Your domain expertise is essential to your job, but it just might be one of the things getting in the way of you being a truly great engineering leader.
Great engineering leaders are forged through the fires of experience. It’s that rich, diverse history of projects we’ve worked on, technologies we’ve worked in, problems we’ve solved, and teams we’ve worked with that gives us the scar tissue it takes to effectively lead organizations. So, it’s not uncommon to find ourselves in a position where we have more experience and technical knowledge than those we work with.
Shared artfully as context, our experience and knowledge can be applied in service of a team’s greater good.