Conscious Career Growth (part 1) with Wade Chambers, CTO & SVP of Engineering @ Grand Rounds #20

Wade Chambers discusses how to learn anything by applying “conscious growth” and neuroplasticity to your career. You’ll learn how to get unstuck, and move your career forward. Plus Wade also shares stories about his early failures as an engineering manager, and what he wished he knew when he first became a manager. 

"The more that you can recognize that, ‘Oh, I feel uncomfortable’ and you can just sit with it a minute. As opposed to react to it. There's always a feedback mechanism in that. That willingness to be in the discomfort a little bit longer. You're actually going to learn so much about yourself in that moment. And if you can act on that, that's what unlocks you to move forward." - Wade Chambers 

 

ABOUT WADE CHAMBERS

Wade oversees all aspects of engineering and technology innovation as the CTO & SVP of Engineering at Grand Rounds. With more than 25 years of engineering leadership experience, he has deep technical domain expertise and a successful track record of scaling teams and leaders, market-defining technology innovations, and business growth for companies of all sizes including Twitter, TellApart, Yahoo, and Opsware. Before Silicon Valley, Wade served in the military and the White House Situation Room.

 

SHOWNOTES

• How Wade formed the habit of being conscious, thoughtful and digging deeper (4:37)
• Wade’s early failure as a first-time manager (8:25)
• Neuroplasticity as the foundation for conscious growth and getting unstuck in your career (15:01)
• How to learn and become competent in almost anything with conscious growth (23:06)
• How to align your growth to both impact your company AND move your career forward (28:54)
• How to predict your company’s needs by applying an anthropological perspective (36:06)
• Takeaways (41:12)

 

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