Expert Talk: How to Deal with Hypergrowth • Lena Reinhard & Blake Walters

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted. gotopia.tech (https://gotopia.tech) Read the full transcription of this interview here (https://gotopia.tech/articles/expert-talk-how-to-deal-with-hypergrowth) Lena Reinhard (https://twitter.com/lrnrd) - Leadership Coach & Consultant Blake Walters (https://www.linkedin.com/in/blakewalters) - Senior Director of Engineering at CircleCI DESCRIPTION While hypergrowth means that a company is on the right track, this phase comes with challenges at all levels of the organization. Lena Reinhard, leadership coach & consultant, and Blake Walters, senior director of engineering at CircleCI, share best practices based on their own experiences, navigating the ambiguity that comes along with these hypergrowth phases in a company's life cycle. Learn how to get through this phase successfully, what tools and tips can support the company and what hypergrowth means for the software engineering team. RECOMMENDED BOOKS Frank Slootman • Amp It Up (https://amzn.to/3RHxqBY) Aaron Ross & Jason Lemkin • From Impossible to Inevitable (https://amzn.to/3TIBdAH) Scott Hallman • The 7 Success Drivers to HyperGrowth (https://amzn.to/3Qdq480) Aino Vonge Corry • Retrospectives Antipatterns (https://amzn.to/3naFk84) Lee, Wickens, Liu & Boyle • Designing for People (https://amzn.to/313ovpi) Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies (http://amzn.to/3sVLyLQ) Twitter (https://twitter.com/GOTOcon) LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto-) Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences) Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at gotopia.tech (https://gotopia.tech) SUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL (https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1) - new videos posted almost daily. Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/gotocon.com) Twitter (https://twitter.com/GOTOcon) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/goto_con) LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto-) Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences) CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.tech (https://gotopia.tech) SUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL (https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1) - new videos posted daily!