Stretch Conference 2020
2020-02-13..2020-02-14
Budapest, Hungary
[Stretch Conference 2018, Stretch Conference 2020, Stretch Conference 2021, Stretch Conference 2022]
as the organisers put it
Lead, Fail, Learn, Stretch! A 2-day conference on leadership and management to really stretch yourself.
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Why Think in at Least 15 Years if You Are a Conscious Business Player? | Veronika Pistyur | 26m |
Bridge Budapest recounts concrete results: a 2013 youth 91% passive baseline and survey showing 9 out of 10 young Hungarians believe relations matter more than… | ||
| “I Trust You” | Melinda Miklós | 25m |
Claims that companies must shift from inward focus to collective action, backed by numbers and a working model: an open campaign model that draws partners to… | ||
| Leading for Self-organisation Dos and Dont's of Agile Management | Ben Linders | 46m |
Argues managers enable self‑organising teams by attending to needs, not issuing orders, and by creating psychological safety, shared goals and stable teams… | ||
| What Transitioning From Male to Female Taught Me About Leadership | Ivett Ördög | 37m |
Commits to transition after years of gender dysphoria and treats the choice like an experiment: ran low-risk social experiments (makeup, dressing, nights out… | ||
| Leading Without Authority | Kate Wardin | 46m |
Half of employees report leaving to escape a manager and US hiring gaps show ~70,000 entrants versus ~700,000 openings, so the talk presses concrete fixes: use… | ||
| Who Destroyed Three Mile Island | Nickolas Means | 41m |
A detailed reconstruction shows operators turned off emergency core cooling two and a half minutes after it auto‑started because pressurizer readings, naval… | ||
| Add Gen Z Filter to Your Leadership Style | Mirtill Megyeri | 26m |
Claims that a simple Gen Z filter—reinterpreting five facts about this cohort—lets leaders reduce early turnover and extend junior tenure toward three years… | ||
| Making the Shift From Boss To Coach | Shawn Fair | 46m |
Covers five critical attributes (lead by example, trustworthiness, mutual respect, praise, people-savvy) and a clear three leadership styles framework… | ||
| Optimizing for Speed | Hendrik Haandrikman | 46m |
Claim: maximize speed by deliberately reinventing org structure in short “hops” instead of blitzscaling. Concrete practices: build cross‑functional segment… | ||
| How to Fix Your Failed Agile Transformation | Jurgen Appelo | 59m |
Argues that success depends on matching practices to product lifecycle stages not imposing one framework company-wide, and maps ten stages from idea through… | ||
| Information Overload: How to Survive in the Era of Push Notifications | Elisa Coluccia | 40m |
A classroom experiment logs 268 disruptions in 30 minutes (23 students: 58 texts, 182 social, 28 other); people touch phones ~2,000 times/day while consuming… | ||
| Leading with Insight | Kinga Fekete | 48m |
Claims that emotional intelligence is the key to effective leadership get backed by specifics: a 2011 Harvard study finds minds wander 46.9% of waking time and… | ||
| The Power of Assertiveness | Amy Tez | 57m |
Claims practical assertiveness comes from breath, body and voice training drawn from drama school and applied to boardrooms and pitches; offers tools… | ||
| Measuring Performance: Quantifying the Work of a Scrum Master | Stephanie Gasche | 48m |
Provides 15 concrete metrics grouped into facilitator, servant leader, change agent roles and shows how to collect them: measure meeting savings as cost saved… | ||
| Leading Distributed Teams | Kevin Goldsmith | 46m |
Four concrete problems and fixes: Conway’s Law forces org charts into software unless you apply the reverse Conway maneuver and reorganize teams; Amdahl-style… | ||
| The Power of Performance Feedback | Amber Vanderburg | 50m |
How do we define performance success? How do we give quality and effective feedback for maximum impact? In this speech, attendees will learn the power of… | ||
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