Power to your People - Building a Team to Succeed
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Team growth detail: zero to just over 40 engineers in three years and an 80+ tech org are used as case studies for concrete hiring and culture moves. Advice includes candid job conversations plus WhatsApp onboarding updates, a multi‑channel hiring funnel with 15–20% of interviews spent on the hard sell, probation and PIP timelines (informal → month 3 PIP → six‑month exit), templates for ADRs and a team API, quarterly in‑person meetups, and protected learning time like two hours a week.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction and panel intro
- 2:26Hiring successful teams
- 10:50Building an empowering culture
- 19:17Managing distributed teams
- 27:40Removing underperforming team members
- 33:37Empowering spoon-fed teams
- 38:11Training and development
- 41:45Key takeaways and closing
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