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Sanjay opens in May with How To Build a Tech Strategy Aligned To The Business Goals.
Zoe follows up in June with The Art of Negotiation and How To Always Win:Win
Limited places with both.
We have more great topics and speakers lined up for what will become a monthly series of half day masterclasses.
Elsewhere it’s a big thank you to Mostafa for another instalment in his Accidental CTO blog and an insight to the sharp learning curve experienced in that role.
Until next time … have a great weekend and Ramadan Mubarak to those of our friends celebrating their holy month.
This week we welcomed back Mostafa Khattab with the latest instalment from his Diary of an Accidental CTO blog and how he manages the Art of Context Switching …
“As a CTO there’s usually multiple projects we have to juggle with on a day-to-day basis so to be really effective you need to be able to focus and master the art of context switching ….”
Read the full blog here.
Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s investigations of “optimal experience” have revealed that what makes an experience genuinely satisfying is a state of consciousness called flow. During flow, people typically experience deep enjoyment, creativity, and a total involvement with life. In this new edition of his groundbreaking classic work, Csikszentmihalyi demonstrates the ways this positive state can be controlled, not just left to chance. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience teaches how, by ordering the information that enters our consciousness, we can discover true happiness and greatly improve the quality of our lives.
It’s been a revelatory book to many, including for me ….
Find out more via the links below ….
CTO Academy Tribes are spreading around the world with cohorts forming in Europe, US and Australia / NZ.
We’ve also added a 3rd tribe that aims to help Aspiring CTOs fast track their career to the top.
Have a look at the links above and/or get in touch with me direct on [email protected].
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