/tags/leadership/ Recent content in leadership on Further Heitz Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Kelly Heitz Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /post/liner-notes-for-a-venn-diagram/ Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /post/liner-notes-for-a-venn-diagram/ At a friend’s job, they ask newcomers what the kids movie song for their career would be. It’s an oddly revealing question (I suppose unexpected queries have that advantage even if I think asking someone how many golfballs would fill a schoolbus is pretty obnoxious. I’m not sure that it’s any more ridiculous and aggravating than making experienced professionals design high scale systems alone on a whiteboard in front of a panel of dudes named John and Dave) /post/speed_and_safety/ Thu, 07 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000 /post/speed_and_safety/ “You have to go slow to go fast." and Speed is safety” Both of these phrases are oft-quoted in software. Each have individually been well-explained by better writers and engineers than me, but I think the combination can get confusing when we talk about innovation and building new software systems. The best metaphor I have for this is downhill skiing (I did a lot of ski racing in high school). /post/psychological-safety/ Wed, 17 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /post/psychological-safety/ A few years ago, I read this article in the NYT What Google learned from its quest to build the perfect team, by Charles Duhigg. A lot of it resonated with me, especially this finding: The researchers eventually concluded that what distinguished the ‘‘good’’ teams from the dysfunctional groups was how teammates treated one another. The right norms, in other words, could raise a group’s collective intelligence, whereas the wrong norms could hobble a team, /post/favorite-talks/ Fri, 12 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /post/favorite-talks/ I watch a lot of tech talks. These are my favorite that I’ve watched recently, with what I love about them and keep returning to for inspiration or clarity. Teamwork & Leadership Being Glue - Tanya Reilly Confession/boast: the nicest feedback I ever got from another developer was that I’m “like slime”. By that this person clarified they meant I’m good at filling the gaps of a project to move things forward.