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• Managers are paid to drive results with some support. They have experience in the function, can take responsibility, but are still learning the job and will have questions and need support.  They can execute the tactical plan for a project but typically can’t make it.
• Directors are paid to drive results with little or no supervision (“set and forget”). Directors know how to do the job.  They can make a project’s tactical plan in their sleep.  They can work across the organization to get it done.  I love strong directors.  They get shit done.
• VPs are paid to make the plan. Say you run marketing.  Your job is to understand the company’s business situation, make a plan to address it, build consensus to get approval of that plan, and then go execute it.

“Your salary negotiation, which routinely takes less than 5 minutes, has an outsized influence on your compensation. It's very hard to get a $5,000 bonus through outstanding job performance, but you can trivially pick up $5,000 in salary negotiations.”

How to be a "Glue" in your team. Experience recounted by an Engineer.

People say you should work at startups because that's where the interesting work (and money) is. That's backwards!

by Marc Fleury

Analytics company

looking for a career change.. forget jobsites and head hunters.. take a library vacation.

now... just avoid all those jargon sounding bits

This article tries to provide a career path for consulting careers by making smart choices developing and nurturing skills during the early years of professional life. The purpose of this article is to outline the career options available to information t

As a software engineer, you might want any number of things out of your job - a steady paycheck, the opportunity to work on interesting projects, a springboard to the next better job, or maybe you just like hanging out with other programmers. But by "effe

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