CTO Academy Blog

The Global CTO Survey comes out every year and brings us great insight about what matters to the CTO in 2022.

One of my favourite business and engineering books is probably one you’ve never heard of – The Unwritten Laws of Engineering by W.J. King.  Originally published in 1944 as three articles in Mechanical Engineering Magazine, the flagship publication of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). There is likely to be little in this book […]

The leader’s job isn’t to have all the ideas. It’s to make sure all the ideas are heard and that the best one wins.

We have all worked in places where the team doesn’t trust the leader. Where the leader doesn’t trust the team. It rarely ends well.

What if you could anticipate every problem, issue or obstacle in life before they occurred? Effective tech leaders are able to anticipate more than most.

What empathy is and should be ... is understanding an employee’s struggles, appreciating a person’s point of view and engaging in a healthy debate that builds to a better solution.

CTO Academy Launches Scholarship Programme in Partnership with Women Who Code promoting women in technology careers

To become a successful leader you need to acknowledge and understand how perception affects your relationship with other people and from that, your ability to lead.