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Why management, and staying technical
"Why do you want to be a manager?" is asked of first-time managers and experienced ones alike, and there are two answers that end candidacies — wanting the authority, and wanting the promotion. The rest of the lesson covers the motivation questions that bracket the loop and the one every technical manager gets asked: how do you stay technical.
What you'll be able to do
- Answer "why management" with a reason that survives the follow-up
- Recognise the two answers that fail, and the third that fails quietly
- Give a credible account of how you stay technical without claiming you still code daily
- Handle the motivation set — tell me about yourself, why leaving, why this company
Before this: performance-and-difficult-conversations
The rest of this lesson is in the app
"Why do you want to be a manager?" is asked of first-time managers and experienced ones alike, and there are two answers that end candidacies — wanting the authority, and wanting the promotion. The rest of the lesson covers the motivation questions that bracket the loop and the one every technical manager gets asked: how do you stay technical. This walkthrough runs about 23 minutes, with runnable code you can edit and re-run as you read.
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