Episode #5

Crew Leadership

Interview with: Magda Dziewguć
Country Director at Google Cloud

Is it worth following your interests and passions, even if it means rejecting a lucrative role at the very top, in favor of an undefined but inspiring challenge?

Magda Dziewguć, Country Director at Google Cloud, made such a decision ten years ago, and everyone around her was shaking their heads at the time.

In the Top Leaders Club podcast, we talk about the great exit from the comfort zone and touch on leadership and business topics. However, the leading topic of my conversation with Magda are women, who are still underrepresented in company management. Girls whose chances for a career drastically decrease after returning from maternity leave, for reasons we want to draw attention to.

This conversation ignites motivation to ask yourself many important questions 🔥

Magda Dziewguć
I am a person who feels good in a team. I am a good crew member. Once we learn what the job of a crew member is, making a decision as a captain will be natural and easy, because we already understand the scope of our decisions. Sometimes it happens that someone wants to be a captain right away, but has never scrubbed a deck, does not quite know how to set a sail. Then their potential decisions are also burdened with a greater risk from the outset. So wherever I am, I focus on understanding what the task is, trying to develop a team plan to carry out this task and gather resources. And this is how I always try to think, and this is how I always try to work, to maximize the team that is working on this task, because as a team you always achieve more than individually.
Magda Dziewguć says, Country Director at Google Cloud
The leadership and business topics we cover include:
  • team leadership based on joint implementation of goals and tasks,
  • management in the “parent model” supporting but not replacing,
  • leadership crisis faced by leaders,
  • importance of a well-conducted recruitment process,
  • varied degree of digitalization and development of Polish companies.