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Leman Tech Leadership Podcast — 174 episodes

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#173 | Tech Leadership Q&A: How Do I Get My Team to Just Do Their Job Without Checking on Them Constantly?

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#172 | What Silicon Valley Taught a Tech Analyst About Marketing, Authority, and Never Burning Bridges w/ Mark Vena

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#171 | Tech Leadership Q&A: Am I Actually Good at This… or Did I Just Get Lucky?

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#170 | From Startup Garage to Microsoft MVP: How Continuous Learning Builds Unbreakable Tech Leaders w/ Amit Chandak, @ex-Oracle, @Kinerika

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#169 | I Wrote a Book: "From Code to People"!

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#168 | From Chaos to Clarity: Change Management, Strategic Simplicity, and the Networking Muscle You Never Built w/ Iryna Lambrianides @Clar

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#167 | Your Best Engineer Is Your Biggest Leadership Problem - Now What?

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#166 | Staff Engineering in the Age of AI How Engineering Teams, Roles, and Expectations Are Being Redefined w: Jordan Cutler @Pinterest

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#165 | The Promotion Nobody Prepared Them For

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#164 | From Five Failed Products to the 100-Person Company w/ Prashanth Tondapu (ex-@McAfee, @Innostax Tech LLC)

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#163 | “I Know I Should Say No. So Why Can't I?”

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#162 | VP of Engineering on Leading Without Drowning: Neuroscience, Boundaries, and the Skills Tech Never Tells You to Build w/ Greg Jaworek

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#161 | “Nobody Prepared Me for How Lonely This Job Would Be.”

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#160 | A Serial Founder’s Story: What It Really Takes to Build, Fail, and Scale in the AI Era w/ Łukasz Łażewski @LLInformatics

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#159 | “I Feel Like a Fraud - And I'm the One Running the Team.”

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#158 | From Teenage Entrepreneur to the CTO: Building Teams That Win in the AI Era w/ Ben Wilcox @ProArch

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#157 | Your Team Is Already Having the Hard Conversation. Just Without You

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#156 | Lead by Example or Lose the Best: What A-Players Actually Need From Their Leaders w/ Svante Horn @Scandinavian Data Centers

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#155 | The Burnout Nobody Talks About: What Happens When You, the Leader, Are Running on Empty

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#154 | Focus Is a Superpower: What 30 Years of Building Teaches Us About Tech Leadership w/ Sarah Biller @FinTech Sandbox

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#153 | Q2 Kickoff Done. So Why Isn't Anyone Moving?

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#152 | Stop Fixing, Start Leveraging: A Leader's Guide to Neurodiversity at Work w/ Kari Goldyn @woopa pro

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#151 | Your Team Is Using AI More. So Why Does Everything Feel Harder?

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#150 | From Hard Trends to Bigger Bigs: Turning Disruption Into Certainty w/ Daniel Burrus

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#149 | Your Team Isn't AI-Resistant. They're Waiting for You.

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#148 | Leveraging Incubators, Building Products & Thriving Startup Team w/ Fiona Bao @Genpulse

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#147 | Change Is Not Going to Stop — But Your Team's Suffering Can

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#146 | From Big 4 Consulting to Building a FemTech Startup w/ Maggie Lusk @ex-KMPG, @ex-Deloitte, @Seala Sync

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#145 | 70% of Tech Change Initiatives Fail — And It's Not a Technical Problem

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#144 | Directions of Tech Teams Transformation, Meaning of "AI Natives" & Creating Thriving Startups w/ Punit Jajodia @Programiz

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#143 | The IT Burnout: 6 Categories That Are Quietly Destroying Your Team

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#142 | From Legal Practice to Technology Program Delivery w/ Deborah Kaminetzky @DeFacto PM

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#141 | Nobody Wakes Up Wanting to Ruin Your Day: The OK-OK Matrix Every Tech Leader Needs

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#140 | Scaling Nations, Building Ecosystem & Building Leadership Lifelong Learning w/ Ajit Shah @YPO, @Lotus Holdings

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#139 | You Can't Debug a Human: Why Your Developer Skills Are Failing You as a Leader

