Beyond Senior - Creating Hope

Leaving a Role

Every time I leave a role, I try to write up where my philosophy landed and what I want to take into my next role.

Why Hope Matters

Having seen this play out at enough companies over the years - where people progressively lose motivation and stop believing change is possible - I've come to the opinion that one of the most valuable things we can do as engineering leaders is to provide hope.

The post goes more into it, but I do not mean any vapid rah-rah motivational speeches. I mean earning back that hope every day by snowballing small wins into larger ones and making people believe that their effort matters.