How to Build the Best Team and Highest Performance Culture?

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Leaders could do a lot more to go out of their way to connect people to the people the their lives impact, no matter what you build. You can't necessarily change the comstructure of your company, if you work company, but you can advocate and chip along at things over a long period of time,. If you network internally and you build a case for your team, i'm certain that you can do something that's meaning ful and impactful for them. It just takes being influential, leading with influence, and knowing the problems you're solving for your boss. And then having the stomach to ask for reward in return, and passing that to your tame. I think sam summarized

On this episode of Developing Leadership, Sam Lambert, CEO of PlanetScale and previously VP of Engineering at GitHub, joins us to talk about building high-performance teams. We chatted about leading with influence, advocating for your team, creating delightful hiring experiences, knowing when to fire people and how to keep your software engineers close to your end-users to build great products.

One of the biggest takeaways from this episode is that you have to start with yourself if you want to build a high-performance team. So if you're looking for pointers on how to be a better leader for your team and for your company, this episode is for you!

Learn more about some of the topics discussed on this episode at go.developingleadership.co/ep9

Developing Leadership is a podcast presented by Athenian. We are introducing the world of engineering to metrics and data that improve processes and help teams. If you want to learn more about data-enabled engineering, go to athenian.co