The book

Why this book needs to exist

Organizations keep promoting excellent engineers into leadership seats and then acting surprised when craft does not confer judgment, influence, or a bench. ELBTG is a curriculum for that distance.

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The purpose is simple: develop engineers into the technology leaders of tomorrow — on purpose, not by folklore.

Most leadership books were written for a different industry, a different altitude, or a different kind of work. This one assumes you already respect systems. It then asks you to lead them.

The philosophy is apprenticeship. Leadership is a craft with reps: briefs, decisions, coaching, and the stop-doing list. Titles are lagging indicators.

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What you will learn

How to name the gap without blaming personality
How to elevate from tickets to bets
How to communicate so a room can decide
How to influence without waiting for a title
How to transform from hero to multiplier
How to grow the next leaders so you are not the bottleneck

The ELBTG spine

Elevate

Lift your gaze from tickets and technical elegance to systems, customers, and the outcomes the organization actually needs.

Learn

Engineering school taught you to solve bounded problems. Leadership requires a second education: people, money, power, and language.

Build

Build the assets leadership runs on: trust, working agreements, hiring loops, decision rights, and influence that does not wait for a title.

Transform

Shift identity from hero-individual to multiplier. Your output becomes other people’s output, not the code you still wish you were writing.

Grow

Leadership that does not reproduce itself is a bottleneck. Grow is how you build the pipeline your organization will need when you are gone.

Chapters at a glance

129 pages · ISBN 979-8858574699 · August 22, 2023