[Context: After founding a startup and being a VPE or CTO four times, I now train and coach engineering leaders at vpecoach.com] Engineering management is anyt

[Context: After founding a startup and being a VPE or CTO four times, I now train and coach engineering leaders at vpecoach.com] Engineering management is anything but a bullshit job, the impact of good leadership is very, very high. Knowing where you are going and why, having good processes, and solid communication is a step function improvement in basically every dimension of engineering team performance. But I also understand this person’s take, because just because it’s an important and impactful job doesn’t mean YOUR engineering leader or manager is any good. Like everything, management and leadership are skills, and most leaders have received next to no training during their entire career. What level of leadership do you realistically expect from an untrained person? And if that isn’t what you need, what are you doing about it?