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#138 | AI Community, Building Thriving Startups & Dev Teams Change w/ Oleksandr Paraska @Togal.ai

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#137 | Rethinking 1 - 1s — From Status Updates to Real Conversations

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#136 | Entrepreneurship Transformation, Courage and Interior Design (!) in Leadership w/ Aga Olszewska @LeadAsU

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#135 | The Quiet Exodus: Why Mid-Level Talent is Silently Leaving Tech Teams

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#134 | Fighting Founder's Burnout, Finding a Community and Investor's Tips w/ Jono Bacon, @ex-Github, @Stateshift

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#133 | Burnout is an Organizational Failure, Not a Personal One

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#132 | Addressing Fear of AI Transformation and Burnout & Hiring Entrepreneurial Spirit w/ Shahrzad Rafati @RHEI

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#131 | How Much Does Poor Communication Cost You (Calculator Included!)

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#130 | Leading Leaders, Building Trust and Invest in Intentional Learning w/ Pranav Lal @ex-Slack, @Gusto, @Forbes Tech Council

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#129 | How to Measure the CQ Leadership Progress in... The Onboarding Phase

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#128 | How Failures Don't Make YOU a Failure w/Colin MB Cooper

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#127 | How to Measure the CQ Leadership Progress in... The Recruitment Phase

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#126 | From a Pet Parent to a Strong Startup Founder Market Fit w/ Sebastian Gabor @Digitail

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#125 | Why So Many Tech Leaders Don't Listen? (With Solutions)

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#124 | Building Successful Startup in MedTech (Without Burnout) w/ Igor Berlinskiy @RaDoTech

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#123 | Why Are You So Angry and Frustrated as a Tech Leader?

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#122 | Transforming Health Industry with Technology w/ Chris Hutchins

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#121 | My 3 Lessons From 2025 I Want You To Have (As a Gift For 2026)

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#120 | How to Build a Multimillion Dollar Startup w/ Peter Horadan @Vouched

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#119 | Women @ Work 2025: Deloitte Report Summary

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#118 | Leading Without Formal Authority, Data Science & AI w/ Rafał Wojdan @Onex Group

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#117 | Building Visibility as a Female Leader / Founder? Here's How (Ready-To-Use Strategies)

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#116 | Essential Leadership Skills on the Roadmap of Technology Leader of the Future w/ Eric Müller @Work & Co

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#115 | 5 Key Areas for Female Leaders & Founders to Focus On in 2026

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#114 | The Future of IT Job Market & Dev Teams’ Structure w/ Angel Ferrer @Hemper

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#113 | 3 New Year's Resolutions For Every Tech Leader

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#112 | Transforming Sales Founder Mindset & Leading in Complexity w/ Andrew Brooks @ex-Accenture, @Contextual.io

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#111 | You Want to Be More Productive? Here're 3 Things You Can Start Doing Right Now

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#110 | Building Highly Successful Startup With Authenticity (and Without Burnout) w/ Trevor Horwitz @TrustNet

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#109 | Poor Communication vs AI: What Comes From This Mixture?

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#108 | Overcoming Entrepreneur's Burnout & Successful Change Management in M&A Process w/ Kevin Barnicle

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#107 | What is Adaptive Leadership?

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#106 | How To Build a Startup That Creates Real Market Value? w/ Lucas Poelman @PeachWeb

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#105 | Dealing With Conflicts? Here's the Wheel of Conflict to Solve Them All!

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#104 | How To Be a Tech Leader That People Contact Even When They're All Gone? w/ Naga Santosh Vootukuri @Microsoft

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#103 | Resilience & Stress Management: How Can I Help My Team as a Leader?

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#102 | Moving Engineering Teams Into the Next Level w/ Khushbu Shaikh @ex-Cisco @Twilio

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#101 | Is Agile Leadership Really Back?

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#100 | Fighting the Imposter Syndrome w/ AJ Lauer

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#99 | What Inclusive Leadership is Really About (Besides a Classic D&I)?

