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Grown Up Conversations
Let's talk about things like adults.
Personal Growth Attention
Your team's doing good, but how about you?
Breaking Momentum
Sometimes, going with the momentum is bad, especially for you, personally.
Fear of Accountability
You're not afraid of your own accountability, but are you holding your team accountable?
Bursting Bubbles
*Pop* It's time that you go outside of your little cocoon and see what is going on around you.
The Never-Ending Story
We're never gonna be done.
Choosing Yourself First
It is counterintuitive for many leaders to realize that they have to prioritize themselves for the rest of the team to be effective.
Universe Elasticity
As you gain more altitude in your role, you should use the better vision that comes with it.
Bright Spots
If you're feeling like all the wind has been knocked out of you as you're approaching another challenge, consider finding the bright spots first.
Growing Up
Sometimes we've got to grow up.
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...
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.
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