Designing Leadership Growth in Tech Teams (When Developers Just Want to Code)
summary
Argues leadership is a trainable skill not a title and shows a reproducible system: score everyone on agreed skills in a shared Google Sheet (GPT can generate the template), merge manager ratings to spot gaps, run staged tests from defined small tasks to multi‑team projects, use a trial period and ROI cases to create roles, and link promotions to salary. Calls for leadership as skill set and insists on only positive feedback except for clear policy violations.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:57Growing leaders mistakes
- 5:41Five organizational cultures
- 10:03Leaders your company needs
- 14:00Resistance to responsibility
- 15:47Measuring team performance
- 18:15Identifying potential leaders
- 21:45Leadership opportunities
- 24:34Testing future leaders
- 27:05Feedback role in growth
- 30:18Key takeaways
