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

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.

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Chart Your Course

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Hubspot founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah noted certain qualities that characterize a loyal employee. For effective employee engagement to foster at the workplace, companies and management teams need to acknowledge how employee loyalty matters to the company’s overall bottom line. Loyalty Both Ways.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 6, 2014

I would then consult the production team to see which of the customers’ opinions were viable. Guibert Englebienne, co-founder and CTO of Globant told me, “When you find unique talent, recruit it. Read “Built To Sell” First What Leaders Can Do To Encourage Learning And Growth How To Build Your Team For Success.

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Execution CTO Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 229

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2019

This fall, I embarked on a worldwide quest to gain insights and perspectives on global leadership in the 21st century. To do this effectively, I sought to understand two things: Elucidate the emerging leadership traits and competencies that are most relevant today.

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Leadership Tip: slow down hiring. People can’t handle constant change unless they’re highly involved with the direction of the product, company and team. It requires a leadership Emotional Intelligence (EI) makeover along with a company EI makeover. Regular communication is key throughout the process to every stakeholder.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Occasionally I create a Team-Building program agenda that is good enough to share. Below is the Day-1 ‘Kick-off’ program to 4 months of work I will be doing with an IT Leadership Team. IT Leadership Director Team Building & Leadership Agenda – Kick-Off. Groupings Mixed Teams & Functional Teams.

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 13, 2020

Leadership Tip: developing lifelong loyal employees is preferable and probably more cost-effective than the constant churn and friction of hiring and layoff cycles. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

But if you find yourself frequently miscommunicating with your team on deliverables, hearing about issues at the last minute, and misunderstanding how your team set their priorities, it may be a sign you’ve delegated too much, leaving their employees to feel abandoned and unmotivated. Reset with your team.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

Sure, there are exceptions who are both visionary CEOs and innovators — Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos, for example — but there are very few companies that can stomach that sort of leadership. This is not a CTO role or a role that reports to the CEO. You guide and support your own team of entrepreneurs. You persevere.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

He calls it “gypsy chefs,” a team that roams. McManus’s reframing of leadership — the leader as the sidekick, the intern as the superhero — embodies three powerful principles that enable innovation and discovery. What are the obstacles standing in the way of your team? Be the beginner.

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Supply Chain NGO CTO Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

Starting a global engineering operation “essentially doubles the expense for 6-12 months,” says former Informatica CTO, James Markarian. They believe in strong, empowered global leadership, at both HQ and at remote sites. ” Puri adds, “The local teams need to be empowered more to make their own decisions.

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Offshoring CTO Company Engineering 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

These revolutionary developments required equally revolutionary changes, including more truly global firms, whole new industries, new ways of organizing enterprises (think first GM and then GE), new ways of working (email, virtual global teams), and more. That requires a new way of thinking about people and leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

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. In my experience, relationship leadership boils down to three essential components. It’s a result of misguided strategy. Turning data into action.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

We excel in product leadership and advanced technology — values inconsistent with the ultra-low-cost products poor countries require. Immediate and radical change within small teams spearheading projects from the bottom up. 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 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Beyond shipping new features on a regular cadence and keeping the peace between engineering and the design team, the best PMs create products with strong user adoption that have exponential revenue growth and perhaps even disrupt an industry. Core Competencies. Self-management: Being a PM can be incredibly stressful.

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Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

But for a generation of senior managers and functional heads raised on a steady diet of “visionary leadership,” this more adaptive approach does not always come naturally. Only after a lot of stakeholder management and leadership intervention did the pilot get back on track. Often they were also the wrong demands.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

“When you’re a technical expert, you know your value to the organization,” says Wanda Wallace, President and CEO of Leadership Forum and author of Reaching the Top. She suggests shadowing team members for a day or even for a couple of hours and “asking a lot of dumb questions.” Face your fears.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

However, this startup cultural utopia invariably hits a rough patch for about 70% of startups in years three to four, regardless of how happy the team was before. For example, if a CRO or CTO leaves a young company, it can cripple the organization. We call this the “cultural chasm.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

It requires strong leadership from all senior IT executives, as well as new business acumen. Requirements and specifications are more flexible and developed within cross functional teams with constantly evolving business needs. The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. It requires new modes of operation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

Now, instead, at ING they say, "Here''s your team. Instead of thinking about driving value from the perspective of IT, or HR, finance, sales, or operations, leadership teams will think about a problem they want to solve or a process they want to change, and then align the full breadth of services (IT, HR, operations) needed to accomplish it.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Do executives expect you to establish and incubate a growth businesses, act as a coach to existing teams, or focus on establishing a culture of innovation so that new ideas emerge organically? Are you expected to recruit a separate team from within and beyond the company? Innovation Leadership transitions'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

"It''s never foolish to begin preparing for a transition no matter how many years away it is or where you are in your career," says Muriel Maignan Wilkins, coauthor of Own the Room: Discover Your Signature Voice to Master Your Leadership Presence. Seize leadership opportunities, no matter how small. Look for the white space.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers. Over time, teams adopted an even more aggressive approach to software development called “ continuous delivery , ” a highly automated method that enables them to make many small changes per day.

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Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. What most distinguishes innovation leadership, the book argues, is recognition that innovation is a “team sport,” not the act of a sole inventor.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. What most distinguishes innovation leadership, the book argues, is recognition that innovation is a “team sport,” not the act of a sole inventor.

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Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Celine Schillinger sought to change the leadership landscape of Sanofi, a major pharmaceutical company. This might have backfired with an executive team that wasn’t as competent and as open to discussion, or if Sanofi had gone about it in a different way — in either case, they could have reacted as if she were going behind their backs.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

At Nationwide, a global insurance company, the CMO and CIO host a dinner for their leaders each quarter with the explicit goal of building camaraderie and trust within their teams. An effective decision governance framework makes clear how the CIO and CMO, and other members of the leadership team, must work together and support each other.

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CIO Budgeting Enterprise Architecture Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

That's often the case with founder-led companies in which the founder wants a team in which no one can emerge as a rival. In this era of collaborative leadership and emphasis on the whole team, it seems old-fashioned to talk of numbers one and two, except for Presidential elections. Except for one thing.

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