https://www.secdev.uk/blog/tags/wellbeing/ Recent content in Wellbeing on guy@secdev.uk Hugo en-gb Guy Dixon | guy@secdev.uk Mon, 30 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.secdev.uk/blog/leadership/1.10-the-loneliness-of-technical-leadership/ Mon, 30 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.secdev.uk/blog/leadership/1.10-the-loneliness-of-technical-leadership/ <p>Nobody warns you about this part. You get promoted, you take on more responsibility, you start leading people, and somewhere along the way, you realise you have fewer people you can be genuinely honest with. The higher you go, the smaller that circle gets.</p> <p>I&rsquo;ve felt this at different points across my career, at a start-up where I was the only technical leader, and at a large corporate where I was surrounded by peers but couldn&rsquo;t always be candid about what was going wrong. The loneliness of leadership isn&rsquo;t about being physically alone. It&rsquo;s about the growing gap between what you&rsquo;re carrying and who you can share it with.</p>