Category: What does a CTO do?
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Tech Leadership, In So Many Words … #2 Self
Being a CTO is much easier (or at least less challenging) when working on something you love rather than a motivation driven by less intrinsic factors, pressures or rewards.
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Tech Leadership, In So Many Words ………… #1 Curiosity
What makes the difference in leaders? Curiosity stands out amongst a leading quality …
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10 Steps for CTO`s to Improve Their Critical Thinking Skills
Critical thinking skills are vital in any leadership role, but when you’re leading the technology arm of a business it takes on even greater importance – both for the key decisions you need to make and for the technical people you need to lead. A CTO needs to be able to reason, understand and solve…
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7 Steps to Become an Effective CTO
1. Define your vision for your future by setting goals When it comes to setting goals, many people fall victim to the “goal-setting paradox.” This is when a person sets unrealistic or uninspiring goals and then does not follow through with them. It’s important to be careful with what you set your goal as. It…
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What does a Startup CTO do anyway?
CTO jobs are pretty nebulous at best, what a CTO does is ill defined and never well understood, we’re lots of different things to lots of different people.
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Meet the Team: Owen Evans
Owen is based in New Zealand and has been a tech leader for more than a decade and for 6 years was a chief architect at Xero. His tech expertise and strategic oversight is helping CTOs and senior leadership teams around the world to achieve growth within a software engineering heavy company. He also shares…
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Meet the Team : Jim Mortensen
Jim is a highly experienced tech leader with extensive business achievements over a wide range of domains and particular expertise in the payment card industry, PayFac solutions, AWS, and data security. He has secured 2 successful exits as a member of the executive management team of a start-up and mid-size company. Alongside coaching global tech…
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One Afternoon With The School of Code
CTO Academy collaborated with The School of Code for a presentation on a career in tech and leadership development
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Meet The Team : Dave Jones
Dave brings extensive experience in CTO/CIO roles to the CTO Academy coaching team which includes leading Engineering departments of over 150 staff through periods of extensive growth and change. He’s also been responsible for SaaS products operating at massive scale and led the delivery of multiple platform re-architecture projects and major technology integrations. Here he…
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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…