I share with you important lessons that come from great leaders and can give us powerful boosts to add the most value to support your leadership journey.
Most leaders who read “stay technical” hear permission to stay in every decision. There’s a real difference between staying close (informed, credible, able to ask a sharp question in an
A director I mentor built a strong case. Promotion, bigger scope, a clear path from senior to staff engineer. She handed it over like a gift. He said no. Not
A VP of Engineering I mentor spent 40 minutes of our last session telling me, in detail, how he protects his team’s focus time. No meetings before 10 AM. No
Think about the last hard call you had to make at work. A decision you weren’t sure about. A person you couldn’t quite read. A risk you didn’t want to
If you caught this week’s podcast episode, you already met Peter Murphy’s employee: the one who found out they were being fired in the same breath they found out their
Mike’s HR team called me as a last resort. He was a brilliant technical lead, working 70- to 80-hour weeks, quietly on the edge of quitting, feeling like a failure
