leaderCommunicator

AUGUST 26, 2014

Hill co-authored the recently released book, Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation, with fellow researchers Greg Brandeau, former CTO of Pixar and Disney; Emily Truelove, a doctoral candidate at MIT; and former executive Kent Lineback, a best-selling author and coach. David Grossman.

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Innovation CTO Competitive Advantage Creativity 144

Strategy Driven

MARCH 20, 2021

It’s usually the job of a bank’s chief financial officer (CFO), chief risk officer (CRO), or chief technology officer (CTO) to oversee tech implementation. If you’re in any one of these positions, you must be wondering how you can complete your implementation or modernization initiatives with the least amount of friction possible.

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Technology Chief Financial Officer Banking Chief Technology Officer 70

Lead Change Blog

MAY 1, 2017

Christopher Avery of Christopher Avery and the Leadership Gift provided Relearning How to Want. This post reveals how relearning how to want drives self-leadership, and how you can achieve it.” We write people off as “untrainable and uncoachable” when it’s really we who need to learn how to train and coach.”

Leadership Development 264

Leadership Development Development Leadership CTO 264

Six Disciplines

APRIL 27, 2011

Skip Angel, Random Thoughts of a CTO). ” (Skip Angel, Random Thoughts of a CTO). “In reading the book, I’m struck that the author spends time focusing on HOW to achieve maximum benefit from each of the six interdependent Disciplines, and not just providing a laundry list without explanation.

CTO 101

CTO Books Balanced Scorecard Norton 101

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 6, 2014

It is now over forty years in existence and continues to grow and evolve even though she admitted in her first class that she hadn’t got a clue about how to lose weight. Guibert Englebienne, co-founder and CTO of Globant told me, “When you find unique talent, recruit it. These are not isolated examples. 40% of Inc.

Execution 257

Execution CTO Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 257

Skip Prichard

MARCH 13, 2020

The fourth mistake that I want to caution business leaders about is the instinct to delegate automation knowledge and technology fluency to IT or a CTO role. What we will need in the coming decades aren’t just more competent leaders but also leaders who exemplify the best qualities that humans can hope for.

Blanchard 101

Blanchard Education CTO Technology 101

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2017

When I launched my first company in 2008 (CarZen, acquired by Liberty Mutual), one of my first hires was a CTO. I made him the CTO’s protégé, and had the CTO spend time teaching and evaluating him. I made him the CTO’s protégé, and had the CTO spend time teaching and evaluating him.

CTO 8

CTO Goal How To Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

One CTO I coached realized he’d been delegating too much because he no longer had proper visibility into what his teams were working on. Her time spent on the software also helped in the long run because when it was time to delegate, she understood all of the specifics of getting the work accomplished. Reset with your team.

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Delegation CTO Project Software 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

” Here are some tips on how to make that transition as seamlessly as possible. “Talking to peers, coaches, and mentors about your feelings and fears of inadequacy” will help you feel less alone and may also give you ideas on how to handle the situation, says Wallace. Face your fears. Wallace agrees. Don’t.

Management 8

Management How To CTO Mentor 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Let’s look at how that might happen and how to prevent it. ™: How to Future Proof Your Small Business and Improve Your Tech Bottom Line. Someone in their organization, without explicit or implicit authority or oversight, may be making decisions adding to the Tech Debt 2.0 load and increasing exposure to cyberattacks.

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Bottom-up Software Policies CIO 99

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

One retail CTO summed it up well at a recent SAS event when he said, “We don’t want to just struggle through and be hanging by our fingertips when the economy recovers. Subscribe now to get your subscription to this award-winning quarterly magazine. sas com Magazine can also be accessed online at www.sas.com/sascom.

Real Estate 66

Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

Can’t agree on how to prioritize projects, or on which deadlines need to shift? If a team is comfortable speaking openly about conflict and hardships, asking “How did this happen?” As Etsy CTO John Allspaw says , people are “the most expert in their own error.

Team 11

Team Management CTO Open-book 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2011

The news had just hit that Danny Lewin — the co-founder of Akamai Technologies, its charismatic CTO, a former commando in the Israeli Special Forces, and MIT mathematics genius who led the company from a math class to an IPO and a market cap of $30 billion — had suddenly died. For all of us, Danny was our CTO and visionary.

CTO 10

CTO Lewin IPO Mentor 10

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Chief-Technology-Officer CTO, and Human Resources Business Partners within the IT Team and Mike will serve as the Accountability-Team to check-in and coach the directors for completion of the 100 day action plans. CTO – Why are we here? How does this fit into the larger strategic goals? o How to work with existing resources.

Team Building 129

Team Building Team CTO Leadership 129

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

For all the emphasis placed on customer relationships these days, very few large organizations really understand how to manage them. This isn’t the fault of the technology or the CTO, who usually manages it. Because it involves software, many companies make it the CTO’s responsibility. Turning data into action.

CRM 8

CRM Execution CTO Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

How to make your company more nimble and responsive. When new CTO Prakash Khot arrived from Salesforce, he shifted the company towards continuous delivery, testing changes more frequently and on smaller audiences. And, once again, business leaders would do well to pay close attention to the strategic implications. Insight Center.

Agility 8

Agility Development Organization Software 8

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Still, also they captured what leader attributes were lacking in today’s business environment and how to solve it. Our last stop on this quest was to travel from Morocco to New Delhi, India, to meet our CTO, Jitendra Singh , his development team and members of the executive search team.

