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99 Things Every Engineering Leader Should Know - Share your thoughts!

15 Jul 2026

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Inspired by this post in the Engineering Management Chapter Slack channel, we're writing a book of our own! The EM Chapter is trying to pull together 99 insights from the community on Engineering Management and Leadership, and we need your help. If you would like to contribute, we're asking for insights in the following format.....

Name:
Role:
Insight:
Book Recommendation: 

....If you want to contribute towards helping current and future engineering leaders, please feel free to share your thoughts in the comments below - or if you'd like some inspiration head over to the chapter's Slack channel to see what others are writing!
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Ahhh, I did not realise that the plan for this was a book, I just thought it was for fun 😂 how exciting!

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