Tutti Taygerly, executive leadership coach and professional speaker, talks about the importance of making space for leadership, taking downtime for reflection, and overcoming imposter syndrome by naming and externalizing resistance.
Creating time and mental clarity is essential for effective leadership and achieving professional impact.
Naming fears, weaknesses, or toxic behaviors can disarm their negative impact and lead to personal growth and development.
Deep dives
Importance of Making Space to Lead
The podcast discusses the concept of making space to lead, emphasizing the importance of creating time and mental clarity for effective leadership. The guest, Tutti Tagaly, shares her personal journey as an entrepreneur and executive leadership coach, highlighting the value of embracing one's unique leadership style and achieving professional impact. She emphasizes the need to prioritize self-reflection and introspection in order to overcome imposter syndrome and develop a strong personal board of directors to navigate challenges. The conversation also delves into the cultural pressure of productivity and busyness in the tech industry, highlighting the paradox of being driven by a vision of innovation while succumbing to short-term fear and scarcity. The podcast concludes with an exploration of the positive impact that slowing down and making space can have on individual and organizational success.
The Power of Naming and Shifting Perspectives
The podcast delves into the power of naming and shifting perspectives as tools for personal growth and development. It shares examples of how naming fears, weaknesses, or toxic behaviors can help disarm their negative impact. The guest and host discuss various techniques, including naming personal voices or having a personal board of directors, to better understand and address self-criticism and imposter syndrome. They also highlight the importance of taking different perspectives on perceived weaknesses, illustrating how reframing quiet leadership as a strength can lead to more inclusive and thoughtful decision-making. Through these practices, individuals can reduce the power of negative influences and increase the power of positive traits.
Challenges and Paradoxes of the Tech Industry Culture
The podcast examines the challenges and paradoxes of the tech industry culture, particularly in Silicon Valley and the broader tech ecosystem. It explores the tension between the vision of creating a better future through technology and the short-term fear-driven mindset of urgency and competition. The discussion highlights the impact of cultural pressure to be constantly productive and how it leads to burnout and unhealthy work practices. The guest and host stress the need for CEOs and leaders to create a culture that values both performance and well-being, ensuring that individuals have the time and space to think critically, make well-informed decisions, and achieve their best work. They acknowledge the difficulty of solving these challenges at a large scale but emphasize the importance of addressing them within smaller organizations.
The Value of Slowing Down to Achieve Success
The podcast underscores the value of slowing down and making space to achieve success. It emphasizes that working long hours and being constantly busy is not sustainable and can hinder creativity and innovation. The guest shares the concept of force versus flow, highlighting that there are times when intensive work is energizing and productive and times when rest and introspection are necessary for clarity and better decision-making. The discussion emphasizes the need for individuals to recognize their own rhythms, understand when they are in flow or forces, and adjust their work practices accordingly. Slowing down and making space, the podcast concludes, can lead to greater success and fulfillment in work and life.
Power of Ten is a podcast hosted by Andy Polaine about design operating at many levels, zooming out from thoughtful detail through to organisational transformation and on to changes in society and the world.
My guest this week is Tutti Taygerly, returning to the show for a second time. Tutti is an executive leadership coach and professional speaker. She supports CEOs and tech leaders to embrace their unique leadership style to achieve professional impact. She works closely with women, people of color, and immigrants and has a particular love for “difficult” people. Previously she was a design leader at design firms, startups, and large companies including Disney and Facebook. She has written for Business Insiderand Fast Company and in this episode she talks about her new book Make Space to Lead that shows high achievers how to reframe our relationship to work.