362- The Firewall Leader w/Rick Bates: Why the Best Leaders Stand In Front

Dissecting Popular IT Nerds

Technology

5 • 49 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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ON THIS EPISODE: ➤ How to position yourself as your team’s “firewall” – standing between them and organizational pressure to create space for great work. ➤ Why “exception-only management” builds stronger teams than micromanagement – trusting first and intervening only when needed. ➤ The Scout Leader approach to letting people fail safely so they actually learn and grow into confident decision-makers. ➤ How to spot hidden talents in your team that they don’t even know they have, and develop career paths that serve both them and the business. ➤ Why your IT career path will look like “something drawn by...

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0:00.0	Welcome back to today's episode of dissecting popular IT nerds.
0:12.8	I'm your host, Doug Kameen, and today I'm talking with Cybersecurity Program Manager and former CIO Insiders Enterprises, Rich Bates.
0:20.4	Welcome to the show, Rich.
0:21.8	Thank you so much, sir.
0:23.1	I really appreciate being here.
0:24.9	Yeah, so,
0:25.6	so Rich,
0:26.3	we're talking before the show started here,
0:28.9	and we have,
0:31.4	we have connections between us.
0:33.2	Like there's,
0:34.0	there is,
0:34.5	we are not unknown,
0:36.5	well,
0:36.7	we're unknown to one another, but,
0:38.1	but we are, we are only separated by, by two degrees. I guess that's the, best way to put this.
0:43.5	So, so you, you're in, uh, you're in the, the northern Virginia, D.C. metro area.
0:50.3	Yes. And you, you, you work for, you, well,, you work for his company at his enterprise,
0:55.0	but in the past you worked for a company that the CIO of the American Registry for Internet numbers,
1:00.7	Aaron, he and you work together.
1:03.8	So we have this kind of like, I will call it a random connection because it's not,
1:08.3	I don't know, I don't say any of these things are random, but we have this connection.
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