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Staffing Your Team
Hiring people is probably taking up a significant portion of your and your managers' time. Are you doing it correctly?
Permission to Focus
This week's episode is a quick coaching session to help you achieve more.
Immutable Organizations
Immutability is all the rage in tech, but that's where it should be left.
The Captain Planet Megazord
There are some critical aspects that make for the difference between a glorified manager and a genuine executive.
It's Never Too Early
Are you leading your people or are you more of a driving instructor?
Directionless CTOs
They say that when you don't know where you're heading, no wind is a good wind. Are you a directionless CTO?
Tech Debt as Offensive Weapon
Tech debt doesn't have to be something we're afraid of.
Making Use of Common Sense
Is your common sense filter too sensitive? Are you listening to that little nagging voice in your too often?
OKR Pitfalls
It's OKR season, but are you doing it right?
Valuing Your Time
How much is an hour of your time really worth?
Redefining Success
How your team's definition of success might be setting them up to fail.
What Are Your Intentions?
When you don't know where you're headed, no wind is a good wind.
Budgeting Tricks for Headcount Planning
Being responsible with your budget doesn't mean that you cannot use the same creativity you'd use when tackling any other problem.
Spotting Delegation Opportunities
Your leverage relies on your ability to ensure you're not getting sucked into day-to-day minutiae.
Thinking in Results
Why do you even bother with a big rewrite? Is there a customer that will pay you more for having happier engineers?
Work Visibility
Make the work visible.
Tunnel Vision
Sometimes doubling down on the way you thought things should work is just throwing good money after bad.
Naming Things
Phil Karlton said, "There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things." In this episode, I'm not going to be talking about cache invalidation, but about the art of naming parts of your organization correctly.
Do You Have to Be a Manager?
Does being an executive necessarily mean that you have to manage a sizable organization in your company?
Value Boxing
Too often, we're treating work planning the wrong way around.
The Tech-Product Continuum
Every engineer can tend this way or that.
The Vacation Test
Summer's here. Let's use it to flesh out some patches and hacks in your organization.
Impact Per Engineer
I say at the beginning of episodes that I'm helping you triple impact-per-engineer. What does it mean, actually?
Organization Homogeny
Sprucing up your innovation quotient and lubricating your serendipity by introducing some entropy.
Management Guilds
Here's an impactful tactic with an incredible ROI to make your management team better.
Making It Personal
Let's talk about your personal role in what is going on around you.
100 Lessons from 100 Episodes
Celebrating the 100th episode with 100 lessons picked from the previous episodes.
Over Prep
Join me to hear the story about the VP that knew it all, except for how to use his knowledge.
Exponential Backoff
Wondering what an algorithm I read about as a teenager has to do with your day-to-day as an executive?
Innovation Starvation
Are you making your team's creativity muscles slow atrophy?
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