IDEAS
The unwritten rules, mental models and operating principles that start to matter as your scope gets bigger.
BROWSE BY TOPIC
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Judgment
Making the call when there’s no clear right answer.
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Managing Up
Giving your manager judgment, not just status.
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Communication
Turning complexity into what people need to decide.
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Influence
Building alignment before authority is required.
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Perception
How your work and decisions get read by others.
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Promotion Strategy
Building the evidence and the case for bigger scope.
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Career Strategy
Deciding where to apply the effort.
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Decision Making
Knowing which choices are reversible and which aren’t.
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Leading Through Ambiguity
Operating well without a playbook.
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Team Leadership
Building mechanisms that scale beyond you.
FROM INSTAGRAM
Start here.
Three ways to explore how I think about leadership.
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HOW I OPERATE
The systems, practices, questions, AI use and decision-making approaches Anne actually uses operating at senior levels.
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MIDDLE MANAGER VS SENIOR MANAGER
The same workplace situation viewed through different levels of judgment, interpretation and altitude.
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THE SECOND SKILLSET
Judgment, communication, influence and perception — the skills that become increasingly important as scope increases.
MENTAL MODELS
Not rules. Reference points I check my thinking against.
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THE LWS NEWSLETTER
A short piece most weeks on judgment, communication, influence and the decisions that come with a bigger scope. Written to be read before the meeting, not after.
WORK WITH ANNE
When the gap is not effort but judgment, communication, influence or positioning, that is the work we do together.