Getting promoted inside your own team does not make you powerful. It makes everything awkward, quiet, and tense, because the rules changed and nobody bothered to tell you.
Lead Don’t Ctrl exists because control-based leadership is quietly burning out tech teams.
Episode 0 sets the foundation, why this podcast exists, who it’s for, and why clarity beats micromanagement every time.
Hard work doesn’t get you promoted in tech, it gets you more work. If you’re exhausted, overlooked, and still “almost senior,” this post breaks down the trap high performers fall into and how to escape it.