14 Jul Episode 030 – You Wrote the Exit Criteria. You Never Aimed at Them.
SummaryChris set a revenue target that would let him stop taking industrial engineering work and move to coaching full time. Three years later the criteria...
07 Jul Episode 029 – The Correction Worked in the Room. It Never Left the Room.
SummaryA junior engineer looked right on paper and, once he was pressure tested in a lead role, revealed a values gap that no hire pre-mortem...
01 Jul Episode 028 – His Complaint Was the Tell. I Read It as Alignment.
SummaryA senior engineer’s complaints about his previous employer sounded like a values match. Chris hired him. Fifteen months later, the same standard operating procedures that...
23 Jun Episode 027 – You Pre-Mortem the Project. You Don’t Pre-Mortem the Contract
SummaryEngineers run pre-mortems on technical systems without thinking about it. Before a critical install you walk the failure modes, name what could break, and put...
16 Jun Episode 026 – 3 Signs You Never Renamed the Relationship With Your Former Peer
SummaryGetting promoted over a former peer is a structural event. The relationship isn’t. When the structural authority shifts and the relational contract doesn’t get updated,...
02 Jun Episode 024 – Engineering Judgment Isn’t Innate. It’s Built From Three Inputs.
SummaryEngineering judgment isn’t a special category. It’s good judgment applied to engineering decisions, folded together with technical knowledge, lived experience, and consideration of who builds,...
19 May Episode 022 – Someone’s Running a Model of You
SummaryEngineers think they have a communication problem. They have a system problem. Every individual communication failure compounds into a predictive model that other people run...
05 May Episode 020 – You Went Quiet. They Filled in the Gap.
SummaryEngineers don't lie about what they don't know. They go quiet. That instinct is correct in technical work, where you don't sign off on a...
28 Apr Episode 019 – Information Isn’t Communication Until Someone Can Use It
SummaryEngineers operate on a transmission model. You send, therefore you’ve communicated. But communication with people who have to act on the information isn’t a transmission....
14 Apr Episode 017 – The Visibility Problem
SummaryEngineers can have every leadership mechanic in place and still be invisible to the people who matter. The problem isn’t the quality of work. It’s...
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