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 strategic, successful, and considerate while also being firm. Whether you're on the management or individual contributor track, you need to develop strong leadership skills.

This practical book shows you how to become a well-rounded and resilient engineering leader.

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 practices and structures to best scale your team
Define the impact of your team and its core mission and values

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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).

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