Engineering Management - The Bar for Leadership Was High

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Coming from a no nagers organizational background, the bar for leadership was high. There was this very real sense of accountability to the team and to the business that i really never felt anywhere else. I don't think you need to experience locracy for six months to get it. You would like to subdue them at be great if we could get personally promoted. That itle to be very nice. If we could have it a little bit more equitable when we don't have alice is working a hundred dollrs a week, and bob is like, reading books on the in the sun because he's sort of like idade. Yet, if we could moveaway from that,

Katie Wilde, the VP of Engineering at Ambassador Labs, joins us to spill the tea on Holacracy and decentralized management systems. Find out why these organizational structures don’t work for companies building software and how they can drive your best people away.

Katie also shared how her previous company, Buffer, transitioned from a Holacracy into a strong engineering leadership culture, through goal-oriented 1:1s, effective feedback, and creating a strong sense of responsibility among its leaders.

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