Get to know your host--Kendall "not the Jenner" Miller (ReactiveOps)
Episode 25 · May 9th, 2019 · 48 mins 50 secs
About this Episode
In this episode, rachel and Kendall talk about:
- Yet another life ruined by PHP
- Being a coder by 5th grade and seeing a terrible future for himself by 10th grade
- Getting management experience young and moving to China
- Addressing cross-cultural communication difficulties when delivering and receiving feedback
- The weird and mixed feels around selling the company and no longer being CEO
- Strategies for transferring the trust your team has for you to new leadership
- How leaders can have both major skills and shocking shortcomings
- Realizing that as a leader, your job is not the deliverable, your job is the people
- When Kendall thinks it's necessary to tell one's boss they need to leave
- Walking in and assuming you know how to fix something without asking questions
- The power of being widely-networked and what it brings to leadership
- What it means to be an out-of-practice extrovert
- Doing this podcast so he can talk to people who intimidate him
- How having authority is like keeping control over your large vehicle
- What working for religious organizations/family businesses can be like
- Making time to smoke pipes and write things down
You can find Kendall on the internets at this fine podcast :) and on twitter as @blatanterror
Special thanks to Mel Stanley for our theme music <3