The principle here is simple: Balance your leadership contribution to the People, Product, and Process while keeping your eyes on the horizon. We are going to start this outsmarticle with a negative contrast. It drives home with clarity how simple this principle is, and how damaging it is to ignore. Consider a newly-promoted CTO. He is in his early thirties, …
I once worked for a very large retail client located outside the mainstream tech talent pool. As I brought with me experience from Amazon and a variety of companies in the Bay Area, I had a unique perspective to add to the mix of leadership that for the most part had come up within the company with little outside influence. One of …