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Leading Your Old Team Without Losing Yourself
Promoting your best engineer to manager is a classic career move that often backfires because the skill set required for individual contribution is fundamentally different from leading people. This episode examines the specific friction of managing former peers, focusing on the 'shadow authority' problem where old habits die hard and the new manager struggles to shift from collaborative peer to decision-making leader. We look at real-world scenarios in technology teams where this transition fails, offering concrete strategies for establishing new boundaries without alienating the…
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