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Advice from 3 Engineering Leaders on Becoming a Manager of Managers

Gitprime

The transition to becoming a manager of managers requires an entirely new set of skills: hiring, onboarding, and coaching engineering managers are fundamentally different jobs than hiring, onboarding, and coaching engineers. Charity Majors CTO at Honeycomb.io. It is actually performance.

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Rise of the Resilient Manager with Lara Hogan

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Manager dens- where you can experience coaching, mentoring, and a safe space, Vegas rules session. @23:57. Mentoring is sharing advice and perspective; coaching is helping someone come to their own conclusions. @25:56. Coaching is what helps people grow. @26:26. What are you optimizing for? @30:24.

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Two Tales

LaunchDarkly

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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Finding Your Balance with Camille Fournier

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Marcus: You know I hear so many people talk about The Manager’s Path as being just foundational to them and I just can’t help but start with a question just really broadly, what inspired that book? Camille: Yeah, so I am the head platform engineering at Two Sigma, which is a quantitative hedge fund here in New York City.

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A New Leadership Model with Jason Wong

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

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. Everyone is following someone. All your investors. Jason: yeah.