Celebrating 100 episodes - our favorite moments from the Engineering Leadership Podcast so far
The Engineering Leadership Podcast
How to Scale a Company
"I never hired like, a thousand people before going to extreme riht," he says. "Who knew that by trying these crazy experiments, that we were able to scale the company so dramatically and that i would be able to scale along with that?" He adds: "We look it, we do lick this thing called, like, backward facing promotions."
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!
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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
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