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Leader’s Week 2026: How I Lead a 50+ Person Org on a 4-Day Workweek

Revisiting my framework from the past years

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Mirek Stanek
Jun 08, 2026
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People often ask me how I manage a 40-person platform engineering organization and the entire R&D Site at the same time, a few side gigs that grow into startups, and still log 1,500km a year training for running races.

The assumption is usually that I have some secret productivity hack or that I’m just working all the time. But working harder is a trap.

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