Conscious Career Growth (part 2) with Wade Chambers, CTO & SVP of Engineering @ Grand Rounds #21
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Your job as an engineering leader is to win and increase your capacity to win. In Part 2, Wade Chambers discusses how to measure success for engineering leaders, what great looks like, AND how to increase your team’s performance and improve their potential! You’ll also hear how to get unstuck and move your career forward.

"And the more that you can come up with, well, what does it mean to be a great manager? Or what does it mean to be a great leader? Answering those questions for yourself and actually getting to the point where you have confidence and are willing to stand behind it because it's well-reasoned and like it's a principled point of view... will help you improve" - Wade Chambers

Wade oversees all aspects of engineering and technology innovation as the CTO & SVP of Engineering at Grand Rounds. With more than 25 years of engineering leadership experience, he has deep technical domain expertise and a successful track record of scaling teams and leaders, market-defining technology innovations, and business growth for companies of all sizes including Twitter, TellApart, Yahoo, and Opsware. Before Silicon Valley, Wade served in the military and the White House Situation Room.

SHOWNOTES

• How to measure success, “win, and increase your capacity to win” (2:32)
• How to increase the potential of people on your team (8:24)
• How to get unstuck in your career (12:31)
• The 3 “buckets” to help identify where your career growth is stuck (16:53)
• How to maximize learning and growth from the books you read (21:23)
• How to get to the core principles that drive your behavior (25:52)
• Wade’s final thoughts on closing the gap between where you are and where you want to be (29:38)
• Takeaways (31:41)

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