AGL 057: Learning Leadership with Scott Drake
Scott Drake - VP of Technology
Scott Drake is on a mission to help great technologists become great leaders. His 20-year career includes stops at Microsoft in Redmond, Wash., at startups in Silicon Valley, and he is currently the Vice President of Technology for a medical education company in his hometown of Louisville, Ky. He is the author of "The Programmer Hiring Playbook: A Crash Course in Interviewing and Hiring for Your Real-World Needs," and he is the founder and curator of LearnLeadership.org, a free website that helps technologists create leadership development plans and discover high-yield learning resources.
Things we talked about
The hiring process
Re-hiring your team annually
Leading isn't about "Me"
Success in tech isn't determined by "tech itself"
Make sure you build the right thing, not just build things right
The Four Levels of Leadership (see below)
Second order thinking (get over tech)
Be willing to give up control
Discover and Embrace your Authentic Self
Four Levels of Leadership
Lead Yourself
Lead a Team
Lead a Department
Lead an Organization
Connect with Scott Drake
Twitter
LinkedIn
Learn Leadership
Scott Drake's website
The Programmer Hiring Playbook
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Scott Drake is on a mission to help great technologists become great leaders. His 20-year career includes stops at Microsoft in Redmond, Wash., at startups in Silicon Valley, and he is currently the Vice President of Technology for a medical education company in his hometown of Louisville, Ky. He is the author of "The Programmer Hiring Playbook: A Crash Course in Interviewing and Hiring for Your Real-World Needs," and he is the founder and curator of LearnLeadership.org, a free website that helps technologists create leadership development plans and discover high-yield learning resources.
Things we talked about
The hiring process
Re-hiring your team annually
Leading isn't about "Me"
Success in tech isn't determined by "tech itself"
Make sure you build the right thing, not just build things right
The Four Levels of Leadership (see below)
Second order thinking (get over tech)
Be willing to give up control
Discover and Embrace your Authentic Self
Four Levels of Leadership
Lead Yourself
Lead a Team
Lead a Department
Lead an Organization
Connect with Scott Drake
Learn Leadership
Scott Drake's website
The Programmer Hiring Playbook
I hope you enjoyed this show, please head over to iTunes and subscribe and leave me a rating and review, even one sentence will help spread the word. Thanks again!
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