Leadership. By the numbers.
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Gives concrete rules and surprising numbers: schedule 30 minutes every week for one-on-ones, keep team size near 7 plus or minus 3, expect conformity effects (~75%) that make diversity valuable, and treat feedback as costly if delayed — say hard things early. Advises delegating execution, start and end meetings on time, measure impact of someone’s toxicity, and practice being unfailingly kind. Watch if actionable tactics and exact thresholds matter to tonight’s choices.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:47Leadership. By the Numbers. Lopp (rands) - The Lead Developer 2016
- 3:01Saying "No" is a finite resource.
- 3:43What is the most important thing you should do as a leader of humans?
- 4:38Your job is to inspire the team.
- 5:06The Vegetable Talk Lopp (@rands) The Lead Developer 2016
- 7:39Focus on the vegetables
- 7:55For the seasoned leader
- 9:03Your job is information gathering, abstraction, filtering, and delivery.
- 15:11You are underestimating the long term cost of saying the hard thing
- 21:00You probably hire people like you.
- 21:21Diversity is a no brainer.
- 25:00You set tone and cadence- all the time.
- 29:10You are horrifically bad at something
- 30:18Execution Judgement
- 30:34Vision
- 31:16Strategy
- 38:21Three Vegetables
- 38:35Delegating my horrificness.
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