On motherhood and leading engineering teams
summary
An engineering lead manages an acquisition while nine months pregnant and has the acquisition finalized the day the baby is born so planning is urgent and specific Rather than platitudes the talk gives concrete practices like keeping a two week log of every leadership task then delegating and deprioritizing and a 15/30/45 transition plan for phased reentry It cites that 15% of known pregnancies end in miscarriage, reports Google cut attrition by extending leave six weeks, and shares small wins like a coworker buying a mini fridge for pumped milk and teams ending meetings on time after parenting norms shift acquisition finalized the day baby is born
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Start
- 4:18Telling Your Team
- 5:20Create a Transition Plan
- 6:17Preeclampsia
- 7:46How Do We as Team Support New Parents New Parenthood
- 8:28Postpartum Depression
- 8:52Timeline of New Parents
- 12:20Transition Plans
- 14:50Make Your First Day Easier
- 17:03Communicating Our Schedule
- 18:13Normalizing Parenthood
- 18:39End the Plague of Secret Parenting
- 18:51Stresses of Being a New Parent
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