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Everyone wants change, but doesn't want to change. Though inevitable, change is uncomfortable and exhausting. Manage it with kindness.

More than a decade ago, I typed up a few paragraphs of notes, titled it β€œBuilding Technical Leverage,” and proceeded to forget about it. Those notes were from a meeting with Kevin Scott, then SVP Engineering at LinkedIn, while we wandered the Valley trying to convince potential acquirers to buy Digg. It was only this morning that I remembered that the post exists when I started trying to title this post on the same topic.

Master the art of annual planning for your engineering organization. Use the steps in this article to create a strategy that helps you hit the ground running, embrace flexibility, and involve your teams for alignment.

Do you work on a distributed team? If so, you know that meetings can be a major time-sink. This article discusses the benefits of asynchronous collaboration and how to implement it on your team.

And today we’ll wrap up with a bonus link by Tom Critchlow:

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