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Coaching IT pros for leadership roles

CIO

When you’ve spent your career mastering complex technologies, stepping into a leadership role might not be the first item on your wish list. I spoke to IT executives and leadership coaches for tips on how to develop the leaders on your team. Why does this person want to go into management?” Here is their advice. Stop teaching.

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Tech Leadership books

Apiumhub

The transition to tech leadership is a huge challenge. Technical leadership is different. Leading a technical team demands more than just management skills, but also technical prowess, and the ability to navigate the tech world. Remember, that learning is key to success in any leadership position.

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How engineering managers can effectively support engineers, teams, and organizations

CircleCI

The typical job description for many engineering manager roles is action-packed. It is a mix of hands-on coding, technical leadership and decision making, process and project management, product oversight, people management, finding and hiring talent … the list goes on. What do engineers need to thrive at work?

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From Metric Overload to Focused Insights: A Software Engineering Manager's Journey

Allstacks

Over the course of time as an engineering leader, I've seen my fair share of trends come and go. It was a data deluge and frankly, it was drowning both our teams and leadership. But perhaps none has been as persistent – and at times, overwhelming – as the push for metrics.

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High-Touch Leadership in Buffer’s Fully Remote Culture

Gitprime

GitPrime elevates engineering leadership with objective data. In this interview series, Engineering Leaders talk about how to build high performing teams. Two (equal) leadership paths. Let’s be perfectly honest: managing discussions about mental health with coworkers isn’t everyone’s cup of tea.

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Why I Bailed on My STEM Career

Change Starts Here

These two things together – learning that I needed more influence myself and that it was better to engage employees in improving their own jobs, led me to doing a lot of research and ultimately enrolling in an MBA program with a focus on leadership and change management.

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Greeks to Geeks: What Plato Says About Bettering Your Team Culture

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

This is, of course, an overly simplified explanation of what philosophers both modern and old have struggled to understand. Also, read: What Leadership Means To Us At HackerEarth. Dos: Be careful of their my-way-or-highway approach, especially when it comes to positioning cholerics in leadership positions.

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