Influence
Getting outcomes through people who don't report to you.
- Upward: making a case that landsSoon
Most upward cases fail on framing, not substance.
- Sideways: peers who don't report to youSoon
Where most org-wide progress actually happens.
- Outward: writing, hiring, communitySoon
External presence compounds across years. Not a side project. A core asset.
- The long game of reputationSoon
Built in small choices over a decade, in uncelebrated moments.