303- Brandon Hansen Part 2: IT Leadership, Ownership Culture, and Career Growth

Dissecting Popular IT Nerds

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5 • 49 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Brandon Hansen Leading IT at an employee-owned company, Brandon Hansen brings a unique perspective to technology leadership. His approach emphasizes empowering team members, fostering a culture of ownership, and making strategic decisions that benefit the entire organization. With a background in networking and a passion for continuous learning, Brandon’s leadership style blends technical expertise with strong interpersonal skills, driving innovation and collaboration across the business. Brandon Hansen part 2: IT Leadership, Ownership Culture, and Career Growth How can IT leaders foster a culture of ownership and make better decisions? In this episode, Brandon Otteson shares his experiences leading IT in an employee-owned company, offering insights on navigating vendor relationships, empowering teams, and driving technology decisions. He emphasizes the importance of continuous learning, empathy, and focusing on what you can influence to create a positive IT environment.

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0:00.0	Welcome everyone to Potu of Brandon Ensign's journey through IT leadership and culture.
0:09.4	Oh gosh, how do we get back on track? I don't even know where to begin now. We've hit on so many
0:13.4	amazing things. How have you made the right decisions? I think part of what's going to help other
0:17.7	people is how you make decisions because all of our lives are
0:21.2	formed based on making correct decisions and I know this is an IT show and this is an IT leadership show
0:26.0	but I want to help other people in IT not hate life and I think if you go on Reddit and you
0:31.9	look in the cis admin forum or you look at something like this you're going to find a lot of
0:35.3	people that hate life that may have loved technology that was just like, I'm out, I hate this.
0:39.8	Like my company makes me do this, this, this and this.
0:41.9	I have to know all these different things.
0:43.4	Broadcom, just put out of bad.
0:44.6	Now we've got to change this.
0:45.8	This is lame.
0:46.9	This is horrible.
0:47.8	And I think what it comes down may have made good decisions in life or purposeful decisions.
0:55.5	And maybe that's not what people in IT know how to do. I don't know. It's a little more simpler
0:59.4	than making. It's starting with the foundational operating procedure. I'm assuming everybody
1:05.6	that's listening to your show has got some level of nerdiness in them. And so we can talk about, you know,
1:11.4	like an operating system or the base code or the bios or whatever. So I start with a few
1:19.1	concepts of leadership. And it's really, there's two spheres that we, that we have in front of us.
1:26.4	And it's area of concern, which is everything. And then we
1:30.6	have another sphere that's smaller, which is what we can influence on that concern. And it's really
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