Today’s episode marks a special occasion – 100 episodes of The Engineering Leadership Podcast! To celebrate, we’ve compiled some of our favorite moments from the past hundred episodes, featuring a wide range of high-energy guests and compelling topics. We cover tension points while scaling eng & product orgs, why you should seek existential issues, how to get unstuck in your career, helping engineers outgrow their positions, hyper-growing your eng org/career, identifying burnout, understanding workplace injustice, confronting your fear of failure, and much more!

Our in-person conference ELC Annual returns 10/27-28!

Learn from 60+ of the best engineering leaders in the industry / Critical insights on leadership, career and technology / Plus tons of experiences optimized for deep conversations & meaningful connections - all to help you build your support network!

Don't miss out on being part of the biggest celebration of engineering leadership of the year!

Grab your ticket HERE: sfelc.com/annual2022

SHOW NOTES:

• How to focus on what really matters... seek the "existential issues" & find where there's "Room AND Attention" - Will Larson (3:23)
• The Portfolio of Time Management - Jean-Denis Greze (8:50)
• How to get unstuck in your career - Wade Chambers (13:04)
• “Crashing” your way to a seat at the table - Melody Hildebrandt (15:51)
• The fundamentals of managing up - Jan Chong (17:12)
• Common tension points while scaling engineering and product organizations - Jeremy Henrickson (19:31)
• The story of Amazon Apollo, solving the right problem & pitching the right stakeholders - Melissa Binde (24:43)
• "Hero Developers don't scale" - Andrew Lau & Eli Daniel (30:09)
• How to increase your pool of potential candidates - Farhan Thawar (34:48)
• Why you should help engineers outgrow their positions & how to discuss career growth with your team members - Tara Ellis (39:45)
• How eng orgs (and careers) evolve through hyper-growth - Samir Naik (43:32)
• Move as fast as long as - Richard Wong (47:41)
• Lessons from leading large-scale, complex, strategic projects - Wendy Sheppard (49:38)
• How to operationalize your approach to leadership - Sri Viswanath (52:55)
• How to detect & identify the early signs of burnout in your engineering team - Erica Lockheimer, Sabry Tozin & Lori Allen (55:50)
• The root causes of workplace injustice & the roles we can play to prevent it - Kim Scott & Trier Bryan (59:29)
• Conflict optimizations vs. conflict resolution & why eng leaders need to embrace conflict - Jordan Adler (1:04:14)
• How to get over the fear of silence - Alexis Rask (1:07:22)
• Leading through uncertainty - David Silverman (1:13:50)
• "Rage-fixing" & Eddie's breakthrough moment confronting fear of failure at Gusto - Eddie Kim (1:20:05)

LINKS AND RESOURCES

• Episode 30 - Spend Time On What Matter w/ Will Larson
• Episode 18 - Building a Successfully "Spiky" Org (Part 2) w/ Jean-Denis Greze
• Episode 21 - Conscious Career Growth (part 2) w/ Wade Chambers
• Episode 72 - Why Engineering Needs a Seat at the Negotiating Table w/ Melody Hildebrandt
• Episode 43 - Managing Up w/ Jan Chong
• Episode 38 - Align & Scale Engineering AND Product w/ Jeremy Henrickson
• Episode 47 - Building Technology That Endures w/ Melissa Binde
• Episode 79 - Translating engineering to the CEO w/ Andrew Lau and Eli Daniel
• Episode 10 - Speed & Creativity in Recruiting w/ Farhan Thawar
• Episode 75 - A Counter-Intuitive Approach to Career Growth & Internal Mobility w/ Tara Ellis
• Episode 77 - How eng orgs (and careers) evolve through hyper-growth w/ Samir Naik
• Episode 63 - Speed vs. Quality w/ Richard Wong
• Episode 31 - How to Lead Large Scale Projects w/ Wendy Shepperd
• Episode 65 - Building Autonomous Teams & Engineering Career Ladders w/ Sri Viswanath
• Episode 66 - Addressing Burnout in Your Engineering Org w/ Erica Lockheimer, Sabry Tozin & Lori Allen
• Episode 44 - “Just Work” w/ Kim Scott & Trier Bryant
• Episode 74 - Conflict Optimization w/ Jordan Adler
• Episode 32 - Ask Powerful Questions w/ Alexis Rask
• Episode 12 - Leading Through Uncertainty w/ David Silverman
• Episode 29 - Remove Fear of Failure From Your Org w/ Edward Kim

SPECIAL THANK YOU TO OUR PRODUCTION TEAM

Noah Olberding, Producer

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/noah-olberding-49138a19b/

Have strong movie opinions? Send Noah a message with your hot cinema takes!

Dan Overheim, Audio Engineer

IG: @doverheim

Are you also an avid 3D printer? Check out Dan’s 3D printing work here: bnd3d.com

Ellie Coggins Angus, Copywriter

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elliecoggins/

Love books? Check out Ellie’s bookstagram: @ellieturnsthepage