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

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Website

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