You were promoted because you were excellent at solving difficult technical problems. Now that same instinct may be the very thing holding your team back.
Promoted: The Engineer's Guide to Leading People, Not Just Projects is a practical guide for engineers, developers, technical leads, and senior individual contributors making the difficult transition into people management.
The job has changed. Your success is no longer measured only by the code you write, the problems you solve, or the tasks you personally complete. It is increasingly measured by the judgment, confidence, ownership, and performance you develop in other people.
TJ Walker explains how to delegate without micromanaging, run one-on-one meetings that are more than status updates, give feedback engineers can actually use, manage people who used to be your peers, make decisions without perfect information, communicate with executives and other teams, and build a team that can operate without depending on you for every answer.
The central principle is simple: Multiply, don't solve.