CEO Insider

AUGUST 21, 2022

Workflow bottlenecks can negatively impact everything from employee satisfaction to the bottom line. Avoiding the snowball effect that comes with logjams means creating more efficient workflows that keep the organization moving in the right direction. These three strategies can help keep your operations on time and budget.

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Efficiency Organization Magazine How To 131

CEO Insider

OCTOBER 30, 2022

As a leader, when you have a lot on your plate – whether it’s work or family responsibilities– it can feel like things are spiraling out of control. In my own life, one of the most challenging periods was when I was caring for a deathly ill family member. What I discovered during this experience […].

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Development Magazine Chief Technology Officer CTO 122

CEO Insider

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

“The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic” – so said management guru Peter Drucker, in a truism that speaks volumes in a post-Covid age. The US labor market stands at a crossroads right now, with new and volatile crosswinds – including surging job openings, […].

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Drucker Magazine Marketing Chief Technology Officer 124

CEO Insider

DECEMBER 8, 2022

We know that gender equality remains a huge problem for businesses, but for real change to occur, the drive has to come from the top. So, firstly, why is this important? The case for diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace is considerable, not only from a moral perspective, but because it simply makes good […].

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CEO Insider

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Purpose has become a buzzword, with many organizations only paying lip service to the idea without putting any real effort into fulfilling it. Purpose is simply an intent, and without action to back it up it’s not enough to create real change.

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CEO Insider

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Human skills, often referred to as soft skills, define how we engage with others and often include leadership, communication, critical thinking, and problem-solving, to name a few. Many other cognitive and socio-emotional skills come into play, and these skills often provide the foundation pivotal for high emotional Intelligence or EQ.

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Emotional Intelligence Magazine Reference Skills 105

CEO Insider

APRIL 6, 2023

The things that happen to us in life are often not so much about what’s taking place in the moment, but about placing us on a path to lead the way for others. It would be years before I realized the truth of that. I was born in 1954.

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CEO Insider

DECEMBER 19, 2022

There’s conflict in change. And right now, we’re going through a large change, composed of many smaller transitions. Whether we’re talking about national politics, social and economic models, individuals or companies, so much of our world is in transition…and conflict.

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Magazine Politics Chief Technology Officer Company 98

CEO Insider

OCTOBER 27, 2022

For more than 20 years, Jeff Bezos fought against the entropy inherent in large organizations. He demanded that Amazon always act as a startup, that it would always be Day 1 at Amazon. As he said in his 1997 shareholder letter, “Day 2 is stasis. Followed by irrelevance. Followed by excruciating, painful decline. Followed by […].

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Letter Magazine Chief Technology Officer Organization 72

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

We suggest a number of possible approaches for organization leaders to consider: Assign a roving chief technology officer or project manager. One approach that 10X has recommended is creating a roving CTO or project managers. Broaden the role of your “chiefs.”

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CEO Insider

MARCH 13, 2023

It is estimated that 70% – 90% of the new products that come on the market each year fail to produce profits. When profits are not there, the product does not have a reason to exist. The numbers speak for themselves, and the percentage of products that fail is literally huge.

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Marketing Productivity Products Magazine 52

CEO Insider

JUNE 13, 2023

Having an A-Team will enable you to fully step into a more strategic leadership role so – as a united team – you can drive the business forward.

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Team Magazine Chief Technology Officer Leadership 52

CEO Insider

APRIL 20, 2022

Despite the pandemic, executive recruiters face one of the strongest candidate markets in the past twenty years. You have more negotiating power than ever for executive compensation. When it comes to executive equity compensation, do you know that there are differences between employee equity from a corporation and an LLC?

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Execution Magazine Article Marketing 52

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

In contrast, another software entrepreneur found that a poor choice of a chief technology officer, who was assumed by others to be the unannounced number two, prevented his small startup from being acquired by a Silicon Valley giant, because the potential acquirer found the CTO incapable of backing up the CEO as the company grew.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Manage conflicts with the core business: Paliwal intervened when his chief technology officer — with roots in the German engineering group — attempted a coup against the LGT leader, Sachin Lawande. Paliwal not only thwarted the coup, he supported Lawande's leadership and even made him the new CTO.

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Chief Technology Officer CTO Constraint Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

It''s time for CIOs to move beyond their roles as chief technology officers, and embrace the name with all of its implications: Chief Information Officer. They have remained, instead, CTO''s. Information governance is not IT''s job. But it should be the CIO''s job. Because no one is managing the store.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

For example, if you want clients for your CTO coaching business, then chief technology officers (and the people who know them) are your audience. So ask yourself explicitly who that is. Who has to read what you’re writing for you to get the results you want?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

Earlier this year, Emily Burns, founder and CEO of Learnivore, the Boston-based start-up that helps people find local instructors, coaches, and classes, set out to hire a chief technology officer.

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