What if you want to stay being a Lead? I enjoyed the article and mostly agree with it - but what's the growth path if you are good at being a Lead (including hiring and planning and communications), but you're not good/don't want to be a Lead of Leads, principally because you prefer working with the people on the coal-face. The challenge is you need to grow people out of your team - so it seems you could either be a contractor/special projects-type (new team/problem every 2-3 years) or maybe you build a team where the core members stay put and it becomes more and more specialised. Any ideas/advice?