Michael Lopp

Humans+Tech

Mar 3 2021 • 53 mins

We're excited to be talking to the one and only Michael Lopp, aka Rands from the incredible https://randsinrepose.com/. Rands is an engineering leader at Apple, having previously been VP of Engineering at Slack, head of engineering at Pinterest, as well as being the author of a number of amazing tech leadership books, including Managing Humans and The Art of Leadership, small things done well.

Full show notes and the doodle are over at humansplus.tech/podcast-michael-lopp/


In this episode we cover:

  1. Surviving the fall as a new manager [00:01:30]
  2. Rands's vision of feedback [00:09:51]
  3. Working with people who have different communication styles and the post Rands wrote about it, Lost in Translation[00:14:20]
  4. Why and how to Say the Hard Thing [00:21:37]
  5. Hearing the hard thing and the three types of feedback [00:28:34]
  6. How introverts can level the playing field [00:40:55]
  7. How to manage your energy as an introverted manager [00:44:08]
  8. The OODA loop [00:48:57]

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