40% Better - Engineering Leadership
by Bill
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Make No Problem Difficult to Diagnose: Leading With Vision
Make No Problem Difficult to Diagnose: Leading With Vision
About this podcast
Every week, we invite 1 expert on employee engagement and deep-dive into unlocking previously unheard of performance levels in teams and leaders.
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Episodes
The newest 20 of 153 episodes
- Make No Problem Difficult to Diagnose: Leading With Vision · 48 min · Season 1 Episode 147Yu Dong went from IBM engineer to leader at Alibaba and now PingCAP, a global startup with teams across the US, Europe and Asia. Every time he inherited a lost team, the missing…
- The Conductor Doesn’t Make a Sound: Leading Without Being the Boss · 52 min · Season 1 Episode 146Lee Atchison never set out to be a leader. He went from reading paper stack dumps at Hewlett-Packard and posting on Usenet in 1984 to naming himself “chief architect” when a…
- Stay Risky: Psychological Safety and Learning From Failure · 58 min · Season 1 Episode 145Leaders say failure is a learning opportunity. Their teams watch what they actually do when something breaks. Rachel Franco, founder of Fail Smarter, spent years in innovation…
- You’re Not Paid to Be Right, You’re Paid to Get to Right · 55 min · Season 1 Episode 144Jason Hamilton was leading a team in Hong Kong by his second week out of grad school. In this episode he explains how that trial by fire taught him to lead with humility. He…
- “If You’re Not Serving a Customer, Serve Someone Who Is” · 1 h 0 min · Season 1 Episode 143“If you’re not serving a customer, you’d better be serving somebody who is.” Bill talks with Marc Haine, a hospitality leader, culture builder and author of Lights, Camera…
- Treat It as an Experiment · 56 min · Season 1 Episode 142"You won’t automate yourself out of a job. You’ll automate yourself into a better one." Bill talks with Jackie Teran, VP of Engineering at Forerunner, whose path ran from class…
- “You Don’t Report to Me. You Work With Me” · 54 min · Season 1 Episode 141“You don’t report to me. You work with me.” Bill sits down to talk with Nir Valtman, co-founder of Arnica, whose leadership began when the Israeli Air Force told him the only…
- Why Invisible Work Doesn’t Get Promoted · 1 h 9 min · Season 1 Episode 140A failure that didn’t happen is worth zero, at least to most companies. Bill talks with Jeremy McEntire, a former Army officer candidate turned engineering leader and the author…
- A Team, Not a Family: Leadership Lessons from the Rugby Field · 39 min · Season 1 Episode 139“Rather than asking for permission, say ‘I intend to.’” Bill talks with Emilie Schario, a product and engineering leader whose company was just acquired by Anaconda, about…
- There’s No Traffic on the Extra Mile: · 1 h 5 min · Season 1 Episode 138If you step up and volunteer, you’ll get noticed. Bill talks with Barry Moline, a former pro hockey referee, two-time CEO of statewide utility associations, and author of…
- The Sought-After Leader: Getting Noticed Without Asking · 52 min · Season 1 Episode 137Being great isn’t enough. It’s just the baseline. Bill talks with Uma Subramanian, founder of Limitless Leaders, author of The Sought-After Leader, and a 20-year Microsoft…
- You Don’t Have to Command the Room to Lead · 50 min · Season 1 Episode 136You don’t have to command the room to lead. Bill Lennan talks with Todd Gower, co-founder of personal finance app Hiatus, who was leading a band at age 10 but later convinced…
- How You Work Matters More Than the Work · 31 min · Season 1 Episode 135“How you do the work is so much more important than the work.” Bill talks with Maria Colacurcio, CEO of a growth-stage company building AI-powered pay software, whose first…
- Settlement vs. Resolution: Why Winning the Argument Isn’t Enough · 47 min · Season 1 Episode 134“You can build a case and fix blame, or you can build a relationship and fix the problem.” Bill meets with Sam Imperati, a former trial lawyer and part-time judge who has been a…
- It’s Our Job to Create Our Own Happiness, with Basel Yandem · 55 min · Season 1 Episode 133You don’t find happiness. You create it. Bill chats with Basel Yandem, a civil engineer and life and leadership coach who started leading at age 10 in the Scouts and was running…
- Seen, Heard, and Understood, with Aaron Streeton · 53 min · Season 1 Episode 132There are only three things people want: to be seen, heard, and understood. Bill listens to wisdom from Aaron Streeton, an operations consultant and executive coach who was…
- Whatever Is in the Way Becomes the Way, with Dave Saunders · 60 min · Season 1 Episode 135“I never once raised my hand and said I want to be a manager. I just led.” Bill talks with Dave Saunders, who joined an internet company in 1989 and has been building ever…
- The Human in the Loop: Leading and Building With AI · 42 min · Season 1 Episode 131“If you’re already good at what you do, AI is great. If you’re not, don’t expect it to do everything for you.” Bill talks with Kam Low, a self-taught technical founder who left…
- From 45 Days to 20 Minutes: What Happens When You Empower the Front Line with Chad Harris · 52 min · Season 1 Episode 130Rank and authority aren’t the same as respect, and you don’t need a title to lead. Bill talks with Chad Harris, a software engineering leader from Melbourne, Australia, whose…
- You Are Capable of More, with Chris Sund · 53 min · Season 1 Episode 129Success is what you build; significance is who is better because of you. Bill talks with Chris Sund, a healthcare staffing leader and author of You Are Capable of More. Chris…
