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How to set up an asynchronous work environment
Remote working environments can be extraordinarily rewarding and advantageous for certain companies. Here’s how you can start your journey.
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Build a productive code review culture
Code reviews can be tense and stressful if done incorrectly. Avoid bikeshedding and set good cultural standards with these nine simple steps.
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Become a stronger leader for your cross-cultural team
Having members of your team based all around the world requires you to have a flexible mindset and communication style.
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How to overcome feeling isolated as a senior engineering leader
Last month, we brought together a panel of engineering leaders to dive into the realities of leadership loneliness and share actionable strategies to combat it.
Editor’s picks
How to maintain a winning company culture as you grow
Creating and sustaining a great company culture
Encouraging a passion for productivity
In this edition of DirectorPlus, Neha Batra, VP of Engineering at GitHub, explains how she creates a culture of productivity.
How engineering leaders at Apple, Facebook, and more create adaptable teams
Building agility in engineering teams
November 4 & 5, 2025
The leadership conference for tech leads and engineering leaders.
Essential reading
How to build an intentional culture
Don’t leave your culture up to chance. Curate your principles and values intentionally to build high-performing, harmonious teams.
On our Culture playlist
Recognizing and preventing burnout in your teams
Learn how to recognise and avoid burnout in your teams as an engineering manager
Happy teams don’t leave
To retain talent, engineering leaders need to establish an engaging culture within their teams
Three tactics to build resilience into your teams
When you build resilience, you’re able to recover quickly from challenges.
How to build a culture of accountability in your teams
In this panel, we’ll discuss what a culture of accountability actually looks like in practice, and the role of the engineering leader in encouraging a culture of accountability, not blame, in busy developer teams.
Fostering a culture of experimentation in your engineering teams
How can engineering leaders help their reports find joy in their work?
November 4 & 5, 2025
The leadership conference for tech leads and engineering leaders.
More about Culture
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How to (slowly) build trust with your staff engineers
Six ways to earn their trust as an engineering manager
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How Twitter built a decentralized engineering organization in Singapore
What works and what doesn’t when building a distributed team?
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Help your teammates navigate moments of self-doubt
You’re in their corner! Help them recognize their strengths and skills.
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Cross-functional collaboration doesn’t have to be a nightmare
Best practices for working with other teams
Top Culture videos
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Content sponsored by Lohika
Cultivating effective cross-functional relationships
In this panel, we’ll explore how engineering departments can form strong relationships with other teams.
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Sturgeon’s Biases: how communities of practice lie to themselves & everybody else
In this talk, I’ll explore these problems through the lens of Sturgeon’s Revelation usually stated as “ninety percent of everything is crud”!
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Holding effective coaching conversations
Explore how to hold effective coaching conversations as leaders.
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The culture of process
Let’s talk about a different mindset to process – process as a tool for creating change.
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Creating and sustaining motivation in engineering teams
Energizing and uplifting your direct reports
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Building happier engineering teams
We all know how difficult (and expensive!) it is to convince brilliant engineers to join our team. The real challenge starts on Day 1 – What can we do to keep them happy and engaged?
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Cloning yourself isn’t an option
We’re all drawn to the fable of the 10X engineer, but engineers most commonly increase their effectiveness 10X by amplifying the effectiveness of those around them. In this talk we’ll explore ways to make your value multiplicative, no cloning required.