The Engineering Leader

Strategies for Scaling Teams and Yourself

Author: Cate Huston

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Great engineers don't necessarily make great leaders—at least, not without a lot of work. It's not easy to figure out how to be strategic, successful, and considerate while also being firm. This practical book shows you how to become a well-rounded and resilient engineering leader.

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Great engineers don't necessarily make great leaders at least, not without a lot of work. Finding your path to becoming a strong leader is often fraught with challenges. It's not easy to figure out how to be successful, empathetic, and caring yet tough. Whether you're on the management or individual contributor track, you need to develop strong leadership skills.

This book guides you on the path to becoming a well-rounded and resilient engineering leader. The first half focuses on you, and how you can develop the self-management skills needed to survive and thrive in a leadership role. The second half focuses on teams, including the necessary components of team functioning that will empower and support your teams and the individuals within them. You'll learn how to create and balance both individual and team growth.

By exploring these two tenets of leadership, Cate Huston, engineering director at DuckDuckGo, helps you:

Understand what it means to be the driving force behind your career

Learn how to self manage, and avoid the pitfalls that many newer managers face

Establish evolving pract

About the Author

She speaks internationally, writes regularly for Quartz, and her writing has also appeared in Lifehacker, the Daily Beast, LeadDev and in the collections 97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know, Living by the Code and The Architecture of Open Source Applications. Cate appeared in the books The Manager's Path, Coders and Brotopia, and as a tech industry expert on The Today Show (US) and the Channel 4 News (UK).

About the Author

Cate Huston has had a global career in technology, focused on scaling teams and leaders within fast-growing engineering organizations. She currently works as an Engineering Director at DuckDuckGo, and previously worked at Automattic (the company behind WordPress.com), both globally distributed companies. She is also a CoActive trained engineering leadership coach, a Limited Partner in the Acquired Wisdom VC fund, and an advisor at Glowforge.Cate holds a BSc (hons) in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh, and started her career as a Software Engineer at Google. She speaks internationally, writes regularly for Quartz, and her writing has also appeared in Lifehacker, the Daily Beast, LeadDev and in the collections 97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know, Living by the Code and The Architecture of Open Source Applications. Cate appeared in the books The Manager's Path, Coders and Brotopia, and as a tech industry expert on The Today Show (US) and the Channel 4 News (UK).