When Being Stubborn Is Leadership And When It's Ego
Bob sings The Gambler and turns it into a leadership question. He quit a job after 4 days when he learned he'd been hired as the ax man. Josh called off an office redesign mid-move. A million-dollar pod experiment survived one day. Hold, fold, walk away, run, and the cost of doing none of them.
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Just Ask Us For Help
Somebody finally sent Josh a message asking for help, and it turned into an episode. Bob and Josh break down every reason people talk themselves out of reaching out, what separates a good mentee from a one-reply conversation, and why coaching somebody else is how a coach stays sharp. The ask is fr…
Expectation Inflation Is Stronger Than Ever
Bob and Josh take on expectation inflation, the widening gap between what executives believe AI can do and what your team can actually deliver. Bob tells the bourbon and cigar story about a date he was committed to before anyone asked him. Josh makes the case that pushing back and accelerating are…
Does Code Quality Still Matter When AI Writes It?
The hottest take on LinkedIn right now is that coding was never the bottleneck. Josh and Bob have hired hundreds of developers, sat through the "why is this taking so long" meetings, and lived through waterfall, so they're calling it: coding was slow, expensive, and scary, and pretending otherwise…
The "New" AI Hiring Skills Are the Ones You Always Needed
Open any hiring feed this year and you'll find a fresh list of skills for the AI era. Discernment. Judgment. Taste. Bob Galen and Josh Anderson think the list is fine. They just think it's old.
The human skills behind every team they're proud of (collaboration, coachability, comfort with ambiguity…
The 4X rule every feature MUST pass
Josh and Bob discuss growing finance pressure over AI token spend—dubbed the “great token reckoning of 2027”—and the mismatch between claimed 10x developer productivity and lack of comparable revenue gains.
Bob shares a Silicon Valley example where companies over-invested in engineers while QA, au…
The 1 Measuring Stick We Hold Every Leader To
What would change if you treated every person on your team as someone else's precious cargo? A friend of the show visited her son at Fort Bragg and came home less worried, because his leaders clearly took responsibility for the people under their watch. That post sent Bob and Josh into what caring…
We Got Leadership Wrong for Years. Here’s What We'd Change.
Bob and Josh frame the episode as “letters” to their future or past selves, sharing personal and leadership advice. Josh emphasizes trusting his gut even when he’s “annoyingly early,” dialing back intensity without stopping completely, continuing to make hard decisions and have difficult conversat…
10 Questions to Ask Before You Accept a Tech Leadership Role
The job market has been rough on tech leaders lately, and picking the wrong company can cost you a year or two of your career. In this episode, Bob Galen and Josh Anderson each share their top 5 things they look for when evaluating a company during hiring. (Bob brought 6, plus 3 more he doesn't ca…
You Were Hired to Change Things. So Change Something.
Bob and Josh each brought their top 5 moves for the first 90 days in a new leadership role, and for once they mostly agreed, which neither of them enjoyed.
Josh stamps a culture doc on day 2 or 3 and labels it version 1, then admits on air why the label is a sales device.
Bob makes the case for …
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