Remote Teams and the Importance of Employee Mental Health with Katie Womersley

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Hiring Best Practices and Diversity and Inclusion with Rachael Stedman

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There will not be a podcast episode this week – April 1, 2018 (Easter / Spring Break)

To my listeners:  Due to work logistics, moderating a panel, Easter weekend and Spring Break, there will not be a new podcast published this week.  Please stay tuned as the SimpleLeadership Podcast will return with a new episode next Sunday evening.

Thank you,

Christian

The Hardest Scaling Challenge of All – Yourself

The Lead Developer

You’ve built websites that scaled to millions of users, indexed terabytes of data, and created automatic deployments to thousands of nodes – but now you’re struggling to manage a handful of people. You’re in meetings all day, deadlines are looming, a Board presentation is approaching, your top engineer just disappeared to “”find themselves”” and annual […]

How to Become a True Engineering Leader? (Live Plato Event)

Play / pause 1x 1.5x 2x 0:00 0:00 0:00 volume How to Become a True Engineering Leader? (Live Plato Event) Four Engineering Managers from Facebook, Kabam, Clever, and Medium shared their tips on becoming a great Engineering Leader during the Plato event hosted on May 15, 2017 in San Francisco. Moderator: Christian McCarrick, CTO/VP of engineering at Telmate […]

Engineering Team Values with Jean-Denis Greze

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How to Change a Team’s Culture with Ian Miell

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Humanizing the Interviewing Process with Emily Leathers

Play / pause 1x 1.5x 2x 0:00 0:00 0:00 volume Humanizing the Interviewing Process with Emily Leathers Emily Leathers helps leaders, teams, and communities achieve big goals that make a difference. She’s lucky enough to hold two dream jobs at the same time: as a Director of Engineering at a small startup called Brigade, where […]

Training is the manager’s job. Training is the highest leverage activity a manager can do to increase the output of an organization. If a manager spends 12 hours preparing training for 10 team members that increases their output by 1% on average, the result is 200 hours of increased output from the 10 employees (each works about 2000 hours a year). Don’t leave training to outsiders, do it yourself

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Scaling Engineering Teams with Matias Woloski

Play / pause 1x 1.5x 2x 0:00 0:00 0:00 volume Scaling Engineering Teams with Matias Woloski Matias Woloski is the CTO and co-founder of Auth0, an identity platform that provides authentication, authorization and single-sign-on as a service. Auth0 was founded in 2013 and it has now 300 employees and it’s a fully distributed company. Since […]