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
Managing The Negative Team Member
Managing a negative team member is never easy so this article looks at how it can be handled.
Active Listening When Managing A Team
Active listening is very different to hearing and it is what differentiates an effective leader from an average manager.
Top 10 things to look at to get remote working, working.
A lot of us have spent 2020 adapting to the new normal and a lot of us have found remote working for the first time. I’ve been there for a few years and worked in organisations that have embraced remote first mentality before it was cool required by a pandemic. Here are ten things my teams work on when working remotely
What type of leader are you – Emotionally Intelligent or a Dark Triad?
Emotional intelligence (“EQ”) in the workspace is a leadership topic and conversation that become particularly hot in recent years but which some technology leaders struggle with. But what exactly is emotional intelligence and why does it come so high up the...
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...
Learning To Learn From Failure
“Success is stumbling from failure to failure without any loss of enthusiasm” – Winston Churchill
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...
What Has 2020 Taught Us About Building Resilience In Teams?
2020: I don’t think anyone will say that was quite the year they expected during December 2019. I live in New Zealand so I specifically remember sitting outside on my lawn with the family, in the sun, talking about all we’d achieve over the course of a year.
Positive Psychology VS Toxic Positivity
People have always been wondering what happiness is. Is it fulfilling your dreams and goals? Is it being free to decide for yourself? Is it the constant emotion of cheerfulness and perkiness? According to the Oxford dictionary, happiness is: a) The state of feeling or...Download Our Free eBook
