Leman Tech Leadership Podcast
By Aleksandra Lemańska
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Leman Tech Leadership Podcast
Welcome to the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, your ultimate guide to developing exceptional tech leadership skills. Whether you're a seasoned tech leader or just stepping into a managerial role, this podcast is designed to provide you with actionable insights and best practices to create a thriving work environment that people won't want to leave. Learn how to do it with host Aleksandra Lemańska, CQ Technology Leadership Mentor & Speaker. Founder @LemanSkills, Co-Founder & Board President @Startup Community Poznan Foundation, Host @Leman Tech Leadership Podcast. She is the creator of the CQ Leadership Method: a battle-tested framework that helps tech leaders communicate with precision and lead without burnout.
Join Alex as she delves deep into the secrets of effective leadership, from mastering essential tools to implementing cutting-edge techniques. Each episode brings you invaluable knowledge, practical advice, or unique perspectives through engaging interviews with leaders who have experiences and lessons to share. Discover the dos and don’ts of tech leadership, learn about the habits that drive success, and gather strategies to foster a motivated and engaged team.
Follow Alex @aleksandralemanska on LinkedIn for more inspiration and actions that you can take as a transformational leader.
Check out more as well on https://lemanskills.com!
Welcome to the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, your ultimate guide to developing exceptional tech leadership skills. Whether you're a seasoned tech leader or just stepping into a managerial role, this podcast is designed to provide you with actionable insights and best practices to create a thriving work environment that people won't want to leave. Learn how to do it with host Aleksandra Lemańska, CQ Technology Leadership Mentor & Speaker. Founder @LemanSkills, Co-Founder & Board President @Startup Community Poznan Foundation, Host @Leman Tech Leadership Podcast. She is the creator of the CQ Leadership Method: a battle-tested framework that helps tech leaders communicate with precision and lead without burnout.
Join Alex as she delves deep into the secrets of effective leadership, from mastering essential tools to implementing cutting-edge techniques. Each episode brings you invaluable knowledge, practical advice, or unique perspectives through engaging interviews with leaders who have experiences and lessons to share. Discover the dos and don’ts of tech leadership, learn about the habits that drive success, and gather strategies to foster a motivated and engaged team.
Follow Alex @aleksandralemanska on LinkedIn for more inspiration and actions that you can take as a transformational leader.
Check out more as well on https://lemanskills.com!
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#170 | From Startup Garage to Microsoft MVP: How Continuous Learning Builds Unbreakable Tech Leaders w/ Amit Chandak, @ex-Oracle, @Kinerika
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Jun 18, 2026 |
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#169 | I Wrote a Book: "From Code to People"!
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Jun 16, 2026 |
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#168 | From Chaos to Clarity: Change Management, Strategic Simplicity, and the Networking Muscle You Never Built w/ Iryna Lambrianides @Clar
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Jun 11, 2026 |
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#167 | Your Best Engineer Is Your Biggest Leadership Problem - Now What?
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Jun 09, 2026 |
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#166 | Staff Engineering in the Age of AI How Engineering Teams, Roles, and Expectations Are Being Redefined w: Jordan Cutler @Pinterest
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Jun 04, 2026 |
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#165 | The Promotion Nobody Prepared Them For
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Jun 02, 2026 |
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#164 | From Five Failed Products to the 100-Person Company w/ Prashanth Tondapu (ex-@McAfee, @Innostax Tech LLC)
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May 28, 2026 |
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#163 | “I Know I Should Say No. So Why Can't I?”
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May 26, 2026 |
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#162 | VP of Engineering on Leading Without Drowning: Neuroscience, Boundaries, and the Skills Tech Never Tells You to Build w/ Greg Jaworek
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May 21, 2026 |
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#161 | “Nobody Prepared Me for How Lonely This Job Would Be.”
