The Tech Exec Podcast with Aviv Ben-Yosef

Engineering force multipliers exist on several levels: you, as the executive, your management team, and the individual contributors. Cultivating these requires different measures for each group, whic…

Managing up is the big kids game, where you get to have sway that will allow you to gain leverage and have a more impactful organization. How do you position yourself to get there?

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Tech people turned leaders too often shy away from politics in a way that harms their team. Let's fix that.

• Premature Optimization episode
• Failing Spectacularly episode
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Failure is a necessity if you are trying to do anything novel. Learn how to cultivate a culture where placing bets is safe and a learning opportunity.

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Tough conversations are a vehicle to drive progress in your organization. Without exercising your candor muscle, you'll cultivate a culture of stagnation and low standards. This episode covers how to…

As more and more companies are moving to work from home, here are a few tips to get the process started and become productive faster. If you have any specific questions, feel free to contact me: aviv…

Debugging code is a no brainer when compared to debugging processes that span over dozens of engineers, and pinpointing where exactly the bottlenecks are. In this episode, I cover how you can add "de…

Join me for a quick thought experiment–can you suddenly free up hundreds of hours and heaps of allocated budget and get more impact?

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Should you, as the person in charge of R&D, default to saying "yes" or "no?" How much should you pushback on ideas? This episode covers that and more.

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Research shows that people can learn to become helpless and pessimistic, just as they can learn to become optimistic. Those who are inculcated with helplessness then get into a vicious, negative cycl…

As your team grows, its operating system needs to update to accommodate for the change in hardware. The speed with which the upgrades are done is your speed of change. In this episode, I list out the…

First times are inflection points, or can be used as such. How many first times are there in your organization every week? Are you making good use of them?

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In an environment with so many different people, from diverse backgrounds and cultures, you can't hear only one side of the story. Gather the evidence!

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A few quick assessments to see whether you're growing fast enough along with your team, and how to decide what you should change.

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A big chunk of running a tight engineering organization consists of keeping a handle of your feedback loops and tightening them as needed.

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Following up on my latest article exploding on Hacker News, this week we dig into the mechanics of providing negative feedback.

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• Feedback Timeliness
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How adding some slack time to your organization can make things drastically better, and the approaches you can take to start trying it out.

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How your typical week should look.

• Previous episode about making time
• Plan for about 35 hours a week
  • 1:1s - 3 hours
  • 1:1s with skips - 1-2 hours
  • Thinking time - 5 hours
  • Hiring - 3 hours
  • Syncs - 8 hours
  • Shapin…