For most C-suite roles there is generally a linear relationship between the skills they develop through their career and the skills required at an executive level. The CMO has been on various marketing courses, the CFO has been mastering a balance sheet for years and the sales director comes from the school of hard cold … Read more
What should a CTO management training course look like?
What management skills do you require to become a high value CTO?
With most c-suite roles, progression through the ranks involves a natural and ongoing development of skills that equip the ambitious to reach the top.
The CTO career path requires a more jagged turn as developers, focused primarily on technology, require a new set of management and softer skills to deal with the challenges at senior level.
As a rock star developer, what are your career (remuneration) options?
If you’re new to the start up world or indeed, the wider world of entrepreneurship, then you can do worse than listen to the podcast ‘Master of Scale’. Hosted by Linkedin founder Reid Hoffman, it’s a slickly produced insiders view of what it takes to make it big, from someone who knows and who continues to … Read more
“Everyone is a bit broken”
Credit for this quote goes to Professor Vikas Seth, delivered via a fantastic Ted talk that looks at vulnerability and how everyone around you, is going through the same or similar problems.
The challenge within teams and in management roles, is that not many people are prepared to acknowledge this truth and behaviour is sometimes misinterpreted, with communications, relationships and team dynamics often suffering from a fundamental lack of honesty.
The start up world can suffer from this more than most, be it pride, a “fake it till you make it” culture or simple lack of self awareness.Strip down these facades and you’ll find that most senior people in most companies suffer from vulnerability and their own version of the imposter syndrome.
A quote widely attributed to George Bernard Shaw was …
“England and America are two countries separated by one language”
We’ve given it a CTO Academy twist by adapting it to that crucial relationship between CEO and CTO ….
‘Two executives united by a different language“
One thing we know for sure with a new venture (having been around the block a few times), is you can have the idea, sketch out a model, design a website and prepare for launch … but you never truly know anything about your product until it starts to interact with the market.
And so, we are on the verge of lift off with CTO Academy, with all the excitement and uncertainty that a new product launch brings with it.
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