Posts Tagged: leadership

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Of Leaders, Workers and Too Many AI Agents

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A new Asana report finds leaders use far more AI agents than their teams, while workers lose time juggling them. My take on why the two sides see agents so differently, and why leaders should measure finished work rather than agent activity.

What makes a good CTO?

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I have been a CTO myself a few times and worked for some of the greats (and learned!) so I get asked often about what are the traits of a good CTO, be it by the companies I’m advising privately and also through Endeavor mentorship sessions. If you are a co-founder looking for a CTO […]

I’m a senior engineer and I want a promotion!

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This is something that comes up often in sessions through the Endeavor network or with companies I advise so I thought it worth a blog post. Imagine a situation where you have a startup, you are in the right place and have the right skillset to scale this up, you build up your engineering team […]

Business Management and Leadership Lesson, IHOP Style!

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The title of this quite likely would sound really really weird to a lot of you — you don’t necessarily associate IHOP with business management (or leadership lessons)! However, I wish all of the “pedigrees” I see strutting around the Silicon Valley would take time off from their usual brushing up their resume and trying […]

How to Lead Your Own Country…

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This apparently has escaped my attention until now — a program on BBC about “How to start your own country” featuring Danny Wallace; like I said, it seems to be not so recent but I missed it at the time, thank God for Dave and the likes who are showing re-runs of it šŸ™‚ (Well, […]