Book:The Engineering Executive’s Primer

“The Engineering Executive’s Primer” by Will Larson This is a practical handbook for senior engineering leaders that distills Will Larson’s day‑to‑day operating principles for large tech organizations. It covers how to structure and scale tech‑spec review processes, maintain consistent staffing ratios (e.g., a 4:1 product‑to‑infrastructure mix), and align planning around outcomes rather than isolated projects. The […]

Book-An Elegant Puzzle

“An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management” By Will Larson Organizations Performance review

Book: Leadership Unblocked

“Leadership Unblocked” by Muriel M. Wilkins

MOOC: Risk-Taking for Leaders

Book: The Heart of Business

MOOC: Building Trust and Commitment on Your Team

“Building Trust and Commitment on Your Team” By Dan Appleman “Be Trustworthy” If you are trustworthy, then you will earn rust. “Tell the truth” You don’t have to tell everything all the time. There are times that it’s illegal to reveal some information, such as insider financial information. This means that if you are able […]

Book: The Leadership Pipeline

“The Leadership Pipeline: How to build the leadership powered company” By Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter, James Noel Unless you work in HR, I would NOT recommend this book to most people. I do not find much information that can help me to grow my leadership/management skills. Specifically, it does not cover how to enhance leadership/management […]

Book: Applied Empathy

“Applied Empathy: The New Language of Leadership” By Michael Ventura “Empathy is about understanding. Empathy lets us see the world from other points of view and helps us from insights that can lead us to new and better ways of thinking, being, and doing,” “For example, if I would to take ‘How can I build […]

Book: The Dichotomy of Leadership

“The Dichotomy of Leadership: Balancing the Challenges of Extreme Ownership to Lead and Win” by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin “There are limitless dichotomies in leadership, and a leader must carefully balance between these opposite forces. But none are as difficult as this: to care deeply for each individual member of the team, while at […]

Book: The Leadership Gap

“The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness” By Lolly Daskal “The problem is that one day, suddenly what once worked so well to propel their rise stops working. And the very same traits that had worked for them actually start working against them.” “What is the gap between who I am and […]

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