Tech Leadership Guide
Forget the corporate leadership fluff. This guide breaks down what it really takes to lead in tech—without micromanaging, hero worship, or turning into the boss everyone secretly dreads.
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Stop Calling It a Team If You Don’t Trust Them
Leadership starts with trust, not control. If you’re micromanaging every move and calling it “structure,” you’re just managing fear.
You Don’t Need to Know Everything—You Need to Break Shit and Learn
No one wakes up knowing how to debug a legacy codebase held together by hope and half-written tests. You learn by breaking things, fixing them, and doing it again. You don’t need to know everything. You need to be fearless enough to figure it out.
Lead. Don’t Ctrl.
Documentation Is Not Optional. It’s Culture.
Your team isn’t agile if your codebase is a black box and the only documentation is tribal knowledge passed around in Slack. Documentation isn’t optional—it’s culture. If you won’t write it down, don’t expect to scale.
Lead. Don’t Ctrl.
Micromanagement Is Just Insecurity in a Blazer
Micromanagement isn’t attention to detail—it’s insecurity with a title. If you don’t trust your team to do their jobs, that’s not leadership. That’s ego. Control less. Empower more.
Lead. Don’t Ctrl.