97% of CTOs have to earn credibility in the C Suite
And they won’t win it with an engineering or individual contributor mindset!
They will win it with an Executive Mindset.
“”Chiefs” are special. Their titles imply specialty — CFO is finance, CMO is marketing, COO is operations — but that just describes their expertise, not their scope.
Their job is making decisions from the perspective of the entire business. They think about making the entire business succeed, not just their own domain.
You know that grand vision statement the company wrote last month?
It’s the chiefs who link the leadership vision with the strategy and tactics that get carried out” said Stever Robbins in an HBR article 18 years ago!
This key sentence is the one many engineers who become CTOs don’t realise:
“They think about making the entire business succeed, not just their own domain.”
This is why I am thinking of setting up a newsletter and insights group for ambitious and aspiring CTOs who want to have a true executive mindset.
Would you join it?
If so, I would love to hear what you would like the newsletter to talk about in the first month.
Let me know below.
#cto #reengineeringleadership #executivemindset
