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Finding your acorn: How to drive the change you want as an engineering leader

Growing your idea into a successful initiative
June 23, 2021

Often the move to a lead role is about advocating for change – wanting to step up to take more ownership of challenges that arise and have a go at ‘doing better’ for both your team and your organization.

This is magnified in startup land: often we join in the first place for the opportunity to play a pivotal role in shaping an organization.

‘Having an impact’ was certainly one of my motivators when, six years ago, I made the move from academia to a startup. However, I don’t think I’d really considered what that actually meant. As I matured into a lead role, one of the biggest lessons was learning to maximize my influence without being overly constrained by whatever my remit was ‘on paper’.

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