Leadership as Craft

Mike Fisher, CTO at Etsy, discusses developing as a leader, fostering a strong engineering culture, and embracing empathy in decision-making.

The craft of leadership requires a broad range of abilities, particularly at the executive level. Executives must be both strategic and tactical — able to see the big picture and attend to details where appropriate. They must be assertive but humble — able to deliver bold ideas but hold them lightly. And they must be strategic and relational — able to make tough decisions while attending to the human side of the people they lead.

There is perhaps no role where these requirements are more evident than that of the chief technology ...

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