tl;dr:Specifically for engineering directors, Will provides book recommendations and answers the following: "how do you foster execution on teams you indirectly manage?" Will cites 3 interesting pieces to consider: (1) Understand what’s happening on indirectly managed teams. (2) Adding things necessary for execution. (3) Remove things getting in the way of execution.
tl;dr:"Having my back against the wall forced me to understand more about what makes me tick, shuts me down, and picks me up." Struggling with depression, Brie tracked her moods to gain insights into what impacted them and how i.e. "a bad morning likely meant a bad day, seeing friends could go either way." Brie came up with a list of activities that positively impacted her mood, listed here, and created the "Post-It" method to execute them.