

This New Way
Fellow.ai
This New Way (formerly Supermanagers) is a show hosted by Aydin Mirzaee (CEO of Fellow–#1 AI Meeting Assistant) about how real companies are using AI at work. No theory, no fluff — just straight talk with leaders who are testing, implementing, and learning as they go.
What you’ll get:
How leaders are integrating AI into their teams and processes
Honest takes on what’s working, what’s not, and what’s changing
Live AI tool demos
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What you’ll get:
How leaders are integrating AI into their teams and processes
Honest takes on what’s working, what’s not, and what’s changing
Live AI tool demos
👉 Want episode summaries, AI workflow templates, and quick tips from guests? Subscribe to the newsletter: https://thisnewway.com/
Episodes
Mentioned books

23 snips
Mar 9, 2023 • 45min
Climbing New Heights With Value-Based Leadership: The Highs and Lows of Building and Scaling a Business (with Felicia Bochicchio, CEO of Unbounce)
https://fellow.app/supermanagers/felicia-bochicchio-unbounce-climbing-new-heights-with-value-based-leadership/
Having a people-first philosophy does not mean neglecting the health of your business.
Investing in people is a smart business decision.
In episode #139, Felicia talks about Unbounce's "people first" philosophy, which involves creating an environment where everyone can bring their best selves to work, learn collectively, and grow together to create their best work.
Felicia Bochicchio has over 25 years of experience helping companies scale in high-growth environments. She joined Unbounce as Chief Revenue Officer in June 2018 and was promoted to President in 2020 after the company raised its first major round of funding, a $52 million deal. Today, she is the CEO of Unbounce.
Felicia also talks about the importance of assessing whether people coming into the company share the company's values, rather than training them on the values.
Tune in to hear all about Felicia’s leadership journey and the lessons learned along the way!
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Mar 2, 2023 • 40min
How to Leverage The Art of Feedback to Transform Your Career (with Raj Sarkar, Startup Advisor)
https://fellow.app/supermanagers/raj-sarkar-how-to-leverage-the-art-of-feedback-to-transform-your-career/
Feedback can send somebody in the wrong direction.
So it’s important to be thoughtful in the messaging and delivery.
In episode #138, Raj Sarkar emphasizes the importance of feedback throughout his career journey and how you can leverage it to grow.
Raj Sarkar is an Advisor for many different startups and has worked with companies like Amazon, Cisco, Google, Atlassian, and 1Password.
Raj offers tactical tips on giving and receiving feedback and shares his rule of 3. We also discuss high performing teams and what it takes to build psychological safety.
Tune in to hear all about Raj’s leadership journey and the lessons learned along the way!
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Feb 23, 2023 • 48min
The Backbone of a Successful Team: 1:1s, Skip Levels, and the Delegation Framework (with Spencer Norman, VP of Engineering at Privy)
Episode show notes and resources
Communication and transparency are crucial in teams. Uncertainty and lack of information can create anxiety, mistrust, and disengagement among employees.
In episode #137, Spencer shares how he communicated with his teams during an acquisition and how he structures his 1:1 meetings with intentionality.
Spencer Norman, the Vice President of Engineering at Privy, oversees the distributed engineering teams of the ecommerce marketing platform. Before joining Privy, Spencer held leadership positions at Mailchimp (acquired by Intuit) and Reaction Commerce.
Spencer provides guidance on creating a sense of safety within your team when delegating new responsibilities and explains the comfort, stretch, and panic framework.
Tune in to hear all about Spencer’s leadership journey and the lessons learned along the way!
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TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES:
[04:23] Avoiding a management role
[9:50] Collaboration stack
[13:33] One-on-one meetings anatomy
[28:51] Skip level one-on-ones
[33:25] Managing through an acquisition
[42:28] Delegation and psychological safety
[46:20] Lean into your influence

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Feb 16, 2023 • 49min
Go Beyond Fixing It: How the VP of Engineering at Box Approaches High-Stake Change (with Tamar Bercovici, VP of Engineering at Box)
https://fellow.app/supermanagers/tamar-bercovici-box-go-beyond-fixing-it-how-the-vp-of-engineering-approaches-high-stake-change/
Whenever something is unclear, there is always an element of risk.
Leaders can de-risk situations by getting extremely clear on the goal and purpose of the project.
In episode #136, Tamar shares her approach to mission-critical projects and how to approach high stake changes.
Tamar Bercovici is the VP of Engineering at Box, where she scaled the cloud content management and file-sharing service to handle millions of queries per second searching hundreds of billions of records.
Tamar shares her story of rising through the ranks at Box and her experience throughout different levels of leadership.
Tune in to hear all about Tamar’s career journey and the lessons learned along the way!
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Feb 9, 2023 • 55min
Voices, Votes, and Vetos: Who Is Making the 100 Million Dollar Decisions? (with Jason Warner, Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures)
https://fellow.app/supermanagers/jason-warner-redpoint-ventures-voices-votes-and-vetos-who-is-making-the-100-million-dollar-decisions/
It’s easy to get caught up in the day to day processes. But what’s most important is having good system processes and decision making skills.
In episode #135, Jason Warner explains the true role of senior leaders within organizations and who should be making the decisions.
Jason Warner is the Managing Director at Redpoint and was previously the CTO at Github. Jason is an active speaker, writer, and advisor on cloud computing, technology and leadership and host of the podcast Developing Leadership.
Jason shares the signals he’s seen in great engineering teams and how he uses the confidence, competence spectrum.
Tune in to hear all about Jason’s leadership journey and the lessons learned along the way!
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Feb 2, 2023 • 42min
Becoming a Genius Maker: Liz Wiseman's Approach to Multiplying Your Team's Potential (with Liz Wiseman, Author and CEO of The Wiseman Group)
https://fellow.app/supermanagers/liz-wiseman-becoming-a-genius-maker-multiplying-your-teams-potential/
Take the attention off of yourself, and how much you’re getting done and really focus on what the team needs.
In episode #134, Liz dives into tactical management advice, being a multiplier versus a diminisher, and the problem with people who are too helpful.
Liz Wiseman is the CEO of The Wiseman Group, a leadership research and development firm, and the author of several bestselling books, including "Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter." With over two decades of experience, Liz has worked with leaders at organizations such as Apple, Disney, Intel, and Nike, helping them to develop their leadership skills and drive organizational success.
Liz shares how to become a genius maker and ensure you aren’t overutilizing yourself and underutilizing your team.
Tune in to hear all about Liz’s leadership journey and the lessons learned along the way!
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TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES:
[03:49] Being over-utilized as a leader
[17:06] You get 51% of the vote
[18:59] Hard versus soft opinions
[21:03] Multipliers vs diminishers
[30:35] Become the genius maker
[39:17] How strong is your team?

