Be a Leader: Manage Up, Down, and Across Your Organization
To be a leader and a top-level developer, you need to understand leadership and be able to deal with your team and your managers. Having the skills to manage up – talking and negotiating with your boss, other managers, and executive directors; to manage down – inspiring your team and peers; and to manage across – reaching out to people inside and outside of your organization, will allow you to lead and have a larger impact inside your team and company, and also outside, in your communities.
In this chapter, you will learn how to be a leader. Even if you don’t have a leadership role, you will learn how to lead by serving and helping, listening and asking questions, inspiring people to take action, and using your leadership to build trust in the market.
In this chapter, we will cover the following:
- How to be a leader, even if you don’t have a leadership role
- Lead by serving...
