 Hi everybody Looks like we have a presentation So I know the person that was in here earlier said hey the next talk is not till 7 or 5 45, so but I'm next so I'm Kim Baderman I just joined Google Cloud in May If you were at the Santa Clara Summit I was your emcee, so I apologize for whatever I said I'm not gonna give you a vendor pitch This is a gold-sponsored lightning talk for vendors that are in the gold sponsorship level of Cloud Foundry Foundation And I think we talk about Tech of Time, but we don't talk about who when you're trying to Do transformation all these buzzwords you hear all the time digital transformation it matters who's on your team, right? So we are talking about how we're gonna scale this giant mountain. What tools we're gonna use Are we gonna use Kubernetes or we're gonna use something else? I Will tell you this everyone in Silicon Valley thinks they know it all Right, but that's reality Well constantly arguing about what level of abstraction that our customer should be focused on Containers platform serverless functions you name it when really Our customers are just trying and we're running towards the future. Sorry. I forgot about that side When our customers are just trying to get to the cloud a lot of us have been in the cloud space for many years Even when people are not calling They're calling it cloud, but it really wasn't cloud. It was data center virtualization and all these different things. So I Think we should stop arguing about that and let customers pick where they want to go On to how they want to get on the cloud, right? So that's just my opinion. I see this every day I'll work with our biggest customers for Google Cloud platform You know we try to go in and have two ears in one mouth for a reason that's a my grandmother always says And really listen to what their problems are and it really does matter what they're trying to accomplish and who is on their team matters even more We go in and we tell them, you know, this is how we implement Hey, tell us how you do things and so we talk about SRE we talk about CRE, which is a new program It's customer reliability engineering not every application and not every product inside of Google actually has dedicated Sorry, which is a really aha moment that you think I will I just assume sorry They're everywhere inside of Google But that's not true. Just like CRE program is not going to be a perfect fit for every application or every customer We would love for them to use CRE obviously. We think it's a really great way to go But you know they may not be there yet So we try to show them a little bit of how we do things But we fully don't expect everyone to be at Google scale, which I think a lot of people assume that that's how we go in But not really We tell data. We have data because you can't make decisions without data, right? We tell stories because that inspires Emission inspires action inspires Really a community and kind of a revolution happening for lack of a better, you know term Customers really want to hear how other companies got there, right? So we talk about the who and I'm not talking about you need for developers You need this many people over here. No we talk about the mindset of what it's going to take to get where you're going and so for me like Building teams for years and years and consulting and then engineering teams and then eventually advocate teams It's my job to block and tackle and make sure that my team I can keep them as effective and doing the things that give them energy as much as possible That means removing barriers. That means having more meetings in that way. They don't have to have meetings Making sure the collaboration is there and they're getting the data and all the resources tools that they need That they can move faster and they can work the way they'd like to work That's a really key thing knowing what gives you energy and what drains you it's a huge thing and if you've never done that exercise like I encourage you out to go back and and do a little bit of Googling and Kind of try to figure that out for yourself and then make sure that whatever is draining you now on your job You don't make that mistake in the next job that you get promoted to or get recruited away to And that way you find what your strengths are for real So it really comes down to a growth versus fixed mindset and everyone thinks that either you have a growth mindset You have a fixed mindset. You can't change but that's not true a lot of us If you look at the list of different components of various sides We'll have a little bit of this a little bit of that but really as a leader It's up to you to inspire a growth mindset inside of your company and it's really Getting there is not easy This is typically not typically what we see but this is you know, maybe you know older mindsets, right? This is more of a fixed mindset of which challenges ignores criticism Threatened by others gives up, you know sees efforts as fruitless and that is not a component of a bad or a toxic employee That is a component of a toxic culture Because as we know command and control does not work. It is 2017 So if you see people in your team or your groups try to find out why they feel that way because I can guarantee you They're not a bad person. They just don't feel like they have the power to get done what they need to get done This is what should be happening instead and this is what you inspire as a leader Embracing challenges all the things that should be common sense and the I don't know about you But this is the kind of culture I work in now Thank goodness, and I had to always want to work in I'm inspired by everything my colleagues do at Google and I'm learning new things every day as we should So that's why tech is a perfect place for a lot of us that do tend to have that growth mindset, but we're just you know You know don't want to I don't know but you get stuck in those jobs, right? Where you're not necessarily growing as fast as you want to and the opportunities aren't always there So once you get to that point and you're testing out maybe you're trying kubernetes You're trying cloud Foundry inside of your company and you're having some success. You're gonna fail and that's okay take failure and switch it to lead to learning and Just changing your mindset about how you see things Can help you and his personal level go faster and especially as a team When you start having success other teams inside of your company are gonna start noticing and they're gonna ask you to do a Luncheon or they're gonna ask you, you know in the water cooler by the beer cooler or whatever you do for your engineers How did you do that? That's amazing. Can you teach us how to do that or can we come sit with you? Can we pair or whatever it is that your culture is about and so it starts? It starts scaling on its own. It's very organic. We've got customers that we've seen that happen to you And this is just a little plug for the communities that I'm involved in and Where I'm seeing our bigger customers at the tools that they're using primarily to make that transformation Which is open source and then if you want to know more about our open source, that's the link. So thanks