Globalization 276

Globalization Leadership Conference Diversity 276

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

After researching over 100 early stage ventures, we began to understand why startups hit a cultural chasm and how to navigate it. For example, if a CRO or CTO leaves a young company, it can cripple the organization. Two distinct sets emerged. The silver lining is that transparency is virtually free.

Morale 12

Morale Attrition Early Adopters Benchmarking 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

A PM with a high EQ has strong relationships within their organization and they have a keen sense of how to navigate both internal and external hurdles to ship a great product. The best PMs know how to push hard on the right priorities, with urgency, but without conveying a sense of panic or stress.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Rajesh Setty

AUGUST 15, 2008

Here you’ll find more than 1500 articles and mini-sagas on entrepreneurship, leadership, creativity and simply how to distinguish yourself. Here’s what I found out from Pramati’s Co-founder & CTO Vijay Prasanna Pullur. HELLO THERE AND WELCOME. You are a new visitor to this blog. Its even 100% free!

Licensing 28

Licensing CTO Participative Newsletter 28

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2013

The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. Google''s CIO on How to Make Your IT Department Great. Reinventing Corporate IT An HBR Insight Center. A Board Director''s Perspective on What IT Has to Get Right. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs). IT management'

Innovation 8

Innovation CIO ROI CTO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. Google''s CIO on How to Make Your IT Department Great. They can help companies exploit rapidly evolving information technology and implement a virtuous cycle of revenue growth and operational-efficiency improvements. Reinventing Corporate IT An HBR Insight Center. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs).

Enterprise Architecture 8

Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

How to Improve Your Business Writing. For example, if you want clients for your CTO coaching business, then chief technology officers (and the people who know them) are your audience. Let’s say you’d like to write about how to be happy. But you’ll never get that if you don’t acknowledge it first.

Audience 8

Audience Chief Technology Officer Open-book CTO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. Google''s CIO on How to Make Your IT Department Great. Reinventing Corporate IT An HBR Insight Center. A Board Director''s Perspective on What IT Has to Get Right. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs). IT management Information & technology Operations'

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2018

It forces a reexamination of the familiar and requires a person to make changes to how they think and act. Adapting can be a painful and difficult process, one that takes place on an ongoing basis.

Globalization 8

Globalization Long-term Diversity CTO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2013

At HBS this certainly includes directly engaging our students to capture their creative ideas on how to best meet their needs both in and out of the classroom. Determining how to harness and leverage the unique cultural DNA of both your new IT organization and the user community is imperative for any new CIO. Lead with Passion.

CIO 8

CIO Positioning PPM Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

Knowing how to use lean, self-managing team methodologies is a prerequisite. One CTO we spoke to tells a story about an AI project that “hit the wall” despite a sequence of green lights. But if middle managers wind up caught in bureaucratic procedures and rule-enforcement mindsets, implementations will falter.

Technology 11

Technology Talent Management Process Management 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

I''m fascinated by how deftly conversations about information growth turn immediately to hand-wringing over how to store and secure it, avoiding the issue of its creation. They have remained, instead, CTO''s. We know this. We''ve heard it before. Yet we continue to ignore it. CIO''s have never broadly achieved their destiny.

CIO 8

CIO CFO Zero Based Budgeting Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. Google''s CIO on How to Make Your IT Department Great. Reinventing Corporate IT An HBR Insight Center. A Board Director''s Perspective on What IT Has to Get Right. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs). IT management Information & technology Operations'

CIO 8

CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

According to the company's CTO, Phil Shelley, the time needed to generate a comprehensive set of promotions dropped from eight weeks to one, and is still dropping. How to Avoid the Big Data "Gotcha's". This change allowed the company to be much faster and more precise with its promotions. BIG DATA INSIGHT CENTER. More >>.

Management 8

Management Airlines Supply Chain CTO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2014

There’s lots of advice out there about how to disconnect from work and return to the office refreshed. And how can you increase the chances that you’ll come back relaxed and revitalized? Here’s how to vacation the right way. If someone’s always holding on to the seat, you never actually learn how to ride it.”.

Stress 12

Stress Supply Chain CTO Case Study 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Look for ways to stretch the boundaries of current innovation efforts, but remember you are not the CEO or CTO. The CEO “has lots of people who know how to point out problems; it is important to establish yourself as a problem solver and confidant as quickly as possible.”.

Innovation 8

Innovation Planning Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

This means establishing how you’ll work together, clarifying expectations, and helping them secure a few small wins early on. Here’s how to handle the transition. This is a big moment for her, and she’s probably spending a lot of time and energy trying to figure out how to be effective in the role.

CTO 8

CTO Case Study Learning Curve Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

A week from now, I’d like a proposal for how to get back to 12 minutes, if not down to 10. You’ll learn how to do it faster. Ken met experienced employees, accustomed to grunt work, who knew how to get the job done but seemed discouraged. ” Then he quickly turned serious. “First time?” “Yes.”

Case Study 8

Case Study Airlines COO CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Linda Hill, the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration, is the faculty chair of Leading and Building a Culture of Innovation, a new program teaching executives how to create an organization equipped for innovative problem solving. Read more from Harvard Business School Executive Education: How to Spot a Liar.

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Blindsided by news that Cars Toons was behind schedule, coauthor Brandeau had to figure out how to finish both projects on time with limited computing resources while also limiting friction among the forces. Read more from Harvard Business School Executive Education: How to Spot a Liar. How to Brand a Next-Generation Product.

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2013

The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. Google''s CIO on How to Make Your IT Department Great. Reinventing Corporate IT An HBR Insight Center. A Board Director''s Perspective on What IT Has to Get Right. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs). IT management'

Organization 8

Organization CTO CIO Analysis 8