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#98 | Can a Generalist Be a Good Leader in Technology? w/ Brian Root @ex-Amazon @Rooted in Products

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#97 | 5 BIG Leadership Trends for 2026

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#96 | Winning (Anything You Want) Through Innovation w/ Stephen W. Hinch

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#95 | 5 Simple Things You Can Do Better To Manage Change

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#94 | Looking For a Mentor? Here're 3 Things You Can Do

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#93 | From Leader's Ego to Team Empowerment & Growth w/ Catherine Hicks

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#92 | Building a Learning Culture & Critical Thinking in AI World w/ Mel Morris @Corpora.ai

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#91 | Why Should We All Grow a Pattern Recognition Muscle?

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#90 | Lessons from Startup Leadership & Entrepreneurship w/ Ari Block

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#89 | Where to Start Building a Startup Team?

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#88 | Building a Working Startup Matrix with Co-Founders, Team Members & Investors w/ Paulo Ferreira dos Santos

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#87 | 10 Easy Steps to Lead a Remote First Team with Success

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#86 | Software Engineering, Generation Alpha & IT Leadership Essentials w/ Jacob Anderson

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#85 | 5 Things You Can Do To Build a Real Cross-Organizational Collaboration (Not a Fake One)

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#84 | Using Tech Skills in Solving Business Problems w/ Anant Agarwal @Aidora | Ex-Google

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#83 | Why Some Employees Don't Want to Grow & Learn? Here're 10 Reasons

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#82 | From Theoretical Physics to a Startup w/Andrea Monti Solza @conveyo

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#81 | How to Lead a Growth Conversation With An Employee? Quick 9-Step Growth Framework

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#80 | Creating a True Learning Culture in IT Organization w/ Marcus Fontoura @Microsoft

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#79 | Digital Detox While Working With Tech: Is It Even Possible?

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#78 | From Code to Culture - Transforming Toxic Work Environments w/ Anne Glaberson

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#77 | Ready-To-Use Solutions to Prevent (or Stop) Burnout in Tech

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#76 | Founder's Journey - Leading with Responsibility and Care w/ Asia Solnyshkina

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#75 | One Thing You Can Do To... Choose Which Tasks To Do

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#74 | From Consulting Giants to Process Excellence w/ Michael Schank

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#73 | Burnout in IT / Tech Root Causes & Solutions

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#72 | Building Engineering Teams w/ Siri Varma Vegiraju @Microsoft

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#71 | How Much Does a Communication Debt Really Cost Us?

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#70 | Regaining Leadership Energy, Team Accountability & Progress w/ Jim Mirochnik

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#69 | The One Thing You Can Do When... Somebody Withdraws

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#68 | Avoiding Toxic People & Leading Scaling-Up Tech Business That Creates Something Bigger w: Bill Powers

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#67 | The One Thing You Can Do When... Somebody Manipulates You

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#66 | Fighting Perfectionism & Keeping Passion While Building a Thriving Startup w/ Kenny Kelley

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#65 | The One Thing You Can Do When... Somebody Attacks You

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#64 | From Interpol to the Cyber Security Leadership w/ Monika Bubeła

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#63 | 8 Practical Application of CQ in Your Work (and Life)

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#62 | Growing Yourself & Team in Scaling-Up Business w/ Natalia Buczel @SII

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#61 | The One Thing You Can Do To... Overcome Resistance in a Team

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#60 | The One Thing That You Can Do To... Run Effective Meetings

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#59 | From Marvel Fan to the Engineering Director w/ Kuba Jastrzębski @OLX

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#58 | The One Thing You Can Do To... Build Your Growth Mindset

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#57 | Women Empowerment in the Tech & VC World w/ Alaina Percival

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#56 | The One Thing You Can Do To... Run Great 1:1s

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#55 | How Leaders Can Use AI to Get Their Time Back? w/ Ajay Malik

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#54 | Why Is It So Hard for SMEs to Be Good Leaders?

