Have you noticed that, in the tech community, certain people love to make fun of themselves?

They’re self-deprecating to a fault.

Where did this come from??? And how do we eradicate these behaviors so we can create a culture where it’s accepted and expected to be confident?

And create a culture where everyone earns their wins and celebrates them?

Do not miss this episode!

Senior Software Engineer and Server Necromancer at Slack, Randall Koutnik talks about the importance of trust, feedback, managing teams while scaling and more!

Intro music is "I'm Going for a Coffee" by Lee Rosevere, which is licensed under CC BY 4.0

Special Guest: Randall Koutnik.

Startup Advisor Mawulom Nenonene talks about building and evaluating your hiring process, training for your team to interview, how to set reasonable salaries and more.

Recruiting tool

Intro music is "I'm Going for a Coffee" by Lee Rosevere, which is licensed under CC BY 4.0

Special Guest: Mawulom Nenonene.

VP of Engineering for Sharethrough (https://sharethrough.com), Rob Slifka (https://www.linkedin.com/in/robslifka/) talks about how to have a rewarding and impactful career, how to get fulfillment in days work as management, his top learnings from running the Calibrate conference for new Engineering Managers, threading the needle of when to let someone go and more

Calibrate Conference: https://calibratesf.com

The Lead Developer conference happens a few times a year, the next is in Austin in November https://austin2019.theleaddeveloper.com/

Information for The Rands Leadership Slack is here: https://randsinrepose.com/welcome-to-rands-leadership-slack/

Intro music is "I'm Going for a Coffee" by Lee Rosevere, which is licensed under CC BY 4.0

Special Guest: Rob Slifka.

Author and Head of Foundation Engineering at Stripe (https://stripe.com), Will Larson (https://www.linkedin.com/in/will-larson-a44b543/) stops by the People Stack to talk about what the Foundation Engineering team does, the best career advice he ever received, why Inclusion must precede Diversity, sizing teams when managing ICs and Managers, handling on-call status, career ladders and much more

Will's book "An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management" is out now (hardcover is highly recommended): https://www.amazon.com/Elegant-Puzzle-Systems-Engineering-Management/dp/1732265186

Intro music is "I'm Going for a Coffee" by Lee Rosevere, which is licensed under CC BY 4.0

Special Guest: Will Larson.

Founder, author, and speaker Ronald Cummings-John stops by the People Stack to talk about the meaning of quality, selling the concept and need for quality in your software, the need to convince people all of the time, the people challenges of communication and more. Ronald's book gets released in September 2019 and is called "Leading Quality."

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronaldcj

Intro music is "I'm Going for a Coffee" by Lee Rosevere, which is licensed under CC BY 4.0

Special Guest: Ronald Cummings-John.

Founder, Marketer and Author Sarah E. Brown talks about her book "Power to the Startup People," how you can contribute to a startup when you aren't a founder, the challenges of transitioning between phases of a company and the power of mindset and more

Sarah's book is available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2y6rRGx

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Innovator, Author, and Speaker Tania Katan visits the People Stack to talk about her book "Creative Trespassing" (https://www.amazon.com/Creative-Trespassing-Spark-Back-into-ebook/dp/B07D22GYDT), her many methods of sparking more creativity in everyday work, how you can bring more of yourself to your work, how creativity can inspire those around you, the power of walks to unlock hidden ideas and more

Tania's book:

Tania's very inspiring Instagram:

See Tania speak here: https://taniakatan.com/speaking/

Intro music is "I'm Going for a Coffee" by Lee Rosevere, which is licensed under CC BY 4.0

Rob May (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rpvmay), Managing Director of the IT support company Ramsac (https://www.ramsac.com) talks about your organization's human firewall, interviewing to see who people really are, the importance of your team members to feel they are growing and more

Ramsac: https://www.ramsac.com/

Rob's Ted Talk: The Human Firewall

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Special Guest: Rob May.

Bryan Helmig (https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryanhelmig/), founder and CEO of Zapier (http://zapier.com) talks about the behaviors Zapier looks for in their employees, when to raise the bandwidth of your comms, the different tools Zapier uses for their remote teams, starting out remote and more

Intro music is "I'm Going for a Coffee" by Lee Rosevere, which is licensed under CC BY 4.0

Special Guest: Bryan Helmig.