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Fostering autonomy and trust to lead high-performing teams

How to fuel individual motivation, team velocity, and organization scale through your culture
June 09, 2021

How can you fuel individual motivation, team velocity, and organization scale through your culture?

I regularly volunteer to coach new engineering managers, and during one session I was asked, ‘What is the most effective way of giving a team autonomy to execute while ensuring high velocity?’

This was a fascinating question for me because, after a decade of leading teams, I’d started correlating high-performing teams to those that had high degrees of autonomy. I had come a long way from when I first started as an engineering manager and used to assume that if you left engineers to their own devices, they’d probably be hacking away at a problem of their choice with seemingly little value to the business.

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