This week we’re bringing you a remaster of our epic 2021interview with Lara Hogan – author of Resilient Management and management coach / trainer for the tech industry.
The majority of our conversation focuses on the four primary hats leaders and managers end up wearing; mentoring, coaching, sponsoring, and delivering feedback. We also talk about knowing when you’re ready to lead, empathy and compassion, and learning to lead.
Featuring
Sponsors
Heroku – The Next Generation of Heroku “Fir” is coming soon — Fir is built on a foundation of cloud native technologies and open source standards, ensuring portability, interoperability, and a vibrant ecosystem for your applications. Cloud Native for everyone, for the next decade and beyond.
Depot – Build faster. Waste less time. Accelerate Docker image builds, and GitHub Actions workflows. Easily integrate with your existing CI provider and dev workflows to save hours of build time.
Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Retool as the platform to build their internal tools. Try it free at retool.com/changelog
Notes & Links
- An excerpt from Resilient Management on A List Apart
- Paloma Medina
- Core Needs: BICEPS
- Lara’s book
- The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
- Your brain on progress – Increment
- Voltron!
- I’m a cog
- The Changelog #342: From zero to thought leader in 6 months with Emma Bostian
- Lara Hogan on mentorship and sponsorship
- What does sponsorship look like?
- Linchpin from Seth Godin
Chapters
Chapter Number | Chapter Start Time | Chapter Title | Chapter Duration |
1 | 00:00 | Welcome to The Changelog | 01:12 |
2 | 01:12 | Sponsor: Heroku | 02:43 |
3 | 03:55 | Start the show! | 01:22 |
4 | 05:17 | Mentoring vs sponsoring | 02:56 |
5 | 08:14 | 100% sponsorship | 02:20 |
6 | 10:33 | Receiving sponsorship | 01:28 |
7 | 12:01 | More connection | 01:04 |
8 | 13:04 | How Lara learned this stuff | 02:36 |
9 | 15:40 | Lending support | 02:03 |
10 | 17:43 | Shadowing | 02:34 |
11 | 20:18 | Our default approach | 00:29 |
12 | 20:47 | Managing vs leading | 05:56 |
13 | 26:43 | Sponsor: Depot | 02:20 |
14 | 29:03 | The four hats | 02:55 |
15 | 31:58 | Camping out in coaching | 02:18 |
16 | 34:16 | What are you optimizing for? | 01:24 |
17 | 35:40 | What does success look like? | 00:42 |
18 | 36:22 | What's the worst that could happen? | 00:33 |
19 | 36:55 | On coaching athletes | 01:39 |
20 | 38:34 | Giving good feedback | 05:16 |
21 | 43:50 | How Lara learned this stuff (remastered) | 02:22 |
22 | 46:12 | Book recommendations | 03:15 |
23 | 49:28 | Sponsor: Retool | 02:57 |
24 | 52:25 | Engineer to manager | 03:17 |
25 | 55:42 | Try it on | 02:38 |
26 | 58:21 | Do engineers make good managers? | 01:17 |
27 | 59:38 | Celebrate the wins | 02:03 |
28 | 1:01:41 | Lara stories | 02:41 |
29 | 1:04:22 | Manager Voltron | 01:38 |
30 | 1:06:00 | Manager framework | 02:15 |
31 | 1:08:15 | Cogs vs lynch pins | 03:25 |
32 | 1:11:40 | Wrapping up | 00:49 |
33 | 1:12:29 | Closing thoughts | 01:50 |