Author: Andrew Weaver
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Managing a Team (and their external pressures)
Managing a team is not only about managing people, but understanding that some reactions in work, are all to do with pressures away from work. This article looks at our experience of some unusual external factors and why it’s important to manage with empathy
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Salary vs. Equity vs. Time aka ‘The Start Up Conundrum’
Why do we turn up for work? Why do we burn that midnight hour trying to breath life into an invisible start up? Altruism, the craic or just those (soon to be restricted) free beers from the We Work fridge? Maybe for you it’s some or none of the above but, what it should be…
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How to become a CTO?
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…
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Importance of Management Skills to CTO Training
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…
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Some of the realities, About start up salaries
As a rock star developer, what are your career (remuneration) options? An above average salary at investment bank or hedge fund, but with long hours and little control Public body where, you earn less, but the hours and benefits (particularly those juicy pensions) are better and more comforting Large company where you benefit from the…
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Jump Off That Cliff, Then Start Assembling The Plane
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…
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Everyone is a bit broken … so learn how to manage with compassion
“Everyone is a bit broken” is a line taken from a 2018 Ted talk delivered by Professor Vikas Shah that looked at vulnerability and how everyone around you, is going through their own challenges and probably some of them are very similar to yours. The challenge within teams and in management roles, is not many people…
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CEO and CTO : United By A Different Language
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“
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Welcome to CTO Academy
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,…