Oct 30, 202658 minS1
Leaders say failure is a learning opportunity. Their teams watch what they actually do when something breaks. Rachel Franco, founder of Fail Smarter, spent years in innovation enablement at Optum and researched the...
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40% Better - Engineering Leadership
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Every week, we invite 1 expert on employee engagement and deep-dive into unlocking previously unheard of performance levels in teams and leaders. 40 Percent Better https://40pb.com
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Every week, we invite 1 expert on employee engagement and deep-dive into unlocking previously unheard of performance levels in teams and leaders.
What has 40% Better - Engineering Leadership covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Stay Risky: Psychological Safety and Learning From Failure" (30 October 2026, 58 minutes), "You’re Not Paid to Be Right, You’re Paid to Get to Right" (30 October 2026, 55 minutes), and "“If You’re Not Serving a Customer, Serve Someone Who Is”" (30 October 2026, 61 minutes).
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40% Better - Engineering Leadership publishes roughly daily, with episodes averaging 54 minutes.
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Recent episodes
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- Oct 30, 202655 minS1
Jason Hamilton was leading a team in Hong Kong by his second week out of grad school. In this episode he explains how that trial by fire taught him to lead with humility. He also shares why a good leader wants their...
- Oct 30, 20261h 1mS1
“If you’re not serving a customer, you’d better be serving somebody who is.” Bill talks with Marc Haine, a hospitality leader, culture builder and author of Lights, Camera, Action, who went from police training to...
Episode #142
Treat It as an Experiment
Oct 30, 202656 minS1"You won’t automate yourself out of a job. You’ll automate yourself into a better one." Bill talks with Jackie Teran, VP of Engineering at Forerunner, whose path ran from class president to a layoff, the Peace Corps, a...
Episode #141
“You Don’t Report to Me. You Work With Me”
Oct 30, 202654 minS1“You don’t report to me. You work with me.” Bill sits down to talk with Nir Valtman, co-founder of Arnica, whose leadership began when the Israeli Air Force told him the only way to teach was to become a commander. They...
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Episode #140
Why Invisible Work Doesn’t Get Promoted
Oct 29, 20261h 9mS1A failure that didn’t happen is worth zero, at least to most companies. Bill talks with Jeremy McEntire, a former Army officer candidate turned engineering leader and the author of The Cage and the Mirror. They dig into...
- Oct 29, 202639 minS1
“Rather than asking for permission, say ‘I intend to.’” Bill talks with Emilie Schario, a product and engineering leader whose company was just acquired by Anaconda, about leading without a title, why a company is a...
Episode #138
There’s No Traffic on the Extra Mile:
Oct 29, 20261h 6mS1If you step up and volunteer, you’ll get noticed. Bill talks with Barry Moline, a former pro hockey referee, two-time CEO of statewide utility associations, and author of Connect. They dig into how one raised hand at 16...
- Oct 29, 202652 minS1
Being great isn’t enough. It’s just the baseline. Bill talks with Uma Subramanian, founder of Limitless Leaders, author of The Sought-After Leader, and a 20-year Microsoft veteran. They dig into the mistakes she made as...
Episode #136
You Don’t Have to Command the Room to Lead
Oct 29, 202650 minS1You don’t have to command the room to lead. Bill Lennan talks with Todd Gower, co-founder of personal finance app Hiatus, who was leading a band at age 10 but later convinced himself he wasn’t leadership material. They...
Episode #135
How You Work Matters More Than the Work
Oct 29, 202631 minS1“How you do the work is so much more important than the work.” Bill talks with Maria Colacurcio, CEO of a growth-stage company building AI-powered pay software, whose first management job meant suddenly being the boss...
- Oct 23, 202647 minS1
“You can build a case and fix blame, or you can build a relationship and fix the problem.” Bill meets with Sam Imperati, a former trial lawyer and part-time judge who has been a full-time mediator since 1992. They dig...
- Oct 23, 202655 minS1
You don’t find happiness. You create it. Bill chats with Basel Yandem, a civil engineer and life and leadership coach who started leading at age 10 in the Scouts and was running engineering teams by 26. They dig into...
Episode #132
Seen, Heard, and Understood, with Aaron Streeton
Oct 23, 202653 minS1There are only three things people want: to be seen, heard, and understood. Bill listens to wisdom from Aaron Streeton, an operations consultant and executive coach who was running 13 schools in Japan at 27. They dig...
- Oct 23, 20261 hourS1
“I never once raised my hand and said I want to be a manager. I just led.” Bill talks with Dave Saunders, who joined an internet company in 1989 and has been building ever since, through dial-up’s boom, Lucent Bell...
- Oct 23, 202642 minS1
“If you’re already good at what you do, AI is great. If you’re not, don’t expect it to do everything for you.” Bill talks with Kam Low, a self-taught technical founder who left school early, started and exited several...
Episode #130
From 45 Days to 20 Minutes: What Happens When You Empower the Front Line with Chad Harris
Oct 23, 202652 minS1Rank and authority aren’t the same as respect, and you don’t need a title to lead. Bill talks with Chad Harris, a software engineering leader from Melbourne, Australia, whose first leadership lessons came from the...
Episode #129
You Are Capable of More, with Chris Sund
Oct 22, 202653 minS1Success is what you build; significance is who is better because of you. Bill talks with Chris Sund, a healthcare staffing leader and author of You Are Capable of More. Chris started leading in his early twenties at a...
Episode #128
Success Is a Matter of Time, with Harshit Omar
Oct 22, 202658 minS1You can wait for the waves to stop, or you can just jump in. Bill sits down with Harshit Omar, co-founder and CTO of cloud cloning platform Fluid Cloud. They talked about what the CTO role really demands, why failed...
- Oct 22, 20261h 8mS1
Ever notice that one coworker who drives you crazy? It might have less to do with them than you think. Bill talks with Kenny Whitelaw-Jones, co-founder of infrastructure finance firm Gridlines and now a shadow work...
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