Our culture is highly dependent on technology and building highly effective technical teams is key for survival. Whether you work with a technical team outside of your company, on a technical team within your company, or manage a technical team, this is an excellent reference on the types of folks you will encounter. Reading this book feels like you are having a conversation with the author about this important subject. His passion for excellence and helping others reach their potential is evident throughout the book. The tone is conversational and his suggestions realistic for today's workplace. This is a great read and a wonderful resource for those who are privileged to work with highly talented technical individuals. This book provides practical insight into why leading technical people is different, challenging, and humbling. More importantly, it will help you understand why it is a privilege. Leading technical people will make you a better leader because you are likely to learn far more from them than they will from you.

Our culture is highly dependent on technology and building highly effective technical teams is key for survival. Whether you work with a technical team outside of your company, on a technical team within your company, or manage a technical team, this is an excellent reference on the types of folks you will encounter. Reading this book feels like you are having a conversation with the author about this important subject. His passion for excellence and helping others reach their potential is evident throughout the book. The tone is conversational and his suggestions realistic for today's workplace. This is a great read and a wonderful resource for those who are privileged to work with highly talented technical individuals. This book provides practical insight into why leading technical people is different, challenging, and humbling. More importantly, it will help you understand why it is a privilege. Leading technical people will make you a better leader because you are likely to learn far more from them than they will from you.

Most successful projects have a single engineer driving the project forward and ensuring that confident, strong technical decisions are made. Typically, people refer to that person as a tech lead. Instead of overseeing employees, they often coach them to generate their best work. Leaders with technical expertise are critical to DeVos and engineers who build complex products. Engineering managers are capable of designing plans, but they may lack the execution skills to see them through to completion. Thankfully, technical leadership enables you to successfully combine management and technological expertise. In a nutshell, technical leadership is a combination of managerial skills and technological expertise. Similar to this, a tech lead, also called a technical leader, is a specific role that makes use of this comprehension. Whether you want to become a technical leader yourself or just know how to spot one, we'll go over the ins and outs of the field.

Liftoff! is your guide to leveling up as a design manager and leader. Its experience-driven approach--written by designers for designers--will help you hire and scale teams, develop careers, learn why diversity matters to your business, and solidify design's role in your organization. Liftoff! will elevate your skills to lead your team and company to new heights.

Today’s history and cultural heritage museum leaders are part visionary and part foot soldier, but what makes them tick? Are there attitudes, philosophies and skills that set some people apart from the thousands charged with moving institutions forward? What lessons can we draw from their stories? Now more than ever, success as a museum leader doesn’t necessarily come with longevity, scholarship or curatorial achievement. In fact, today’s successful leaders often bring myriad skills to the table, creating a style that works both personally and professionally. This snapshot of museum leadership focuses in particular on history and cultural heritage organizations to help readers understand the power of individual leadership and its relationship to organizational strength. This book features: • 36 interviews with leaders in the field from a range of positions and institutions • 10 myths of museum leadership and why they’re wrong • 10 simple truths of museum leadership • Leadership “agenda” with criteria and goals for individual and organizational development Using personal insights of the history museum field’s most engaging, innovative and entrepreneurial leaders, Leadership Matters profiles what makes inspiring leadership in 21st century institutions. These profiles focus not only on history museum presidents, directors, and CEOs, but also on the “leaders within”—deputies, vice-presidents and department heads, as well as their counterparts in the boardroom. Ackerson and Baldwin have brought together a resource to help individuals and institutions move from the status quo to being innovative and influential.