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Inbal Shani: belief

1 Dec 2023 Lenny's Podcast The future of AI in software development | Inbal Shani (CPO of GitHub)

“In TomTom when I was leading the location-based services team. And I think for me it was one, it was the first time I was working in international company, so really figure out that my character not always fly with every culture that exists.”

— Inbal Shani

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Inbal Shani
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
1 Dec 2023
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

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…Where did this actually happen? Which company? Which role? In TomTom when I was leading the location-based services team. And I think for me it was one, it was the first time I was working in international company, so really figure out that my character not always fly with every culture that exists. So how am I adjusting to that? And the second thing is that they were very accustomed in working in a specific environment in a specific way. And yes, I was hired to drive change, but one, the team doesn't have to accept. That's your job to drive change. And also they're not necessarily on board with the fact that you're here to drive change. So how you take them with you through that journey was a big learning and being able to communicate in a general way of communicating to drive clarity, that was a big learning. That's actually a recurring theme on Failure Corner of the failure stories I'm thinking about is just somebody starting at a company and trying to change too much too quickly.…

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