Technology isn't slowing down. And neither are the expectations placed on the people leading it. In this episode of CTO Confessions, TC Gill sits down with Ahmed Abdelrahman, CTO at Bayzat, to talk about what it actually takes to build high-performing engineering teams when the ground keeps shifting underneath you. Ahmed brings nearly two decades of experience scaling secure, distributed platforms from the ground up. He shares why the pace of innovation should feel like opportunity — not pressure — and how the most underrated leadership skill isn't technical at all. In this episode: → Why you should ask what demotivates people, not just what motivates them → How psychological safety turns failure into fuel → The case for hackathons as a team-building tool → Why articulating ideas clearly is a career accelerator most engineers ignore "If you create psychological safety for your team, they will see failure as an opportunity, not as a shameful mistake."

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