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1 How To Survive & Thrive In a Big Company cote.io/BigCo Screenshot of Getty clipart.

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Disclaimer: PIVOTAL IS F’ING AWESOME! 4 (* Come visit our table for all the great propaganda!) (** We’re hiring!) @cote

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Narrow your mission in toxic environment 5 @cote

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Mentors are nice, champions are better 7 * This is the image that made start loving corporate clip-art. I saw it everywhere in the 2000’s. It’s called “Woman standing with coworkers in server room (selective focus)” @cote

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Assign homework to filter vampires 8 @cote

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Asking questions leads to homework for you 9 @cote

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To innovate, hide 10 @cote

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Relax: work as little as possible 11 @cote

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Extract all your comp to avoid ripping yourself off 12 @cote

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A corporate presentation is a document printed in landscape 14 @cote

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Slides titles that state your conclusion perform better 15 @cote

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Assume you’ll never get past slide 1 16 @cote

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Always have an “ask” ready to go 17 @cote

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The Quit Sluice 1. You have a much better job offer 2. The “business” does not care to change – or need to! 3. You’ve talked with your manager multiple times 4. You can’t find a different job in the company 5. You are unhappy, it effects you IRL 6. You have a new job offer 18 @cote

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More… • “War Stories from the God Pod: Strategies for killing high stakes Executive presentations” - Matt Baker’s tips • Me: “7 + 5 BigCo Anti-patterns : white collars doing it wrong,” cote.io/bigco • Weekly therapy at SoftwareDefinedTalk.com 19 @cote

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20 Both free this week: https://cote.io/books @cote