Épisodes

  • TL017: From the Mailbag: Yes and No, and Mid-Year Evaluations

    TL017: From the Mailbag: Yes and No, and Mid-Year Evaluations
    Jul 24 2025
    Laura Santamaria opens the listener mailbag to answer questions, including how to say yes or no to leadership opportunities without tanking your career or trashing your work-life balance. She also explores the mid-year review process and offers tips for successful self-evaluation and paths to self-growth. Episode Links: The Line Between Management and IC Leadership –... Read more »
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    32 min
  • TL016: When It Comes To Product Design, Don’t Trust Your Gut

    TL016: When It Comes To Product Design, Don’t Trust Your Gut
    Jun 19 2025
    People consistently overestimate their ability to predict whether a new product or feature will be a success. Instead of blithely going forward with a project that takes up lots of resources and yields minimal results, today’s guest says we should get our ideas into contact with external reality as quickly as possible, and maybe do... Read more »
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    39 min
  • TL015: Continuous Reinvention With Brad Maltz

    TL015: Continuous Reinvention With Brad Maltz
    Jun 5 2025
    “Reinvent or die” is an apt adage for the ever-churning technology industry. Brad Maltz joins us to share his insights on what he calls “continuous reinvention” and how that relates to his own career and why others might want to adopt this mindset. Brad is a Senior Director of AI Solutions at Dell and has... Read more »
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    47 min
  • TL014: Scaling Your Leadership with Dr. Brad Topol

    TL014: Scaling Your Leadership with Dr. Brad Topol
    May 22 2025
    On today’s episode, we are joined by Dr. Brad Topol, Distinguished Engineer and Director of Open Source Technologies at IBM, to talk about how to scale your leadership. We explore the process of how he went from individual contributor to distinguished engineer to director and executive. We chat about how you build a career... Read more »
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    41 min
  • TL013: The Process Communication Model: An Algorithm for Effective Communication

    TL013: The Process Communication Model: An Algorithm for Effective Communication
    May 8 2025
    On this episode of Technically Leadership, we’re joined by Aleksandra Lemańska to learn about the Process Communication Model (PCM), a framework for enhancing communication. Alex calls PCM an algorithm for people, and it can be useful for improving interactions with engineers and technical folks operating in high-stress environments. We talk about how PCM works, understanding... Read more »
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    38 min
  • TL012: Weighing the Cost of Team Interventions

    TL012: Weighing the Cost of Team Interventions
    Apr 24 2025
    On this episode of Technically Leadership, Chris Leonard joins to talk about the costs of intervention in a team discussion, whether that’s to bring a team back to a topic or to make a decision that needs to be made. We discuss hero culture (both in the team and as the leader), imposter syndrome, and... Read more »
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    40 min
  • TL011: Getting the Entire Team to Speak

    TL011: Getting the Entire Team to Speak
    Apr 10 2025
    On today’s episode we’re joined by Daniel Ward to get a sneak preview of his talk on Getting the Entire Team to Speak, which he’ll give at DevOpsDay Austin. His addresses the challenges of getting people to speak up. Why is this needed? Getting input from everyone on a team lets people raise issues and... Read more »
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    42 min
  • TL010: Leading With Influence Rather Than Mandating

    TL010: Leading With Influence Rather Than Mandating
    Mar 27 2025
    How do you lead with influence rather than mandate? On today’s show, we talk with JJ Asghar from IBM. JJ shares his extensive experience in managing open-source namespaces like GitHub and npm for IBM. He discusses the challenges of influencing decisions without formal authority and tailoring communication styles for different audiences. JJ also advocates for... Read more »
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    49 min