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Anti-Patterns for Influencing as an Individual Contributor

Last week I participated in a panel discussion for SFELC Conf2020: an engineering leadership conference. The topic of discussion was How To Influence Others As A Senior IC.

Will Larson asked me a thought-provoking question that inspired me to write this post!

The Question

What are the anti-patterns of influencing? What are the approaches to influencing that folks should try to steer away from?

Source: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/AntiPattern.html
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