solutions
Empathy with a positive attitude
• Reverse
• Long term
• Chance to growREFRAME
Make others feel important
Authenticity Desire to improve
Humility to take feedback
Be coachable
• How are you coming to work?
• Be present.
• Ask for feedback and then just say thank you instead of explaining.
MAKING IT WORK FOR YOU
Mickey and Oprah eating a chess-themed cake?
STRATEGY + RESULTS + INFLUENCE + ATTITUDE = SUCCESS
Kate Matsudaira, Principal / Urban Influence / @katemats
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