How Balance is Critical in Your Teams and in Your Life by Shrijeet Mukherjee, Jerry Li
Technology teams can often be likened to a basketball or soccer team, and the strategies needed have surprising similarities. One characteristic that stands out is balance. Just like a team that is all attack and no defence will eventually run aground, you have to balance your teams in every way possible. What is required however is a philosophy around which you build your team and balance it such that the goals of the collective can be met.
But there is more. The need to balance applies to you the leaders as well. If you are too immersed or paying too much attention to the details, you may miss the big picture and vice versa.
In this chat Shrijeet will talk about his personal strategies for navigating these questions and more.
Shrijeet Mukherjee
Shrijeet is currently a co-founder of a stealth mode cloud infrastructure company. In his past life he has worked on the 1st floating point frame-buffer solution at Silicon Graphics before they were called GPU's, on programmable converged network cards at Nuova/Cisco before they were called SmartNIC's, and on the revolutionary open networking ecosystem at Cumulus Networks. He has spent more than a decade building leading edge products, but more importantly building cutting edge teams that have been able to build, ship and maintain not just the products but the teams themselves over an extended period of time. When not working, Shrijeet is into all things soccer, is an avid martial arts enthusiast and always looking for reasons to travel the four corners of the world.
Jerry Li
Jerry is passionate about connecting people and empower their career growth. He founded SFELC for this purpose. SFELC is a curated community of 4200+ engineering leaders across all levels in San Francisco and beyond, with a mission to connect the world's engineering leaders and help evolve how leadership is implemented in the tech industry. Prior to SFELC, he was a director engineering at Groupon, overseeing the entire payments engineering with distributed teams. Before Groupon, he was an engineer and later an engineering manager at Amazon.
