ENGINEERING LEAD FAILURE MODES

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

Tech leads commonly fail in five ways: micromanaging decisions, abandoning coding for meetings, refusing to pivot failing strategies, tolerating low performance, and always playing hero instead of empowering others. The fixes involve delegating decisions, maintaining 80-90% coding time, using data-driven feedback loops to course-correct, upholding high standards, and teaching team members to solve problems independently.