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Explore how the very strengths that propelled your engineering career into leadership can become obstacles when transitioning to managing managers in this 25-minute conference talk from LeadDev Berlin 2025. Challenge common assumptions about leadership progression and discover why managing managers requires fundamentally different strategies than managing individual contributors. Learn to identify when your proven approaches may be holding you back and understand what it truly takes to shift from doing work yourself to enabling others to excel. Gain insights into the critical mindset changes needed to successfully navigate the transition from hands-on leadership to leading other leaders, with practical guidance on overcoming the blind spots that often derail promising engineering leaders at this crucial career juncture.
