#199 | The Leadership Skills That Actually Matter in Q4 2026

▶︎ #199 | The Leadership Skills That Actually Matter in Q4 2026

In this episode of the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, Aleksandra Lemańska skips the generic "top 10 leadership skills" list {the kind that could have been written in 2015} and names what’s actually changed heading into the rest of 2026: teams getting smaller relative to output because of AI tooling, decisions moving faster, and a widening gap between leaders who can personally verify the work and leaders who can’t.

She walks through the four skills she sees separating leaders who are doing well right now from leaders who are quietly struggling: judgment under ambiguity (including her simple 40/70 rule for knowing when you have enough information to decide), renegotiating agreements out loud, asking real questions across an expertise gap, and naming what you’re actually for, and runs each one through PCM to show why the hardest one for you depends on your personality base.

If you’re tired of skills lists that don’t reflect what your job actually looks like right now, this episode gives you four specific, practiced skills to choose from, and a way to pick the one worth focusing on this quarter.

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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