The problem
Excellence does not teach leadership.
Engineers are promoted for craft, then asked to lead people, bets, and rooms they were never apprenticed into.
Engineering leadership, as a craft
Engineering LeadershipBridging the Gap
Developing engineers to be the technology leaders of tomorrow. The problem is not talent. It is a missing curriculum between great engineering and the leadership work organizations now depend on.
Peter Becker · 129 pages · August 22, 2023
Who it is for
ICs, managers, and the executives who grow them.
If you can feel the ceiling — or you are responsible for people who can — this is the spine of a second craft.
Why now
The work got more human, not less.
AI, platforms, and faster cycles make technical taste cheap. Judgment, influence, and a bench are the scarce assets.
The author
Peter Becker
Author of Engineering Leadership Bridging the Gap. Peter helps engineers become the technology leaders their organizations will need next.
The book exists because too many strong engineers are asked to become leaders without a map. ELBTG is that map — short enough to finish, dense enough to use on a bad Tuesday.
From the field
Readers, managers, executives.
“I have given this to every senior engineer who asks about management. It names the thing we have been dancing around in promotion packets for years.”
“I expected another soft-skills lecture. It is not. It treats leadership like a craft with reps. I used the stop-doing list the week I finished chapter five.”
“Finally a book I can put under a tech-lead academy without translating it out of another industry. The ELBTG letters hang on our team wall.”
Don’t just buy the book. Start the practice.
Take the assessment, pick a stage, and leave with a reading path and a 30-day challenge. The site is a home for the work the book begins.
Be first when new lessons go out.