Becoming a badass eng leader
summary
Five concrete lessons: choose courage to make hard calls and take risks; build mutual support so people can fail and learn; practice radical candor not criticism and create clarity by running one-on-ones with all 45 engineers to build trust; use data—crystal-clear scorecards, standardized interview questions and performance metrics—to remove bias in hiring and promotions and to measure the impact of decisions.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:22Storytime
- 3:47Courage
- 7:06Feedback
- 10:22Gifts
- 12:07Data
- 15:01Gratitude
- 15:35Conclusion
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