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leadingIn(tech)#20: What I've learned so far

Hi there! 👋🏽 Welcome to a new issue of leadingIn.tech newsletter. I'm Roberto, and this is where I share ideas, practices, and learnings toward becoming a better leader in technology. I've launched this newsletter as a sidecar to leadingIn.tech as a place to try to put in my own words the learnings from all of the content I read about technology, management, and leadership.

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leadingIn(tech)#19: Writing matters

Hi there! 👋🏽 Welcome to a new issue of leadingIn.tech newsletter. I'm Roberto, and this is where I share ideas, practices, and learnings toward becoming a better leader in technology. We are living in uncertain times, the news lately is filled by major tech companies doing layoffs and reducing their workforces.

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leadingIn(tech)#18: The value of asking good questions

Hi there! 👋🏽 Welcome to a new issue of leadingIn.tech newsletter. I'm Roberto, and this is where I share ideas, practices, and learnings toward becoming a better leader in technology. This week's issue is about the value of asking good questions.

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leadingIn(tech)#17: Small things, Done well. Part III.3; Anti-Flow

Hi there! 👋🏽 Welcome to a new issue of leadingIn.tech newsletter. I'm Roberto, and this is where I share ideas, practices, and learnings toward becoming a better leader in technology. This week's issue is a continuation of the series dedicated to The Art of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well by Michael Lopp.

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leadingIn(tech)#16: Small things done well. Part III.2; The Guard and The Culture Creek

Hi there! 👋🏽 Welcome to a new issue of leadingIn.tech newsletter. I'm Roberto, and this is where I share ideas, practices, and learnings towards becoming a better leader in technology. This week's issue is a continuation of the series dedicated to The Art of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well by Michael Lopp.

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leadingIn(tech)#15: Eliminate toil and give way to the team

Hi there! 👋🏽 Welcome to a new issue of leadingIn.tech newsletter. I'm Roberto, and this is where I share ideas, practices, and learnings towards becoming a better leader in technology.

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leadingIn(tech)#14: Small things done well. Part III; Allergic to Wisdom

Hi there! 👋🏽 After a few months of break, this is a new issue of the leadingIn.tech newsletter. I'm Roberto, and this is a place where I share ideas, practices, and learnings towards the journey of becoming a better leader in technology. Probably you forgot you were subscribed to it, so I'll try to make it short.

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leadingIn(tech)#13: Small things, Done well. Part II; Delegate Until It Hurts

Hi there! 👋🏽 Welcome to a new issue of leadingIn.tech newsletter. I'm Roberto, and this is a place where I share ideas, practices, learnings towards the journey of becoming a better leader in technology. This is the second issue of the series dedicated to the book The Art of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well by Michael Lopp.

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leadingIn(tech)#12: Small things, Done well. Part I; taste the soup

Hi there! 👋🏽 Welcome to a new issue of the leadingIn.tech newsletter. I'm Roberto, and this is a place where I share ideas, practices, learnings towards the journey of becoming a better leader in technology. This is the first issue of a series dedicated to the book The Art of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well by Michael Lopp.

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leadingIn(tech)#11: The role of a manager has changed

Hi there! 👋🏽 Welcome to a new issue of leadingIn.tech newsletter. I'm Roberto, and this is a place where I share ideas, practices, learnings towards the journey of becoming a better leader in technology.

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leadingIn(tech)#10: We all suck at setting deadlines, and that's OK

Hi there! 👋🏽 Welcome to a new issue of leadingIn.tech newsletter. I'm Roberto, and this is a place where I share ideas, practices, learnings towards the journey of becoming a better leader. Today's article is about that activity that we terribly suck at performing but we still need to do anyway to get things done, and that's estimating when we will complete a task or a project.

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leadingIn(tech)#9: 1% better

Hi there! 👋🏽 Welcome to a new issue of leadingIn.tech newsletter. I'm Roberto, and this is a place where I share ideas, practices, learnings towards the journey of becoming better leaders. Photo by Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash As this is my first issue of 2022 I want to start this "new season" by doing it a bit differently.

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LeadingIn Tech #8: Wrapped

Photo by Patrick Schneider on Unsplash Hi there! Welcome to another edition of the LeadingIn.Tech newsletter. It's been 6 months since I last wrote to this newsletter, and now that we are in December and this is the time of the year where people start crafting their new year resolutions by looking at how their year went and what they would like to change the year after.

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LeadingIn Tech #7: Working Backwards to identify the right talent for your team

Photo by Emile Perron on Unsplash Hi there! Welcome to the new edition of the LeadingIn.Tech newsletter. Now that we are done with the first half of 2021 we are getting into what it might feel like a peak season of tech (or non necessarily tech) companies hunting and competing for the best talent of software development family roles.

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LeadingIn Tech #6: Estimated Time of Arrival Panic

Hi there! This is the Issue #6 of the LeadingIn.Tech email. There are few things that scare me more than giving ETA's to stakeholders. I'm talking about "Estimated Time of Arrival" a term often used in software development to ask for the effort or the date for when a given task or project will be completed.

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LeadingIn Tech #5: Managing your upstream communication

Photo by Brandon on Unsplash Hi there! Welcome to the new edition of the LeadingIn.Tech newsletter. As an Engineering Manager one of my biggest challenges as a technology leader is when I need to communicate upwards in the command chain. It is a lot easier for me to communicate with technical peers than to stakeholders up in the management chain.

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LeadingIn Tech #4: Building teams that will outlive you

Photo by Braden Collum on Unsplash Hi there! Welcome to the fourth edition of the LeadingIn.Tech email. On this opportunity I will be sharing some thoughts on building teams that outlive their original members. In the past edition I've talked about Resilience and how to it creates organisations that are better prepared to endure difficult times.

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LeadingInTech #3: Resilience

Photo by Suzanne D. Williams on Unsplash Hi there! Welcome to the third edition of the LeadingIn.Tech newsletter. On this edition I want to share some thoughts on leadership in times of accelerated changes. As January 2021 is coming to an end I'm not going give you a list of "the best of" or "the worst of" something like that.

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LeadingIn.Tech #2: What does an Engineering Manager do anyway?

Hi there! Welcome to the second edition of the LeadingIn.Tech newsletter. On this edition I'll give a step back and share to you as part of the toolkit For Engineering Managers my current understanding of what do they generally do. When learning about The role.

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LeadingIn.Tech #1: What's new this month?

Hi there! This is the first edition of the LeadingIn.Tech newsletter. This newsletter is meant to keep you updated about the new resources added to the toolkit I'm building that is meant for leaders in technology.

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