Layers of Leadership
summary
Argues leaders must fix three concrete gaps—competency, performance and alignment—by shipping actionable tools: a reference implementation (example Dockerfile) to show “what good looks like,” a competency matrix for role scope, a maturity model to limit tech choices, and driver trees to map business KPIs to engineering levers. Sets measurable bets (reduce account closures from 10/month to 2/month), enforces performance practice (five‑minute incident drills), and demands timing standards (build a hello world web API in one day) to regain predictability.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:57Agenda
- 2:15Part 1: Leadership challenges
- 5:47Part 2: Start-up challenges
- 8:26Direction
- 17:27Part 3: Teamwork challenges
- 18:21Maps & measures
- 26:25Part 4: Org. challenges
- 29:07Driver trees
- 32:21Paths & practices
- 38:12Coordinated strategy
- 40:17Outro
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