Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
It’s about philosophy...culture of a good team...
Search
Spiros Economakis
November 27, 2020
Technology
0
65
It’s about philosophy...culture of a good team leader...
Spiros Economakis
November 27, 2020
Tweet
Share
More Decks by Spiros Economakis
See All by Spiros Economakis
Cloud-First Culture: A Mindset Shift Across the Org
spirosoik
0
83
Empowering SRE teams and Incident Management with AI
spirosoik
0
56
Building a Platform with self-serve powers using ChatOps and Github Bots
spirosoik
0
120
Introduction to Chaos Engineering with Kubernetes
spirosoik
0
120
Cloud DevOps - Infrastructure new era Part 1
spirosoik
0
28
GitOps CD for k8s
spirosoik
0
130
Effective developer experience with Kubernetes
spirosoik
0
68
Analytics in an Aspect Oriented manner V2.0
spirosoik
0
98
The testing practices of a Jedi
spirosoik
0
120
Other Decks in Technology
See All in Technology
都市スケールAR制作で気をつけること
segur
0
200
新しい風。SolidFlutterで実現するシンプルな状態管理
zozotech
PRO
0
130
Datadog LLM Observabilityで実現するLLMOps実践事例 / practical-llm-observability-with-datadog
k6s4i53rx
0
130
レガシーシステム刷新における TypeSpec スキーマ駆動開発のすゝめ
tsukuha
3
660
Progressive Deliveryで支える!スケールする衛星コンステレーションの地上システム運用 / Ground Station Operation for Scalable Satellite Constellation by Progressive Delivery
iselegant
1
210
グローバルなコンパウンド戦略を支えるモジュラーモノリスとドメイン駆動設計
kawauso
3
8.4k
ABEJA FIRST GUIDE for Software Engineers
abeja
0
3.2k
未回答質問の回答一覧 / 開発をリードする品質保証 QAエンジニアと開発者の未来を考える-Findy Online Conference -
findy_eventslides
0
400
Dev Containers と Skaffold で実現する クラウドネイティブ開発環境 ローカルのみという制約に挑む / Cloud-Native Development with Dev Containers and Skaffold: Tackling the Local-Only Constraint
bitkey
PRO
0
130
pmconf 2025 大阪「生成AI時代に未来を切り開くためのプロダクト戦略:圧倒的生産性を実現するためのプロダクトサイクロン」 / The Product Cyclone for Outstanding Productivity
yamamuteki
3
2.4k
AI × クラウドで シイタケの収穫時期を判定してみた
lamaglama39
1
390
DDD x Microservice Architecture : Findy Architecture Conf 2025
syobochim
12
4.1k
Featured
See All Featured
How STYLIGHT went responsive
nonsquared
100
5.9k
The Straight Up "How To Draw Better" Workshop
denniskardys
239
140k
Rebuilding a faster, lazier Slack
samanthasiow
84
9.3k
Documentation Writing (for coders)
carmenintech
76
5.1k
Learning to Love Humans: Emotional Interface Design
aarron
274
41k
Automating Front-end Workflow
addyosmani
1371
200k
Site-Speed That Sticks
csswizardry
13
970
No one is an island. Learnings from fostering a developers community.
thoeni
21
3.5k
Embracing the Ebb and Flow
colly
88
4.9k
The Illustrated Children's Guide to Kubernetes
chrisshort
51
51k
Fantastic passwords and where to find them - at NoRuKo
philnash
52
3.5k
How Fast Is Fast Enough? [PerfNow 2025]
tammyeverts
3
340
Transcript
It’s about philosophy...
Meet... Spiros Economakis (@spirosoik)
@Lensesio Head of Cloud
MBTI
The word philosophy comes from the Ancient Greek φιλοσοφία (philosofia)
which literally means “love of wisdom” Wikipedia
we work with people!!!
People are one of the most important things in life...
yes!!!
they are only means to reach We work with people
not with computers, people
be respectful be humble help be honest
always accept feedback no one is perfect for the win!!!
listen no finger pointing Do not give orders collaborate
“a person who influences a group of people towards the
achievement of a goal” Kevin Kruse Who is a leader?
Top 3 qualities optimistic competence and warmth planning and prioritization
First time as a Leader
Understanding the environment and changing the climate as needed... Personal
experience
handling conflicts… ...fear that they might think I am being
biased Personal challenges
leading is not just ... work allocation approving leaves reports
to management Personal challenges
work on self-development... at the same time team's development Personal
challenges
There are traits of a successful leader 6
When you delegate tasks, you create followers... ...when you delegate
authority, you create leaders Delegation
“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb
and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” George Washington Letting others speak
"Lead with direction, and try to lead by Example” Leading
by example
Feedback continuous honest bidirectional
Recommendation and rewards Recognising and rewarding the right talents at
the right place at the right time
Accountable failures... ...sharing success
Top tips
top tips be a leader not a boss listening the
team communication
top tips approachable good mentor appreciate
top tips connect emotionally innovative credible
Bram Stoker “We learn from FAILURE, not from SUCCESS”
Questions