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It Depends: Lessons in Technology Leadership — 61 episodes
Becoming a Business Leader
Working with the CEO: Close Enough to Influence, Independent Enough to Be Honest
Don't Let Your Boss Do Your Job
Every Organization Is a System. Are You Designing It or Just Living in It?
The Director to CTO Path: How to Follow It, or How to Mentor It
Talking to Executives: That's Not a Derailment, That's the Meeting
The Shift to Managing Managers
Leading What You've Never Done Before
Success Makes You Dangerous: Why Comfortable Leaders Stop Growing
The Right Amount of Process: Finding the Balance Between Chaos and Bureaucracy
Technical Debt Isn't the Enemy: A Strategic Framework for Engineering Leaders
Demystifying Board Meetings: A CTO's Perspective
Crafting a Technical Strategy
Making Technology Choices That Last
The Hidden Architecture of Engineering: Practical Lessons in Organizational Design
Values → Culture → Everything: Why Company Culture Actually Matters
How to Handle Career Gaps and What CTOs Actually Do All Day
ENCORE: The Myth of the Startup in a Large Company with Kevin Stewart
ENCORE: Building a technical career path at Spotify
ENCORE: Addressing the challenges of partially distributed engineering teams
ENCORE: Becoming a CTO
ENCORE: Fail Safe, Fail Smart... Succeed!
Why I Wrote a Book: A Meta Episode on Self-Publishing and DIY Business
Answers That Depend: Tech Leadership Q&A Part 3
Answers that Depend: Tech Leadership Q & A pt 2
Answers That Depend: Tech Leadership Q&A Part 1
Succession for Scale
The Myth of the Startup in a Large Company with Kevin Stewart
Lessons From Creating The Spotify Technology Career Steps
Spotify Technology Career Steps
Building a technical career path at Spotify
Changing Hiring Practices to Build a More Diverse Technology Organization
A diversity challenge: tech start-ups have a great opportunity
Building a Management Training Curriculum at Avvo
Using Self-Selection to Create Journey Teams at Avvo
Thoughts on emulating Spotify’s matrix organization in other companies
The Spotify model: how to create, dissolve, and remix teams to be more dynamic and more innovative
Transcript of my speech from OPEX Week Summer 2018
Hiring Agile Coaches
Management and Systems Thinking
Writing Useful Performance Reviews: Delivering the Review
Writing Useful Performance Reviews: Making a Raise Recommendation
Writing Useful Performance Reviews: Evaluating the data and writing the review
Writing Useful Performance Reviews: Assembling the data
Twenty Questions For Your One-on-Ones
Addressing the challenges of partially distributed engineering teams
A Resignation Can Be an Opportunity
What do I look for when hiring an engineer?
Every Decision Creates a Policy
Protecting Your Team From Layoffs
The P Word (Politics at work)
Creating a Vernacular With Your Engineering Team
Becoming a CTO
How I Get My Focused Work Done / The Known Unknowns
Own Your Calendar / Work Deliberately
The Personal Strategy Off-site
When, why, and how to stop coding as your day job
Taking a thoughtful approach to the job search process
The challenge of top-down change and the Microsoft layoffs
Fail Safe, Fail Smart... Succeed!
Introduction