Author: Andrew Weaver
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What is a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of a Company?
In a general sense, a chief technology officer is a technical leadership role involving many variables: business goals, corporate strategy, team management, technical vision, enterprise systems, and related tasks. But what is a CTO in a nutshell? What is the key responsibility? Without a doubt, a primary responsibility is delivering a technical strategy that is…
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Confidence in Leadership : What is it good for?
Confidence is a complex leadership issue. How do you build it in yourself and your team? How do you spot the competent from the BS?
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How we manage the CEO: CTO Dynamic
Inspiration for this article arrived via feedback from one of our CTO mentees, who is grappling with the CEO relationship and what he described as a ‘volcanic chief executive’. Most Sunday nights he receives an email from the CEO delivering a barrage of expletive-led criticisms of the senior management team. An extract below [expletives removed…
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9 Reasons Why Great Engineers, Can Become Terrible CTOs
These are some of the reasons why some very talented developers, don’t always make good CTOs and the skill set they need to acquire to bridge the gap
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Guide To Communicating With Non-Technical Customers
Some combinations just don’t work …. Mango and Peanut Butter; AOL and Time Warner; And historically, technologists and customers. But how times have changed. Mango will never go with peanut butter but modern tech leaders do now play a central role in the customer engagement process and helping convert potential clients. This article unpacks what…
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Diary of an Accidental CTO, Part 2
Mostafa Khattab is a CTO based in Dubai. This is the 2nd part of his blog about being an ‘Accidental CTO’
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Diary of an Accidental CTO: A Definition
What’s it like being a Start Up CTO? What’s it like being an Accidental CTO?
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Leadership Lesson 1 : Find Your Purpose
To become a truly effective leader there is a crucial 1st step you need to take. You need to first understand yourself.
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Lockdown Learnings From Global Tech Leaders
In April 2020, in the midst of this global lockdown of ours, we decided to reach out to our network of global tech leaders and to conduct a series of interviews
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You Call It Mentoring, I Call It Coaching
“You like potato and I like potahto, You like tomato and I like tomahto Potato, potahto, tomato, tomahto, Let’s call the whole thing off” – Ira / George Gershwin When CTO Academy started in 2018 we were in classic lean start up mode. We thought we had a good idea but were not sure what the…