Promotions That Don’t Destroy Teams: Fair Growth Paths for Engineers (The Modern Engineering Leader, Book 19)

This book examines how poorly designed promotion systems create resentment, politics, and disengagement. It explores feedback, timing, psychological safety, power dynamics, and transparency in growth decisions. The book shows how fair, explicit criteria and consistent feedback protect trust while enabling advancement. Promotions are framed as a leadership system that shapes culture long after decisions are made.