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Transcript

  1. You Can’t Always Get What You Want: 
 A Year

    of Leading Change Rebecca Murphey @rmurphey The Lead Developer NYC / February 2017
  2. None

  3. ymmv. I was a brand-new employee 
 at a rapidly-growing

    company. I came from a non-traditional background 
 relative to the people I was trying to influence. I was working with a strong culture 
 of data-driven decision-making.
  4. None
  5. None

  6. start 
 with a 
 sponsor 1

  7. find 
 philosophical allies 2

  8. move 
 what 
 matters 3

  9. know 
 your 
 lines 4

  10. cultivate champions 5

  11. technology 
 is insufficient 6

  12. disappoint
 some
 people 7

  13. what is 
 work even? 8

  14. None

  15. Change the culture.

  16. Change the culture. Use the culture to influence change.

  17. I help
 people
 get jobs. @rmurphey rmurphey.com