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follow the stages of a typical career path for an engineer who ends up becoming a manager.
Key Takeaways for the Mentor
Have you asked your manager what he or she expects from the tech lead?
Regular 1-1s are like oil changes; if you skip them, plan to get stranded on the side of the highway at the worst possible time. Marc Hedlund
This practice exists to prevent the “Peter Principle,” in which people are promoted to their level of incompetence.
The nature of leadership is that, while you may only have the authority
team together and asks them to vote on what projects should be
All the evidence in the world can’t change a person who doesn’t want to change.
First, get someone to walk you through the systems and architecture, as well as the process for testing and releasing the software.
Otherwise, you’ll find yourself with days gone by and little to show
How do you feel at the end of the day these days?
“yes, and” strategy
book First, Break All the Rules
“Our systems aren’t designed to be released
One form of skip-level meeting is a short 1-1 meeting, held perhaps once a quarter,
Some suggested prompts to provide the person you are holding the skip-level 1-1 with include: What do you like best/worst about the project you are working on? Who on your team has been doing really well recently?
Do you have any feedback about your manager — what’s going well, what isn’t? What changes do you think we could make to the product? Are there any opportunities you think we might be missing? How do you think the organization is doing overall? Anything we could be doing better/more/less? Are there any areas of the business strategy you don’t understand?
What’s keeping you from doing your best work right now? How happy (or not) are you working at the company? What could we do to m...
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High Output Management,
How big is that project? How important is it? Can you articulate the value of that project to anyone who asks? What would successful completion of the project mean for the team?
“Wanting to be a CTO (or VP of Engineering) is like wanting to be married. Remember that it’s not
Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2000).
How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love,
