Engineering leadership is stressful.
As your career and scope grow, your stress exposure will increase.
This is because your level of responsibility (scope) increases, but your level of direct control over output decreases.
Increased responsibility means having more audacious goals, more people, more problems to handle, more projects you’re accountable …
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