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Here’s the reality nobody wants to admit: AI is eating everyone’s lunch, but it still can’t run your Tuesday morning meeting when Sarah from marketing is passive-aggressive and your dev team says the timeline is unrealistic.
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The Rule You're Scared to Break Is Safe (opens the original)
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Senior engineers who ship clean code, hit every deadline, and follow every process keep getting passed over for the staff promotion, and this episode explains the organizational mechanic behind it. Saeid Manhooei breaks down who actually writes a company's unwritten rules, why faithful rule-following produces average outcomes by design, and the difference between rules that protect the system and rules that only protect the status quo. He walks through what a VP is really screening for in the ca
Why you need a Sponsor than a Mentor at Work (opens the original)
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If you've done everything right at work and still watched someone else get the promotion, this episode explains the layer of advancement most people never discover. Saeid breaks down how promotion decisions in large organizations are often made before any formal process begins, why sponsorship works on a transactional basis that nobody likes to admit out loud, and how to find a sponsor not by impressing people but by solving something they actually need solved. He also covers how roles get creat
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