About Ahmed
Ahmed is an experienced engineering leader, having led teams at Microsoft, Amazon and Google. He is currently leading Cloud teams at Google. In addition to his day job, Ahmed also helps engineering managers become effective leaders through his coaching.



Today We Talked About

Ahmed's background
Leadership in general
Re-occurring problems for new leaders
Feedback loops
Dealing with being Overwhelmed

Know your own limits
Setting Explicit Expectations
Knowing what your optimizing for


Framework

Master yourself
Manage People
Manage Project


Resources, Time and Scope
Grumpy
Unintentional messages to your team
Change the way you show up
Lead by Example
One-on-Ones

Weekly - Don't skip them
Don't end them early
Follow-up Questions
Aligning Incentives
Career Focused One-on-ones every 4th one.






Connect with Ahmed

LinkedIn
Website




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