What Tech Leaders, Want To Ask Other Tech Leaders
We asked global tech leaders in lockdown, “What is the question you’d like to ask other tech leaders?”
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.
Early Adopters – Wonderful but Dangerous
With constant pressure around innovation and product development, you’re grateful to the innovators and early adopters who will tolerate more the minimum feature set. But be cautious about what they’re telling you.
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
The Art Of Giving Feedback
Giving constructive feedback to the people you manage is often one of the more uncomfortable tasks you face as a tech leader and yet it’s one of the most important leadership skills to get right. Pitch it badly and you could be suffering some severe...
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...
WFH, LFH and the E-learning Revolution
Alongside the established heavyweight acronyms of LOL, GWS and GSOH arrives the definitive acronym of our time. Prior to Covid-19, WFH occupied a niche space in the acronym world … World Federation of Healing Wartime Flying Hours Wages For Housework Weep For...
Professional Growth : Why It Pays To Be Intentional
What is Professional Growth? The definition of professional growth will be different things for different people but it certainly means more than certificates on the wall. Performance Expert Bill Eckstrom “it’s the development or better use of talents and skills that...
Tech Leaders and the tussle of Hard Skills vs Soft Skills
With perhaps the odd and memorable exception, most of the people who land at CTO Academy get the difference between hard skills and soft skills. The career development challenge is that they have bags of the former, but can struggle with the latter. Get them down the...
Crisis Leadership : Keep Calm, But Don’t Carry On As Normal
‘As a tech leader you’re probably being tested now in ways you thought unlikely and almost unthinkable just a few weeks ago. This is a crisis like no other. It is impacting on us in a way that will only truly unravel during the weeks, months and years to come....Download Our Free eBook
