https://mcjones.ca/categories/goto-podcast/ Recent content in GOTO Podcast on mcjones.ca Hugo en-ca chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) Sat, 07 Nov 2026 21:45:44 +0000 https://mcjones.ca/docs/goto---the-end-of-engineerings-blank-check---accountability-in-software-leadership---laura-tacho-and-charles-humble/ Sun, 12 Jul 2026 15:45:40 +0000chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) https://mcjones.ca/docs/goto---the-end-of-engineerings-blank-check---accountability-in-software-leadership---laura-tacho-and-charles-humble/ <h1 id="goto---the-end-of-engineerings-blank-check---accountability-in-software-leadership---laura-tacho-and-charles-humble">GOTO - The End of Engineering&rsquo;s Blank Check - Accountability in Software Leadership - Laura Tacho and Charles Humble</h1> <p>05:30 - the “micromanagement spiral of doom”</p> <p>A deficit of practice of giving difficult feedback and setting clear expectations leads to the desire to not be a micromanager of cycling between failures of achieving objective/goal based direction and needing to give prescriptive based direction.</p> <blockquote> <p>They don&rsquo;t recognize that pattern, and they&rsquo;ve actually never been taught how to set a really clear expectation so that people do what you need them to do on the 1st try without you having to intervene.</p> </blockquote>