
Career Moves · Track 4
Indie Rock · Building from intimate to cathartic release
Tara Seshan · How to communicate tradeoffs so leaders will listen
“We only had to do the one most important thing! This led to many fewer late nights at the computer for me and my team.”- Tara Seshan
Tara Seshan spent years watching her tradeoff presentations end with leaders saying 'just do both.' When she became a manager, she finally understood why: she'd been framing choices in ways that invited avoidance. She developed a framework for forcing real decisions — and the first time it worked, the relief of only doing the one thing was exhilarating.