Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

They discuss the importance of time management and how to effectively manage employee turnover in a leadership role. A day in the life of a manager varies, but it is a lot of meetings. @3:58?. As a manager, you have to be on for all the hours you are in. @5:07. And so I am, I am not the CTO. Show Notes.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

AUGUST 8, 2019

In this episode, we’re talking to Amy Phillips and Aaron Randall (CTO of Songkick) about the path from programmer to manager. Progressed, eventually, to leading test teams, and managing testers, and then moving more into agile roles and team coaching. That sort of led me into a wider management role. Episode 15.

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LaunchDarkly

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Eric Pollman, CTO and co-founder of ClearBrain and one of the original SREs at Google, shared two stories. Eric Pollmann: My name is Eric Pollmann, I amount a lifelong software engineer, currently the CTO and co-founder of ClearBrain, my co-founder Bilal right there in the back, and one of our teammates also, thanks for joining.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

AUGUST 22, 2019

I am a CTO type. Became a software developer, senior software engineer, engineering manager, and then CTO to a few companies. So we meet on a monthly basis in groups of six or seven and we work through the hard issues of situational leadership all the way through to achieving our professional and personal goals.

CTO Coach 40

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

OCTOBER 24, 2019

and so like you know as a manager, I have a director who is my boss. As a director, you have a VP or a CTO as your boss. As a CTO you have a CEO as your boss. See, it’s really easy for you as a manager to observe generally how people are working. This meeting is for us to get all that stuff out on the table, right?

Leadership 40

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JANUARY 22, 2020

And I wrote about this in the book, I had this very important meeting with, he was the first engineering manager at Netscape, and then he came over and helped out at my startup for a little while. There’s a lot of people who walk into a meeting and waiting for the words to show up, to understand what’s going on.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JANUARY 22, 2020

And I wrote about this in the book, I had this very important meeting with, he was the first engineering manager at Netscape, and then he came over and helped out at my startup for a little while. There’s a lot of people who walk into a meeting and waiting for the words to show up, to understand what’s going on.

Leadership 52

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