Ignite Talk: How to Survive and Thrive in a Big Company
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SpringOne Platform 2016 Speaker: Michael Coté; Technical Marketing, Pivotal
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Ignite Talk: How to Survive and Thrive in a Big Company
- 2. Coté How To Survive & Thrive In A Big Company
- 3. How To Survive & Thrive In A Big Company @cote | 01 August 2016 | cote.io
- 4. 4 @cote
- 5. 5 @cote
- 6. Disclaimer: PIVOTAL IS F’ING AWESOME! 6 (* Come visit our booth for all the great propaganda!) (** We’re hiring!) @cote
- 7. Bring your own tools 7 @cote
- 8. Mentors are nice, champions are better 8 * 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
- 9. Assign homework to filter vampires 9 @cote
- 10. Asking questions leads to homework for you 10 @cote
- 12. Extract all your comp to avoid ripping yourself off 12 @cote
- 13. Relax: work as little as possible 13 @cote
- 14. 14 @cote
- 15. A corporate presentation is a document printed in landscape 15 @cote
- 16. Slides titles that state your conclusion perform better 16 @cote
- 17. Assume you’ll never get past slide 1 17 @cote
- 18. Always have an “ask” ready to go 18 @cote
- 19. 19 Well I saw this old dog was chasing this rabbit I saw a dog was chasing this rabbit I saw a dog was chasing this rabbit It was Sunday about noon I said to the rabbit "you gonna make it" I said to the rabbit "Are you gonna make it?" I said to the rabbit "you gonna make it" The rabbit said "Well I got to!" @cote
- 20. 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 20 @cote
- 21. 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,” me from April 2016 • Weekly therapy at SoftwareDefinedTalk.com 21 @cote
- 22. Thanks! Slides: https://cote.io/bigco/ @cote | cote.io 22
Editor's Notes
- Image: https://pixabay.com/en/human-personal-group-office-440127/
- We often get advice about being unicorns and “cowboys,” but it’s rare that you’re in an environment that’s perfect. There’s risks associated with being a cowboy too. Slide: https://www.flickr.com/photos/28323374@N03/7607217920
- Instead, I like to think about city workers – here, garbage people – they need tools to just get through a large company. Photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/8149444474
- We got all the stuff! I’ve worked at many places, and this is an amalgamation of that and other people’s experiences. There’s nothing wrong with Pivotal. Move along. Nothing bad to see there.
- Corporate IT is not there to help you. Basically, the whole environment is hostile & trying to kill you, treat it as such, like you’re trapped on Mars. Also, your own tools will lead to unique results that will differentiate your work, make you stand out. Image: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiJ7o5oftWs
- You need someone to teach you, but start building up people who will advocate for you. It’s not always your boss, though that’s nice. It can be friends who owe you favors. You’ll need people who get things done for you and stand-up for you when you’re no there. Image: http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/woman-standing-with-coworkers-in-server-room-royalty-free-image/200022154-001#
- Image: https://pixabay.com/en/analysis-pay-businessmen-meeting-680572/
- 401(k), maximize health care use, expensing mileage, discounts for your cellphone, tickets to baseball games, all the great perks, vacation. These are all parts of your compensation, calculated into your cost by your company – overhead – so get ‘em!
- Don’t try too hard, leave as early each day as possible I don’t know what’s happening in that image, but it’s not work. Image: https://pixabay.com/en/butterfly-stopwatch-eye-face-744115/
- And now, “did you bring your deck?“ You‘ve got to master these because they‘re the core tool for making decisions in large companies. Unless you‘re in Amazon with the mythical 6 page documents...and endless „backup pages.“ Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/cote/status/205415839799853056
- Put in title: A corporate presentation is just a document printed in landscape
- Slide images: https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-great-examples-of-a-consulting-slide-deck/answer/Kamil-Goliszewski
- Never depend on your slides, except for reference/notes. Most successful meetings I’ve been in have ditches slides quickly, many have never moved past the cover slide. The important part was getting your argument together, understanding your ask, and all the information.
- Photo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beagle#/media/File:Moritz_v_d_Tomburg.jpg Lyrics: http://genius.com/Hubbard-ray-wylie-rabbit-lyrics
- Image from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placer_mining
- Book: http://amzn.to/1OfIUKL