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Mindset Shifts For Engineering Managers

How to think differently about your role to increase your impact

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Owain Lewis
Jan 26, 2024
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What does it mean to “think like a manager?

As a new manager, I struggled to transition from thinking like an Individual Contributor to thinking like a Manager.

A manager's mindset radically differs from an Individual Contributor's (IC). How we derive meaning from our work and measure our success are completely different.

The shift in mindset needed when…

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