{"id":252,"date":"2026-01-23T12:31:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T17:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.alangaelrojas.com\/?p=252"},"modified":"2026-01-23T12:31:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T17:31:04","slug":"the-managers-path-must-have-book-for-engineering-managers-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.alangaelrojas.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/23\/the-managers-path-must-have-book-for-engineering-managers-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The Manager&#8217;s Path &#8211;\u00a0Must-Have Book For Engineering Managers (Review)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth &amp; Change<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>By Camille Fournier<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alangaelrojas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-5-200x300.png\" alt=\"the manager's path cover book\" class=\"wp-image-253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.alangaelrojas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-5-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/blog.alangaelrojas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-5-683x1024.png 683w, https:\/\/blog.alangaelrojas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-5-768x1152.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.alangaelrojas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-5-1024x1536.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.alangaelrojas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-5-1366x2048.png 1366w, https:\/\/blog.alangaelrojas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-5.png 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Are you aspiring to a tech lead role or a management position, and you need a starting guide? Or maybe you want to know what to expect from a manager in your job? This book will be your key piece in that direction. I found out about this book in a moment when I wanted to know more about the manager role. I wanted to know what makes a manager a good manager, and what are those things that are needed to be one, and I think this book covered well those needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the author<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Taking it from her own LinkedIn description:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/camille-fournier-9011812\/\" title=\"\">Camille Fournier<\/a> is an experienced leader with the unique combination of deep technical expertise, executive leadership, and engineering management. Strong, proven experience scaling systems, teams, and companies.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m impressed by her book, which was translated as far as I know 6 languages, including Portuguese, Japanese, Russian,  Polish, Spanish, and English. This can tell us about the book&#8217;s engagements and also that it was well-received by readers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the book<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Getting into the matter, the book starts getting straight to the point of what management is, the author tells us what to expect from a manager, and what ceremonies could be part of the manager&#8217;s role, for example, the establishment of 1-1 meetings, and this is what I also like of this book, during the reading you will find diverse buzzwords part of the managements, such as 1-1, buddies, peers, mentees, menthors, etc. I consider this to be important, especially if you are not familiar with these. In my case, until I joined the current company I work for, I didn&#8217;t know those buzzwords, and when others mentioned them, I needed to Google them in order to understand their language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Camille also introduces three sections into the book, which are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Ask the CTO <\/strong>&#8211; it could be considered practical advice from a company CTO.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Good Manager\/Bad Manager<\/strong> &#8211; used to highlight common dysfunctions of engineer managers and provide some strategies for identifying these bad habits and overcoming them. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Challenging solutions<\/strong> &#8211; The author proposes some challenging scenarios that could happen in the industry<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of those sections will appear in all of the chapters of the book, and I consider them a good approach in order to facilitate learning through learning. I like the &#8220;Ask the CTO&#8221; section with their advice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book also talks about an important topic within companies, which is &#8220;Promotions&#8221;, tells us what they are, which people and which not should have a promotion, and how to look for people skills, not only technical but also soft or personal skills, how to envision people that needs to be promoted as a recogniztion part and also part of the company\u00b4s structure health. As part of this topic, it also mentions activities to look into people&#8217;s,s for example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1-1s<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Feedback, as part of a continuous process<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Peer reviews <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Performance review<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>and others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>These and more are so important and key points of management, and a must-have for every engineering manager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About managing teams, the book also covers important topics such as how to identify the health status of a team, for example, to identify dysfunctional teams, and how to address those situations. The book also mentions how to stay technical as a manager, since it&#8217;s well-known that the higher the lead role, the less technical work you do, so it&#8217;s important to stay at least up to date in the technical stuff, or updates, but at a high level, for example, clean code\/architectures frameworks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, this book works both as an introduction for people new to engineering management and as a reference you can come back to when you\u2019re dealing with growth, change, or tough leadership moments. If you want a clearer picture of what the management path looks like, this is one of the most practical guides you can pick up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Useful Links<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Where to get the book: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com.mx\/Managers-Path-Leaders-Navigating-Growth\/dp\/1491973897\" title=\"\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com.mx\/Managers-Path-Leaders-Navigating-Growth\/dp\/1491973897<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, if you like to read about book reviews, I will be writing about them here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.alangaelrojas.com\/index.php\/book-reviews\/\">https:\/\/blog.alangaelrojas.com\/index.php\/book-reviews\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found out about this book in a moment when I wanted to know more about the manager role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[36,70,29,37],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-book","tag-management","tag-programming","tag-review"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alangaelrojas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alangaelrojas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alangaelrojas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alangaelrojas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alangaelrojas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alangaelrojas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alangaelrojas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alangaelrojas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alangaelrojas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alangaelrojas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alangaelrojas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}