leadership

Sean Wolter's Blog

ELC Annual 2025

I first learned about Engineering Leadership Community (ELC) in pursuit of community and mentoring opportunities for our managers at Amount. They offered leadership peer groups as a service to connect leaders of similar scope and experience. Liz Sink should get all the credit. She led Amount's investigation, shared the community...

Founder Mode

PGraham’s post was unavoidable last week. I have many complicated feelings about it, but most of what he describes is just good management.

"Respecting The Chair" and Twitter/Musk

Thinking about Twitter and Star Trek Into Darkness

Team Meetings

Thoughts on effective Team Meetings

What is the core of leadership?

In a word: expectations. But let’s start at the beginning. A leader can’t be everywhere. They can’t do everything. An effective leader imbues their colleagues with the right information, right motivation, and correct thinking to execute without oversight. Bill Walsh, linked below, believes leader is synonymous with teacher. A leader...