Leadership & Influence
Leading is getting the right thing to happen without waiting to be in charge of it.
5 lessons · ~45 min · free
By the end you can
- Show leadership signal appropriate to your level, title or no title
- Describe influence through artifacts and evidence, not persistence
- Tell mentorship stories measured by the other person's growth
- Demonstrate change that outlived your personal push
- Handle the skeptic, the overruling, and the unpopular call
Lessons
- 1Leadership without the title8 minWhat leadership signal means at each level, and why 'I did everything myself' isn't it.
- 2The mechanics of influence10 minDocs that frame, prototypes that persuade, meetings that end with owners. Instruments beat insistence.
- 3Growing other engineers9 minMentorship stories where the evidence lives in the mentee's trajectory, not your effort.
- 4Change that survives you9 minSystems, rituals, and ownership transfers: the difference between a push and a change.
- 5Building your leadership answers9 minMapping your influence stories to the variants, and calibrating claims to your level.
Practice it after
Keep drilling questions in practice once the lessons are done.
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