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How to Sell Your Ideas. (or not)
Fatal Exception: Hard Lessons in Soft Skills for Software Developers
English - February 14, 2021 01:00 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MBTechnology software development careers soft skills Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Software developers tend to be very smart, analytical individuals. Many times they may have the highest IQ in the room. However, despite their intelligence they have a hard time selling their ideas. In this episode we talk about some strategies on how they might do this better. Here is the spoiler: Ideas don't sell themselves. We don't live in a meritocracy. You may need to "play politics". If you regularly wonder why others in the organization are listening to you it may be time to change your approach.