Four Simple Leadership Lessons for Managing High-Performance Teams

Learn essential leadership principles in this 29-minute conference talk from NANOG, where Oracle's Senior Director of Cloud Engineering shares four crucial management lessons drawn from 25+ years of experience at major cloud providers like Oracle Cloud and Amazon. Discover practical insights about authentic leadership, avoiding self-cloning pitfalls, conducting effective one-on-one meetings, and handling unreasonable demands. Drawing from extensive experience managing international teams and interviewing over 1,000 candidates globally, gain valuable wisdom about team management that applies whether leading large organizations or small groups. Presented by Kam Agahian, who brings deep expertise in complex network and cloud architectures along with a track record of successful presentations at multiple NANOG conferences.