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Leadership Lessons Nobody Writes Down

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Mirek Stanek
Nov 03, 2025
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I’ve climbed a few rungs of the leadership ladder — from individual contributor to Director of Engineering and Polish Site Leader.

Today, most of my work isn’t about pull requests. It’s about people — leading team leads, tech leads, and other managers.

Over the years, a few lessons keep coming up in my 1:1s with them. I wrote some them down.

They’re subjec…

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