Tech Leadership Newsletter - Issue #1
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The Tech Leadership newsletter is released monthly by the Tech Leadership team. The content is curated and ideal for longtime, new, and aspiring technology leaders. Our mission is to help each other learn through sharing of ideas.
Enjoy our best technology leadership findings for the month.
Remaining Technical as an Engineering Leader | by Mark Wood | Medium — anothermarkwood.medium.com The question “how technically hands-on should I be as a team leader?” comes up frequently in my conversations with engineering leads. The short answer is: “definitely to some extent”, but for a more…
The 4 Common Pitfalls We Fall Into As Engineering Managers | Hacker Noon — hackernoon.com Being a successful Engineering Manager is not easy. Learn about 4 common pitfalls of failure that Engineering Managers need to watch out for.
Four areas of focus for successful technical leaders | LeadDev — leaddev.com People, Product, Process, Technology Stack.
Stories of reaching Staff-plus engineering roles - StaffEng | StaffEng — staffeng.com Stories of folks reaching Staff Engineer roles.
On Spreading Yourself Too Thin (and Other Dev Career Reflections) | Hacker Noon — hackernoon.com ‘The grass is always greener on the other side’ notion seems apt for this tendency.
4 Steps to Remote Success: Hiring, Decision Making, Collaborating and Managing — fellow.app In episode #38, we talk to Katie Wilde about her early days at Buffer, what remote hiring and onboarding look like, and working in a holacracy environment.
Recognize your management wins | Lara Hogan — larahogan.me A question I get a lot is: what’s a big manager mistake you’ve made?
Making Self-Care Tactical — Why You Should Focus on Boundaries, Not Just Bubble Baths | First Round Review Therapist Jessmina Archbold (publicly known as Minaa B.) shares her detailed guide to deeper self-care work, pushing back against common myths, offering up tactical advice and making the case for focusing on boundaries.
How to be the Engineering Manager Your Company Needs — www.codementor.io The biggest challenges for engineering managers aren’t technical, but personal. Become the engineering manager your company needs with exclusive tips from Airbnb, Typeform, InVision, and Zapier engineering managers!
Your engineering team is (probably) too big | by David Adams | The Startup | Medium — medium.com Of all the places you can spend money in a tech company, the engineering team is often by far the largest cost-centre. Similar to digital ads, it’s also a place where, if you aren’t careful, you can…
21 Traits in which Great Leadership is Defined | Hacker Noon — hackernoon.com Leadership qualities like integrity, humility, focus, confidence, transparency, inspiration, passion, accountability, vision, innovation, patience, authenticity, open-mindedness, decisiveness, affectionate, generosity, persistence and insightfulness are beautiful words that look good on pictures and posters that adorn the wall of offices.