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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Training Chief Technology Officer CTO Mentor 210

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Below is the Day-1 ‘Kick-off’ program to 4 months of work I will be doing with an IT Leadership Team. IT Leadership Director Team Building & Leadership Agenda – Kick-Off. Additional content will be shared on Team Development and Management. IT Leadership Program Agenda. CTO – Why are we here?

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Team Building Team CTO Leadership 129

Chart Your Course

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Hubspot founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah noted certain qualities that characterize a loyal employee. Business owners and managers need to give to employees as much as they expect from them. Do managers demonstrate good business ethics? Loyalty Both Ways. Does the company deserve the loyalty of its employees?

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Loyalty CTO How To Human Resources 154

Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 13, 2022

GUEST POST from Art Inteligencia As digital transformation continues to become more commonplace in the modern business landscape, the role of the Chief Transformation Officer (CTO) has become increasingly important. Given the complexity of their […].

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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. Radial Keyboard: Margaret Mathieu, Katie Hsai, Kassie Wang in 2014, Brown ‘17.

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CTO Engineering How To Software 142

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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Self-aware Leadership Team Open-book 138

HR Digest

MAY 9, 2024

According to Business Today , the company had around 83,700 employees as of May 31, 2023, which is no small number when it comes to managing the workforce. 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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CTO Report Restructuring Strategy 139

Six Disciplines

APRIL 27, 2011

Skip Angel, Random Thoughts of a CTO). ” (Skip Angel, Random Thoughts of a CTO). ” (Trevor Hall, Servant-Leadership Blog). “Harpst's book is the first book I’ve read that takes the best education from (Good To Great, E-Myth Manager, others) and combines them into one book.

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CTO Books Balanced Scorecard Norton 101

Innovation Excellence

MARCH 9, 2018

I wasn’t going to take it, but it made me reflect on what a CTO does and, more important, what a great CTO should do in the company. A few months ago I was offered a position of a Chief Technology Officer in a startup company. Through my history in different high-tech companies (although this.

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Chief Technology Officer CTO Technology Innovation 63

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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Skip Prichard

MARCH 13, 2020

If we manage the growth of smart automation properly, and plan for it adequately, it can be relatively painless. meaning that they can already perform key business management functions. In an office environment, tasks like sending out invoices, processing payments, and managing payroll can also be automated fairly easily.

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Blanchard Education CTO Technology 104

Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Over the past 27 years of my career in marketing, brand management and executive search + coaching, I’ve found time and again that organizations have blind-spots when hiring talent. How do you influence hiring managers to slow down and find unicorns? Leadership Tip: slow down hiring. Slow Down the Hiring Process. In the U.S.

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Emotional Intelligence CTO Stress Exit Strategy 77

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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Agility Banking Supply Chain Real Estate 65

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. With that understanding, focus on how you will continuously recycle resources from invention to deployment, management, offloading and back. We want to come out strong.”

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Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

CEOs and CFOs managing technology may not recognize tech debt building up in their SMBs—because it is not revealed in monthly variance reports or other accounting controls. That is patch management—a relatively straightforward process, 10 or 20 years ago. Please follow the steps below to turn off Remote Management immediately.

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Bottom-up Software Policies CIO 88

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

In contrast, another software entrepreneur found that a poor choice of a chief technology officer, who was assumed by others to be the unannounced number two, prevented his small startup from being acquired by a Silicon Valley giant, because the potential acquirer found the CTO incapable of backing up the CEO as the company grew.

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COO Wireless Ryan Chief Operating Officer 19

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

And because organizational change tends to be driven by those who most acutely feel the pain, it’s often line managers who are the strongest champions for “talent tech”: innovations in how firms hire people, staff projects, evaluate performance, and develop talent. Insight Center.

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Talent Management Technology Process Management 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

ERP systems, RFID , knowledge management, business intelligence) have washed over organizations. This trend toward ever more critical reliance on IT is not only transforming the idea and practice of corporate IT, but has disruptive operational implications for every manager. Similar waves of innovative applications of technology (e.g.,

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Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 9

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.

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Chief Technology Officer Constraint Bottom-up CTO 15

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. Find out what keeps your manager up at night and propose solutions to those problems.

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CTO Career Case Study Project 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

For example, if a CRO or CTO leaves a young company, it can cripple the organization. We found that one significant driver of employee happiness is the employee’s rating of management transparency, showing a stronger correlation with company culture then factors like benefits or work-life balance.

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Morale Attrition Early Adopters Benchmarking 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Self-management: Being a PM can be incredibly stressful. Company Fit.

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Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2013

Then, they look at the health of the information available to business leaders who manage those capabilities. 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.

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CIO Innovation ROI CTO 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. At Harvard Business School’s General Management Program.

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Education Innovation Execution Content 11

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. This means managing entrepreneurs who can navigate trends and market behaviors.

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Entrepreneur CTO Business Model CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

For all the emphasis placed on customer relationships these days, very few large organizations really understand how to manage them. 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.

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CRM Execution CTO Metrics 8

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. Markarian states, “You need strong company managers to set up remote sites.”

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Offshoring Company CTO Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2013

Managing this rapid change and fostering innovation while "keeping the trains running on time" is the primary leadership role required of any CIO, new or old. Our Project Management Office is therefore enthusiastically pursuing new PPM capabilities that will enhance the transparency of our decision making processes.

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CIO Positioning PPM Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Digital leaders, those companies that have managed their digital transformations successfully, all show common characteristics in the way they have shaped their IT to work differently with the business. It requires strong leadership from all senior IT executives, as well as new business acumen. Research points to the latter.

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CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. As Harvard Business School Professor Linda A.

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Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

An effective decision governance framework makes clear how the CIO and CMO, and other members of the leadership team, must work together and support each other. The CMO and CIO (and potentially the CTO) must bring complete transparency to the process. Collaboration IT management Marketing' Be clear on decision governance.

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CIO Budgeting Enterprise Architecture Marketing 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Charlie Hill , Distinguished Engineer and CTO, IBM Design, told us, “To deliver fundamentally different and better user experiences, designers want to take a step back and observe users actually doing their jobs. Throughout these years of cultural transformation, Intuit’s leadership support has been constant.

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Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

The best managers hire smart people to work for them. How do you manage people who have more experience or more knowledge? “When you’re a technical expert, you know your value to the organization,” says Wanda Wallace, President and CEO of Leadership Forum and author of Reaching the Top. What the Experts Say.

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Management How To CTO Learning-by-Doing 8

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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CTO Lewin IPO Learning-by-Doing 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Leadership risk: Psychology has found that "for most people, the fear of losing $100 is more intense than the hope of gaining $150", and IT leaders are no exception. IT creates risk confusing leadership, governance, and managing. The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. Sunk costs don''t count.

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Dunning Project CTO Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.” Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

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Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Celine Schillinger sought to change the leadership landscape of Sanofi, a major pharmaceutical company. She loved her job, and with a background in public affairs in communications had been successful in both international business and management roles. So she wrote a memo to the CEO explaining why gender balance is good for business.

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