Nov 15 2024 37 mins
Effective leadership in tech means crafting a collaborative culture where growth happens through real-world challenges and strong interpersonal connections – not individual technical accomplishments.
Rob Dinsmore has an extensive background in leadership and team development, particularly in technical organisations like Cisco. He built a highly regarded programme for top engineering talent, helping these specialists expand their leadership skills and integrate them across the company to produce meaningful, business-driven outcomes.
Three reasons to listen
- To find out how to enable technical leaders to work effectively as a team
- To learn why leadership for technical experts is as much about collaboration and influence as it is about technical proficiency
- To hear how Cisco integrated senior technical leaders across departments, forming partnerships that transformed business initiatives
Episode highlights
- [00:09:34] Leadership at Cisco
- [00:14:39] Global Tech Leader Program
- [00:20:26] Using data to save the rhinos
- [00:25:27] Helping technical leaders build interpersonal skills
- [00:29:42] Learning the business and how to pitch it
- [00:32:18] Takeaways from Pia and Dan
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