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May 19, 2026 |
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#160 | A Serial Founder’s Story: What It Really Takes to Build, Fail, and Scale in the AI Era w/ Łukasz Łażewski @LLInformatics
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May 14, 2026 |
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#159 | “I Feel Like a Fraud - And I'm the One Running the Team.”
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May 12, 2026 |
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#158 | From Teenage Entrepreneur to the CTO: Building Teams That Win in the AI Era w/ Ben Wilcox @ProArch
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May 07, 2026 |
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#157 | Your Team Is Already Having the Hard Conversation. Just Without You
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May 05, 2026 |
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#156 | Lead by Example or Lose the Best: What A-Players Actually Need From Their Leaders w/ Svante Horn @Scandinavian Data Centers
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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#155 | The Burnout Nobody Talks About: What Happens When You, the Leader, Are Running on Empty
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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#154 | Focus Is a Superpower: What 30 Years of Building Teaches Us About Tech Leadership w/ Sarah Biller @FinTech Sandbox
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Apr 23, 2026 |
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#153 | Q2 Kickoff Done. So Why Isn't Anyone Moving?
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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#152 | Stop Fixing, Start Leveraging: A Leader's Guide to Neurodiversity at Work w/ Kari Goldyn @woopa pro
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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#151 | Your Team Is Using AI More. So Why Does Everything Feel Harder?
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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#150 | From Hard Trends to Bigger Bigs: Turning Disruption Into Certainty w/ Daniel Burrus
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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#149 | Your Team Isn't AI-Resistant. They're Waiting for You.
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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#148 | Leveraging Incubators, Building Products & Thriving Startup Team w/ Fiona Bao @Genpulse
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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#147 | Change Is Not Going to Stop — But Your Team's Suffering Can
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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#146 | From Big 4 Consulting to Building a FemTech Startup w/ Maggie Lusk @ex-KMPG, @ex-Deloitte, @Seala Sync
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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#145 | 70% of Tech Change Initiatives Fail — And It's Not a Technical Problem
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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#144 | Directions of Tech Teams Transformation, Meaning of "AI Natives" & Creating Thriving Startups w/ Punit Jajodia @Programiz
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Mar 19, 2026 |
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#143 | The IT Burnout: 6 Categories That Are Quietly Destroying Your Team
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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#142 | From Legal Practice to Technology Program Delivery w/ Deborah Kaminetzky @DeFacto PM
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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#141 | Nobody Wakes Up Wanting to Ruin Your Day: The OK-OK Matrix Every Tech Leader Needs
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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#140 | Scaling Nations, Building Ecosystem & Building Leadership Lifelong Learning w/ Ajit Shah @YPO, @Lotus Holdings
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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#139 | You Can't Debug a Human: Why Your Developer Skills Are Failing You as a Leader
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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#138 | AI Community, Building Thriving Startups & Dev Teams Change w/ Oleksandr Paraska @Togal.ai
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Feb 26, 2026 |
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#137 | Rethinking 1 - 1s — From Status Updates to Real Conversations
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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#136 | Entrepreneurship Transformation, Courage and Interior Design (!) in Leadership w/ Aga Olszewska @LeadAsU
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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#135 | The Quiet Exodus: Why Mid-Level Talent is Silently Leaving Tech Teams
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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#134 | Fighting Founder's Burnout, Finding a Community and Investor's Tips w/ Jono Bacon, @ex-Github, @Stateshift
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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#133 | Burnout is an Organizational Failure, Not a Personal One
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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#132 | Addressing Fear of AI Transformation and Burnout & Hiring Entrepreneurial Spirit w/ Shahrzad Rafati @RHEI
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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#131 | How Much Does Poor Communication Cost You (Calculator Included!)
