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In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke with Jarrod Overson of Shape Security about the reason for and the content in the Beyond Being an Individual Contributor track at QCon San Francisco, and he offers advice for current and aspirant technical leaders. \n\nWhy listen to this podcast:\n\u2022\tMany technologists get the opportunity to move into leadership roles but receive no training or guidance about what skills such a role needs \n\u2022\tSolving other people\u2019s problems as quickly as possible is an important aspect of a leadership role \u2013 this is very different to being an individual contributor where the focus is on solving your own problems\n\u2022\tAdvice for aspirant leaders: assume you are in the role you want and practice doing everything you think should be done in that role\n\u2022\tThere is a bias among software developers against what is perceived as \u201cold\u201d knowledge \u2013 practices that have been around for decades and centuries \u2013 this is very wrong\n\u2022\tThe problems of software engineering have not yet all been solved so there is still a lot of learning to be done, you can\u2019t just repeat what has been done elsewhere before and expect it to work\n\u2022\tSoftware engineering is a creative, artistic skill done by creative, artistic people and a leader needs to understand how such people are motivated\n\u2022\tCulture and motivation comes from the top of a company and spreads all the way down\n\nMore on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/2HXSIXF\n\nYou can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq\n\nSubscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq\nLike InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8\nFollow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ\nFollow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq\nCheck the landing page on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/2HXSIXF