Decoding Leadership

Jade Rubick
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Decoding Leadership

Decoding Leadership - where we break down the intersection of effective and humane leadership, especially in software product development (engineering, product, and design).

  1. 3 DAYS AGO

    19. Jade Rubick: using task forces to solve complex leadership challenges

    In this episode, we delve into the concept of task forces and their crucial role in addressing organizational challenges. Discover when and how to employ task forces effectively, and learn from real-life examples, including a case at New Relic to rapidly deliver a complex feature in six weeks, and another involving a complex merger that spanned every department. I share actionable tips on how to set up a successful task force, including the importance of a solid kickoff meeting, selecting the right team members, and how to leverage the power of other leaders.

    13 min

  2. JAN 15

    18. Brent Miller on team self-selection and project Upscale

    Upscale was a large scale agile transformation at a 50 team software company. Brent and I were on the leadership team. The aim of Upscale was to address the gridlock problem with cross-team projects. Jade brought in James Shore, author of The Art of Agile Development, and he led us through a massive amount of change. Upscale was extremely successful, but there were missteps and challenges. We retrospect on Upscale, and talk through cross-team dependencies, and especially into the massive self-selection event, where most of the people in engineering got to choose which team they wanted to be a part of. The episode covers a lot of topics in organizational design, team autonomy, and change management.

    1h 8m

  3. 12/04/2024

    17. Katie Wilde on the challenging step to director, and the perverse incentives of reliability

    Katie Wilde is an accomplished leader from Snyk, Ambassador Labs, and Buffer. She shares how she learned to be an effective director (and how challenging the transition was), and shares tons of insights into why it's hard to build a culture of reliability in engineering organizations. And she shares a bunch of wonderful approaches to make reliability fun and desirable. This episode was a delight, and I learned a bunch from it.

    40 min

  4. 11/06/2024

    16. Jade Rubick on Tiny Thursdays

    We often don't prioritize the tiny things that make exceptional products. I share a practice we adopted recently that helps us ship lots of little things every Thursday.

    12 min

  5. 10/09/2024

    15. Ben Gahlsdorf on partnering with recruiting, advice for job seekers, and a recommendation mindset

    Ben is an experienced talent acquisition leader. We discussed how leaders can work effectively with recruiting, how he coaches recruiters to work better with their stakeholders, how to stand out in the current job market, and what he's learned about leadership himself. He also gives the controversial advice to not jump to hiring a recruiter!

    34 min

  6. 09/25/2024

    14. Alex Kroman on building strong leadership teams, product taste, and neurodivergent mode

    I loved this conversation with Alex Kroman, Chief Product and Technology Officer at LivePerson. We dive into the topic of how to craft great leadership teams, balancing vision with execution, overcoming the hub-and-spoke management model, leveraging diverse skill sets, and improving decision-making quality. Alex is someone I've learned a great deal from, and I invite you to do the same in this podcast!

    45 min

  7. 09/11/2024

    13. Jade Rubick on learning from founder mode

    What can we learn from Paul Graham's "founder mode"? Mostly that it describes a poor way of thinking about delegation. It's not just for founders, and it can be dangerous for founders. But it's a useful tool to have in every leader's toolkit.

    13 min

  8. 08/30/2024

    12. Patrick Lightbody and Henry Shapiro on how they built Reclaim

    I interviewed the founders of Reclaim.ai, a successful startup that was recently acquired by Dropbox. Learn the unusual approaches they took to build a radically customer focused company. We cover how they gave up planning, selected leaders with unusual backgrounds, and kept their technology simple. And they share some of the decisions they made that helped them iterate on their approach and build a product I use every day.

    45 min
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Decoding Leadership - where we break down the intersection of effective and humane leadership, especially in software product development (engineering, product, and design).

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  • Creator
    Jade Rubick
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2025
  • Episodes
    19
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Jade Rubick
  • Show Website
    Decoding Leadership

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