Enlightening the process of technical leadership is fundamentally about bringing greater self-awareness to our technology work. This book presents an introspective approach:
- Start with your talent
- Refine, switch and let go of your mental models
- Understand your sense of abundance as well as your sense of scarcity
- Learn from your reactions of dislike and admiration
- Observe how you set and form expectations when you communicate
- Identify the polarities that contain contrasting perspectives
- Realize from what you can virtualize
There are many aspects of technical leadership. Some books focus on strategy and systems. Others focus on teamwork and interpersonal skills. Still others focus on creativity and innovation. And of course, there are plenty of books devoted to the technologies themselves. This book focuses on the self-awareness that enables and transforms our capabilities in all of these areas.
Kartik Subbarao is an independent consultant with over 20 years of experience. His career includes over 16 years of engineering and technical leadership positions at Hewlett-Packard in R&D, Consulting and IT. He was the founding Global Lead for HP's Open Source and Linux Profession, a community of practice for thousands of technologists across the company. Kartik has a BSEE from Princeton University and an MSEE from Stanford University. He is keenly interested in the subjects and objects at the consilience of technology and philosophy.