Leman Tech Leadership Podcast · 2026-03-03 · 20 min
▶︎ #139 | You Can't Debug a Human: Why Your Developer Skills Are Failing You as a Leader You were exceptional at your job. Then you got promoted - and suddenly the skills that made you great started working against you. In this episode, your host, Aleksandra Lemańska, breaks down the most common and most costly transition in tech: moving from expert individual contributor to people leader, and why so many technically brilliant professionals struggle to make that shift. You can't debug a human relationship. You can't refactor someone's motivation. You can't unit-test trust. These aren't philosophical observations - they're the exact gaps that explain why 86% of employees say poor communication causes workplace failures, and why 44% of tech professionals miss deadlines because of unclear communication. The problem isn't a lack of technical skill. It's that technical thinking, applied to people problems, consistently produces the wrong output. Alex walks through Mike's story - the best developer on the team, now drowning in his second week as Team Lead - to make the stakes concrete.
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