Video description
Many people think leadership is a higher calling that resides exclusively with managers who practice or follow big compelling leadership philosophies. But what’s most important for leadership is principled consistency, because small things done well time and again without fail build trust and respect within a team.
Using stories from his time at Netflix, Apple, and Slack, Michael Lopp presents a series of practices to help you build leadership skills. You’ll learn how to create teams that are highly productive, highly respected, and highly trusted. Lopp has been speaking and writing about this topic for over a decade. He maintains a Slack channel with nearly 12000 members.
In this practical audio book, Lopp illustrates the leadership skills he learned from exceptional leaders at three dynamic companies:
- Act I: As a manager under James Barksdale at Netflix
- Act II: As a senior manager/director under Steve Jobs at Apple
- Act III: As an executive with Stewart Butterfield at Slack
Table of Contents
Opening Credits
Foreword
Introduction
Small Things
Act I: Netscape: Manager
Chapter 1: Assume They Have Something to Teach You
Chapter 2: Meeting Blur
Chapter 3: The Situation
Chapter 4: Act Last, Read the Room, and Taste the Soup
Chapter 5: Spidey-Sense
Chapter 6: Your Professional Growth Questionnaire
Chapter 7: A Performance Question
Chapter 8: Rands Information Practices
Chapter 9: The New Manager Death Spiral
Act II: Apple: Director
Chapter 10: The Blue Tape List
Chapter 11: Delegate Until It Hurts
Chapter 12: How to Recruit
Chapter 13: Gossip, Rumors, and Lies
Chapter 14: Rainbows and Unicorns
Chapter 15: Say the Hard Thing
Chapter 16: Everything Breaks
Chapter 17: The Org Chart Test
Chapter 18: A Distributed Meeting Primer
Act III: Slack: Executive
Chapter 19: Allergic to Wisdom
Chapter 20: The Guard
Chapter 21: The Culture Creek
Chapter 22: Anti-Flow
Chapter 23: A Meritocracy Is a Trailing Indicator
Chapter 24: How to Build a Rumor
Chapter 25: Kobayashi Maru Management
Chapter 26: The Signal Network
Chapter 27: A Precious Hour
Chapter 28: Find a Mentor
Chapter 29: How to Rands
Chapter 30: Be Unfailingly Kind
Epilogue: The Way I Heard It Was…
Closing Credits