What is the right leadership style for me?

Back in Chapter 1, we learned how engineering managers spend their day and how this can be adjusted to the context of their position. That context can also be applied to your leadership style. An engineering leadership style is more personally driven than day planning, but context is still an important consideration. Your leadership style must be appropriate to your company culture, engineering culture, and team goals. You can have your own leadership style, but in cases where it conflicts with your company culture or engineering culture, it may become confusing for your team or unsustainable for you. There may be some cases where you can fly under the radar and break with company culture in service of creating a healthy atmosphere local to your team, but in practice, this can be difficult to maintain in the long term.

Contextualizing your leadership style to team goals means that you may need to lean into or away from some aspects of your...