How to Survive and Thrive in a Big Company
summary
Claims drawn from work at Dell BMC and Pivotal and corporate strategy outline concrete tactics: bring your own tools to bypass slow centralized stacks, recruit a champion not just a mentor, dodge ad hoc “homework” by having requesters write briefs, run hidden skunkworks to prototype safely, mercilessly harvest perks like mileage expense, and treat slides as documents using a McKenzie title, assume audiences stop at slide one and always have an Ask ready to get decisions.
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