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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#130 | Leading Leaders, Building Trust and Invest in Intentional Learning w/ Pranav Lal @ex-Slack, @Gusto, @Forbes Tech Council
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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#129 | How to Measure the CQ Leadership Progress in... The Onboarding Phase
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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#128 | How Failures Don't Make YOU a Failure w/Colin MB Cooper
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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#127 | How to Measure the CQ Leadership Progress in... The Recruitment Phase
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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#126 | From a Pet Parent to a Strong Startup Founder Market Fit w/ Sebastian Gabor @Digitail
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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#125 | Why So Many Tech Leaders Don't Listen? (With Solutions)
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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#124 | Building Successful Startup in MedTech (Without Burnout) w/ Igor Berlinskiy @RaDoTech
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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#123 | Why Are You So Angry and Frustrated as a Tech Leader?
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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#122 | Transforming Health Industry with Technology w/ Chris Hutchins
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Jan 01, 2026 |
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#121 | My 3 Lessons From 2025 I Want You To Have (As a Gift For 2026)
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Dec 30, 2025 |
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#120 | How to Build a Multimillion Dollar Startup w/ Peter Horadan @Vouched
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Dec 25, 2025 |
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#119 | Women @ Work 2025: Deloitte Report Summary
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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#118 | Leading Without Formal Authority, Data Science & AI w/ Rafał Wojdan @Onex Group
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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#117 | Building Visibility as a Female Leader / Founder? Here's How (Ready-To-Use Strategies)
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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#116 | Essential Leadership Skills on the Roadmap of Technology Leader of the Future w/ Eric Müller @Work & Co
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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#115 | 5 Key Areas for Female Leaders & Founders to Focus On in 2026
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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#114 | The Future of IT Job Market & Dev Teams’ Structure w/ Angel Ferrer @Hemper
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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#113 | 3 New Year's Resolutions For Every Tech Leader
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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#112 | Transforming Sales Founder Mindset & Leading in Complexity w/ Andrew Brooks @ex-Accenture, @Contextual.io
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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#111 | You Want to Be More Productive? Here're 3 Things You Can Start Doing Right Now
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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#110 | Building Highly Successful Startup With Authenticity (and Without Burnout) w/ Trevor Horwitz @TrustNet
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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#109 | Poor Communication vs AI: What Comes From This Mixture?
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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#108 | Overcoming Entrepreneur's Burnout & Successful Change Management in M&A Process w/ Kevin Barnicle
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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#107 | What is Adaptive Leadership?
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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#106 | How To Build a Startup That Creates Real Market Value? w/ Lucas Poelman @PeachWeb
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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#105 | Dealing With Conflicts? Here's the Wheel of Conflict to Solve Them All!
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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#104 | How To Be a Tech Leader That People Contact Even When They're All Gone? w/ Naga Santosh Vootukuri @Microsoft
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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#103 | Resilience & Stress Management: How Can I Help My Team as a Leader?
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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#102 | Moving Engineering Teams Into the Next Level w/ Khushbu Shaikh @ex-Cisco @Twilio
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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#101 | Is Agile Leadership Really Back?
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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#100 | Fighting the Imposter Syndrome w/ AJ Lauer
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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#99 | What Inclusive Leadership is Really About (Besides a Classic D&I)?
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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#98 | Can a Generalist Be a Good Leader in Technology? w/ Brian Root @ex-Amazon @Rooted in Products
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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#97 | 5 BIG Leadership Trends for 2026
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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#96 | Winning (Anything You Want) Through Innovation w/ Stephen W. Hinch
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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#95 | 5 Simple Things You Can Do Better To Manage Change
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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#94 | Looking For a Mentor? Here're 3 Things You Can Do
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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#93 | From Leader's Ego to Team Empowerment & Growth w/ Catherine Hicks
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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#92 | Building a Learning Culture & Critical Thinking in AI World w/ Mel Morris @Corpora.ai
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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#91 | Why Should We All Grow a Pattern Recognition Muscle?
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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#90 | Lessons from Startup Leadership & Entrepreneurship w/ Ari Block
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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#89 | Where to Start Building a Startup Team?
