Author: Andrew Weaver
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Diary of An Accidental CTO: Team Member to Team Leader
Suddenly as I stepped into a tech leadership role i was facing unknowns where my decisions would impact directly on my team and how effective they and I could be
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Managing The Negative Team Member
Managing a negative team member is never easy so this article looks at how it can be handled.
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Diary of an Accidental CTO: Identify Your Daily Radar
“Identify your daily radar” Another diary instalment from our great friend Mostafa Khattab, based in Dubai and experiencing at first hand the challenges faced by someone dropped into a CTO role ahead of their planned schedule aka The Accidental CTO. For those interested in starting from the beginning, you can find at the footer of…
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Learning To Learn From Failure … as an Experienced CTO
“Success is stumbling from failure to failure without any loss of enthusiasm” – Winston Churchill
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Negotiation : The Importance of Character and Consistency
Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher who in 1831 wrote ‘The Art of Being Right’ and was then accused by public opinion of creating a guide of manipulative tricks. How could a philosopher, a man dedicated by default to finding and honoring the one objective truth redact a book that trains the reader into twisting…
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11 Steps To Make 1-2-1’s More Effective
‘We have two ears and one mouth,so that we can listen twice as much as we speak’ – Epictetus One consistent question that emerges during our coaching sessions with tech leaders from around the world, “How can I be more effective when conducting 1:1´s with my team?” Elizabeth Grace Saunders, author of How to Invest Your…
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Movember, Men’s Health & Man Management
As another Movember draws to a close, what steps are you taking to ensure your team have the mental health support they need?
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Meet The Team : Dave Jones
Dave brings extensive experience in CTO/CIO roles to the CTO Academy coaching team which includes leading Engineering departments of over 150 staff through periods of extensive growth and change. He’s also been responsible for SaaS products operating at massive scale and led the delivery of multiple platform re-architecture projects and major technology integrations. Here he…
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Webinar: The Future of Work & Tech Leadership
This Weds (11th November 2020) we launch the first of what we hope will be a series of live webinar interviews looking at Next Generation Enterprise and more specifically, what will the future of work look like for technology leaders around the world. Next Generation Enterprise As tech leaders and managers we are accustomed to…
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Diary of an Accidental CTO: Leadership Mistakes
Mostafa Khattab is CTO at Wakecap Technologies in Dubai. He is sharing with us some of his journey of what we describe as “An Accidental CTO” … aka someone who arrived in the CTO role ahead of schedule and has been grappling with various new challenges and a very steep learning curve. You can catch up with…