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#53 | Creating a Product-Centered Organization w/ Alicja Karalus @OLX

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#52 | 5 Things of Work Environment That People Can't Wait For Monday To Come Back To

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#51 | What Makes a Tech Leader Successful? w/ Łukasz Filut

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#50 | The One Thing You Can Do To... Build a Dream Team

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#49 | Quitting Copy/Paste Approach While Moving to the Founder Role w/ Marcin Przybyła

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#48 | The One Thing You Can Do To... Boost Decision-Making in Your Team

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#47 | Creating Partnership While Building and Leading a Startup w/ Wojciech Ziółkowski & Jeremiasz Kucharski @Cloudhive.pl

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#46 | The One Thing You Can Do To... Skyrocket Your Productivity

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#45 | Overcoming Job Market Constraints and Building a Strong Startup Team w/ Filip Sobel @Staffly

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#44 | How to Transform Drama Triangle to the Winning Triangle?

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#43 | Navigating Through the Leadership Challenges w/ Anna Raubo

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#42 | 6 Ways to Get Our Energy Back (With Solutions!)

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#41 | Fighting the Doubts on the Journey of Tech Leadership w/ Agata Pawlak

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#40 | Strengthening Problem Solving Muscle (including Action Learning Framework)

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#39 | Do Unpopular Opinions Create Great Tech Leads? w/ Greg Droń

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#38 | Delegation - Why We Don't Do It As Leaders (and How Much Does it Cost)?

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#37 | Coaching in Leadership Demystified! Tech Transformation in People Space w/ Marta Kramer

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#36 | Stress in Teams - How a Leader Should React When People Are Acting Like Crazy?

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#35 | How to Lead Tech Teams With Authenticity? w| Anastasia Zygmantovich @Reckitt

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#34 | Why One-Size-Fits-All Leadership Approach Fails and What to Do To Transform It?

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#33 | Using Scrum to Create an Extraordinary Tech Leadership Career | Mikołaj Kosyra

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#32 | How Contracting Can Change Your Work and Life?

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#31 | 10 Things That People Love About Being Leaders

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#30 | TEAMING - Why No One Teaches Us How to Be Good Team Members?

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#29 | Leadership vs Management: What's More Important? | Paweł Sołowiński

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#28 | 7 Skills That Tech Team Members Don't Learn (and They SHOULD!)

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#27 | How to Organize Work so Nobody Hates You?

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#26 | Is Team Conflict Really a Bad Thing?

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#25 | Building the Dream Tech Team: Best Practices for Team Development in 2025

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#24 | How to Be a Tech Leader That Doesn't Doesn't Give Up the Tech Part? | Alexey Chaplygin

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#23 | How to Boost Efficiency and Team Engagement? Use OKRs!

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#22 | Practical Ways to Lead Transformations With Success | Przemek Kotecki @Brenntag

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#21 | Kickstart Your Year: 5 Transforming Actions for Tech Leaders in 2025

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#20 | Who Should We Be As Real Tech Leaders in 2025? | Bartek Bandrowski @expondo

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#19 | What I've Learned About Growth Choices (the Hard Way)?

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#18 | How a Network Can Change Your Leadership | Przemek Siódmiak @313C

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#17 | Why Habits are Better Than Goals?

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#16 | 10 Things to Do to Fail Miserably as a Tech Leader in 2025

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#15 | What is CQ?

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#14 |The BIG Truth - You Can't Motivate Your People

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#13 | People First Leading Transformative Change | Kasia Bielecka

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#12 | Why Leaders Quit Learning?

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#11 | Building a Tech Leadership Growth Mindset | Wojciech Dymowski @Baigiel

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#10 | Why People Don't Give Feedback? 5 Reasons and 4A Feedback Framework

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#9 | How to Be an Effective Leader in HR Tech Startup? | Kasia Gryzło @HearMe

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#8 | What Makes the Communication Triangle Complete? Non-Verbal Communication!

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#7 | Number 1 Reason of Conflicts Between People? Communication Channels

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#6 | OK-OK Matrix as a Tool for a Transformational Leader

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#5 | How to Boost Employees' Motivation? 9 PCM Needs

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#4 | How Work Environmental Preferences Influence Our Efficiency?

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#3 | Limitless Leadership with Evgeny Lukin

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#2 | 6 Types of Behaviors in Process Communication Model for Tech Leaders

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#1 | 7 Reasons That People Quit Organizations

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