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🚀 Use the next 4 weeks to make meaningful progress before New Years 🥂
-> Remember to sign up to my blog so you don’t miss a week Here are some helpful steps to follow to help you move towards your goals...
Ekaterina Garbaruk Monnot
Nov 30, 20232 min read
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Play is agency
This week’s inspiration: “Play is an agency. When you play, you are the most free. The very act of choosing to play is agency, noone is...
Ekaterina Garbaruk Monnot
Oct 25, 20231 min read
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Checklist: Should you invest into an internal platform product?
Product management deep dive: Does building an internal platform product make sense in a specific problem space? First, let's re-cap:...
Ekaterina Garbaruk Monnot
Oct 23, 20232 min read
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5 reasons why it is beneficial to have a strategy
My department doesn’t need a strategy, we were successful without it so far. Personally, I am a strong believer in following a strategy...
Ekaterina Garbaruk Monnot
Oct 11, 20231 min read
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Highlights of recent podcasts
Research has shown that exercise helps with depression. Here are 3 tips for podcast episodes for you to listen while walking. 1.”Nick...
Ekaterina Garbaruk Monnot
Sep 29, 20231 min read
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Networking in Hard
“What do you prefer: meet a bear in the forest or approach people you don’t know at an event?” A surprising amount of people would...
Ekaterina Garbaruk Monnot
Sep 29, 20231 min read
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Receiving Feedback
Does feedback you just got make you feel defensive? - Noone ever said that feedback was easy. However, receiving it and working on...
Ekaterina Garbaruk Monnot
Sep 29, 20231 min read
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Learnings from Marty Cagan meetup
Really enjoyed the AMA session with Marty Cagan this weekend at Gigapay. We covered so many interesting topics, for example: 💡...
Ekaterina Garbaruk Monnot
Sep 29, 20231 min read
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DEB Programme
Just finished two days of learning on efficient and productive Board work and now I’m open to join company boards. I’m very excited to do...
Ekaterina Garbaruk Monnot
Sep 29, 20231 min read
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What I get from Advising Start-Ups as a Professional
Some people do gardening, I like advising and mentoring start-ups as a hobby. Since I have started, I keep getting a question: “Why?”...
Ekaterina Garbaruk Monnot
Sep 27, 20231 min read
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Collaborating with Engineering Counter Parts
This post is dedicated to all the great engineering leaders that I worked closely with and what made us work well together. Working with...
Ekaterina Garbaruk Monnot
Sep 27, 20231 min read
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What do I work with: what is developer productivity
Have you tried to explain what you do to your grandma? Now I reached next level of challenge in this task. I need to explain what it...
Ekaterina Garbaruk Monnot
Sep 26, 20231 min read
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Getting back from vacation into working mood
Two weeks in and you are already longing for next vacations? I totally get you. Often we come back from vacation and overspend the extra...
Ekaterina Garbaruk Monnot
Sep 26, 20231 min read
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How to get past no
3 things a sales person could do differently when they got a no. Last week I was in contact with a sales representative for professional...
Ekaterina Garbaruk Monnot
Sep 26, 20231 min read
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1:1 Template
How often are your 1:1s with your manager? Research from Gallup shows that employees who have regular 1:1 meetings with their managers...
Ekaterina Garbaruk Monnot
Sep 25, 20231 min read
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Speed vs collaboration in decision making
When taking decisions you cannot optimise for speed and collaboration at the same time. Any leader needs to be aware what they optimise...
Ekaterina Garbaruk Monnot
Sep 25, 20231 min read
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Ingredients we use not to get rest
These are ingredients that prevent us from getting recharged. Not getting enough sleep Over-booking days off Checking work mails and...
Ekaterina Garbaruk Monnot
Sep 13, 20231 min read
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Mentorship
There are no more career ladders, instead there are non-linear careers. In order to succeed in the new reality one needs to constantly...
Ekaterina Garbaruk Monnot
Sep 13, 20231 min read
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Asking for what you want
#1 reason why people don’t get what they want - they don’t ask for it. If you don’t ask for what you want: You will not share your goals ...
Ekaterina Garbaruk Monnot
Sep 13, 20231 min read
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What to do when you get the results of your metrics
How far is your goal? Would you know if you looked at this picture? Spoiler alert: you wouldn’t be able to tell, because this picture...
Ekaterina Garbaruk Monnot
Sep 13, 20232 min read
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