The Engineering Executive's Primer
Will Larson
- Status
- Reading now
- Phase
- 1 — Strategy & executive narrative
- Started
- September 8, 2026
- leadership
- engineering
- executive
From the publisher
A field guide to the engineering-executive role — VP of Engineering, CTO — written for people entering it for the first time. Larson covers the jump from engineering management, building executive presence, setting technical and organizational strategy, running planning and headcount, managing up to a board and sideways to peers, and the parts of the job nobody warns you about.
My notes
Reading log
Targeted pass now — the parts I need first. A full front-to-back revisit later is optional.