Leadership

How to structure your software development team

An overview

Robin Johnson

Breaking down the 5 decision-making models

Decisions, decisions, decisions: 5 decision-making models

How to prevent workplace burnout on your team

With burnout now classified as a medical condition by the World Health Organization, how should you better support your team?

Jen Dennard and Dan Pupius, Founders of Range

Setting Intentional and Effective Hybrid Policies

Jean Hsu

10 key practices to improve team culture

Strengthen your culture and watch your team members thrive

Nadia De Ala, Founder of Real You Leadership

Managing Up in a Hybrid Environment

Jean Hsu

Joaquín Roca, Founder of Minerva

Feedback and Performance Conversations in a Remote Environment

Jean Hsu

12 qualities every good manager should have

Learn how to become a more successful manager with these actionable tips

How to nail your year-end review (for managers + team members)

Sail through your year-end review with these tips

Brooks Scott, Founder of Merging Path Coaching

How to Foster Diversity & Inclusion on Remote Teams

Skip-level meetings: How to conduct one + best questions to ask

The complete guide on having an effective skip level meeting with your boss’s boss

Fred Plais, CEO of Platform.sh

How to Set Up a Globally Distributed Team for Success

14 unconscious bias examples at work (and how to spot them)

Unconscious biases are social stereotypes that people form unintentionally.

Top-down vs. bottom-up: Leadership styles defined

Which leadership style is right for your business?

Suzan Bond on navigating conflict on remote teams

Lead Time Chats: Season 4, Episode 4 Takeaways

12 marketing objectives your team should care about

How to set the right goals — and help your team crush them

Top 9 metrics for product managers

A guide to mastering data-driven product development for cross-functional teams

12 easy ways to enhance your entire team’s work performance

More work doesn’t always mean better work. Have your team try these efficiency-boosters

Why top-down management may not be for you

The problems that arise when decision-making starts and ends at the top

Jori Lallo on working effectively across different timezones

Lead Time Chats: Season 4, Episode 3 Takeaways

Hong Quan, Owner of Hire Haus

How to hire for remote teams

11 customer success goals your team should care about

Top metrics to help your customer success team focus on what matters most

Najeeb Khan, Founder of TeamLand

How to foster belonging on remote teams

Anna Sulkina, Director of Engineering at Twitter

Recognizing the parallels between endurance sports and software engineering

Pat Kua, Engineering Leader and Founder of Tech Lead Academy

Understanding the different archetypes of tech leadership

How To Deal With a Micromanaging Boss

Telltale signs & how to stop micromanagement before it becomes major

Dan Na, Senior Engineering Manager at Squarespace

How to push through friction as your team grows

Knowing how your team is feeling matters

How to know how your team is feeling and what to do with those valuable team insights

Top 4 reasons to start monitoring your team's meeting load

A quick guide for managers, and how the Team Dashboard in Range can help

Jessie Duan, Chief of Staff to the CTO at Roblox

How to understand the Chief of Staff to CTO role

Manage what matters with the new Team Dashboard

Save time and see the big picture of what’s happening on your team

Running Remote Teams

A recording of our recent Lead Time Live panel, plus key takeaways

Building Resilient Teams

A recording of our recent Lead Time Live panel, plus meeting notes

Kate Heddleston, Senior Engineering Manager at Samsara

How to manage burnout on your team

Jennifer Kim, Advisor and Founder of Startup Recruiting Bootcamp

How startups can hire better

5 remote onboarding tips for managers to create a smooth experience for new hires

Plus insights from Range team members who onboarded remotely in the past year

How to give better remote feedback

Improving team culture through collaborative feedback

Jennifer Dennard

Ellen Wong, Director of Engineering at Calm

How to lead and work on hybrid teams

Sarah Milstein, VP of Engineering at ConvertKit

How to set up remote and hybrid teams for success

Here it is: The real meaning of accountability in the workplace

How to foster a greater sense of accountability on any team

Jack Danger, VP of Engineering at Pathstream

How to strategically take on technical debt

Indrajit Khare, Sr. Engineering Manager at Google

Adjusting after getting acquired by Google

Beau Lebens, Engineering Manager of Automattic

How to approach distributed team meetups

Lynne Tye, Founder of Key Values

Mapping the new engineering hiring landscape

Chris Bee, CTO of Lessen

Identifying the behaviors of effective engineering leaders

Rachael Stedman, Engineering Manager at Asana

What engineering managers do outside of managing teams

The essential guide to 22 different types of leadership styles. Get to know the 22 types of leadership from the 3 most common personality profiling tools. Which of the leadership types is yours?

Which of the leadership types is yours?

Sumeet Arora on moving on from a big company

Lead Time Chats: Season 2, Episode 4 Takeaways

Hybrid teams: A guide to what they are and how to manage them

Best practices and tips for transitioning to hybrid work, managing hybrid teams, and communicating async.

Transitioning to remote management, successfully

Overcome these common management obstacles when going fully remote

Elizabeth Tobey

Kim Scott on building for systemic justice

Lead Time Chats: Season 2, Episode 3 Takeaways

Tess Rinearson on early career engineering managers

Lead Time Chats: Season 2, Episode 2 Takeaways

Camille Fournier on making boring plans

Lead Time Chats: Season 2, Episode 1 Takeaways

Duretti Hirpa on mentoring junior and mid-level engineers

Lead Time Chats: Season 1, Episode 2 Takeaways

Marc Hedlund on sponsorship

Lead Time Chats: Season 1, Episode 12 Takeaways

Harper Reed on giving everyone a voice in team meetings

Lead Time Chats: Season 1, Episode 11 Takeaways

Akhil Gupta on navigating uncertainty when transitioning roles

Lead Time Chats: Season 1, Episode 10 Takeaways

Katie Wilde on supporting your team's mental health

Lead Time Chats: Season 1, Episode 9 Takeaways

Uma Chingunde on starting a VPE role in a pandemic

Lead Time Chats: Season 1, Episode 8 Takeaways

Kaya Thomas on common challenges of early career engineers

Lead Time Chats: Season 1, Episode 7 Takeaways

As an engineering leader, should you be working with a coach?

