341- Transforming Soul Crushing IT into Inspiring Leadership by Peter Seliga

Dissecting Popular IT Nerds

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5 • 49 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Peter Seliga With 25 years of technology experience, Peter Seliga is transforming soul crushing IT into Inspiring Leadership, he brings deep insights from both technical and leadership roles. Currently working at a rocket company, he specializes in building resilient teams through authentic leadership and creating environments where people can be themselves while delivering exceptional results. Transforming Soul Crushing IT into Inspiring Leadership How do you transform soul-crushing IT into an inspiring workplace? Peter Seliga shares his 25-year journey in technology leadership, discussing how authenticity and vulnerability create stronger teams. Through the lens of a major CrowdStrike incident, he demonstrates how genuine leadership enables teams to tackle critical challenges effectively.

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0:00.0	Today on dissecting popular IT nerds, we're talking about soul crushing IT with Peter Saliga.
0:11.3	Did I do it right?
0:12.5	Oh yeah.
0:12.9	You're right.
0:13.4	I got the last name right.
0:14.5	Peter Saliga.
0:16.1	And that's the sound of soul crushing IT.
0:24.7	How do we get out of it? How you in how are you ever a part of soul crushing IT and maintained what do you learn from that and I think what we learn
0:30.4	is how to not get involved in soul crushing IT and the more that we persist and fight through
0:37.1	life and take on,
0:38.8	I'm a big fan of responsibility and I have this,
0:43.1	the thing that carries the most stress with me in my life is the fact that I feel
0:49.1	really responsible for not letting people down.
0:54.3	I don't know, it's very, very, maybe it's because I have eight kids and I've just, you know,
0:59.3	I just, I have this, and you can't, you can't do everything for everybody all at once.
1:05.5	So if you have this really high level of responsibility where you feel you, you need to,
1:12.3	you need to do everything right all the time, it's, it's a, it's a, I don't know, there's some kind of word for it, like a stress
1:16.9	overload or something. When, when you give your people too much responsibility that they can't
1:22.3	handle, there's some, I think some Toyota, you know, Japanese, you know, term for it, you know, something like that, you know,
1:29.8	and there's got to be some kind of like level of balance or something like this, okay?
1:33.6	Yeah.
1:33.9	So I think soul crushing IT comes with a lot in the mid-market space when an IT leader has so many
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