Posts filed under: Leadership

Craft and Defend Organizational Culture, An Interview with Peter Schroeder, SPaMCAST 805

SPaMCAST 805 features our interview with Peter Schroeder. We discuss plane crashes, fatherhood, and the journey from DJ to a technologist and then to a business person. Organizational culture is... Read More

Leadership is Language  Re-read Saturday, Week 11, Chapter 10: The Red-Blue Operating System

Chapter 10 of Leadership is Language: The Hidden Power of What You Say – and What You Don’t is titled, The Red-Blue Operating System. Marquet starts this chapter with the... Read More

SPaMCAST 779 – Prioritization Can Be Micromanagement, Power Of Sabbaticals, Essays and Conversations

Software Process and Measurement Cast 779 wrestles with the question, When prioritization involves overly detailed or excessive control over how someone accomplishes their tasks or when it impedes an employee’s... Read More

SPaMCAST 778 – Charting A New Odyssey, A Conversation With Bill Fox

The Software Process and Measurement Cast 778 marks our return from Iceland.  WICKED trip, great country, great people!  We return with our interview with Bill Fox. Bill and I discussed... Read More

Leadership is Language  Re-read Saturday, Week 1, Logistics, Foreword, Introduction 

This week we begin our re-read of L. David Marquet’s book, Leadership is Language: The Hidden Power of What You Say – and What You Don’t. I will be reading... Read More

SPaMCAST 756 – Change Myths, A Conversation With Paul Gibbons

SPaMCAST 756 welcomes back Paul Gibbons. In this visit, we discuss his new book Change Myths: The Professional’s Guide to Separating Sense from Nonsense which he co-authored with Tricia Kennedy.... Read More

SPaMCAST 751 – Privilege and Fatalism, Continuous Improvement, Conversations and Essays

I have been considering the relationship between privilege and fatalism. Boiling down the impact of privilege to a single word, we find power. Whether it is the ability to make... Read More

SPaMCAST 736 – Does Engagement Matter? A Panel Discussion

Today we share our year-end panel discussion with the SPaMcast contributors and occasionally our dogs (once one gets going everyone needs to get in on the action). The topic this... Read More

SPaMCAST 730 – Solving Problems As A Sales Engineer, A Conversation With Ramzi Marjaba

The SPaMCAST 730 features our conversation with Ramzi Marjaba. Ramzi and I discussed the role of a sales engineer. The role solves customers’ problems and is a bridge between customers... Read More

SPaMCAST 708 – The CEO As Leader and Visionary Two Years Later, An Interview With Brian Weaver

107 podcasts ago (just a little over two years ago) on SPAMCAST 601 I interviewed Brian Weaver of Torch.AI about leadership. Lots of things have happened since then, a pandemic,... Read More