12 leadership disasters every engineering manager will recognise, and exactly what changes when someone actually steps in.

Every team has one. The 1:1 that turns into a status update. The senior engineer who can't make a decision without checking with you first. The project that quietly falls apart the second you take a vacation day.

This guide doesn't pretend those moments are rare or exaggerated for effect. It's twelve real, recognizable leadership disasters, the kind any engineering manager has either caused or cleaned up after, broken down the same way every time: what's actually happening, what people say about it while it's happening, where it goes if nobody intervenes, and what changes the moment someone with the right instincts steps in.

It's funny because it's true. And it's useful because underneath the humor is a real diagnostic — a short self-assessment at the end so you can score how many of these are currently running unsupervised on your own team.

What's inside:

• 12 chapters, each built around one specific, instantly recognizable leadership disaster

• A consistent breakdown for every scenario: the situation → what gets said → what happens next → what real supervision looks like

• A short, practical leadership lesson closing every chapter — no lectures

• A 10-point self-assessment to score your own team's current shit-show level

• 17 pages, formatted for a single sitting

  
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