Leading through a downturn requires a different approach. Here’s how to realign your leadership to suit this new set of challenges.
Many software engineering leaders will only have known how to lead through the boom times. The era of hypergrowth that is now coming to an end was rife with cheap investment cash and large hiring budgets, while the biggest challenge many engineering managers faced was how to scale their services to the moon.
Leading a technology organization through an economic downturn presents a very different set of challenges, but it is also an opportunity to transform adversity into a positive force for organizational health and growth.