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Tech Waka Podcast: Journeys of New Zealand Tech Leaders.Here we dive into the stories of New Zealand's top tech leaders. Your host, Jakub Jurkiewicz, brings you conversations with CTOs, CIOs, and tech innovators from across Aotearoa.
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The best leaders don't have a style. They have a whole wardrobe. Situational leadership: the map I wish I'd had ten years ago (opens the original)
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For a long time I was proud of how I lead: give people the vision, give them trust, get out of the way. Then I handed a big new area to someone brilliant, did exactly that, and watched them slowly fall apart. This episode is about situational leadership: the four stages every person moves through on every task that matters, the four styles that match them, the two ways leaders get it wrong, and the one insight that changed how I see my team. It ends with a challenge you can do in under a minute
Rework Is the Modelling You Didn't Do — Andrea Magnorsky on systems, decisions and feeling (opens the original)
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Andrea Magnorsky started out writing Delphi and C#, went off to build video games, fell for functional programming and F#, and somewhere along the way accidentally invented a practice for helping teams understand their own systems. In this episode, we pick up the decision-making thread from our conversation with Ammar and pull it somewhere new. Andrea and I get into why teams quietly mean different things by the same word, how "rework is just the modelling you didn't do," and the difference betw
Teaming as a Verb with Ammar Sagban (opens the original)
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We call almost any group of people "a team." But is it? Ammar Sagban has spent his master's research chasing that exact question, and his answer starts with a small shift that changes everything: teaming isn't a noun; it's a verb. Something you do, on purpose. In this episode, Ammar is just weeks away from defending his thesis, having done something I once did and then ran away from — gone back to academia mid-career. We talk about what that journey gave him, why teaming is a verb, and the quest
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