Resilient Leadership

The pace of growth and change in modern business is staggering. This pace makes the work of engineering managers exciting, with new challenges and solutions every day. At times, the constant change can become a burden, disruptive to ourselves and our engineering teams. We may ask ourselves, what can we do as engineering managers to produce good outcomes for our teams when it feels like the sands are always shifting beneath our feet?

In Part 4 of this book, we will dive into the role of managing change within software teams and businesses, starting with how to build resilient teams. In your career, you have probably seen colleagues react to change in all sorts of ways. Change can have destructive effects, or it can allow us to reinvent and revitalize. As engineering managers, we can better support our teams by ensuring that they can adapt when changes come along.

In this chapter, you will learn how to prepare teams for inevitable change by making them—...