Corporate Strategy

Corporate Strategy

Satirical self-help lovingly shared by two millennial tech industry vets. Engineering, sales, marketing, product management, and custodial services cover it all in 30 minutes or less. Coffee not provided.

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September 25, 2023 48 mins

Have you ever walked into work to find HR at your desk, and wondered if it’s time to update your resume? We've been there too. Welcome back to another episode with your hosts, Bruce and Clark, where we dissect the corporate world and offer survival tips for navigating office politics. We start off with the often intimidating arrival of Human Resources in the workplace, and why it might be a cue for you to polish up your CV. 

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Squidboi has thrown down the gauntlet, and we are parsing through this massive list of sometimes great, sometimes questionable tips for newcomers to corporate. Go with us on this journey. 

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Asking for more money isn't easy. Getting it is even harder. This episode is dedicated to all those who deserved a raise but got snubbed by the man. Get that ched y'all. 

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August 28, 2023 34 mins

This week's episode focuses entirely on the idea of work. Is email work? What about sitting at your desk staring into oblivion? What about your lunch break? We answer all these questions and more on a very work-related episode. 

 Also, listening to this counts as work, FYI.

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This week we take on a listener topic around dealing with a project that is bound by five different stakeholders, all asking for different things, all with different priorities... basically, the project from hell. I think we solved it, but you tell us. See you in the discord.  

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Following up on our previous episode about the act of performing performance reviews, we act out a non-simulated performance review of the performance of this very podcast. It's not confusing at all, I swear. 
Alex joins us again for another tantalizing talk all about giving feedback and receiving it appropriately when you are locked in a room with just your manager.  

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August 3, 2023 32 mins
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July 25, 2023 42 mins

This was a spiral, a downward one. Bruce and Clark analyze and question the value of easy answers, self-help, and if we are doomed as a society.

Typical corporate strats' stuff.  

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Today's topic is all about the marketing dept, specifically how to know if it's the right career path for you to walk down. I highly advocate for it, but that's just me, corporate marketing man.  

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Recruiting aint easy. Have you ever tried to interview someone like Bruce or Clark? We both talk about our current recruitment efforts and what to do when it comes to gathering good potential candidates and being good candidates.  

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There are a lot of departments with skin in the game, engineering, sales, marketing, and product management, but who is the real throat to choke when it all breaks down? Do we blame the customer? How do you build a better product when we can't identify what happens next? 
It would be great if we competently answered even half of these questions, but you listen to this pod and know what you get!  

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June 27, 2023 38 mins

This was supposed to be a typical episode, but we ended up just doing an impromptu chat on travel. There are many facets to traveling for business, and we have learned a few tips/tricks to make it easier. 

Back to your regularly suggested topics next week!

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June 10, 2023 1 min

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Technology is the future but also the past. The present but also the future. How do you stay on top of something that's constantly changing? What if you don't even work in tech? We answer all these questions on today's episode and knock out pt 2 of the topic, specifically offering guidance for teams seeking to innovate.  

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This episode is MASSIVE! Alex helps us put a positive spin on the most burning corporate questions directly from the discord, including:

  • Will families ever be able to own a house on a single salary again?
  •  How many improvements to the corporate world can come down to affecting change from within as opposed to forcing better practices from outside, such as via government regulation? 
  •  Is Elon Musk the Antichrist?
  • Is CYA culture a ne...
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It's always tough when you have just started and realize that things are pretty funky on the job. You have ideas on how to fix it, but should you stay quiet? Wait 90 days? Go all out? We discuss the pros, cons, and strategies for handling those good ideas when you haven't gotten a foothold at the new place.  

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Thanks again to Individual Contributor for submitting yet another trifecta of banger topics. We break down the act of promotion, what to do when you aren't giving 120%, and avoiding the Peter Principle. It's a jam-pact episode full of cheddar movements and bangers you won't wanna miss.  

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May 3, 2023 28 mins

Sometimes loyalty can be a curse, mainly when you second guess your ability and value after spending years at a corporation now giving you the boot. In this episode, Clark and Bruce dig into ways we get into our heads and how to turn that uncertainty into strength in the interview. 

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April 24, 2023 34 mins

We always do our best to help others around us. That's why today I'm doing my best to evaluate and offer any advice to support Clark's current "people problem," if we can really call it that. Often people get the bad rap for process/technology when it fails them, and what about when companies fail people? Is their reaction to this failure problematic? We discuss all of this and more in this weeks people foc...

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April 18, 2023 38 mins

We love it when it happens, and we got a listener-submitted topic, and it's a tough one. What do you do when quitting your job (and finding a better one) is not an option? Micromanagers, lousy culture, herding cats, it's all on the table to fix. It isn't easy, but Bruce and Clark tackle the challenge head-on by using CACC to help evaluate and reverse Uno the non-ideal situation into something (hopefully) better. 

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