Eleven Leadership Strategies Designed For Technology Executives

Check out the full article on Forbes. Here was my contribution:

Fight for Your Team

Engineers want to build things that matter, both to the user and the company vision. Nothing zaps an engineer’s drive like political and pet projects showing up on their Kanban. Leaders fight to protect their team’s work. Leaders sacrifice and hustle to keep those who follow doing what they love — building things that matter. Managers are necessary to keep engineers working on things they hate.