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Episode 14: Ian Colle (AWS)
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Content provided by Rachel Perkins and Kendall Miller, Rachel Perkins, and Kendall Miller. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Rachel Perkins and Kendall Miller, Rachel Perkins, and Kendall Miller or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://player.fm/legal.
In this episode Kendall, rachel, and Ian talk about:
- Hipster bicycles
- Ian's backstory in the military
- Deciding you like startups, and then ending up at Amazon
- Developing motivation toward the goal vs using discipline to lead your team
- Learning from bad managers
- Management at scale, high-volume hiring
- Pushing for shared experience for remote vs on-premises team members
- Realizing that everyone is not like you (gasp!)
- Having autonomy as a child means it's harder to handle micromanagement as an adult
- Walking the fine line of projecting confidence vs being vulnerable to your team
- Kendall learns about the concept of humility (again :))
You can find Ian at @ircolle most places on the internet.
Special thanks to Mel Stanley for our theme music <3
100 episodes
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Manage episode 222500026 series 2317207
Content provided by Rachel Perkins and Kendall Miller, Rachel Perkins, and Kendall Miller. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Rachel Perkins and Kendall Miller, Rachel Perkins, and Kendall Miller or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://player.fm/legal.
In this episode Kendall, rachel, and Ian talk about:
- Hipster bicycles
- Ian's backstory in the military
- Deciding you like startups, and then ending up at Amazon
- Developing motivation toward the goal vs using discipline to lead your team
- Learning from bad managers
- Management at scale, high-volume hiring
- Pushing for shared experience for remote vs on-premises team members
- Realizing that everyone is not like you (gasp!)
- Having autonomy as a child means it's harder to handle micromanagement as an adult
- Walking the fine line of projecting confidence vs being vulnerable to your team
- Kendall learns about the concept of humility (again :))
You can find Ian at @ircolle most places on the internet.
Special thanks to Mel Stanley for our theme music <3
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