Gaining the Technology Leadership Edge
Hosted by Mike · Mike Mahony
5.0from 31 ratings
- 214
- Episodes
- 66
- Transcribed
- 31
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
- 930K
- YouTube views
About Gaining the Technology Leadership Edge
Gaining the Technology Leadership Edge is for CTOs, VPs of Engineering, and senior technology leaders who are paying the hidden price of being indispensable. If everything still depends on you—decisions, escalations, delivery, and “just one more quick fix”—this show is for you. Hosted by Mike Mahony, creator of the Decentralized A-Team Method, GTLE breaks down why high-performing tech leaders get trapped as bottlenecks—and how to build teams that think, decide, and execute without constant oversight. This isn’t a hustle podcast. It’s not leadership theater. And it’s not about working harder or being more inspirational. Each episode explores real leadership failure modes inside scaling tech organizations—dependency, overfunctioning, fragile execution—and replaces them with practical systems for decentralizing ownership, engineering autonomy, and scaling without burning out. Through direct analysis, real-world case patterns, and conversations with experienced leaders, GTLE helps senior technical leaders stop being the smartest person in the room—and start building teams that don’t need them to survive. If you’re responsible for other people’s output—and you know the current model won’t scale—this show was built for you.
- Publisher
- Mike Mahony
- Category
- business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 11 Jan 2023
- Latest episode
- 15 Apr 2026
Latest episodes
66 of 214 episodes have a transcript.
15 Apr 2026
Why Silence in Meetings Is Your Biggest Warning Sign
18 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT
Security Theater: Why Companies Spend Millions and Stay Vulnerable
11 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Real Bottleneck Behind Delayed Software Teams
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Security Theater: Why Companies Spend Millions and Stay Vulnerable
Published 18 Mar 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And so that's a mission of dark horse is not to build this billion dollar company right now. We're just trying to make security more accessible for organizations, which, you know, I. So it wasn't really a breaking point. It was just it was just let's try to let's see if we can make the world a little more secure. So you've talked about security theater. What's an example that made you cringe? Oh, the obvious answer is for me, because this is where I've lived is in the it's in the pen testing world. I've seen people get and deliver a pen test that they just do a port scan and they're like, oh, it's a pen test or they run a vulnerability scanner and they're like, oh, it's a pen test. […]
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- Grant McCracken
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- Nir Bashan
- Santosh Kaveti
- Daniel Nikic
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 930,475
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 5 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 26 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 69 / 100
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- Quality
- 73
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 71
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