This is a follow-up article in the Engineering Manager series, My First Thoughts as an Engineering Manager and Engineering Manager: Do Not Be a Hero. Nowadays, I see more and more the words "leader" and "leadership". Often, I ask myself what these words mean for the people and the companies:
- What is a leader?
- How many kinds of leaders are?
- What are the companies looking for?
- Do we need so many leaders?
- Can we hire leaders?
In this article, I am not going to talk about a leader in deep because I feel there are many articles about it, but how this role is overrated and why an Engineering Manager is not the synonym of a "leader".