The book
Eleven chapters. Soft skills as a craft: communication, mentoring, problem solving, decisions, teams, conflict, delegation, time, and projects — held together by ELBTG.
01
Elevate · pp. 1–15
The gap between technical mastery and leading people. You can feel the ceiling but cannot yet describe it.
02
Learn · pp. 16–26
Ask better questions. Translate the work. Be believed.. Smart people still look confused when you finish talking.
03
Build · pp. 27–36
Build leaders on purpose, not by folklore. You care about people and still wait until review season.
04
Learn · pp. 37–48
The engineer’s native skill — now used on people and systems. You are proudest of the elegant part no one else can see.
05
Transform · pp. 49–61
Judgment under uncertainty, with other people’s work on the line. Threads go to 80 comments and nothing ships.
06
Learn · pp. 62–73
See past the first elegant answer. You win arguments and still lose the room.
07
Transform · pp. 74–81
Collaboration is not a personality. It is a practice.. You still do the integration in your head at midnight.
08
Transform · pp. 82–90
Cohesion is designed. Conflict is handled, not hoped away.. The team is polite and a little afraid.
09
Build · pp. 91–97
Stop doing both jobs. You were promoted and you are still coding until midnight.
10
Grow · pp. 98–106
In technology, the clock runs in hours and milliseconds. You are busy and the important work is still waiting.
11
Grow · pp. 107–129
ELBTG applied to how the work actually runs. You can run a plan and still lose the people.