Rositsa Koleva - Balancing Trust and Control

Sustainable Tech Leader · Oct 23, 2025 · 23m

In today’s fast-paced environment, most businesses are moving at breakneck speed. Competition comes from every direction, and the pressure to innovate never stops.

It’s easy, in that context, to look around and ask:

“What are people doing all day?” “Why aren’t we using more tech, governance or process to move faster?”

And when leaders can’t see the work when teams are remote, distributed, or async the instinct is to lean in harder. More 1:1s. More check-ins. More status updates. A Slack message here, a “quick call” there.

But as Rosi and I discussed, that’s often when the balance starts to…