How to lead your team when the house is on fire | Exec Engineering #107
Yassine Kachchani
Co-founder & CEO at Gemography | Publisher of Exec Engineering, a weekly digest on Engineering + Talent
Also: Balancing processes, engineering leadership priorities and high-performance attributes.
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How to lead your team when the house Is on fire (Péter Szász)
This guide to “wartime” leadership is a masterclass on maintaining team cohesion and productivity by ruthlessly prioritizing, empowering quick decisions, and reframing growth opportunities amid chaos.
Get in the trenches with your team. If you're a hands-on manager, wartime is when you can put some effort into technical tasks. Stay closely involved to understand the technical context, and help out where it makes sense.
Finding the Goldilocks Zone: Just the right amount of?process (AbdulFattah Popoola)
The "Goldilocks Zone" metaphor brilliantly captures the process dilemma in tech organizations. It illustrates how both process-averse and process-obsessed cultures can cripple efficiency. This is a wake-up call for leaders stuck in process extremes, offering practical steps to find that elusive "just right" balance.
Focus on outcomes over approaches – the problem (the what) comes before the process (the how).
Priorities of a great engineering leader (Roni Poyas)
The author cuts through the complexity of engineering leadership by focusing on four key areas: people, processes, technology, and project delivery. He challenges us to consider how we prioritize these, acknowledging that the right balance can shift based on circumstances.
Always have a story to tell — the story of why we need to get to where we're headed and how do we get there — one listener at a time, it will give birth to the reality you're looking to achieve!
The attributes of high-performing teams (John Durrant)
A deep dive into team performance research that challenges common assumptions. Diversity has minimal impact, while trust, psychological safety, and team reflexivity -defined as “the extent to which members overtly reflect on the team's goals, collaboration, decision-making processes, internal communications and so on- emerge as key drivers.
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1 个月Thanks for the mention Yassine, appreciate it!