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Nurture Your Future Leaders, Ahead Of Schedule

Identifying and nurturing the future leaders in your organisation should be close to the top of your strategic “to do” list as a successful technology leader.

How to build trust with an inherited team

Moving into a new company or new role with an established team can be a challenge. Amplify that challenge if you're taking over from a popular predecessor.

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 […]

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?

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 […]

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

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 […]

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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