The Manager's Path
A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth & Change
Top Ideas in This Book
- Being a tech lead is about growing and exercising influence
- Tech leads are primarily developing project management skills
- As tech lead your productivity matters less than team productivity
- Managers fail when they avoid conflict and do not provide corrective feedback immediately
- When managers feel the urge to micromanage, they should ask their team how success is being measured and to make it visible
- Managing engineers is easier and more effective when they respect your technical skills and you have the ability to assess quality
- Watch deployment frequency closely to understand team productivity and satisfaction
- The CTO must protect engineering from being a pure execution arm
- Never underestimate how many times you need to communicate something
- A good career ladder or growth framework is necessary for assessing performance and evaluating job candidates
How strongly do I recommend this book? 9/10
