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Celebrating 100 episodes - our favorite moments from the Engineering Leadership Podcast so far

The Engineering Leadership Podcast

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The Perpetual Challenge That We Face as Engineers

Will larson, cto at calm, discusses the perennial challenge that we face as engineering leaders. He says it's our time and focusing on what really matters. "I've developed like a little bit of a hierarchy of what to focus on," he said.

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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