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Episode 85: Maya Mandel (Helios)
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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 Maya talk about:
- Competitive athletics as a driver of leadership skills and high performance teamwork
- The power of the history of the University of Michigan
- Preparing for when athleticism will be a memory
- Serving in the military, leading software dev teams...in the military
- Doing things young, when you have less to lose, less context
- Learning the value of a holistic product view
- Wanting to change the world
- Motivation differences in the military vs the civilian working world
- Getting an MBA and why it felt kind of relaxing
- Different leadership requirements for the different stages of childhood development
- Getting her mind blown launching products at a huge org like Symantec
- Adaptability and how the process of problem solving is essentially unchanged
- Using authority as a tool vs a bludgeon
- Being where she wants to be
You can find Maya on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/mayamandel/
Special thanks to Mel Stanley for our theme music <3
100 episodes
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In this episode, Kendall, rachel, and Maya talk about:
- Competitive athletics as a driver of leadership skills and high performance teamwork
- The power of the history of the University of Michigan
- Preparing for when athleticism will be a memory
- Serving in the military, leading software dev teams...in the military
- Doing things young, when you have less to lose, less context
- Learning the value of a holistic product view
- Wanting to change the world
- Motivation differences in the military vs the civilian working world
- Getting an MBA and why it felt kind of relaxing
- Different leadership requirements for the different stages of childhood development
- Getting her mind blown launching products at a huge org like Symantec
- Adaptability and how the process of problem solving is essentially unchanged
- Using authority as a tool vs a bludgeon
- Being where she wants to be
You can find Maya on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/mayamandel/
Special thanks to Mel Stanley for our theme music <3
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