Dusty Pearce (Slack)

About this Episode

In this episode Kendall, rachel, and Dusty talk about:

• The "inconsequential" details of Dusty's life
• The value of moving back and forth between being an individual contributor and a leader over one's career
• What "devops transformation" means and why it's hard
• Maturing as a leader and how this trends away from dictatorial tendencies
• How different management styles scale or don't
• Is it necessary to 'have a take' in terms of domain expertise in every leadership role?
• Coming to leadership from a place of being a control freak
• Balancing accepting your style vs broadening its appeal
• The effect of the leadership power differential on potential feedback about your management style
• The definition of the power differential
• What "expensive to manage" means
• How much of leadership is modeling good relationships with your peers
• Observations on sports coaching tactics during timeouts
• Leadership as it applies to parenting

Find Dusty on Twitter at @dustyp

Special thanks to Mel Stanley for our theme music <3