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The Tech Exec Podcast with Aviv Ben-Yosef

A short discussion of leadership improvements you can start using in your startup today as a technical executive, whether you are a CTO, CIO, VP Engineering, VP R&D, and so on.

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12:33

Risotto or Salad?

The Tech Exec Podcast with Aviv Ben-Yosef ·

2025/02/11

🥗 Salad or Risotto? The Leadership Balancing Act 🍛Some things can be tossed together in minutes. Others need time to develop depth and character.💡 A salad? Chop, mix, done. Quick and fresh.🔥 Risotto? Slow, careful stirring. Rushing ruins it.In tech leadership, knowing what needs speed and what demands patience is everything.Confuse the two, and you end up with a half-baked strategy—or worse, a burnt-out team.Reserve your spot for the Coaching Upgrade #2 livestream.Grab a copy of my

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10:47

Ibuprofen Management

The Tech Exec Podcast with Aviv Ben-Yosef ·

2025/02/04

Leadership headaches? If you’re just taking painkillers instead of treating the root cause, you’re letting problems fester until they explode—usually at the worst time. Are you practicing ‘Ibuprofen Management’? Let’s talk about it in this week’s episode.Get my free ebook about the impact coaching framework.Grab a copy of my books, Capitalizing Your Technology and The Tech Executive Operating System.Subscribe to the best newsletter for tech executives.For any questions or comments, reach

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11:22

Burn Notion Down

The Tech Exec Podcast with Aviv Ben-Yosef ·

2025/01/28

Some engineering leaders are so process-driven, they’re practically begging AI to replace them. Are you so intent on bolting everything down, you're mostly ensuring there's no innovation happening? Don't be a bureaucrat. Over-optimization and rigid systems kill creativity, making human leadership irrelevant. More on this week's episode.Get a copy of the Impact Coaching Framework ebook. Grab a copy of my books, Capitalizing Your Technology and The Tech Executive Operating System.Subscribe

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8:48

Unhappy Meals

The Tech Exec Podcast with Aviv Ben-Yosef ·

2025/01/21

Is your team essentially operating like teenagers working at McDonald's, not having any real authority or agency to do anything without asking for their parent's permission? The right coaching and environment can unlock their potential, and the wrong ones easily deteriorate into a messy space with lots of unhappy faces. More on this week's podcast episode.Join my upcoming public livestream about upgrading your coaching skills. Sign up and also get my free ebook about the impact coaching

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10:53

All Chiefs, No Tribe

The Tech Exec Podcast with Aviv Ben-Yosef ·

2025/01/14

Being easy on the trigger with the titles and "roles" you hand out can really skew your organization's culture in the wrong direction. Here's the story of a real company I came across with no "plain" ICs and how you *should* handle titles and lead roles.Join my upcoming public livestream about upgrading your coaching skills. Sign up and also get my free ebook about the impact coaching framework.Grab a copy of my books, Capitalizing Your Technology and The Tech Executive Operating

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9:30

You Snooze You Cruise

The Tech Exec Podcast with Aviv Ben-Yosef ·

2025/01/07

Toss aside those grand New Year's resolutions you wrote. I've seen tangible and long-term changes in my clients by finding a way to make improvement a constant. If you treat your progress with deliberate practice, these efforts will accrue considerably. But you have to be in it for the long game. More in this week's podcast episode!Get my free impact coaching framework ebook.Grab a copy of my books, Capitalizing Your Technology and The Tech Executive Operating System.Subscribe to the best

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15:08

Bootstrapping Leadership

The Tech Exec Podcast with Aviv Ben-Yosef ·

2024/12/31

CTO/VPE? The bad news: Your CEO won't coach you. The good ones? You've got enough agency and authority to pull yourself by the bootstraps! This week's podcast is a DIY-kit for coaching and growth.Grab my free coaching framework ebook: https://avivbenyosef.com/free-coaching-framework-ebook/Grab a copy of my books, Capitalizing Your Technology and The Tech Executive Operating System.Subscribe to the best newsletter for tech executives.For any questions or comments, reach out to me directly:

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9:53

In The Shallows

The Tech Exec Podcast with Aviv Ben-Yosef ·

2024/12/24

Year-end reflection on the behaviors of the top 0.1% engineers and leaders I've had the privilege of working with, and how you should make the time to get deeper instead of always doing shallow work. You don't have to change things constantly, but if you don't constantly learn and reassess, you'll miss the signs when change is actually needed.Grab a copy of my books, Capitalizing Your Technology and The Tech Executive Operating System.Subscribe to the best newsletter for tech

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8:02

Fooling No One

The Tech Exec Podcast with Aviv Ben-Yosef ·

2024/12/17

How you handle delays and issues matters not just for that specific iteration, but for the type of leader you are and how your peers will view you. Are you making cascading delays and failures worse, or are you using it as an opportunity to create a healthier rapport and establish yourself as a genuine leader? Check out this week's podcast episode for more.Objectively Better Objectives: Free livestream to make this OKR season not suck.

