The Conscious Leader
Taha HussainCarve your path to exceptional engineering leadership. Blend technical skills with emotional intelligence. It's where the top 10% are made.
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Becoming a manager means grieving the engineer you were.
As a manager, the hardest thing for me to measure was my own contribution.
I coached people. I matched them to better roles. I resolved conflicts. But I kept waiting for someone to walk up one day and ask, “So what did you actually do?” Th...
The Acceptable Trap
December 5, 2008 — Yahoo Burbank
I walked into the building that morning and knew something was wrong before I knew what it was.
Nobody was talking.
That, more than anything, did it.
Yahoo was not a quiet place. Even on slow days,...
When Senior Leaders Sound Junior
Paul did not need better experience. He needed a better way to reveal it.
Paul came to the call with the kind of problem that does not look like a problem at first.
The Wrong Bus Ritual
Most afternoons, when I should have been becoming an educated man, I was busy becoming something else—resourceful. That was the word I preferred, though other people may have chosen cheaper ones.
This was Karachi in 1997. I was an undergra...
The Stonemason and The Hiring Manager
The hiring manager round is where most people lose the offer.
The first time I realized something was wrong, Simran had not yet seen that I had joined the call.
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Taha Hussain, an engineering leader with 20+ years at Microsoft, Yahoo, and Silicon Valley startups, has coached hundreds of engineers and leaders. He blends emotional intelligence, strategy, and leadership to help teams and careers thrive.
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