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Tech Leadership in So Many Words #22 – Mentoring

Mentoring in tech is not just about navigating the complexities of coding or system architecture; it's about understanding the ecosystem, predicting technological trends and manoeuvring through the dynamics of tech teams and projects. Effective Mentoring significantly reduces the learning curve for emerging tech talents, thus offering them a roadmap to navigate challenges and seize opportunities in their careers.

CTO Advice: Choosing the Right Corporate Website Solution

Members of our Global CTO Community use their experience to suggest solutions to a problem a fellow tech leader has. He is wondering what is the current opinion on the best choice(s)/practice(s) for handling the corporate website? Is it WordPress or modern low-code platforms like Webflow or Wix the right way to go? If so, should it be cloud-hosted (as intended) or should they take the effort and limitations of self-hosting (which can be done), and use Webflow for building it, and then just export and host it on their own? Or is it some completely different way?

What’s All the Fuss About Tech Debt?

91% of global tech leaders identified tech debt as a 'major concern'. So in this article, we take a deep dive into tech debt with contributions from five senior technology leaders across the CTO Academy community. They will provide their perspective on the problem and potential mitigation strategies towards the solution.

Spotlight on… Marco Zimmerman

🙌 Helping us keep everything on track is our man from Brazil, celebrating 12 months with CTO Academy … Here’s a spotlight on Marco Aurélio Zimmermann

Field CTO Job Description w/ Salary Breakdown & Career Prospects

In this post, we explain the relatively new Field CTO role and how it differs from a more traditional Chief Technology Officer role. We will see how a Field CTO job description determines the type of person suitable for the job. We will take a look at the job prospects and, of course, the average […]

Spotlight on… Sid Mustafa

This week one of our favourite community voices here at CTO Academy … spotlight on Serdar Mustafa 🙌

Managing Developers: Preventing Over-Reliance and Blackmailing

When a business becomes over-reliant on one or two key developers and they become aware of it. It leads to a form of ‘developer blackmail’ that makes managing developers extremely difficult.

Spotlight on…Nati Welner

It’s time to celebrate one of our unsung heroes … a spotlight on our MBA Course Manager, Natalia Welner

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