Will Larson
jadeforrestGelling your Engineering leadership team. https://lethain.com/gelling-engineering-leadership-team/
This is another great post from @lethain I particularly like how he describes how you might evaluate your team when you start as an executive.
The main piece of advice I would add is that the best way I have seen to get a leadership team to gel is to get them to work together on shared objectives. You must set that up immediately, and the team formation will naturally emerge from that. At least that had been my experience.
Gelling your Engineering leadership team.
One of the first leadership books I read was Patrick Lencioni’s The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, which introduces the concept of your peers being your “first team” rather than your direct reports. This was a powerful idea for me, because it’s much harder to be a good teammate to your peers than to your direct reports. While your incentives are usually aligned with the team you manage, it’s very common for your incentives to be at odds with your peers’ incentives.