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Team Building Agenda: Kick-off Program for IT Leadership Team

Mike Cardus

Measurement Each IT Director will have working knowledge of the ‘ 7 Steps to High Performance Teams ’ this will be illustrated through content discussions about the model and each director determining where an existing team in on a project and steps to move the team to the next step. CTO – Why are we here? Introduce Mike Cardus.

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Whose Job Is It to Manage Freelancers?

Harvard Business Review

Most organizations aren’t good at project management , and fewer still have a well-defined and structured protocol for engaging and managing agile talent other than contractually. We suggest a number of possible approaches for organization leaders to consider: Assign a roving chief technology officer or project manager.

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Reversing the Curse of Dominant Logic

Harvard Business Review

Immediate and radical change within small teams spearheading projects from the bottom up. Radical goals such as this one apply constraints to a project — and the constraints illuminate novel ways of thinking. Paliwal not only thwarted the coup, he supported Lawande's leadership and even made him the new CTO.

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Why Can't a CIO Be More Like a CFO?

Harvard Business Review

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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The One Unbreakable Rule in Business Writing

Harvard Business Review

For example, if you want clients for your CTO coaching business, then chief technology officers (and the people who know them) are your audience. People do not share things that make them look or feel stupid, project an undesirable image, or are hard to explain. So ask yourself explicitly who that is.

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How to Manage People Who Are Smarter than You

Harvard Business Review

’” Project confidence, but not too much. Even if it sometimes feels as if you’re in over your head, it’s important to project the right amount of confidence. ” This research had two advantages: One, it made the hiring process go more smoothly and, two, it has helped Emily manage Heather, her new CTO.