How to Manage Remote Teams [and Help Them Thrive] with Dana Lawson

Play / pause 1x 1.5x 2x 0:00 0:00 00:48:39 volume How to Manage Remote Teams [and Help Them Thrive] with Dana Lawson If you’re in a leadership position in the engineering industry and have suddenly been thrust into working remotely, it may feel like your world has been turned upside down. In this episode of […]

Follow These Steps to Combat Loneliness in Leadership with Suzan Bond

Play / pause 1x 1.5x 2x 0:00 0:00 00:43:29 volume Follow These Steps to Combat Loneliness in Leadership with Suzan Bond If you are transitioning into an executive or leadership role in an organization, you can find yourself dealing with incredible loneliness. You also deal with a change in power dynamics, gaps in information, and […]

How to Manage Efficiently Through a Merger or Acquisition with Loïc Houssier

Play / pause 1x 1.5x 2x 0:00 0:00 00:45:51 volume How to Manage Efficiently Through a Merger or Acquisition with Loïc Houssier Effectively leading a team through an acquisition or merger can be shaky ground to navigate. You aren’t just dealing with merging teams, tech stack, and processes—but also a culture. Your team needs leadership […]

Lead Developer – Christian McCarrick Talk Notes

The Lead Developer - Christian McCarrick

  Please find links to all of the items I mentioned during my talk at The Lead Developer London.  You will find my slides at the bottom.  Feel free to also listen to some of my great guests talk about engineering leadership on my Podcast and subscribe on iTunes. Introduction The Lead Developer The Manager’s […]

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 […]

Top Mistakes Men Make When Managing Women

A company’s culture is typically set by the founders and/or management team.  If a company is founded and led by men (of which the majority are in the technology space), it stands to reason that the culture will reflect that fact.  This can lead to a company culture and management style that (inadvertently) makes mistakes […]