On the Morgan McKinley Leadership in Technology Podcast, we sit down with preemininant figures in the Irish technology space, discussing their careers, how they've built their teams, and their views on the most cutting edge industry developments.
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Kevin Goldsmith brings you lessons and advice from decades in the technology industry.
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In this episode of the "It Depends" podcast, host Kevin Goldsmith delves into the complexities of decision-making in management and its implications on organizational policy. Titled "Every Decision Creates a Policy," this chapter is particularly significant, highlighting common managerial pitfalls and their long-term effects on company culture and …
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This chapter discusses what you can do as a manager to protect your team from layoffs: Ensure the team is aligned with company goals. Raising the visibility of the good work of the individuals on the team. Managing performance. All of these things will help when someone is trying to decide if anyone from your team should be laid off. This episode a…
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Politics! The word has such a negative connotation when discussing work and corporate culture. Political tactics or maneuvers aren't inherently bad. It is the intent behind them that makes them so. You can leverage those same tactics for good instead of evil. In this episode, Kevin delves into 'The P Word' and discusses the good and bad sides of po…
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Creating a Vernacular With Your Engineering Team
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Teams create their own languages organically, which is essential to team bonding and belonging. Understand this and use it to improve how your team works together and to make it easier when onboarding new members. Links: The newsletter with the text of the chapter: https://kevingoldsmith.substack.com/p/building-a-vernacular-with-your-engineering "I…
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If you are on the technology management track, the final role is Chief Technology Officer. Still, the path to the role is not obvious because the role itself differs greatly from company to company. The episode includes chapter 10 from "It Depends: Writing on Technology Leadership 2012-2022," "Becoming a CTO." This chapter discusses the common skil…
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How I Get My Focused Work Done / The Known Unknowns
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Once again, two shorter chapters in this podcast from the book. How I get my focused work done: When you are a manager, constantly interrupted, how can you get focus time to devote to your projects? The Known Unknowns: Understanding the mastery curve. Links: Book/Podcast/Newsletter website: https://itdependsbook.net/ Questions/Comments/Suggestions …
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Own Your Calendar / Work Deliberately
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Two chapters from the book this week! Discussing a deliberate approach to managing your calendar and tracking how you actually are using your time, and then how to approach your work with thoughtfulness and decisiveness instead of just making decisions based on instinct. More information about the book: https://itdependsbook.net/ Ask a question or …
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Taking a day, once, twice, or even four times a year to reflect on how things are going and think about where you want to go next is a valuable practice. This episode includes how to approach this practice and get value from it. This episode also includes Chapter 5 of the audiobook "It Depends: Writing on Technology Leadership 2012-2022" by Kevin G…
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When, why, and how to stop coding as your day job
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One of the questions I most frequently get from engineering leaders or aspiring leads is "how much coding do you do?" or "How do you handle coding and managing?" One of the hardest things for me in my development journey was letting go of developing features on the products I worked on. This episode is all about that. I include Chapter 4 of the aud…
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Taking a thoughtful approach to the job search process
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Chapter 3 from It Depends: Writing on Technology Leadership 2012-2022 In this episode, we discuss my experience building an exercise to help me better understand what is important to me in a role or company and then how I used the results to help prepare for job interviews. I also discuss some of the mistakes people make when interviewing for roles…
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The challenge of top-down change and the Microsoft layoffs
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How can top-down culture change be effective? Looking at Microsoft and Yahoo as examples. Links: It Depends book: https://itdependsbook.net Questions/comments: contact@itdependsbook.netOleh Kevin Goldsmith
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We discuss how critical failure is to innovation and how to handle failure well. We talk about how software used to be written, Clippy and why it was bound to fail, how Spotify uses the Think It/Build It/Ship It/Tweak It framework to build fail-safe products, and more... links: Newsletter: kevingoldsmith.substack.com Book: itdependsbook.net Videos …
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Welcome to the podcast! This episode introduces the podcast and includes the introduction to the book "It Depends: Writing on Technology Leadership 2012-2022" by Kevin Goldsmith. Links: Book info https://itdependsbook.net/ Blog https://blog.kevingoldsmith.com/Oleh Kevin Goldsmith
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Mastercard's Lauren Grendon on the Potential of Blockchain
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What next for Blockchain? Lauren Grendon, Director of Blockchain Engineering at Mastercard, sits down with us this month to discuss the current state of the technology, as well as its potential going forward.
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Verizon Connect's Donal O'Mahony on the Changing Face of UX
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On this month's episode of Morgan McKinley's Leaders In Technology Podcast, we sit down with Donal O'Mahony, Head of UX, Service Design & Product Design at Verizon Connect. Donal speaks with us about how he has managed to carve out such a successful career for himself within a still maturing field, why design matters for the businesses of today, an…
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Shutterstock's Tony O'Donnell on Scaling at Speed
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In the first episode of our Morgan McKinley 'Leadership in Technology' Podcast, we sit down with Tony O'Donnell, VP of Engineering and Site Head for Shutterstock Ireland. Tony recounts a career spent working in areas of major technological disruption, and provides some significant insights into establishing and building out technology teams at spee…
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