Find resources to solve your technical leadership challenges
Understanding hygiene factors vs. motivators in the workplace
Podcast on organizational health and team dynamics
In-depth interviews and advice from startup leaders
Michael Lopp's insights on engineering management and leadership
Why waiting too long to fire underperformers hurts everyone
Zach Holman's comprehensive guide to handling terminations
Dan Pink's animated explanation of intrinsic motivation
Understanding and preventing talent loss due to lack of engagement
Dr. Deming's antipatterns that destroy organizational effectiveness
Visual representation of all known cognitive biases
Management 3.0 tool for clarifying delegation and decision authority
Practices for creating inclusive and diverse engineering teams
Implementing continuous delivery for faster, safer releases
How to create and communicate technical strategy
Understanding different types of staff+ engineering roles
Template for creating a manager README to share your leadership style
How to run effective blameless postmortems to learn from incidents
Framework for managing production incidents effectively
How to measure and improve engineering team performance
Comprehensive guide to building and managing remote teams
Collection of mental models to improve decision-making and problem-solving
GitHub repository with hundreds of curated engineering management resources organized by topic
Complete guide to implementing OKRs for goal setting and alignment
Adapting leadership style based on team member's development level
Collection of career ladder frameworks from leading tech companies
Kim Scott's framework for caring personally while challenging directly
Understanding how organizational structure influences system architecture
Comprehensive guide to conducting effective 1:1 meetings with your team
Why helping others drives our success by Adam Grant
Practical handbook for new engineering managers transitioning from technical to leadership roles
Data-driven insights from Google's people practices for hiring, culture, and performance management
Patrick Lencioni's fable about team dynamics and building cohesive teams
Biting and humorous tales of a software engineering manager by Michael Lopp
Peter Drucker's timeless principles for executive effectiveness
A true story of turning followers into leaders by L. David Marquet
The home of engineering leadership
Reddit community for senior developers and engineering managers
30,000+ member Slack community for tech leaders
Evidence-based management content from global experts
Weekly interviews with influential leaders and authors
Proven solutions for software engineering managers
Award-winning weekly podcast with actionable management advice
Marty Cagan's guide to creating tech products customers love
Kim Scott's framework for caring personally while challenging directly
Practical guide for high-stakes, emotionally charged conversations
Practical insights from scaling tech companies by Stephen Whitworth
Tools, tips and discussions for current and aspiring engineering leaders
Get Paid, Not Played - comprehensive career and compensation insights platform
The stdlib collection is a community-curated library of practical, immediately useful, battle-tested resources for technical leadership. Each resource is designed to be immediately applicable to your role. New resources are added based on community feedback and emerging best practices.