3 Critical Skills You Need to Grow Beyond Senior Levels in Engineering

Your job involves turning the unknown into the known and translating vague ideas into actionable plans. This often involves a blend of:

• Detective work — ask the right questions, collect evidence, build a case theory, validate it


• Isolating uncertainty to the smallest components and proving / disproving theories


• Divide and conquer — breaking down the

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How to build this skill:

• Maximize what you can do on your own: by ruthlessly prioritizing your time, pushing back on activities that have small ROI, and focusing on areas where your input is crucial; for engineers, it often means less coding (if more junior people can do that piece of coding).


• How you can maximize what you can do through others: b

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