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Leading Code — How Builders Become Leaders in the Age of Emotional Intelligence, by Reghu Ram
The storyLeading Code is part memoir, part leadership playbook — the story of an introverted engineer's decade-long shift into leadership, and the frameworks he learnt along the way.
For a decade, Reghu Ram told himself he'd never become a manager. A shy, introverted engineer who trusted code more than conversation, he spent those years building systems, certain that leading people simply wasn't for him. Then it happened anyway — and this book is both the story of that shift and the playbook he wishes he'd had.
Drawing on more than two decades of experience spanning people, products, and technology in executive roles at SAP and Deutsche Telekom, Reghu maps the five-stage Builder to Leader Shift and introduces the Leading Loop: experience-tested frameworks for builders learning to lead. You will learn how to build credibility that outlasts your title, delegate without losing control, and turn decisions into stories your team wants to follow.
The Builder to Leader Shift
The Leading Loop
Field-tested frameworks for engineers and product people making the leap into leadership.
“You can't rush the shift.
You grow through it one act, one day at a time.”
Builders eyeing the shift
Product and technical people weighing whether to make the leap from individual contributor into management — or already standing at the edge of it.
Newly promoted managers
First-time product and technical leads navigating the tactical mistakes nobody warns you about.
Quiet professionals
Introverts, thinkers, and anyone who's ever been told to speak up before they were ready to lead on their own terms.
