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#195 | Your Team Just Got a Digital Twin of You. So What Are You Actually For Now?

#194 | Why Co-Founding with Your Brother, Detaching from Your Product, and Staying in the Code Makes You a Better Leader w/ Piotr Karwatka

#193 | You Put Psychological Safety in a Slide Deck. Your Team Still Doesn’t Feel It.

#192 | From Corporate Beast to a Founder: On Lifelong Learning, System Thinking, and Leading with Good Intentions w/ Paulina Kotowska @Lejdi

#191 | Face It Till You Make It: The Real Reason You Keep Giving Up

#190 | Curiosity in the Age of AI Humility, Digital Twins, and Why the Smartest Person in the Room Stops Learning w Ashutosh Garg

#189 | How to Lead Engineers Who Don't Want Your Career Path?

#188 | From Renting Lambos for Crypto to Deterministic AI Agents: Self-Worth, Startups, and Finding the Right Co-Founder w/ Aleksandra Łoś

#187 | The Always-On Leader: You Can't Contract Boundaries You Don't Practice

#186 | Imposter Syndrome, the Funding Gap, and Building the STEMinist Summit w/ AJ Lauer (Founder @Thriving Ibis Leadership Solutions)

#185 | The Loneliness of the Leader Who Do You Actually Talk To Now

#184 | Signal vs. Noise: How to Lead with Simplicity, Vulnerability, and Radical Clarity w/ Keith Zubchevich (@ex-Cisco, @Conviva)

#183 | Return to Office Isn't a Policy Problem. It's a Values Conflict You're Being Asked to Enforce.

#182 | Clear Is Kind: Why Most Leaders Avoid the Conversations That Actually Matter w/ Peter Murphy @Pocket Prep

#181 | I Don't Have Answers (and My Team Needs Them Anyway)

#180 | Ditch the Shock Collar: Why Punishment-Based Leadership Fails (and What Works Instead) w/ Craig Taylor @Cyberhoot

#179 | My Team Uses AI to Do the Work. How Do I Know If They're Actually Good at Their Job?

#178 | Female Founders, Fear of Success, and the Leadership Leap Nobody Prepares You For w: Nita Laad (@ex-Cisco, @ex-HP, @Nexia AI)

#177 | Tech Leadership Q&A: How Do I Push Back on My Manager's Unrealistic Deadline or Scope?

#176 | From PhD to Director: What Academia Never Teaches You About Leading People w/ Quentin Reul (Director of AI Strategy @expert.ai)

#175 | Tech Leadership Q&A: Why Does the Same Feedback Land for One Person and Wreck Another?

#174 | A-Players, Task Monkeys, and the AI Reckoning w: Francis Brero (VP AI Strategy @HG Insights)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

#165 | The Promotion Nobody Prepared Them For

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

#119 | Women @ Work 2025: Deloitte Report Summary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

#107 | What is Adaptive Leadership?

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

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

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

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

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

#101 | Is Agile Leadership Really Back?

#100 | Fighting the Imposter Syndrome w/ AJ Lauer

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

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

#97 | 5 BIG Leadership Trends for 2026

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

#89 | Where to Start Building a Startup Team?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

#31 | 10 Things That People Love About Being Leaders

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

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

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

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

#26 | Is Team Conflict Really a Bad Thing?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

#17 | Why Habits are Better Than Goals?

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

#15 | What is CQ?

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

#13 | People First Leading Transformative Change | Kasia Bielecka

#12 | Why Leaders Quit Learning?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

#4 | How Work Environmental Preferences Influence Our Efficiency?

#3 | Limitless Leadership with Evgeny Lukin

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

#1 | 7 Reasons That People Quit Organizations

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