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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#88 | Building a Working Startup Matrix with Co-Founders, Team Members & Investors w/ Paulo Ferreira dos Santos
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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#87 | 10 Easy Steps to Lead a Remote First Team with Success
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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#86 | Software Engineering, Generation Alpha & IT Leadership Essentials w/ Jacob Anderson
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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#85 | 5 Things You Can Do To Build a Real Cross-Organizational Collaboration (Not a Fake One)
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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#84 | Using Tech Skills in Solving Business Problems w/ Anant Agarwal @Aidora | Ex-Google
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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#83 | Why Some Employees Don't Want to Grow & Learn? Here're 10 Reasons
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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#82 | From Theoretical Physics to a Startup w/Andrea Monti Solza @conveyo
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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#81 | How to Lead a Growth Conversation With An Employee? Quick 9-Step Growth Framework
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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#80 | Creating a True Learning Culture in IT Organization w/ Marcus Fontoura @Microsoft
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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#79 | Digital Detox While Working With Tech: Is It Even Possible?
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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#78 | From Code to Culture - Transforming Toxic Work Environments w/ Anne Glaberson
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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#77 | Ready-To-Use Solutions to Prevent (or Stop) Burnout in Tech
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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#76 | Founder's Journey - Leading with Responsibility and Care w/ Asia Solnyshkina
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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#75 | One Thing You Can Do To... Choose Which Tasks To Do
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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#74 | From Consulting Giants to Process Excellence w/ Michael Schank
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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#73 | Burnout in IT / Tech Root Causes & Solutions
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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#72 | Building Engineering Teams w/ Siri Varma Vegiraju @Microsoft
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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#71 | How Much Does a Communication Debt Really Cost Us?
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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#70 | Regaining Leadership Energy, Team Accountability & Progress w/ Jim Mirochnik
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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#69 | The One Thing You Can Do When... Somebody Withdraws
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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#68 | Avoiding Toxic People & Leading Scaling-Up Tech Business That Creates Something Bigger w: Bill Powers
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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#67 | The One Thing You Can Do When... Somebody Manipulates You
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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#66 | Fighting Perfectionism & Keeping Passion While Building a Thriving Startup w/ Kenny Kelley
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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#65 | The One Thing You Can Do When... Somebody Attacks You
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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#64 | From Interpol to the Cyber Security Leadership w/ Monika Bubeła
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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#63 | 8 Practical Application of CQ in Your Work (and Life)
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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#62 | Growing Yourself & Team in Scaling-Up Business w/ Natalia Buczel @SII
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May 29, 2025 |
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#61 | The One Thing You Can Do To... Overcome Resistance in a Team
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May 27, 2025 |
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#60 | The One Thing That You Can Do To... Run Effective Meetings
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May 22, 2025 |
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#59 | From Marvel Fan to the Engineering Director w/ Kuba Jastrzębski @OLX
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May 20, 2025 |
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#58 | The One Thing You Can Do To... Build Your Growth Mindset
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May 15, 2025 |
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#57 | Women Empowerment in the Tech & VC World w/ Alaina Percival
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May 13, 2025 |
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#56 | The One Thing You Can Do To... Run Great 1:1s
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May 08, 2025 |
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#55 | How Leaders Can Use AI to Get Their Time Back? w/ Ajay Malik
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May 06, 2025 |
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#54 | Why Is It So Hard for SMEs to Be Good Leaders?
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May 04, 2025 |
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#53 | Creating a Product-Centered Organization w/ Alicja Karalus @OLX
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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#52 | 5 Things of Work Environment That People Can't Wait For Monday To Come Back To
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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#51 | What Makes a Tech Leader Successful? w/ Łukasz Filut
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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#50 | The One Thing You Can Do To... Build a Dream Team
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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#49 | Quitting Copy/Paste Approach While Moving to the Founder Role w/ Marcin Przybyła
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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#48 | The One Thing You Can Do To... Boost Decision-Making in Your Team
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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#47 | Creating Partnership While Building and Leading a Startup w/ Wojciech Ziółkowski & Jeremiasz Kucharski @Cloudhive.pl
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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#46 | The One Thing You Can Do To... Skyrocket Your Productivity
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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#45 | Overcoming Job Market Constraints and Building a Strong Startup Team w/ Filip Sobel @Staffly
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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#44 | How to Transform Drama Triangle to the Winning Triangle?