Jan 26, 2023 • 49min
Culture is A Competitive Advantage: How to Approach The Changing Psychology of the Workforce (with Steve Cadigan, Author and Talent Strategist)
https://fellow.app/supermanagers/steve-cadigan-linkedin-culture-is-a-competitive-advantage-how-to-approach-the-changing-psychology-of-the-workforce/
The psychology of the workforce has shifted.
How can leaders and organizations approach this?
In episode #133, Steve Cadigan shares how to lead from respect, build trust, and create growth opportunities and how organizations can re-engineer roles and build alumni communities to retain top talent in today's rapidly changing workforce.
Steve Cadigan is most known for scaling Linkedin from 400 to 4000 in 3.5 years as the first CHRO hire. Steve has worked in 5 different industries and 3 different countries while also leading dozens of acquisition integrations all over the world.
Steve shares his insights on the importance of having mentors and the right people around you. He also talks about being technically superior in executive functions and how hiring on what people can learn rather than what they know can lead to delivering growth experiences.
Tune in to hear all about Steve’s leadership journey and the lessons learned along the way!
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Jan 19, 2023 • 52min
Are You A Transactional or Transformational Leader? How to Build Frameworks For Success and Design Your Time (with Dan Martell, Author and Founder of SaaS Academy)
https://fellow.app/supermanagers/dan-martell-saas-academy-are-you-a-transactional-or-transformational-leader-how-to-build-frameworks-for-success-and-design-your-time/
Experience is not as important as potential. Building frameworks for success for high-potential entry-level people in leadership and management positions allows for growth within an organization.
In episode #132, Dan Martell gives tactical advice on optimizing your time and energy as a leader, and how to avoid being a transactional manager.
Dan Martell is a serial entrepreneur, best-selling author, and Founder and CEO of SaaS Academy, where he coaches over 1000+ SaaS founders, including clients like ClickFunnels, Proposify, and Carrot.
Dan’s leadership style focuses on defining clear outcomes and metrics for success while using a "begin with the end in mind" approach.
He also shares tactical tips on creating the perfect week, performing an audit of your time, and how to optimize and balance your energy.
Tune in to hear all about Dan’s leadership journey and the lessons learned along the way!
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TIME-STAMPED SHOWNOTES:
[04:10] Transactional management
[16:33] Building frameworks
[21:34] How to spend your time in 2023
[29:42] The camcorder method for delegation
[36:35] ICE score
[41:47] Showing up energized
[45:12] Understand the value of your time
RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
Learn more about Dan Martell
Order Dan’s book Buy Back Your Time
Connect with Dan on LinkedIn
Read High Output Management
Read One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey

Jan 12, 2023 • 47min
Every CEO Needs A Great COO: Understanding the Second In Command (with Cameron Herold, Founder of COO Alliance)
https://fellow.app/supermanagers/cameron-herold-coo-alliance-every-ceo-needs-a-great-coo-understanding-the-second-in-command/
What exactly is the role of Chief Operations Officer?
In episode #131, Cameron Herold explains the often misunderstood executive position of COO and why CEOs need one.
Cameron Herold is the founder of COO Alliance and Second In Command Podcast. He’s known to be The CEO Whisperer and engineered 1-800-GOT-JUNK?’s growth from $2 Million to $106 Million in revenue, and 3100 employees in just six years. He's also the author of six books.
Cameron dives into hiring internally versus recruiting external COO candidates and the process for both. He also explains communicating and building relationships between CEOs and COOs and how to find the perfect balance.
Tune in to hear all about Cameron’s leadership journey and the lessons learned along the way!
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Dec 15, 2022 • 49min
From Zero to Scale: How to Pick a Market, Find the People and Build the Systems (with Dave McJannet, CEO of HashiCorp)
https://fellow.app/supermanagers/dave-mcjannet-hashicorp-from-zero-to-scale-how-to-pick-a-market-find-the-people-and-build-the-systems/
Companies move through different growth phases and require unique strategies along the way.
Dave first joined HashiCorp when there were just 30 employees. Today, there are over 2,500 people globally!
In episode #130, Dave McJannet shares his top insights and lessons learned from taking a company from zero to scale.
Dave McJannet is the CEO of HashiCorp, and has over 20 years of experience in product management, operations, finance, and marketing. Prior to HashiCorp, Dave worked at GitHub, Hortonworks, Microsoft and SpringSource.
Dave explains how he builds high-performing teams, his time horizons for executives, and how he tests for systems thinking in the hiring process.
Tune in to hear all about Dave’s leadership journey and the lessons learned along the way!
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