Fast CompanyLeadership
4 management lessons for scaling your team
What broke when his company grew from 10 to 90 people, and the four management shifts that fixed it.
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Heroics don't scale. Delegate outcomes, keep the decision, and build ways to see what is really happening once you can't hold the context yourself.
2026
- ForbesAI · Leadership
The False Expertise Trap: How To Keep Your Team Thinking In The AI Era
AI erodes the entry-level work that builds engineering judgment. Four practices to keep juniors thinking instead of parroting output.
- Fast CompanyLeadership
Your team needs a supportive manager, not yoga and meditation
Why burnout is a management problem, with the story of keeping a 90-person team working after the invasion of Ukraine.
- Mind the ProductLeadership · Business
Training developers as an investment: How technical leaders can identify real ROI
Three signals to invest in developer training, how to tie it to business goals, and how to measure ROI, with a $10,000-a-month cloud saving as the example.
- Fast CompanyAI · Leadership
How AI is quietly exhausting you, and what to do about it
Why AI tooling tires engineering teams through micro-decisions and tool sprawl, and how to adopt it without burnout.
- ForbesLeadership
How Leaders Can Identify And Bridge Their Team's Skills Gaps
How to spot a skills gap early (quality drops, lead overload) and close it with 360 reviews, development plans and mentoring.
- Fast CompanyLeadership
5 soft skills that set exceptional leaders apart
Five leadership skills AI cannot replace, illustrated with situations from running a 90-person engineering team.
2025
- ForbesLeadership
Five Principles For Building An Effective Multicultural Team
Five practices for Ukraine, US and Europe teams: a written communication policy, agreed progress reporting, audience-adapted presentations, a knowledge base.
- Fast CompanyLeadership
Why teams stop developing, and how to get them moving again
A concrete cadence for developer growth: tests, sprint experiment days, monthly clubs, and how to diagnose a stalled engineer.
- ForbesLeadership
How IT Leaders Can Find The Balance Between Control And Trust, And Start Delegating Effectively
Why technical leaders over-control, a five-step delegation system, and the team that shrank a 16 TB database to 1 TB on its own.
- ForbesLeadership · Business
How To Find And Retain Product-Minded Specialists
Four traits that mark product-minded engineers, and the retention practices behind five-to-eight-year average tenure.
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