Lead Change Blog

MARCH 24, 2017

It took Lynch twenty-four years to reach the position of CTO for the world’s largest company. That’s a colossal amount of time, but what impresses me the most is the way in which he appears to have developed strong leadership skills from virtually nothing. No one knows it all and, certainly, no one will ever master leadership.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 6, 2014

Guibert Englebienne, co-founder and CTO of Globant told me, “When you find unique talent, recruit it. Kevin Kelly is an internationally-acclaimed and leading authority on the keys to success in entrepreneurship, leadership, sales and motivation. This goal was the foundation for success of the business.” Be xceptional!

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

JUNE 12, 2023

Today’s guest post is by Nikolay Gekht, CTO of Gehtsoft USA. Read the rest of this post at thoughtLEADERS, LLC: Leadership Training for the Real World. Learn the three steps a leader should take to prevent Fake DevOps and the five principles of DevOps. Let’s say you want to know whether your DevOps works well.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

It’s a partnership between the client and firm, intent on placing executive leadership within suitable roles. C-Suite: CAO, COO, CFO, CTO, etc. Finding the right candidate for leadership roles in your organization requires much more than any traditional search strategy used in the past. This includes: Board Directors.

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Chart Your Course

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Hubspot founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah noted certain qualities that characterize a loyal employee. The post How to Encourage Employee Loyalty & Retain Good Workers appeared first on Leadership Speaker and Motivational Speaker for Businesses | Employee Engagement | Gregory Smith - Chart Your Course International. Loyalty Both Ways.

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Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The stories, including one by America’s new CTO and former VP at Google[X] Megan Smith , are the authentic voices of women who have persevered, overcome, created, and innovated their careers and accomplishments. The stories are from and about women from all over the world, in STEM, investing, non-profits and STEAM.

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Skip Prichard

APRIL 12, 2021

Leadership is shifting as we grapple with technology changes, shifting market realities, new business models, and unpredictable outside forces. Tom has over three decades of experience as a leadership and organizational culture consultant. What’s the Goodell definition of leadership? . Thrive in a Hyper-Connected World.

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leaderCommunicator

AUGUST 26, 2014

Hill co-authored the recently released book, Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation, with fellow researchers Greg Brandeau, former CTO of Pixar and Disney; Emily Truelove, a doctoral candidate at MIT; and former executive Kent Lineback, a best-selling author and coach.

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Six Disciplines

APRIL 27, 2011

Skip Angel, Random Thoughts of a CTO). ” (Skip Angel, Random Thoughts of a CTO). ” (Trevor Hall, Servant-Leadership Blog). “This is a guidebook, with practical business advice, that if followed, will enhance your business and provide solutions to every day small business problems.”

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HR Digest

MAY 9, 2024

The company made multiple changes to its leadership recently, with a new CTO, Amazon’s Dr Muge Erdirik Dogan, and a new CMO, Nicole Hubbard Graham, who was a returning employee.

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Skip Prichard

APRIL 29, 2024

Leadership in the storm Imagine you’re on a boat. Oleg Konovalov’s vision of leadership doesn’t come from textbooks. Oleg’s journey from the deck of a fishing trawler to the forefront of leadership is a tale of transformation. Leadership, Oleg argues, is similar. It’s decision time.

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CO2

DECEMBER 12, 2023

“Executive coaching is a professional development process where an experienced coach works with executives, managers, and other high-potential individuals to enhance their leadership and management skills. Leadership Skills: A New Paradigm In the realm of executive coaching , leadership development takes center stage.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

That requires a new way of thinking about people and leadership. But there’s a model of leadership that will. Above all, driving the use of these techniques depends on the stance of leadership. Leadership should make it clear that they are offended by wasting time, as it’s also wasting energy, resources and brain space.

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 13, 2020

Leadership Tip: developing lifelong loyal employees is preferable and probably more cost-effective than the constant churn and friction of hiring and layoff cycles. The fourth mistake that I want to caution business leaders about is the instinct to delegate automation knowledge and technology fluency to IT or a CTO role.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

One retail CTO summed it up well at a recent SAS event when he said, “We don’t want to just struggle through and be hanging by our fingertips when the economy recovers. Subscribe now to get your subscription to this award-winning quarterly magazine. sas com Magazine can also be accessed online at www.sas.com/sascom.

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CEO Insider

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Human skills, often referred to as soft skills, define how we engage with others and often include leadership, communication, critical thinking, and problem-solving, to name a few. Many other cognitive and socio-emotional skills come into play, and these skills often provide the foundation pivotal for high emotional Intelligence or EQ.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

After an intense innovation workshop, the CTO of a globally-successful Chinese electronics supplier approached, unhappily. The CTO grimaced. As we talked, the CTO mentioned that one of these firms was a subsidiary of one of his company's biggest customers. Why do they refuse your offers to innovate?".