All your questions about leadership coaching, answered

Jean Hsu

Lara Hogan on leading effectively in a pandemic

Lead Time Chats: Season 1, Episode 6 Takeaways

Gergely Orosz on the decision to go into management

Lead Time Chats: Season 1, Episode 5 Takeaways

Cate Huston on working with an external coach

Lead Time Chats: Season 1, Episode 3 Takeaways

Juan Pablo Buriticá on common engineering manager mistakes

Lead Time Chats: Season 1, Episode 4 Takeaways

Meet Lead Time, a new community for engineering leaders

Focused on creating better working environments, and featuring an interview series, Lead Time Chats, where top engineering leaders share learning and growth perspectives

Will Larson on the path of the senior engineer

Lead Time Chats: Season 1, Episode 1 Takeaways

What 2020 taught us about being an effective leader

3 tips and tactics that helped us find success during a tough year

Jennifer Dennard

Getting asynchronous communications right

Viewpoints from B2B SaaS leaders

Our Pulse Check Survey: insights in how the tech world is adapting to the new normal

Mental health more of a concern than productivity

Dan Pupius

Stop doom scrolling and start helping your team through this election

Ways to support your team during the upcoming news cycle

Jennifer Dennard

Talking resilience with Evan Sharp of Pinterest

Bite-sized insights from thought leaders | Resilience, part 2

Talking resilience with Gabe Kleinman of Obvious Ventures

Bite-sized insights from thought leaders | Resilience, part 1

This Week in Startups community AMA

A TWIST Q&A on building culture, navigating WFH, product development, and the evolving changes to the startup world

Michael Boykin

This Week in Startups podcast

Dan's lively chat with Jason Calacanis

Getting resilience right

How to build it into the fabric of your team

Dan Pupius

How to network inside of your organization

An interview with Karen Wickre, author of Taking the Work Out of Networking, on how to think about networking inside of your organization

Nick Walsh

Solving micromanagement when managing remote teams

Webinars: Overcoming micromanagement as a remote manager

Michael Boykin

So you want to be an engineering manager

Insights and advice from engineering leaders who have been where you are today

Jennifer Dennard

4 key takeaways from our webinar on remote employee engagement

Webinar: How leadership shapes the remote employee experience

Michael Boykin

Servant: Your role as a leader in the modern workforce

An interview with Medium’s Chief Architect Xiao Ma on putting the concept of servant leadership into practice

Michael Boykin

Learning to lead for a future of remote work

A white paper on remote work—the history, myths, benefits, and how to build and lead a team for the future

How to make cross-functional collaboration work at your company

What is cross-functional collaboration, why it matters, and how to become a team that plays well with others

The first-time manager — 5 practical tips for navigating the challenges of managing people

If you're like most first-time managers, you might be asking yourself what exactly is a new manager supposed to do?

Leadership reading list

A collection of essential books that meaningfully affected our team

Dan Pupius

How to lead a distributed team

4 tips on what to do when your team is suddenly split across two or more locations

Jennifer Dennard

6 ideas to foster stronger teamwork in the workplace

Build a stronger team with these tactical tips

6 lessons in leadership learned from Plato’s Elevate Summit

Tips and advice for building and managing high-performance product and engineering teams

Braden Kowitz

The design leadership journey

An interview with Mia Blume, CEO of Design Dept.

Braden Kowitz

Why company culture matters to leadership

An interview with Replicated CEO Grant Miller

Michael Boykin

Our world is LGBTQIA. Your workplace should be too

Ellen Pao on how leaders can build an inclusive workplace

Ellen Pao

How to build an inclusive work environment by holding space

3 tips anyone can use to build a more inclusive team

Jennifer Dennard

Why individual OKRs don’t work

Find your focus, establish context, set priorities as a team

Building bridges to overcome organizational silos

Why busting silos might not be the best approach to getting your teams well-aligned

Michael Boykin

Managing remote teams — Overcoming the 3 most common challenges

Key takeaways from Range’s mini-conference on leading remote and distributed teams

How to take action on engagement survey results

4 steps to improve employee engagement after your pulse survey

Jennifer Dennard

Building remote teams for a distributed workforce | Range

How to overcome the challenges of managing a distributed workforce

Michael Boykin

11 ways our brains trip us up at work

Understanding how cognitive biases affect us in the workplace

Dan Pupius

Scaling without losing your team's connectedness

How to keep that small-team feeling as your team scales

Michael Boykin

Understanding complexity

A short primer on why complex systems require different ways of acting and making decisions

Dan Pupius

How many direct reports should a manager have?

Balancing the desire for flat organizations with the realities of effective management

Dan Pupius

When you don’t know how to fix your product

Conquering uncertainty in product management

Braden Kowitz

Leadership is knowing when to let go

Micromanaging and tightly controlling your team will disempower them and erode initiative taking.

Dan Pupius

The importance of a good operating cadence

The power of good process and why it’s important to nail your operational cadence

Dan Pupius

Becoming a better manager

with Andrew Sandler of Grand Rounds

Braden Kowitz

5 questions a manager should ask themselves every week

Leaders, help your team succeed by asking yourself these 5 questions every week

Dan Pupius