You're expected to lead, but also to do. To delegate, but stay in the details. To have answers, but create space for others to find them. Nobody hands you a manual. Most of us figure it out by getting it wrong first.

The Tao Te Ching points to something useful. About knowing when to act, how to act, and when stillness is the more powerful choice. Finding the grain and the shape, and working with it rather than against it.

That's easier said than done when you're new to leadership, or when you're in it and still finding your feet.

This talk shares six lessons gathered from many years leading tech teams and mentoring tech leads through the same hard moments you're navigating now. Real stories. Hard-won thinking. Nothing theoretical.

You won't leave with a manual. But you might leave with a better map.