@this_hits_home Management != Leadership
In some cases, you have leaders that aren’t managers. In other cases, you have managers that aren’t leaders. In the best case, your managers are leaders but leaders need not be managers.
@this_hits_home Yup
Same pendulum swing, got off at a different place in the swing at different times.
What I’ve learned is that the culture of the organization, its norms, and requirements determine if my leadership can be done from an IC role or requires a management role.
“Hyperscaler best practices considered anti-patterns for those with more modest requirements and scale” is an infrastructure conference talk that’s long overdue.