My Big Mistake
On my blog In The Tent I've been interviewing people that I've worked with over the years. The most recent interview was with my old Office 365 boss Dave Thompson . When I asked him for his best career advice Dave told me that he had asked Mike Maples the same question decades ago and Mike had said to him "Change is good." How can a guy that has been at Microsoft so long be writing about change? My career has had a lot of change, often to different projects where I knew the people. However, several years back I made a complete change: new team, new culture, and a new set of people. In that case, change didn't work well for me and I made some very big mistakes. There were two things that went wrong. First, I came in with a lot of my own ideas and passions and things I wanted to do differently. Although I took some time to learn the culture and context, I didn’t take enough time to let people get comfortable with me and to learn to trust me. The second mistake...
