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)

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