
Staying Close Without Micromanaging: A Tech Leader’s Guide
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
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 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

AI is here. Groundbreaking, I know. But before we go into the whole thing, picture this. You approve a pull request from one of your strongest engineers. Clean, well-structured, exactly

There is a version of you that your team sees. And there is a version they show you. These are not always the same thing. This is not about dishonesty.