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Published inSep 2023
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Morgan Evans
Morgan Evans
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Morgan Evans

Morgan Evans has been leading web and native app engineering teams since 2010. Having held senior engineering leadership roles at complex media and technology organizations, the author knows first hand how to lead challenging projects at high scale with demanding stakeholders and vocal customers. Evans has an educational background in social psychology and information architecture, lending a unique perspective to the book. She has been working on development teams delivering consumer and b2b digital products for 18 years.
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Leadership styles and their origins

We have learned that on an individual level, leadership styles stem from beliefs and abilities, but what broader trends should we be aware of? Can the origins of leadership styles provide us with useful information today?

In this section, we will explore these questions and provide a brief overview of what we know about leadership styles from studies and writings. We will cover three foundational views of leadership styles and how you can incorporate the teachings from them into your efforts to develop an effective style for yourself.

We will briefly review the following:

  • Leadership styles in nature
  • Leadership styles in philosophy
  • Leadership styles in management theory

Each of these views has something to teach us about leadership styles and why they exist. Let’s start with leadership styles in nature.

Natural origins

Leadership is not unique to humanity; it can be seen across the majority of the animal kingdom...

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Engineering Manager's Handbook
Published in: Sep 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781803235356

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Morgan Evans

Morgan Evans has been leading web and native app engineering teams since 2010. Having held senior engineering leadership roles at complex media and technology organizations, the author knows first hand how to lead challenging projects at high scale with demanding stakeholders and vocal customers. Evans has an educational background in social psychology and information architecture, lending a unique perspective to the book. She has been working on development teams delivering consumer and b2b digital products for 18 years.
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