The Tech Exec Podcast with Aviv Ben-Yosef

Executive Mindset — Suspending Disbelief

Before you shoot it down, can you believe it’s possible? This penultimate episode in our eight traits series is about cultivating the executive mindset: the le…

Say It Like You Mean It: Communication for Tech Leaders

In this episode, we continue our deep dive into the eight essential traits of exceptional tech leaders—this time, tackling the ever-crucial skil…

You’re Not Coaching—You’re Just Talking at People

In this next installment of the Eight Traits series, we dive into one of the most misunderstood (and underused) leadership skills: Coaching.

Everyone t…

Most tech leaders say they value autonomy. But when it comes to actually letting go and empowering their teams? That’s where the cracks show. In this episode of the Eight Traits series, I unpack how …

For years, I’ve guided tech executives through a simple self-assessment of eight leadership traits—helping them pinpoint the highest-ROI areas for growth. Now, I’m bringing that process to the podcas…

For years, I’ve guided tech executives through a simple self-assessment of eight leadership traits—helping them pinpoint the highest-ROI areas for growth. Now, I’m bringing that process to the podcas…

For years, I’ve guided tech executives through a simple self-assessment of eight leadership traits—helping them pinpoint the highest-ROI areas for growth. Now, I’m bringing that process to the podcas…

When you're playing other people's games, you're following a path selected by others. You might have a better way of reaching that destination, or an entirely different one. Too often, we find oursel…

This team was spinning its wheels for weeks—endless discussions, half-baked experiments, and no real progress. Then, they put a “safety net” in place, and within days, they made leaps they hadn’t ach…

🥗 Salad or Risotto? The Leadership Balancing Act 🍛

Some things can be tossed together in minutes. Others need time to develop depth and character.

💡 A salad? Chop, mix, done. Quick and fresh.

🔥 Risotto?…

Leadership headaches? If you’re just taking painkillers instead of treating the root cause, you’re letting problems fester until they explode—usually at the worst time. Are you practicing ‘Ibuprofen …

Some engineering leaders are so process-driven, they’re practically begging AI to replace them. Are you so intent on bolting everything down, you're mostly ensuring there's no innovation happening? D…

Is your team essentially operating like teenagers working at McDonald's, not having any real authority or agency to do anything without asking for their parent's permission? The right coaching and en…

Being easy on the trigger with the titles and "roles" you hand out can really skew your organization's culture in the wrong direction. Here's the story of a real company I came across with no "plain"…

Toss aside those grand New Year's resolutions you wrote. I've seen tangible and long-term changes in my clients by finding a way to make improvement a constant. If you treat your progress with delibe…

CTO/VPE? The bad news: Your CEO won't coach you. The good ones? You've got enough agency and authority to pull yourself by the bootstraps! This week's podcast is a DIY-kit for coaching and growth.

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Year-end reflection on the behaviors of the top 0.1% engineers and leaders I've had the privilege of working with, and how you should make the time to get deeper instead of always doing shallow work.…

How you handle delays and issues matters not just for that specific iteration, but for the type of leader you are and how your peers will view you. Are you making cascading delays and failures worse,…

Communicating better will set you apart as a senior tech leader, reduce micromanagement from your boss and peers, and provide you with more leverage. You can improve all that and fast. Piqued your in…

Are you having fun? This isn't a kumbayah question, and not about expecting every second of your work to be fun (that wouldn't be work). It's about ensuring you're not wasting your life, trapped by p…