Geeks Who Lead Podcast
Hear the inside stories of the "geeks who lead at scale" - Directors, VPs and CTOs running software engineering orgs at larger companies with 100+ engineers, and interviews with domain experts who can help those leaders to manage their engineering orgs more effectively.
I'm your host - Peter Bell, I've been helping senior engineering leaders to connect with and learn from their peers since 2010!
This podcast is designed for engineering leaders who want to learn the latest good practices from their peers who are way too busy operating to write an article or publish a book!
Running a software engineering org at scale is hard! You need to manage stakeholder expectations, attract and retain top talent, align and structure your org effectively and keep up with the latest processes and tooling. And that's before we even try to make sense of the potential impact of LLMs and GenAI on managing technical teams.
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Geeks Who Lead Podcast
How to Enact Change Within a Company with Andrew Fawcett
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Let’s say you join a new organization. How would you spend your first hundred days if you were to figure out how to enact change and implement your own priorities? Our guest this week on CTO Connection is Andrew Fawcett, CTO of Avantica. Andrew has worked with companies of all sizes and has seen some truly amazing changes made, but also has run into those that lacked vision.
Andrew sat down with Peter to discuss some of the reasons why companies have such a hard time with change as well as best practices for setting up a culture that embraces change. He explains why he is a big believer in winning over the hearts and minds of employees. Check out the episode for more.
- [01:28] - Managing change in an organization
- [06:08] - Influencing cultural change
- [07:47] - Dealing with multiple platforms
- [13:02] - Three factors that inform how we view change
- [18:07] - Identifying a unifying vision
- [22:09] - Rolling out a large cultural change
- [25:17] - Running technology at a new organization
- [28:15] - Broadening the power base
- [30:21] - The other side of change
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