Category: Technology Leadership
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The Simple Guide To Saying No
“When you say yes to others, make sure you are not saying no to yourself” – Paolo Coelho Why, despite a mountain of work and deadlines, despite knowing you have to leave at 6pm to watch the Avengers movie with your pals and despite dropping very large hints like “I’m under quite a bit of…
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Leadership Skills Training for Tech Leaders
Leadership doesn’t always come naturally to everyone, particularly for those people with a technical background. But picking up leadership skills is crucial if you’re going to have an impact at the senior level and with any significant management role. Whether you have firm ambitions to take a senior tech role or you’ve almost fallen into…
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8 Reasons Why Refresher Training Is A Good Idea
Knowledge fades over time. Our brains are very efficient at dumping information we don’t need, and the best way we have of showing our brain that the information is still useful is by using it. “Use it or lose it”
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What is the CTO Salary in the USA in 2023?
Do you know why some chief technology officers can drive very attractive salary and equity packages while others can’t? This post looks at the average CTO salary in the USA in 2023 across cities, states and organizations, examining the determining factors that affect the bottom line for tech leaders working in US companies. Just to…
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Jump Off That Cliff, Then Start Assembling The Plane
If you’re new to the start up world or indeed, the wider world of entrepreneurship, then you can do worse than listen to the podcast ‘Master of Scale’. Hosted by Linkedin founder Reid Hoffman, it’s a slickly produced insiders view of what it takes to make it big, from someone who knows and who continues to…
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Everyone is a bit broken … so learn how to manage with compassion
“Everyone is a bit broken” is a line taken from a 2018 Ted talk delivered by Professor Vikas Shah that looked at vulnerability and how everyone around you, is going through their own challenges and probably some of them are very similar to yours. The challenge within teams and in management roles, is not many people…
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CEO and CTO : United By A Different Language
A quote widely attributed to George Bernard Shaw was … “England and America are two countries separated by one language” We’ve given it a CTO Academy twist by adapting it to that crucial relationship between CEO and CTO …. ‘Two executives united by a different language“