http://akfpartners.com/techblog/2008/03/03/be-a-leader/ Technical and Leadership Thoughts Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:54:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://akfpartners.com/techblog/2008/03/03/be-a-leader/comment-page-1/#comment-328 How Technical Should the CTO or CIO be? | AKF Partners Blog Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:50:50 +0000 http://akf-consulting.com/techblog/2008/03/03/be-a-leader/#comment-328 [...] that this is focusing of the technical skills and experiences. There are still other skills such as leadership, management, communication, and business that must be developed as well if you not only want the [...] [...] that this is focusing of the technical skills and experiences. There are still other skills such as leadership, management, communication, and business that must be developed as well if you not only want the [...]

]]> http://akfpartners.com/techblog/2008/03/03/be-a-leader/comment-page-1/#comment-187 Abbott, Keeven, Fisher &#038 Fortuna Partners Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:24:31 +0000 http://akf-consulting.com/techblog/2008/03/03/be-a-leader/#comment-187 [...] and includes concepts about which we’ve previously blogged such as the need to set aggressive but achievable goals.  The most important aspects of “Objective” as applied to your business are for your goals to [...] [...] and includes concepts about which we’ve previously blogged such as the need to set aggressive but achievable goals.  The most important aspects of “Objective” as applied to your business are for your goals to [...]

]]> http://akfpartners.com/techblog/2008/03/03/be-a-leader/comment-page-1/#comment-50 Abbott, Keeven &#038 Fisher Consulting Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:56:37 +0000 http://akf-consulting.com/techblog/2008/03/03/be-a-leader/#comment-50 [...] As we’ve discussed before in articles like Be A Leader!, the primary job of a CTO is to help the executive team maximize shareholder value.  Notice our choice of verb in the last sentence, “maximize”.  It is a much stronger word than what an average performing company would select – that word typically being “create”.  Maximizing shareholder value is the goal of a high performing team – a team which desires to say that “no other team in our position could provide the type of shareholder return that we do”. [...] [...] As we’ve discussed before in articles like Be A Leader!, the primary job of a CTO is to help the executive team maximize shareholder value.  Notice our choice of verb in the last sentence, “maximize”.  It is a much stronger word than what an average performing company would select – that word typically being “create”.  Maximizing shareholder value is the goal of a high performing team – a team which desires to say that “no other team in our position could provide the type of shareholder return that we do”. [...]

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