Engineering Leadership: Hard Truths for Tech Leaders
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Why your best engineers leave, how bad org structures quietly destroy teams, and what separates engineering leaders who scale from those who stall.
Why Nothing Is Future Proof: The Infinite Game in Technology Strategy
Every vendor pitch eventually arrives at the same promise. The platform is future proof. The architecture is built to last. The investment you make today will still be paying off in ten years, so buy now and stop worrying about tomorrow. It is a comforting sentence, and it is also completely false, and I think […]
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Gross Risk vs Net Risk: A Technology Leader’s Guide to Why Freezing Change Doesn’t Make Legacy Systems Safer
I have been parachuted into a number of troubled technology environments during my career, and they usually shared the same characteristics: too many incidents, nervous business stakeholders, old technology, fragile architecture, and a technology team that had gradually lost confidence in its own ability to change anything. One of the first things I learned was […]
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False Lights: How Thin Customer Feedback Can Steer Executives Onto the Rocks
There is an old maritime story about wreckers who placed false lights along dangerous coastlines. Sailors believed they were following a safe navigational signal, steered towards it, and ended up on the rocks instead. Historians dispute whether these stories happened in the way folklore describes them, but the metaphor still earns its place here, because […]
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The Trophy Case Is a Marketing Budget, Not a Scoreboard
1. The pitch that arrives every week If you run a technology function at any size of company, you will eventually receive an email that follows a familiar and well rehearsed pattern, one that opens warmly and almost personally, as though a magazine or a research boutique or an awards body had noticed your work […]
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