The Leadership Skill No One Talks About: Listening at Scale
There’s a lot of advice out there for technology leaders about communication. We talk about storytelling, decision-making, alignment, and influence. But what often gets overlooked—especially as your org grows—is the ability to listen at scale.
When you’re leading a six-person engineering team, you hear everything. You’re in the code, in the stand-ups, in the one-on-ones. But once that team becomes fifty, or a hundred, or spread across time zones and functions? Things start to get quiet at the top—and that’s dangerous.