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Whichever books you read - some great suggestions in the comments so far - please treat them as advice, and not religious texts.

So many managers and higher fail terribly at being effective because they believe all they need to do is encourage/enforce the practices in the books on the engineering teams, and that is the path to failure and the death of morale.

Take the books as guidance, but listen and engage with your reports (and their reports) to find the problems that need to be solved. Don't dictate or drive people, let them use their expertise in the direction you lead.



People are notoriously bad at identifying what actually led to their success. Career advice authors even more so.


I’d imagine mostly because, at least with some jobs, a dead parrot could be successful because the success was tied to other things (luck, founder connections, a few great sales/devs, etc).




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