The Unwritten Rules of Getting Ahead

You Owe Your Team Bad News Before It's Too Late

Career · Leadership By Feras Asakrieh · 4 min read · Issue #46 Read on my website He looked right at me and said the F word. Nineteen years with the company, and it was ending in a termination room. He was angry. And I couldn't fully blame him. Not because we were wrong t...

by Feras Asakrieh — Oct 24, 2026

You Can't Outgrow A Sinking Company

Career · Career By Feras Asakrieh · 4 min read · Issue #45 Read on my website Last week I was sitting by the pool, waiting for my son to finish his swim lesson. One of the other dads sat down next to me. We got talking. Kids, work, weekend plans. The usual. Then he told ...

by Feras Asakrieh — Oct 17, 2026

Nobody Tells You The Chair Is Gone

Career · Promotion By Feras Asakrieh · 5 min read · Issue #44 Read on my website A few years back we had approval to hire three directors. Interviews were done. Finalists picked. The offers were written and sitting there, ready to go out that week. Then one email came from ...

by Feras Asakrieh — Oct 10, 2026

I Was Counting The Wrong Number

Career · Mindset By Feras Asakrieh · 4 min read · Issue #43 Read on my website Saturday morning. I called my cable company. A recording told me my call was important to them. Then the music started. Seven minutes in, I thought about hanging up. Then I told myself seven m...

by Feras Asakrieh — Oct 03, 2026

You Quit in Month Two. Everyone Does

Career · Mindset By Feras Asakrieh · 5 min read · Issue #42 Read on my website Last Saturday morning I was sitting in my kitchen with my green tea, scrolling on my phone. I was looking for a way to get more eyes on my LinkedIn posts. Some tool. Some trick. One of those lists ...

by Feras Asakrieh — Sep 26, 2026

Your 2am Thought Was Correct

Career · Mindset By Feras Asakrieh · 5 min read · Issue #41 Read on my website The question took about eight seconds to ask. We were in a monthly business review. Numbers on the screen, fifteen people on the call, the usual rhythm. I had just finished walking through my secti...

by Feras Asakrieh — Sep 19, 2026

The Rule That Expired

Career · Promotion By Feras Asakrieh · 5 min read · Issue #40 Read on my website We were three or four drinks in when he told me. He did not work at the bank anymore. He had been senior there. Senior enough to have been in rooms I never got into. And somewhere between the sec...

by Feras Asakrieh — Sep 12, 2026

Nobody Promotes The Engine

Career · Leadership By Feras Asakrieh · 5 min read · Issue #39 Read on my website I was on a work call the night my child was born. Let me say that again, because it still stings. My wife was in the bed. The baby was coming. And I had my phone pressed to my ear, solving a p...

by Feras Asakrieh — Sep 05, 2026

Nobody Is Coming To Look

Career · Leadership By Feras Asakrieh · 6 min read · Issue #38 Read on my website I took over a new team and my inbox was a war zone. Updates. Long emails. BI reports with three paragraphs explaining one chart. Everybody was telling me how hard they were working. Nobody was t...

by Feras Asakrieh — Aug 29, 2026

Ask For What You Want. Out Loud.

Career · Mindset By Feras Asakrieh · 5 min read · Issue #37 Sandra had dinner on the table. I was still holding my phone. The VP role had posted that afternoon. I read it four times on the drive home. I read it again at the table. I told her about it. I told her it was a big ...

by Feras Asakrieh — Aug 22, 2026

Your best performer stopped thinking. AI is hiding it perfectly.

Career · Leadership By Feras Asakrieh · 5 min read · Issue #36 My son Rayan is 14. A few months ago, I gave him full access to AI. I did it on purpose. AI is becoming the new literacy. I did not want him learning it at 25, behind everyone else. I wanted him to have an edge. ...

by Feras Asakrieh — Aug 15, 2026

Hard Work Will Not Protect You From Toxic Culture

Career · Leadership By Feras Asakrieh · 5 min read · Issue #35 Iwas driving home the night everything fell apart. Earlier that day, the biggest project I was leading got pulled. Not by me. Not with me in the room. People I worked with every day had gone behind closed doors and ...

by Feras Asakrieh — Aug 08, 2026

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