Technology Leadership Radar

Traditional engineering rubrics focus on specific areas, such as IC (software engineers, product managers, designers) or managers. Can we propose a unified framework to measure the business impact of technical workers? There are several requirements:

1. Comprehensive
2. Actionable
3. Guiding for team building

Answers from Me and My Friends

• Decisiveness: Strategic, tactical, and decision-making abilities. Making the right decisions with the greatest chance of success for oneself or others, whether personal or organizational. Gathering information, diagnosing to gain insights, proposing effective strategies and execution plans. Innovation. Making quick decisions within opportunity windows/limited time/without all information/unable to accurately predict the future, and improving through iteration.

• Execution Engine: Building an execution engine rather than just focusing on execution itself, to effectively influence one's own and others' output, and to precisely balance speed/quality/scope based on demand, craftsmanship.

• Domain Expertise: Special know-how, experience, uniqueness.

• People and Culture: Working with others: shaping the world together with people. Leading by example. Team collaboration, people management, performance and incentives, culture, values, competence + warmth, mindset, passion, self-motivation, listening and sharing, hiring and coaching teams, humility, low ego. Best idea wins. Growth mindset.

• Product Sense: Good intuition, understanding of the market and data, product management (including operations), project management, collaboration/synthesis, invention and simplification, planning and adaptation, obsession with customers.

• Synergy & Resourcefulness: Resource integration ability, optimizing the network of customers, channels, products, people, technology, and capital on a macro level, forming alliances within the company, and effectively coordinating alignment across different organizations.