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Rajesh Setty

AUGUST 15, 2008

Here you’ll find more than 1500 articles and mini-sagas on entrepreneurship, leadership, creativity and simply how to distinguish yourself. Here’s what I found out from Pramati’s Co-founder & CTO Vijay Prasanna Pullur. HELLO THERE AND WELCOME. You are a new visitor to this blog. Its even 100% free!

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CEO Insider

JUNE 13, 2023

Having an A-Team will enable you to fully step into a more strategic leadership role so – as a united team – you can drive the business forward.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2011

The news had just hit that Danny Lewin — the co-founder of Akamai Technologies, its charismatic CTO, a former commando in the Israeli Special Forces, and MIT mathematics genius who led the company from a math class to an IPO and a market cap of $30 billion — had suddenly died. For all of us, Danny was our CTO and visionary.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

An analysis finds CMO pay declining while CTO pay skyrockets.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

We excel in product leadership and advanced technology — values inconsistent with the ultra-low-cost products poor countries require. Bulk up on emerging market knowledge and expertise: Paliwal now transports his entire leadership team to China for a month every year. The lesson is clear.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

More than a legal requirement or simple list of fancy names adorning letterhead, a strong board of directors can be a source of great ideas, great revenue, and great leadership. For example, the CTO of DonorsChoose is in regular contact with board member Jeff Weiner , the CEO of Linkedin. Here are three ideas to get you started: 1.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

One CTO I coached realized he’d been delegating too much because he no longer had proper visibility into what his teams were working on. Her time spent on the software also helped in the long run because when it was time to delegate, she understood all of the specifics of getting the work accomplished. Reset with your team.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

McManus’s reframing of leadership — the leader as the sidekick, the intern as the superhero — embodies three powerful principles that enable innovation and discovery. He had her sit next to the CEO, and enabled her to wander around and ask questions to everyone, including the CEO and the CTO. Be the beginner.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Celine Schillinger sought to change the leadership landscape of Sanofi, a major pharmaceutical company. This becomes especially important within a large organization where innovation is often perceived as a battle: the heroic disruptive David against the oafish bureaucratic Goliath, or a spy game requiring stealth.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

"It''s never foolish to begin preparing for a transition no matter how many years away it is or where you are in your career," says Muriel Maignan Wilkins, coauthor of Own the Room: Discover Your Signature Voice to Master Your Leadership Presence. Seize leadership opportunities, no matter how small. Look for the white space.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

For example, if a CRO or CTO leaves a young company, it can cripple the organization. As a result, the sales leadership devised a proactive plan to reverse this dangerous trend. But founders can minimize the chances of that occurring by prioritizing culture from the startup’s earliest days.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

Sure, there are exceptions who are both visionary CEOs and innovators — Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos, for example — but there are very few companies that can stomach that sort of leadership. This is not a CTO role or a role that reports to the CEO. You do not work for the CEO, or alongside the CTO, CIO, and CFO.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2013

So, if the business leadership agrees that capability A is twice as important to realizing their goals as capability B, capability A is targeted for twice as much investment. The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. Reinventing Corporate IT An HBR Insight Center. A Board Director''s Perspective on What IT Has to Get Right.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

Starting a global engineering operation “essentially doubles the expense for 6-12 months,” says former Informatica CTO, James Markarian. They believe in strong, empowered global leadership, at both HQ and at remote sites. In fact, costs go up initially. Pay the true cost and invest.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

This isn’t the fault of the technology or the CTO, who usually manages it. Because it involves software, many companies make it the CTO’s responsibility. In my experience, relationship leadership boils down to three essential components. It’s a result of misguided strategy. Turning data into action.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. What most distinguishes innovation leadership, the book argues, is recognition that innovation is a “team sport,” not the act of a sole inventor. As Harvard Business School Professor Linda A.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

But for a generation of senior managers and functional heads raised on a steady diet of “visionary leadership,” this more adaptive approach does not always come naturally. Only after a lot of stakeholder management and leadership intervention did the pilot get back on track. Leaders must foster a culture of learning.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. What most distinguishes innovation leadership, the book argues, is recognition that innovation is a “team sport,” not the act of a sole inventor. As Harvard Business School Professor Linda A.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

Instead of thinking about driving value from the perspective of IT, or HR, finance, sales, or operations, leadership teams will think about a problem they want to solve or a process they want to change, and then align the full breadth of services (IT, HR, operations) needed to accomplish it. The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer.

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