In today's episode, we cover prioritizing team dynamics and collaboration in leadership. We discuss the importance of focusing on the team before jumping right into problem-solving. We emphasize the significance of team dynamics, trust, and leadership in achieving success and also discuss the value of having the right team members and fostering an …

We're back with our slow but informative walkthrough of The Trillion Dollar Coach, covering Chapter 3 - Build an Envelope of Trust. We cover a ton of ground in this episode, here are some of the main points. - Building trust between leaders and teams - Trust as the foundation of psychological safety - Leveraging radical candor in delivering difficu…

In today's episode, we take a break from The Trillion Dollar Coach and reconnect after a break. We touch on several topics: 1. Adjusting to recording again and optimizing our workspace for better productivity. 2. The significance of career progression within our teams and the importance of fostering an environment that supports growth and success. …

In this episode we discuss our experiences and observations about leadership and wellbeing back from some much needed time off. We touch on the importance of taking breaks, finding a work-life balance, and the benefits of taking a step back from work. We cover the challenges of maintaining a healthy work-life balance, especially when working remote…

How do we handle the people on our teams who are exceptional at what they do, but regularly exhibit behaviors that are outside of the bands of the team dynamics / company expectations? Bill Campbell calls this "Managing the Aberrant Genius". Bill Campbell's advice is clear - tolerating the Aberrant Genius is OK as long as their behaviors are in the…

Sometimes you need to make the hard decision and expect that everyone will rally around it. We're back after a long summer break with one of our favorite leadership concepts from the Trillion Dollar coach around executive decision-making. Bill Campbell says our job as leaders are to ensure all perspectives get heard and considered when making decis…

Today we continue our series on The Trillion Dollar Coach with Part 3 of Chapter 2 which is all about one-on-ones. Bill Campbell brought his own unique flair to coaching his team and rooted it in solid leadership foundations that we will discuss today. We discuss a few thoughts and ideas around how to improve your own 1:1 effectiveness which center…

Today we continue our series on the Trillion Dollar Coach by talking about one of our favorite relationship building tools, the Trip Report. The Trip Report is exactly what it sounds like. A brief, informal, overview of a recent vacation you took aimed at sharing with your colleagues to build trust and help them get to know you better. When you hav…

"If you're a great manager, your people will make you a leader. They claim that not you." - Bill Campbell In today's episode we continue our series on Bill Campbell and the Trillion Dollar Coach with Chapter 2: Your Title Makes You a Manager. Your People Make You a Leader. This chapter is solid gold and a great start to the book. It's also very den…

Today we continue our series on the Trillion Dollar Coach. We cover the first chapter which covers some backstory of Bill's life and some of the events and experiences that led him to become the person he is today. It's sort of a prequel to the book, there is not much actual guidance in this chapter but there is some wisdom that is worth the read. …

Today we kick off a new series: Trillion Dollar Coach, a book that outlines the leadership style, approach, and secrets of one of the greatest business leaders of our time: Bill Campbell. Bill Campbell is not who you might have normally pegged as a fantastic leader that was in the middle of some of the greatest successes from the largest companies …

Today we clear the backlog on outstanding questions we have collected during our newhire onboarding. How do I ramp-up quickly on a new technology/topic? How often should I check in with my boss? How do I get more responsibility? We referenced a couple of interesting resources during the discussion as well: Computer Scientist Explains Machine Learni…

Today we tackle one of the most commonly asked questions in our new hire orientation. How do I deal with Imposter Syndrome? Imposter syndrome, also called perceived fraudulence, involves feelings of self-doubt and personal incompetence that persist despite your education, experience, and accomplishments. -HealthLine We start the episode covering wh…

Today we welcome back Igor after a two month sabbatical and celebrate more than a year of podcasting. We spend some time catching up after taking a bit of a summer break from releasing podcast episodes, talk about some of the origins and inspirations that led us to start podcasting to begin with, get into some emerging tech ideas, and cap the episo…

Today, we talk about planning your ideal week. As professionals, we live and die by our calendars and most of the time they are like a game of Tetris gone horribly wrong. Today we cover thoughts and ideas for regaining control of your calendar, managing expectations around your time, and making the time for things that are most important to you. Th…

Vacation days are one of the most finite resources we possess as non-retired humans. Most of us with "normal" 9-5 jobs tend to get between 10 and 25 days per year with little flexibility beyond that - regardless of salary. As our careers progress, income tends to rise, and business tends to increase along with it - leaving the potential for having …

In today's episode we talk about the 40% of workers that are planning on leaving their job over the next 12 months and what we can do about it as leaders within our organization. Episode at a Glance: NPR coined the term Great Resignation as a way to label the abnormally high number of people planning on leaving their jobs as we begin to exit the wo…

Today we wrap up our Nine Lies About Work series with a brief recap of the lies and our overall reactions to the book. Overall, we think Nine Lies About Work is worth the time and energy to read, especially if you are in a leadership position or aspire to be at some point in your career. Thanks for joining us today and don't forget to hit the subsc…

Today the crew is back from 4th of July vacations and spend some time talking about how to unwind in the middle of a busy work-year. We all have slightly different approaches to taking time off and strategies to unwind as effectively as possible during the precious few vacation weeks we invest during our careers. Thanks for joining us today and don…

The Wanna Grab Coffee? crew is on vacation this week so we are publishing a recent delivery of one of our most popular episodes around becoming The Ideal Team Player. This is a presentation Robert gives in our new-hire orientation expanding on some of the great work Patrick Lencioni discusses in his book The Ideal Team Player: https://www.tablegrou…

Today Igor and Robert discuss dynamics around returning to work and what leaders might expect as we enter this unknown period of change. Also, we are all taking some time off through July and August and might have a few gaps in our episode releases. Don't worry, we aren't going anywhere! We have lots of great content planned as we head into our sec…

Lie: Leadership is a Thing Truth: We follow spikes Today we cover the final lie in our Nine Lies About Work series with Leadership is a Thing. It turns out, instead of classifying a leader as someone who possesses a pre-defined list of skills and developed some mastery over those skills (the traditional proxy for leadership) - we instead classify l…

Today we talk about performance reviews and the importance of how to manage them effectively as a leader (someone writing the review) or the person being reviewed. Whether or not performance reviews are done well within your organization, they represent a core part of the career growth process and should be taken seriously. In addition, performance…

Lie: Work/Life Balance Matters Most Truth: Live-in-work matters most We think the authors really hit their stride when they focus on the meta-work subjects and how to think about pulling those out of your team. "Burnout isn't the absence of balance, but the absence of love." Work is hard, the only way to do it sustainably is to have areas of work t…

Lie: People have potential Truth: People have momentum Potential is an intangible subjective opinion about someone that is rooted in almost a character trait instead of a tangible behavior or skill. You can't assess the potential of someone because we're all unique, our brains develop differently, we have different interests, we're all at different…