Chris In Your Corner

Helping technical minds solve the people puzzle

I spent most of my career in environments where technical excellence was table stakes — nuclear submarines, cybersecurity, software engineering, management. What I kept noticing was that the people who stalled weren't the ones who couldn't do the work. They were the ones who couldn't navigate the people around the work. That pattern eventually drove me to this work. If you're a technical professional hitting a ceiling you didn't expect — not a skills ceiling, but a people one — you probably know what I mean. Your work is solid but it's not landing. Influence feels like a foreign language. You got into this field partly to avoid the politics, and now the politics are everywhere. I'm not going to tell you to become someone you're not. I didn't. But I did change how I show up. Now I often work outside my comfort zone. It's more rewarding than anything I was doing before. If that sounds like where you want to be, you're in the right place.

about 2 months ago

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Read this before you watch any of my quick tips videos

Thoughts From the Corner Hello Reader, I'm planning a series of quick tips videos for this channel. Practical, specific, short. Things you can actually try. But let's talk about "self-help" videos for a minute. The critique of quick tips content isn't wrong. Real transformation doesn't come from a tip you watched on YouTube. It comes from consistent effort over time, from behavior that becomes habit, from habit that becomes part of who you are. A ten-minute video isn't going to do that for...

1 day ago

1 min read

Chris In Your Corner

Read this before you watch any of my quick tips videos

The sentence that catches a misunderstanding before it costs you

The move that stopped my panic spiral in under a minute

Your presentation has a topic. Does it have a message?

The meeting that runs an hour and decides nothing

The question I wasn't asking before networking events

What you miss when you're already thinking of your reply

How to Check In With Yourself in Three Seconds (EQ Tip 1)

Networking doesn't have to feel like a used car lot

The version of "being true to yourself" that's actually a cage