HeyJaredWork Brain Thinking by Yasar Ahmad
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How to protect your time from colleagues who keep dumping on you (opens the original)
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There’s a knock, a message, a “have you got a sec,” and there goes your afternoon.Certain colleagues have learned that you’re the one who’ll take it. The task they don’t want. The problem that’s really theirs. The thing that’s easier to hand to you than to do themselves.You take it because you’re capable and you don’t want conflict, and they keep coming back, because it keeps working.Here’s the pattern you need to see clearly. <a href="https://yasarahmad.substack.com/p/how-to-pr
How to be a straight shooter without alienating everyone (opens the original)
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You pride yourself on being direct, and it keeps getting you in trouble.You say the true thing. You don’t sugar-coat. You’d rather be honest than liked. On paper, that’s a strength, the kind of integrity organisations claim to want.In practice, people get defensive around you, you’ve picked up a reputation for being “a lot,” and you’re quietly baffled why your honesty keeps costing you.Here’s what’s going on. Directness and bluntness feel like the same thing from the inside, but they land c
How to get hired through people, not job portals (opens the original)
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Most jobs are filled before you ever see the advert.By the time a role hits the job boards, a good number are already earmarked for someone a person inside knew, referred, or had in mind. You’re competing for the leftovers, through the most crowded and least human channel there is, while the real hiring happens quietly through relationships you’re not part of.Here’s the shift that changes your whole search. Read more
Why you feel like a fraud even though you're good, and what to do about it (opens the original)
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You’re waiting to be found out.You’ve done good work for years. You’ve been promoted. People rate you. And still there’s a voice that says it’s a fluke, that you’ve fooled them, that one day someone will realise you don’t actually know what you’re doing.The better you do, the louder it sometimes gets. Which makes no sense. And yet here you are.Here’s the first thing to understand, and it should be a relief. That feeling is almost universal among capable people, and it’s specifically c
How to earn respect from a team that didn't ask for a new manager (opens the original)
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Nobody on your new team asked for you.Maybe they wanted the internal candidate who got passed over. Maybe they liked the old manager. Maybe they’re just wary, because every new boss is a disruption to a rhythm they’d finally got comfortable with.Whatever the reason, you’re walking into a room that didn’t request you, and is quietly braced for you to make things worse.Here’s the reframe that helps. Read more </
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