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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. Solvers tend to be reactive to what leadership is really worried about. How do we fix it?”

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How To Manage People Who Are More Experienced Than You Are

The Product Coalition

If the people reporting to you know better how to do their job, what is your role as a manager? Photo by Pedro Figueras from Pexels As the importance of product management for business success becomes clearer, many startups give one of the founders the product leadership role. Don’t worry, you are still needed. Here’s why and how.

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What Do Product Leaders Do?

Mironov Consulting

There may also be some designers or a few developers reporting into such roles, but I’m focused away from CTO and VP Engineering roles where the majority of staff are developers. . Coaching/mentoring/training plan. Or have seniors on your team formally assigned to mentor the novices. We learn by doing.

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Transitioning from Software Engineer to Engineering Manager

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

For instance, what objective metric is there to measure the weight of your leadership or communication skills? Their leadership abilities can either make or break the efforts of their engineers, and their success is compounded by their manager's competence in an often ambiguous position. are not necessary to get a job in tech.

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

More than integrations and features and quarterly reports, back in August, Intercom turned 10. Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Lessons learned on leadership with Karen Peacock and Leandra Fishman. Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career.

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Guide to the Software Engineer Career Path

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Want to know what your next steps are as an engineer as you make your way to CTO? Soft skills, such as communication, conflict management, and leadership, play a more vital role than hard, technical skills. Junior Software Engineers typically report to an Engineering Manager or a Tech Lead. We've got your covered.

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Your Audience’s Real Roadmap Questions

Mironov Consulting

So I expect marketing audiences to snooze past improved reporting and geeky back office efficiencies in order to ask…. When they explained how they would know that a solution truly worked, what words did they use? (“As a small business bookkeeper, I spend hours hand-editing accrual report to turn them into cash-basis reports.

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