
The CIO Edge
Seven Leadership Skills You Need to Drive Results
- 240 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
The CIO Edge
Seven Leadership Skills You Need to Drive Results
About this book
Great CIOs consistently exceed key stakeholders' expectations and maximize the business value delivered through their company's technology. What's their secret?Sure, IT professionals need technological smarts, plus an understanding of their company's goals and the competitive landscape. But the best of them possess a far more potent ability: they forge good working relationships with everyone involved in an IT-enabled project, whether it's introducing new hardware or implementing a major business transformation.In The CIO Edge, the authors draw on Korn/Ferry International's extensive empirical data on leadership competencies as well as Gartner's research on IT trends and the CIO role. They prove that, for IT leaders, mastering seven essential skills yields big results.This new book lays out the people-to-people leadership competencies that the highest-performing CIOs have in common—including the ability to inspire others, connect with a diverse array of stakeholders, value others' ideas, and manifest caring in their relationships. The authors then explain how to cultivate each defining competency.Learn these skills, and you'll get more work done through others' enabling you to successfully execute more IT projects, generate better results for your company, and concentrate your efforts where they'll exert the most impact. The payoff? As the authors show, you'll work smarter, not harder—and get promoted far faster than your peers.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Introduction
- 1: Commit to Leadership First, Everything Else Second
- 2: Lead Differently Than You Think
- 3: Embrace Your Softer Side . . .
- 4: Forge Right Relationships, Drive Right Results
- 5: Master Communications: Always and All Ways
- 6: Inspire Others
- 7: Build People, Not Systems
- 8: The Professional Payoff: Delivering Business Results
- 9: The Personal Payoff
- Appendix: An Overview of the Research
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors