The CIO edge : 7 leadership skills you need to drive results / Graham Waller, George Hallenbeck, Karen Rubenstrunk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waller, Graham, author.

Hallenbeck, George, author.

Rubenstrunk, Karen, author.

Series:

Harvard business review press series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leadership.

Chief information officers.

Executive ability.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (142 pages).

Place of Publication:

Boston, Massachusetts : Harvard Business Review Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Commit to leadership first, everything else second

Lead differently than you think

Embrace your softer side

Forge right relationships, drive right results

Master communications : always and all ways

Inspire others

Build people not systems

The professional payoff : delivering business results

The personal payoff.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781422172216

142217221X