The Evolution of Management

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2021-05-23 05:00:04

I have been thinking a lot about the different transitions I have made as I have been promoted to different levels of management, from individual contributor to manager to organization leader in charge of hundreds of people.

With each step up, the job changes—but not all of the changes are obvious. You have to shift your mindset, and focus on building new skills that are often very different from the skills that made you successful in your previous role.

There are lots of great resources for first-time managers, and many books designed for CEOs or top-level executives—but there are fewer resources specifically for the people in the middle.

Some ideas translate well from the CEO/executive content (such as establishing a team culture), but very little of the available content translates to running technical software teams at scale.

This in-between space is where I have spent almost all of my career—somewhere between individual contributor (abbreviated as IC here) and CEO. Many people (even if they aren't yet managers) might be interested in practical advice for managing these transitions, so I have compiled everything I possibly could on the topic for this article.

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