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Bursting Leadership Bubbles
Are your views and ideas constantly challenged, or are you surrounded by people who cannot help but think the same or are afraid of speaking up? Burst out of your bubble.
Serendipity Lubrication
What can you do to increase the chances of serendipity happening and increase your executive leverage?
Filling the Void
What voids are being formed around you, why your team is sometimes like sponges, why your management team is on the catwalk, and what's the law of culture accumulation?
Infatuation with Ingenuity
Are you being clever just because you feel like it?
The Overpowering R&D Organization
Sometimes, we have more power than we realize, and we abuse it.
Learning in the Open
What can a group of strangers who speak different languages teach us about collaboratively accelerating learning?
Organizational Smells
How can you quickly spot issues in your organization? Organizational smells are like coding smells for executives.
Senior Engineers
Seniority's not merely about technical proficiency.
Drawing the Line
Sometimes, you have to draw a line. Other times, you should move on. Which is which?
Self Fulfilling Prophecies
Sometimes, merely preparing for the worst is actually setting your team up for it.
Level of Coaching
Are you practicing coaching at the right levels of your organization?
Against Executive Quarantine
Are you too going into executive lockdown? Stop it!
Hackathons are a Hack
Are you content with your once a quarter hackathon that you post on social media? You shouldn't be.
Committing to Committing
You may have promised something, but did you promise to follow-through?
The Goldilocks Gravity
Are you too gravitating towards a Goldilocks kind of thinking?
Personal Definition of Done
What will you achieve?
Business to Engineering Connection
Why would your engineers care about the business impact if it's never relayed to them?
Speaking Up
With great responsibility should come great power. Use it.
The Ultimate Tech Executive
I often am asked about what defines the best tech executives I work with.
Zooming on Impact
Are you engineers just spending their time in another Zoom, or are they providing impact?
Motivation
Motivation is the basis for successful force-multipliers.
Managers vs. Executives
Managers and executives, what's the difference really?
Company Generations
Each generation stands on the shoulders of the generation that came before it.
Cultivating Culture
A robust culture is one of the tenets for creating a world-class engineering team.
Comfort Zones
Comfort zones. They're comfy—but you shouldn't allow yourself or your team to get too comfy.
Floating Leaders
This week we’re talking about setting a direction for yourself and your team, along with a short self-assessment from my coaching toolkit.
Picking Fights
You can't create the perfect company, but you cannot give simply give up as well.
Deadlines
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” ― Douglas Adams.
Firmness of Opinions
How well done should your opinions be?
Triage
Stop being reactive and take control of your day.