Lead Time Chats

Pat Kua on Different Flavors of Tech Leadership

Episode Summary

In this episode of Lead Time Chats, Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, chats with Pat Kua, engineering leadership coach, about the different flavors of tech leadership.

Episode Notes

In this episode of Lead Time Chats, Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, chats with Pat Kua, engineering leadership coach, about the different flavors of tech leadership.

Pat and Jean discuss:

• Different archetypes of tech leadership, including engineering managers, staff engineers, tech leads, and senior ICs.
• The importance of influence without authority 
• The implicit values that your company incentivizes, that may or may not be aligned with stated values 
• Applying systems thinking from technical systems to people and teams