Leadership blueprint
Lead Engineers and teams without losing your technical edge.
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About the book
The skills that made you a strong engineer are not the ones that make you a strong leader.
This book treats leadership as a learnable discipline: influence, alignment and judgment, not a personality trait you either have or do not.
What you get
- Influence without authority. Driving outcomes when you do not own the org chart.
- Growing engineers. Coaching, feedback and creating room for people to rise.
- Technical direction. Setting direction while staying close to the work.
- Alignment and communication. Getting teams and stakeholders moving the same way.
- Decisions under ambiguity. Making good calls with incomplete information.
The influence model
How technical leaders create movement without relying on authority.
- 01Trust
- 02Clarity
- 03Alignment
- 04Outcomes
Who this is for
This is for you ifYou are responsible for team outcomes, but the operating system behind delegation, feedback and decisions is still implicit.
- Senior Engineer
- Tech Lead
- New Engineering Manager
- Staff Engineer
The library pathWhere this fits
- 01Get foundThe Silent Rejection
- 02Build the record and negotiateThe iOS Engineer Playbook · Leverage
- 03InterviewThe iOS interview blueprint · The senior signal · Top 300 React Native interview questions · 500 Flutter interview questions · The senior SDET interview handbook
- 04Answer practice and live roundsThe 24-hour iOS interview answer book · The 24-hour Android interview answer book · Share your screen
- 05Architecture and qualitySwiftUI under load · Mobile System Design blueprint · Security is a feature · The Second Pass
- 06Staff systems and ownershipAltitude · Ticket taker, outcome owner
- 07Build with AIBuild with your brain on (coming soon)
- 08LeadLeadership blueprint (coming soon)You are here
- 09ArchitectArchitect blueprint (coming soon)
About the author
Mike Salari
Staff mobile engineer · 500+ technical interviews from the hiring side.
I wrote this from the technical leadership habits I wish I had earlier: how to lead engineers, create alignment and set direction without losing the plot.
15 years building production mobile software, with experience across Apple, Adobe, Cisco, Mastercard and Visa.
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