One concrete instance is the use of 'leadership'/'leader' to mean 'management'/'manager'. This always feels bad to me. Leadership is sometimes a task that managers do, but is also done by others, and is not all a manager does.
nrc @nick_r_cameron
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Replying to @nick_r_cameron
I just read an objectively good blog post. I think I learnt something, certainly found some things to think about. But my gut feeling afterwards is basically revulsion and I can’t really explain why
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Replying to @nick_r_cameron
Management is definitely a kind of leadership; but it's not the only leadership a technical team needs, and it's not what most technical people think of leadership. A good manager is also a bit of a coach/mentor in some aspects, but they're rarely the team/tech lead itself.

Jan 17, 2022 Β· 9:30 AM UTC

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Replying to @dsilverstone @nick_r_cameron
Critically, I think, a good manager allows a team to succeed. A bad manager causes a team to fail.
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I think that is true in the long term only - even a great manager can’t do much in the span of weeks and a team can succeed despite a terrible manager for months or years before people break or leave. Unfortunately that’s often long enough for the terrible manager to get promoted
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Replying to @dsilverstone
Right, I think there is a big difference between business leadership and technical leadership but the two are often conflated