Afleveringen
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We're all going to make a lot of mistakes, we might as well get better at maximizing the learning-per-mistake we get. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger⊠if you actually make the effort to get better knowing what you now know. This week's episode is about managing your mistakes portfolio.
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Everyone celebrates long-tenured team membersâbut what if comfort is killing your company? Let's discuss the hidden dangers of having people whoâve been in the same seat for too long. From culture fossilization to growth stagnation, weâll talk about how stability can become a sedative, and why fresh eyesânot old habitsâare what drive real progress. If youâve got people who âknow how things work,â ask yourself: are they still moving forward, or just making sure nothing changes?
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When things arenât going smoothly, most tech leaders donât slow down to rethinkâthey speed up to fix. We overcompensate. We protect the team too much, get involved in every decision, pile on late nights, or jump in to do othersâ jobs. It feels noble, but itâs actually avoidance. In this episode, I unpack the hidden damage of overcompensating leadership: how it stunts team growth, creates dependency, and feeds your own ego more than your orgâs future. If you think youâre being helpful, this oneâs for you.
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Many leaders nowadays suffer from this chronic condition. They do everything right if you only judge each single action by itself. On any given day, you can look at their decisions and say you would've done the same. But the best leaders know that this is a "greedy algorithm" sort of trap and escape. Are you suffering from chronic reaction?
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Imagine if your private leadership notebook â the one where you wrote what you really think about your team â suddenly became public.
How surprised would they be reading it? How surprised would you be watching their reactions?
In this episode, we explore the uncomfortable but essential gap between what leaders think and what they actually say.
Learn why withholding honest feedback creates silent confusion, why coaching means sharing the real story early, and how radical transparency can turn things around.
The uncomfortable truth:
If honesty would shock your team, your leadership isnât as strong as you think.
Stop Ad-Hoc Leading
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Product Mastery â The Tech Leaderâs Force Multiplier
Most tech leaders settle for âunderstanding the product.â But true product mastery is something else entirely. Itâs the difference between being a tech "leader" and being a genuine executive. In this episode, the final one in the series, we unpack what product mastery really means, why itâs the trait that amplifies all the others, and how it lets you shape not just what gets builtâbut what wins. If youâve ever felt like your teamâs impact is capped by business decisions you donât control, this is your way in.Grab a copy of my books, Capitalizing Your Technology and The Tech Executive Operating System.
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Executive Mindset â Suspending Disbelief
Before you shoot it down, can you believe itâs possible? This penultimate episode in our eight traits series is about cultivating the executive mindset: the leader who fuels momentum by suspending disbelief, creating space for bold solutions instead of killing ideas with realism too soon.Don't be a CT-No video.
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Say It Like You Mean It: Communication for Tech Leaders
In this episode, we continue our deep dive into the eight essential traits of exceptional tech leadersâthis time, tackling the ever-crucial skill of communication. Too many leaders assume that because theyâve said something, theyâve communicated it. But how often have you walked away from a conversation certain you were clear, only to discover later that the other person heard something entirely different?
Whether youâre speaking to your team, your peers, or your boardâthis is the difference between alignment and chaos.
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Youâre Not CoachingâYouâre Just Talking at People
In this next installment of the Eight Traits series, we dive into one of the most misunderstood (and underused) leadership skills: Coaching.
Everyone thinks theyâre coaching because they give feedback or advice. But real coaching? Itâs about helping people think better, not just telling them what to do.
If you want a team of independent thinkersânot task rabbitsâthis oneâs a must.
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Most tech leaders say they value autonomy. But when it comes to actually letting go and empowering their teams? Thatâs where the cracks show. In this episode of the Eight Traits series, I unpack how autonomy isnât just about giving freedomâitâs about intentional delegation, trust, and designing teams that think for themselves (without blowing things up).
If youâre still the bottleneckâor if âdelegationâ means throwing tasks over the fenceâthis oneâs for you.
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For years, Iâve guided tech executives through a simple self-assessment of eight leadership traitsâhelping them pinpoint the highest-ROI areas for growth. Now, Iâm bringing that process to the podcast. In this series, weâll break down each trait, giving you a framework to assess yourself and practical ways to improve.
After previously discussing vision, now we're covering translating that into action: Instilling Purpose. Vision's no good if it's locked up in your head because then you have to play the master of puppets to make it a reality. Once you master instilling purpose, you gain the genuine benefit of having an empowered team work toward the same objective. More on cultivating that in this week's episode.
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For years, Iâve guided tech executives through a simple self-assessment of eight leadership traitsâhelping them pinpoint the highest-ROI areas for growth. Now, Iâm bringing that process to the podcast. In this series, weâll break down each trait, giving you a framework to assess yourself and practical ways to improve.
This time, we're continuing with vision: A foundational tenet of every strategy, executives who lack vision don't know where they're headed. Let's go over simple questions to assess whether you've got enough of a vision or not.
Check out my video about moving upstream and gaining vision.
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For years, Iâve guided tech executives through a simple self-assessment of eight leadership traitsâhelping them pinpoint the highest-ROI areas for growth. Now, Iâm bringing that process to the podcast. In this series, weâll break down each trait, giving you a framework to assess yourself and practical ways to improve.
Weâre starting with accountability: Can people trust you to follow through? Do you deliver on what you commit to? Letâs find out.
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When you're playing other people's games, you're following a path selected by others. You might have a better way of reaching that destination, or an entirely different one. Too often, we find ourselves playing by rules that werenât designed for us, following paths that donât serve us, and chasing goals we never truly chose. In this episode, I break down the power of opting out, the courage it takes to reject playing other peopleâs games, and how tech leaders can create careers and companies that align with what actually matters.
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This team was spinning its wheels for weeksâendless discussions, half-baked experiments, and no real progress. Then, they put a âsafety netâ in place, and within days, they made leaps they hadnât achieved in months.
What changed? And more importantlyâcan you do the same?
Too often, teams fear taking bold steps because failure feels too costly. But with the right structures in place, they stop playing defense and start creating.In this episode, we dive into how the right guardrails can unlock innovation rather than stifle it. Tune in to learn how to cultivate a culture where risk-taking is productive, creativity flows, and your team moves forwardâfast.
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đ„ Salad or Risotto? The Leadership Balancing Act đ
Some things can be tossed together in minutes. Others need time to develop depth and character.
đĄ A salad? Chop, mix, done. Quick and fresh.
đ„ Risotto? Slow, careful stirring. Rushing ruins it.
In tech leadership, knowing what needs speed and what demands patience is everything.
Confuse the two, and you end up with a half-baked strategyâor worse, a burnt-out team.
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Leadership headaches? If youâre just taking painkillers instead of treating the root cause, youâre letting problems fester until they explodeâusually at the worst time. Are you practicing âIbuprofen Managementâ? Letâs talk about it in this weekâs episode.
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Some engineering leaders are so process-driven, theyâre practically begging AI to replace them. Are you so intent on bolting everything down, you're mostly ensuring there's no innovation happening? Don't be a bureaucrat. Over-optimization and rigid systems kill creativity, making human leadership irrelevant. More on this week's episode.
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Is your team essentially operating like teenagers working at McDonald's, not having any real authority or agency to do anything without asking for their parent's permission? The right coaching and environment can unlock their potential, and the wrong ones easily deteriorate into a messy space with lots of unhappy faces. More on this week's podcast episode.
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Being easy on the trigger with the titles and "roles" you hand out can really skew your organization's culture in the wrong direction. Here's the story of a real company I came across with no "plain" ICs and how you *should* handle titles and lead roles.
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