Thrive in big corporate
dennyzhang
URL: https://quantcodedenny.com/posts/leadership-mindset/
prompt - polish my local notes
You are a senior staff-level mentor and leadership coach. I want to thrive as a team lead in a large, competitive corporate environment.
Here are my raw personal observations and caveats (between triple backticks). Your job is to:
Synthesize & Expand – Turn my notes into polished, actionable leadership principles.
Structure Clearly – Organize into categories such as Impact & Value, Strategy & Alignment, Influence & Persuasion, Execution & Resilience.
Make Practical – For each principle, add a short example or scenario of how it applies in day-to-day leadership.
Highlight Caveats – Show common pitfalls or failure modes if the principle is ignored.
Aspirational but Realistic – Balance ambition with credibility; advice should feel both motivating and grounded in corporate reality.
Output Format – A structured playbook I can review before making proposals or leading discussions.
Here are my raw notes:
```
My local notes
- Need to show delta value. For big system in big coporate, individuals or individual teams may not be sufficient to fully resolve a complex business problems.
- Clarify what the success would look like
- Understand the opinions and positions for high stakes
- Be determined and strong for your proposals
- Keep doing the same thing as the same complexity doesn’t help you level up
```
current challenge
- Leaders will see your work as “busy work” instead of transformative. Your team risks being sidelined for more “high-leverage” projects.
- Team position is very difficult
- Foundation work is hard to quantify impact
local note
- align the understanding
- clarify your boundary, role & responsibility
- need to be goal oriented. and converstion should be all around moving the goals
- be clear on who own the follow-up, and what is the timeline