#197 | How to Speed Up Without Your Team Falling Apart

#197 | How to Speed Up Without Your Team Falling Apart

In this episode of the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, Aleksandra Lemańska starts from a sentence a founder said to her recently: "I know we need to move faster, but I’m scared that if I push even more, the whole thing falls apart." Alex pushes back on the idea that this fear is a personal weakness, and on the false choice hiding underneath it, that the only options are slow and safe or fast and fragile.

She uses the Wheel of Conflict to show why accelerating teams start fighting: what looks like a relationship problem is almost always an unclear structure {who decides, what "done" means, how long to wait before shipping} finally under pressure. From there, she brings in Contracting to explain the actual fix, picking a small number of non-negotiables that stay fixed on purpose while everything else is allowed to flex.

If you’re trying to accelerate right now and feel the ground getting shaky under your team, this episode gives you a concrete, three-step way to speed up without losing the trust that makes speed survivable in the first place.

Mentioned in the episode:

"From Code to People: The CQ Leadership Method That Transforms Technical

Experts into Leaders Teams Actually Want to Work For":

https://fromcodetopeople.lemanskills.com/

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