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5. Fostering Growth and Innovation

Raphael Neves1  
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Alenquer, Portugal
 

As a leader in engineering, you are often overwhelmed with projects with tight deadlines and multiple stakeholders with different needs and expectations. In the relentless push to deliver outcomes and be impactful, you can lose sight of the people who make it all possible. Without meaning in, you view your team members as resources—cogs in a machine—rather than individuals. Over time, this leads to a broken culture where people feel expendable, growth feels forced, and innovation stalls.

When engineering ...

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