🏋️‍♀️ Leadership Styles, Underperforming Teams, "Oops" Moments, Org Architecture, Bad Code Reviews, Second-Level Thinking: TMW #392

Hello again, it's Monday! Welcome to the week

🍿 Introducing CTO Craft: Conversations! 🍿

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of our new event, CTO Craft: Conversations! We’ve been hard at work creating an interactive experience designed specifically for CTOs and senior tech leaders. Join us for peer-to-peer roundtable discussions on the latest in technology, leadership, company culture, people management, and wellness.

The event will be in London this November, and tickets are available to senior technology leaders in the CTO Craft Community with an access code, which can be found in Slack or by reaching out to the CTO Craft team. If you are not yet a member you can apply here.

CTO Craft: Conversations

Welcome to the launch of our newest event, CTO Craft: Conversations! Join us for a half-day of engaging discussions and networking opportunities designed specifically for CTOs and engineering leaders.

CTO Craft: Roundtables

Our CTO Craft Mixer events are springing up all over the world, bringing together hundreds of CTO Craft members and other technology leaders for networking, nibbles, drinks and general chinwagging in a relaxed environment. Attendees are really enjoying having the ability to swap stories, meet new people, talk through ideas and approaches, discuss vendors and platforms and much more. If you're looking for a group of people doing similar stuff to you in your city, check out the list of upcoming Mixer events, and come along - it's free!

This week, groups will be meeting in Toronto and Bristol - if you're in the area, don't miss out.

Free networking Mixers for tech leaders near you | CTO Craft

Join dozens of other CTOs and technology leaders in a relaxed environment for networking, chat, ideas, feedback and drinks.

CTO Craft

That's it, see you next week!

Andy @ CTO Craft

CTO Craft Events

CTO Craft Bytes: Identifying and Developing Future Engineering Leaders

Join us for a 30 minute virtual Byte to discuss how the best technology leaders identify and nurture future leaders within their teams.

CTO Craft

CTO Craft Con: Berlin | 24th - 25th September 2024

CTO Craft Con will bring together Chief Technology Officers and other senior technology leaders from the most exciting start-ups, scale-ups, unicorns, and big tech companies to elevate their engineering culture.

CTO Craft Con: Berlin 2024

Check out all of our upcoming Mixer events, including events in Bristol and Toronto this week - is there one happening in your city soon?

Reads of the Week

How to propose an impactful improvement to the codebase and own the implementation

Doing THIS will make you stand out from others!

Engineering LeadershipGregor Ojstersek

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Leadership, Strategy & Business

Developing Your Leadership Style: There’s No Silver Bullet

As a leader, over time, you’ll develop a set of principles that define your leadership style. This speaks to your beliefs about who you are…

MediumRiaan Nel

Explorers, Villagers, and Town Planners ✍🏻 Drawn to Leadership

Startups require different skills (aptitude) and mindsets (attitude) than corporations. Simon Wardley identified three essential mindsets necessary for success: Explorers, Villagers, and Town Planners (formerly called Pioneers, Settlers, and Town Planners). Explorers innovate and take risks, Villagers refine and scale innovations, and Town Planners optimize and standardize mature products. Companies benefit from having all three mindsets.

Claus HöfeleClaus Höfele

Developing Leaders

The importance of feedback

Fish Food for ThoughtMike Fisher

7 Powerful Questions Every Manager Should Ask

Ask and succeed: use these powerful questions to get the best out of your team

Management MattersSéverin Bruhat

Culture, People & Teams

Identifying Underperforming Teams

Using a statistical approach to situational awareness, directors and senior managers can identify key areas to focus on.

Solving the team performance puzzlePatricia

Second-class interactions are a first-class risk

Below is a screenshot of Vizceral, a tool that was built by a former teammate of mine at Netflix. It provides a visualization of the interactions between the various microservices. Vizceral uses mo…

Surfing ComplexityLorin Hochstein

5 reasons why your best developers will quit - and how can you postpone it

Simple tips on motivating developers after years of working together

Leading DevelopersAnton Zaides

Attention to Detail: How to Help Your Team Have Less “Oops” Moments

7 Practical ways to help your team get better at attention to detail. Set clear expectations and teach then how to do it well .

Let's Grow LeadersKarin Hurt and David Dye

Technology, Operations & Delivery

Organization Architecture

The importance of organization design on service design and why consumer journey is the key to improve system reliability

Alex Ewerlöf NotesAlex Ewerlöf

A software architecture reading list | BCS

Dr Andrew Leigh CITP MBCS reflects on 25 years of professional experience as a software architect and offers his insights and a reading list of recommendations.

BCS logoaaAndrew Leigh CITP MBCS

Pushing the Frontier

If – and when – GPT-5 might eat your lunch

Allen Pike

Stress, Wellbeing & Growth

11 Hidden Benefits of Being an Introvert (You Didn’t Know)

Are you an introvert? Let’s look at what science says are the REAL benefits of being an introvert. Don’t hide your own superpower!

Science of PeopleVanessa Van Edwards

Levels of Thinking: How to Make Better Decisions with Second-Level Thinking

Your levels of thinking can be adjusted with intention. Second-level thinking is deliberate: it’s about using mental models and probability systems to determine the most favourable decision.

Ness LabsAnne-Laure Le Cunff

Combating burnout: five practical steps for leaders

In today’s relentless workplace, tackling burnout among leaders is a pressing reality. Here are some practical strategies to help build a supportive and resilient work environment.

Management-Issues.comAng Brennan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNxvIvuQqMgThat’s it!

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Andy