Tag: influence

• Path B

  

  Photo by Mert Kahveci on Unsplash A few weeks ago, I had the first genuine career conversation of my professional life. I told my director that I intended to keep developing toward the most senior individual contributor levels, and that I had been politely declining recruiter interest in director roles for some time. He didn’t…

  Dom

  July 12, 2026

  Leadership & Teamwork, organizational design, Philosophy

  career development, career paths, corporate culture, Enterprise Architecture, individual contributor, influence, Leadership, mentorship, organizational design, people management, principal-level work, professional growth, Responsibility, technical leadership