
Your Engineering Ladder Is Lying to You
Here is something worth sitting with for a moment. You have a job ladder. Junior, Mid, Senior, Staff Engineer. Probably written a few years ago, maybe updated once or twice
I share with you important lessons that come from great leaders and can give us powerful boosts to add the most value to support your leadership journey.

Here is something worth sitting with for a moment. You have a job ladder. Junior, Mid, Senior, Staff Engineer. Probably written a few years ago, maybe updated once or twice

Let me say something that might be uncomfortable. Most leaders in technology are technically brilliant. They can architect complex systems, debug code at 2 AM, and talk about infrastructure trade-offs

You told your team to take breaks this quarter. You sent the Slack message about sustainable pace. You nodded along in the all-hands when the HR Director talked about psychological

You have a quarterly planning session coming up. You pull the team together, open a shared doc, and someone asks: “So, what do we think will happen in the next

We talk a lot about communication. In fact, I am the person who teach and preach the whole idea of Communication Intelligence. And yet, we don’t talk strategically enough about

You know what they say: It’s always lonely on the top. Whatever the “top” means. Being in the board or executive team in the organization, a founder or co-founder of