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Preventing burnout with restful work
Restful work can be a great way to mitigate a case of burnout. Here’s a framework you can follow to implement it into your day-to-day.
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What is a staff engineer? Technical leaders who aren’t managers
Staff engineers are technical leaders who have deep domain knowledge, walking the line between tech and the business.
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Grow your influence like a leader, not a boss
Extending your influence past your immediate circle isn’t as straightforward as you’d like to hope. But there are a few strategies you can employ to help.
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Feeling the squeeze? GreenOps offers a sustainable solution for busy engineering teams
Discover how GreenOps empowers engineering teams to integrate sustainability into their workflows, building on FinOps and DevOps principles for efficiency and environmental impact.
Editor’s picks
Adapting your leadership for a downturn
Leading through a downturn requires a different approach. Here’s how to realign your leadership to suit this new set of challenges.
How to lead individuals with advanced technical expertise
If you’re a manager of individual contributor’s who have more years of experience on you, you may be confused on how best to lead them.
Tech layoffs are making things worse for women in leadership
The recent wave of layoffs has left fewer women in leadership positions, can the trend be reversed?
How to lead senior engineers as a new manager
If you’ve just entered a management role, cultivating your relationship with the senior engineers on your team may be a daunting prospect. Here are a few ways to get that relationship off to a good start.
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Essential reading
Reasons to step into a leadership role (and the reasons not to)
Thinking of becoming an engineering leader? Let Pat Kua help you with the first step of the journey.
On our Leadership playlist
Leading Snowflakes: Oren Ellenbogen in conversation
Understand how to lead unique individuals and improve your overall management skills
Elevating your leadership skills during tough times
What skills do you need to be a great leader during economic uncertainty?
Resilient Management: Lara Hogan in conversation
Resilient Management is a guide to building, inspiring and leading resilient teams
Post-ZIRP engineering leadership
This talk explores the evolution of the engineering leadership role from the growth-focused 2010s to today’s environment of increased scrutiny and accountability.
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More about Engineering Management
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Managing complex organizational change
Guiding your team through organizational changes isn’t straightforward. Luckily, there are some ways you may be able to streamline the process.
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Three ways to develop contextual awareness as a leader
In a fast-changing world, with an equally shifting corporate landscape, leaders must take steps to cultivate the vital skill of contextual awareness.
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Exercising foresight as an engineering leader
Preparing for future eventualities may seem impossible without a crystal ball, but there are some things you can do as a leader to exercise good foresight.
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Demystifying managing managers
Transitioning from a manager to a manager of managers is harder than it looks. Here are some common misconceptions about making the step up in your engineering career.
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LeadDev editor’s picks: January 2023
From leading through an economic downturn, to embracing risk, here are the five articles you absolutely need to read from December on LeadDev.
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5 lessons for new senior engineering managers
Managing managers for the first time? Congratulations! Here’s what you need to know next.
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How to lead through an economic downturn
As the global economic picture continues to darken, engineering managers should start to prepare for the worst.
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When, not if: The playbook method for managing risk
Traditional risk management isn’t working for engineering organizations. Here, CTO of Identity and Network Access at Microsoft, Yonatan Zunger, shares a better approach.
Top Leadership videos
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Budgeting: Your (unexpected) opportunity to be a hero
As you advance your career as an engineering leader, managing a budget becomes a highly critical part of your job.
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Adventure beyond the keyboard: Growth strategies for senior leaders
When you’re at the top, getting direct feedback gets tougher, and figuring out how to improve becomes a bit of a puzzle.
This talk is your guide to cracking that puzzle, and make leadership growth less of a mystery and more of an adventure!
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Content sponsored by Swarmia
Post-ZIRP engineering leadership
This talk explores the evolution of the engineering leadership role from the growth-focused 2010s to today’s environment of increased scrutiny and accountability.
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Leading with policy, consensus, and conviction: Three distinct leadership styles for effective engineering leadership
In this talk I’ll share the situations that exposed my limited toolkit of leadership styles, the new styles I’ve added, and how I got comfortable using them.
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Engineering leadership in 2024 and beyond: Skating where the puck is going when the ice is melting
Over the last two years, the tech industry has been going through big changes After a decade of boom, a lot of companies have been running layoffs, and headlines were dominated by CEOs talking about a need for “fewer managers”, “more efficiency”, and “more AI.” Throughout this time, many engineering…
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Avoiding the priority zero trap
How can you successfully prioritize tasks in situations where everything is urgent?
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Content sponsored by Apollo
Elevating your leadership skills during tough times
What skills do you need to be a great leader during economic uncertainty?
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Building the operating system of a healthy and responsible tech business
This talk will cover how you can tackle common challenges tech companies face by aligning your strategy, execution and people more systematically.