Too many people think that leadership is a) bestowed upon you and b) single faceted. In the context of an engineering organization, leadership on technical tas

Too many people think that leadership is a) bestowed upon you and b) single faceted. In the context of an engineering organization, leadership on technical tasks is actually inverted. The person most capable of leading in decisions about that task, is the person most recently deep into it. That means on some tasks the new intern is the leader when it comes to leadership in the sense of "expert on the topic". Engineering mentorship largely must be done by senior engineers. That said, there is no reason those senior engineers are necessarily your project manager, your product manager or your people manager. At the end of the day, I much prefer working in organizations that understand that people management can and should be done by people managers and technical leadership can and should be done by technical leaders and those 2 things needn't reside in the same office.