Tag: senior
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Stop being the Oracle for your team!
There is a clear expectation today that leaders should be enablers, which is great as it makes the leadership model more participative. However, it’s all too easy for new leaders to end up assuming the role of the single source of truth for their teams. Let’s try to understand the reasons behind this. Regardless of…
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Stop! Don’t become a manager
If you’ve been working in the technology field for some time, you may have witnessed it happening, either in your own team or elsewhere: higher management decides that the team needs a manager, they choose the best engineer from the team, and after a while, that person proves to be a bad manager, either because…
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You are the owner of your career
A few years ago, I was interviewing a senior engineer to join my team, and when I asked him the famous cliché question, “Where do you see yourself in the next 5 years?”, he stopped for a full minute before answering, “I don’t know, I never really stopped to think about it…” I think just as he was…
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Seniority takes time!
In the last 5 years, we’ve seen the discussion around seniority within the technology bubble take on a much larger proportion than it should have, and this discussion is largely due to people not understanding what a senior IT professional really does in their area. In the distant past, seniority was attributed to how long…
Thoughts from Phil 