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Welcome to Le Podcast on Emerging Leadership! Our podcast is all about developing emerging leadership in every individual, regardless of their role in the organization. We believe that leadership is not just a title, but an action that anyone can take to make a positive impact. That’s why we focus on cultivating emerging leadership – creating the conditions for leaders to emerge and thrive. By fostering more leaders in our organizations, we can tackle the challenges facing our world today, from climate change to technological disruption to the pursuit of peace. Join us for in-depth conversations with top experts who share insights and strategies on how to develop your leadership skills, cultivate a growth mindset, and create lasting change. Let’s work together to unlock the power of emerging leadership and build a better future for us all.

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Invest in Open Source with Joseph Jacks

Over the last years, people have moved from innovating in secret labs to innovating in the open, and open-source became the way to define industry standards. Today, I am pleased to have Joseph Jacks on the podcast to explore the open-source world. Joseph is the founder and General Partner of OSS Capital a fund that exclusively focuses on early-stage commercial open source companies.

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The leader’s role in managing reputation with Laurence Duarte

Individuals and companies invest years in building their reputations. It happens that at a time, one thing could dramatically damage it.
Laurence Duarte is a Global Management Consultant, she is a business fixer, she helps you to protect and grow your business. She is also a business writer, a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review. She worked all over the world, especially in Europe, China, and the US.

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Delivering Delight with Avi Liran

Avi Liran is the CDO at Delivering Delight. CDO stands for Chief Delighting Officer. Delivering delight is what we explore in this episode of Le Podcast on Emerging Leadership. Avi Liran has been a CMO several times, an entrepreneur, a trade commissioner, an investor. He admitted in the podcast having lost all his money 3…

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Jason’s Thirteen Rules of a Team

In this episode of Le Podcast, I had the great pleasure to receive Jason McKerr. Jason is the Engineering leader for Management and Automation at Red Hat (great things like Ansible, Insights, Satellite…) My objective was to have Jason explained his Thirteen Rules of a Team which I discovered during one mentoring session with one…

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All about OKRs with Bart

In this episode of Le Podcast, I had the pleasure to discuss Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) with Bart den Haak. Bart is a Software Engineer who fell in love with OKRs at a startup more than 10 years ago. He continues to use OKRs since then and he is now advising companies on how…

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Do you want 10x Engineers?

In this episode of Le Podcast, I had the pleasure of discussing with Julien Danjou. Julien has more than 20 years of experience as an open source software hacker. Julien wrote two books about Python. I wanted to ask him about the myth of 10x Engineers and what advice he could have for Engineers who…

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The Anatomy of Peace

In this episode of Le Podcast, John Poelstra and I had a conversation about the book The Anatomy of Peace. John recommended the book in our previous conversation on how (not) to provide feedback. I read it twice and fell in love with it. John mentioned that in Changing Your Team From The Inside, I…

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Psychological Safety

Psychological Safety is the term coined by Amy Edmondson, the author of The Fearless Organization. I already talked about Psychological Safety, when I presented the work of Google on the project Aristotle, and how it was a very good conversation starter for my team. The two other books I mentioned in that episode of Le…

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When your team is distributed

John Poelstra, Michael Doyle and I talk about how to make distributed teams efficient. We had that conversation while we were spread over 15 timezones: John in Portland, Oregon, Michael in Brisbane, Australia, and me in Boston, Massachusetts. The conversation is republished from John’s show. Let me know what you think! Happy to connect to…

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