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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#43 | Navigating Through the Leadership Challenges w/ Anna Raubo
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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#42 | 6 Ways to Get Our Energy Back (With Solutions!)
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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#41 | Fighting the Doubts on the Journey of Tech Leadership w/ Agata Pawlak
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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#40 | Strengthening Problem Solving Muscle (including Action Learning Framework)
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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#39 | Do Unpopular Opinions Create Great Tech Leads? w/ Greg Droń
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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#38 | Delegation - Why We Don't Do It As Leaders (and How Much Does it Cost)?
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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#37 | Coaching in Leadership Demystified! Tech Transformation in People Space w/ Marta Kramer
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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#36 | Stress in Teams - How a Leader Should React When People Are Acting Like Crazy?
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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#35 | How to Lead Tech Teams With Authenticity? w| Anastasia Zygmantovich @Reckitt
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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#34 | Why One-Size-Fits-All Leadership Approach Fails and What to Do To Transform It?
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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#33 | Using Scrum to Create an Extraordinary Tech Leadership Career | Mikołaj Kosyra
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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#32 | How Contracting Can Change Your Work and Life?
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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#31 | 10 Things That People Love About Being Leaders
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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#30 | TEAMING - Why No One Teaches Us How to Be Good Team Members?
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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#29 | Leadership vs Management: What's More Important? | Paweł Sołowiński
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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#28 | 7 Skills That Tech Team Members Don't Learn (and They SHOULD!)
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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#27 | How to Organize Work so Nobody Hates You?
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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#26 | Is Team Conflict Really a Bad Thing?
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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#25 | Building the Dream Tech Team: Best Practices for Team Development in 2025
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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#24 | How to Be a Tech Leader That Doesn't Doesn't Give Up the Tech Part? | Alexey Chaplygin
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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#23 | How to Boost Efficiency and Team Engagement? Use OKRs!
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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#22 | Practical Ways to Lead Transformations With Success | Przemek Kotecki @Brenntag
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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#21 | Kickstart Your Year: 5 Transforming Actions for Tech Leaders in 2025
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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#20 | Who Should We Be As Real Tech Leaders in 2025? | Bartek Bandrowski @expondo
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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#19 | What I've Learned About Growth Choices (the Hard Way)?
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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#18 | How a Network Can Change Your Leadership | Przemek Siódmiak @313C
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Dec 26, 2024 |
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#17 | Why Habits are Better Than Goals?
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Dec 24, 2024 |
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#16 | 10 Things to Do to Fail Miserably as a Tech Leader in 2025
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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#15 | What is CQ?
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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#14 |The BIG Truth - You Can't Motivate Your People
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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#13 | People First Leading Transformative Change | Kasia Bielecka
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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#12 | Why Leaders Quit Learning?
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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#11 | Building a Tech Leadership Growth Mindset | Wojciech Dymowski @Baigiel
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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#10 | Why People Don't Give Feedback? 5 Reasons and 4A Feedback Framework
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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#9 | How to Be an Effective Leader in HR Tech Startup? | Kasia Gryzło @HearMe
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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#8 | What Makes the Communication Triangle Complete? Non-Verbal Communication!
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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#7 | Number 1 Reason of Conflicts Between People? Communication Channels
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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#6 | OK-OK Matrix as a Tool for a Transformational Leader
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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#5 | How to Boost Employees' Motivation? 9 PCM Needs
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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#4 | How Work Environmental Preferences Influence Our Efficiency?
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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#3 | Limitless Leadership with Evgeny Lukin
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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#2 | 6 Types of Behaviors in Process Communication Model for Tech Leaders
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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#1 | 7 Reasons That People Quit Organizations
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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