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Thoughtful leadership insights and practical lessons for introverted and quiet executives striving to thrive in tech and beyond. www.leadingquietly.com
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I Am Still Having a Meeting From 2011 (opens the original)
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There is a meeting from 2011 that David Markley is still attending: a conversation about the direction of a startup where he was CTO, a year before he moved across the country to Amazon. He knows what was said, what he said back, and the four better things he could have said instead. Nobody else in that room remembers it, and he could not tell you the exact date himself. This essay is about why quiet leaders replay everything, when that replay is doing real work, and how to tell the moment it st
The Hardest Decisions Were the Easy Ones (opens the original)
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Some of what David Markley remembers as the hardest decisions of his life were not hard at all. They were instant. Taking months away from Amazon to be with his dying mother took no deliberation. Neither did escalating a fight over another team's system past three levels of leadership. Same instinct, very different outcomes. This essay is about what your quickest decisions reveal, and what it means when a choice stays hard for too long. Read the full essay and subscribe at leadingquietly.com . T
Companies ARE Family (opens the original)
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Leaders love to say the company is a family. David Markley agrees, just not for the reasons they mean. Families are also where you find the parent who cannot be corrected and the person who does most of the work and is thanked for none of it. This essay is about what actually defines a culture, and why it is never the metaphor on the wall. Read the full essay and subscribe at leadingquietly.com . This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to
Always Be Ready to Walk Away (opens the original)
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When David Markley was buying his first car, his father gave him one line: always be ready to walk away. Decades later, laid off weeks before Christmas with three kids under seven at home, that line was tested. This essay is about what desperation does to your judgment, what the appearance of it does to the other side of the table, and the discovery, made this week on a train through Alaska, that the advice is three generations old. Read the full essay and subscribe at leadingquietly.com . This
When Loud Leaders Go Silent (opens the original)
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The loudest leaders in an organization frequently go completely quiet in the one moment their voice would matter most: when someone who works for them needs meaningful feedback. David Markley names the feedback void nobody talks about, the two narrow cases where public correction is justified, and the five-word sentence that redirects careers. Read the full essay and subscribe at leadingquietly.com . This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access
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