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Practical Engineering Management

Are You Leading a Team, or Just a Group of Experts?

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Mirek Stanek
Mar 30, 2026
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We all want a team of rockstars.

We spend months recruiting principal engineers, hoping that bringing top-tier talent into the same room will automatically translate into outlier results.

But there is a trap here that many engineering leaders fall into: we confuse a group of brilliant individuals with an actual, functioning team.

If you have a strong gro…

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