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9:45

Communication Upgrades

The Tech Exec Podcast with Aviv Ben-Yosef ·

2024/12/10

Communicating better will set you apart as a senior tech leader, reduce micromanagement from your boss and peers, and provide you with more leverage. You can improve all that and fast. Piqued your interest? Check out this week's short episode precisely about this.Grab a copy of my books, Capitalizing Your Technology and The Tech Executive Operating System.Subscribe to the best newsletter for tech executives.For any questions or comments, reach out to me directly: aviv@avivbenyosef.com

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6:54

Having Fun

The Tech Exec Podcast with Aviv Ben-Yosef ·

2024/12/03

Are you having fun? This isn't a kumbayah question, and not about expecting every second of your work to be fun (that wouldn't be work). It's about ensuring you're not wasting your life, trapped by previous success, what others would say, or thinking you "owe" it to someone else. Life's short, and this week's short podcast episode is about not wasting it!Also available as video on my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@aviv-ben-yosefGrab a copy of my books, Capitalizing Your

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14:37

Money-Mouth Distance

The Tech Exec Podcast with Aviv Ben-Yosef ·

2024/11/26

A terrific way to erode trust and ruin your momentum as a leader is to be viewed as someone preaching "Do as I say, not as I do." Even worse is when you fail to notice this and are oblivious to the discord. Your team isn't. This week's episode is about spotting and stopping it.Grab a copy of my books, Capitalizing Your Technology and The Tech Executive Operating System.Subscribe to the best newsletter for tech executives.For any questions or comments, reach out to me directly:

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7:06

The Final Straw

The Tech Exec Podcast with Aviv Ben-Yosef ·

2024/11/19

That's *it*! You've had! Enough is enough. Right? Well, you might have reached that point. However, *why* did that happen? This week's podcast episode is about debugging leadership procrastination that lets things deteriorate for too long.Grab a copy of my books, Capitalizing Your Technology and The Tech Executive Operating System.Subscribe to the best newsletter for tech executives.For any questions or comments, reach out to me directly: aviv@avivbenyosef.com

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6:26

Momentum

The Tech Exec Podcast with Aviv Ben-Yosef ·

2024/11/12

Most executives I work with are extraordinarily accountable and remarkably capable of keeping track of different tasks, projects, and commitments. However, when there comes the time to focus on themselves and how they will grow, they find it hard to gain momentum. Let's change that. This week's quick episode is about the tiniest steps toward getting better.LAST CALL! Live session: Cracking Productivity: Why Can't Your Team Improve?Grab a copy of my books, Capitalizing Your Technology and

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12:07

The Most Challenging Constraint

The Tech Exec Podcast with Aviv Ben-Yosef ·

2024/11/05

Your investors? The budget? The team? Regulation? Yes, you certainly have to deal with a lot of constraints. Yet you might be self-imposing the most challenging constraints of all. The bad news is that you will struggle while you let that happen. The good news is that you certainly can do something about it! More on that in this week's podcast episode.Live session: Cracking Productivity: Why Can't Your Team Improve?Grab a copy of my books, Capitalizing Your Technology and The Tech

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10:22

Complaints

The Tech Exec Podcast with Aviv Ben-Yosef ·

2024/10/29

Who doesn't enjoy a hearty rant from time to time, am I right? Unfortunately, sometimes our brains mix up complaining with actually doing anything. That's how many leaders and founders lose connection with their own agency and lose efficacy. This week's podcast episode is about complaining and not being the complainer.Check out my free live session! Cracking Productivity: Why Can't Your Team Improve? https://avivbenyosef.com/cracking-productivity-why-cant-your-team-improve/Grab a copy of my

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7:50

Crutches

The Tech Exec Podcast with Aviv Ben-Yosef ·

2024/10/22

What are the things that you rely on, consciously or not? Whatever it is, it might be holding you back from growing faster or creating a glass ceiling for your employees. Tune in for more in this week's podcast!Check out my upcoming live session: Cracking Productivity: Why Can't Your Team Improve?This podcast is also available in video form! Grab a copy of my books, Capitalizing Your Technology and The Tech Executive Operating System.Subscribe to the best newsletter for tech executives.For

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7:16

Power Moves

The Tech Exec Podcast with Aviv Ben-Yosef ·

2024/10/15

Power moves don't have to be douchy. At least not the ones we're discussing in this week's podcast episode: How to wield your power and make your move, so you're a real executive and not just someone with a glorified title. Take the lead and… lead! More in this week's episode.Also available in video! Click here to watch a video of this episode.Check out my upcoming free session. Cracking Productivity: Why Can't Your Team ImproveGrab a copy of my books, Capitalizing Your Technology and The

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11:33

Rude Awakening

The Tech Exec Podcast with Aviv Ben-Yosef ·

2024/10/08

Sometimes, usually because your boss isn't professional enough, you can let too much time pass without realizing you're underperforming. This week's episode will help you assess your risk factors for this happening to you, as well as how to address them. Don't be blindsided!This episode is also available in video form!Grab a copy of my books, Capitalizing Your Technology and The Tech Executive Operating System.Subscribe to the best newsletter for tech executives.For any questions or

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6:23

Catastrophizing

The Tech Exec Podcast with Aviv Ben-Yosef ·

2024/10/01

Techies often have a default stance of expecting the worst to happen. It might've served you well when you were coding and helped you remember to write an 'else' for every 'if,' but it can be holding you back right now as a leader. More in this week's episode!Check out my YouTube channel!Grab a copy of my books, Capitalizing Your Technology and The Tech Executive Operating System.Subscribe to the best newsletter for tech executives.For any questions or comments, reach out to me directly:

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