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Engineering Manager's Handbook

You're reading from  Engineering Manager's Handbook

Product type Book
Published in Sep 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803235356
Pages 278 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Morgan Evans Morgan Evans
Profile icon Morgan Evans

Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1: The Case for Engineering Management
2. Chapter 1: An Introduction to Engineering Management 3. Chapter 2: Engineering Leadership Styles 4. Chapter 3: Common Failure Modes for New Engineering Managers 5. Part 2: Engineering
6. Chapter 4: Leading Architecture 7. Chapter 5: Project Planning and Delivery 8. Chapter 6: Supporting Production Systems 9. Part 3: Managing
10. Chapter 7: Working Cross-Functionally 11. Chapter 8: Communicating with Authority 12. Chapter 9: Assessing and Improving Team Performance 13. Chapter 10: Fostering Accountability 14. Chapter 11: Managing Risk 15. Part 4: Transitioning
16. Chapter 12: Resilient Leadership 17. Chapter 13: Scaling Your Team 18. Chapter 14: Changing Priorities, Company Pivots, and Reorgs 19. Part 5: Long-Term Strategies
20. Chapter 15: Retaining Talent 21. Chapter 16: Team Design and More 22. Index 23. Other Books You May Enjoy

Engineering leadership style archetypes

Most of us have had at least some exposure to the vast world of thought on modern engineering leadership styles and their best practices. There are seemingly endless sources presenting sets of leadership styles for engineering managers. It can be overwhelming to dig through this information. How can we approach these styles with intention and avoid just adopting whatever feels easiest?

In this section, we will learn what defines classic engineering leadership styles and in which circumstances they are most useful. You will learn how to look at these styles as a continuum instead of distinct personas. You will learn how to approach these styles as sets of practices that can be layered together to form a comprehensive style of your own, suitable to the needs of your engineering team.

To that aim, this section is broken down to compare and contrast leadership styles in the following subsections:

  • The commander and the servant
  • The...
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