What makes a Great Team Lead with Rustam Alashrafov

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Outline

00:00:00 – Intro
00:00:20 – Twice as Fit
00:03:04 – Saints & Stars gym
00:04:45 – Best time to work out
00:06:43 – Nervous in front of camera’s
00:09:45 – Progress over perfection
00:10:45 – What makes a great team lead
00:13:58 – The most stressful weekend in Russtam’s life
00:16:10 – Everyone makes mistakes
00:17:51 – The importance of leadership
00:18:44 – Code monkeys
00:20:51 – People problems
00:21:28 – Rustam is creating team lead case study videos
00:22:28 – Patrick’s biggest career fuck-up
00:25:08 – Safe environments to learn and make mistakes
00:26:15 – Big feeling of relief
00:27:07 – High sense of ownership and responsibility
00:28:05 – Worry, dread and shame
00:29:49 – Rustam is a perfectionist
00:30:48 – Mistakes make better software engineers
00:32:22 – Leadership and perspective
00:34:08 – Combining leadership and technology
00:36:09 – Great tech/team leads
00:38:19 – Brilliant jerks
00:42:28 – Never split the difference
00:45:05 – Negotiating with familiy
00:47:19 – Finding common ground
00:48:45 – The safest environment
00:51:53 – Digesting audio books
00:54:13 – Books have similar concepts
00:56:34 – Rounding off