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  • Practice Spotlight: Be Impeccable with Your Words

    Practice Spotlight: Be Impeccable with Your Words

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    Ever noticed how your words can shape your actions and influence others? 🤔 In our book, “I am a Software Engineer and I am in Charge”, we delve into this concept with our first practice: Be Impeccable with Your Words. This practice is all about harnessing the power of your words to drive truth and…

  • A Meeting Across Continents

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    The Story Behind “I am a Software Engineer and I am in Charge” In the heart of Paris, a city known for its rich history and culture, we, Alexis Monville and Michael Doyle, finally met in person after months of remote collaboration. The occasion? The launch of our book, “I am a Software Engineer and…

  • Radical Product Thinking: A conversation with Radhika Dutt

    Radical Product Thinking: A conversation with Radhika Dutt

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    For this episode of Le Podcast on Emerging Leadership, I recently had the privilege to sit down with Radhika Dutt, the author of the revolutionary book, “Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter”. In our insightful conversation, Radhika shared her wisdom on the role culture plays in driving innovation. Radhika stressed the importance…

  • How the Cloud Threatens Open Source and what we can do about it: A Conversation with Daniel Riek

    How the Cloud Threatens Open Source and what we can do about it: A Conversation with Daniel Riek

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    The latest episode of the Emerging Leadership Network podcast features an interview with Daniel Riek, who works on special projects and strategy with the CTO at Red Hat. In this episode, Daniel shares his insights on the future of open source in the cloud and the key leadership skills required to succeed in this space.…

  • How to Win Friends and Influence People

    How to Win Friends and Influence People

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    We all know the importance of building strong relationships and effective communication skills. Do we? One of the best resources to learn these skills is Dale Carnegie’s classic book, “How to Win Friends and Influence People.” Originally published in 1936, this book has remained popular for decades because the principles it outlines are timeless and…

  • This is Season Three of Le Podcast!

    This is Season Three of Le Podcast!

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    Season 3 of Le Podcast on Emerging Leadership features interviews with experts on leadership and related topics. In the first episode, Jared Kleinert, the CEO, and co-founder of Offsite and the founder of Meeting of the Minds, discusses the importance of meeting in person in the future of work, the process and considerations for organizing…

  • The best framework to grow yourself as a leader

    The best framework to grow yourself as a leader

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    This is Le Podcast on Emerging Leadership. I am OpenAI. I am the host of today’s podcast. The BEPS framework is useful for understanding a leader’s different roles and responsibilities. It helps clarify the various areas a leader should focus on to be effective and achieve success.

  • How to change

    How to change

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    I spoke at Lean Kanban France, the ancestor of Flowcon, ten years ago. A big thank you to the organizers who invited me to speak again at the celebratory edition. I first said no to avoid another travel, and then finally accepted as I was pitching for Red Hat at a public sector event in…

  • The Coaching Habit

    The Coaching Habit

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    The Coaching Habit is a book by Michael Bungay Stanier (aka MBS). In telling you about the book, I feel I am giving away many of my secrets. But, yeap, they are not mine. The subtitle is: “Say Less, Ask More and Change the Way You Lead Forever.” It is just perfectly telling everything. The…

  • The 67 days of the leadership challenge

    The 67 days of the leadership challenge

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    The compilation of all the LinkedIn posts published over the summer of 2022 with the hashtag #67daysofleadership.

  • Invest in Open Source with Joseph Jacks

    Invest in Open Source with Joseph Jacks

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    Over the last years, people have moved from innovating in secret labs to innovating in the open, and open-source became the way to define industry standards. Today, I am pleased to have Joseph Jacks on the podcast to explore the open-source world. Joseph is the founder and General Partner of OSS Capital a fund that…

  • Peer-to-Peer Feedback Survey

    Peer-to-Peer Feedback Survey

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    During my #67daysofleadership challenge, on Day 47, I shared about Three Trillion Dollar Coach. I mentioned that I want to use with my team a peer-to-peer feedback survey inspired by one used at Google and described in the book. To give some context, my team is the one leading all engineering at Red Hat. 🤔…