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CIO Edge
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.
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.
220 pages, Hardcover
First published November 11, 2010
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November 12, 2017
Could have been an article length & just as good.
August 18, 2020
Excellent Perspective.
July 24, 2024
“Soft skills yield hard results” was the big takeaway from the book. It is primarily aimed at CIO’s but there are great points that people in leadership positions can utilize for success.
August 8, 2022
"Soft skills yield hard results."
This is the simple take-home message from The CIO Edge.
"No amount of technology can replace the power of motivated and energized people."
Three authors offer a well-documented approach to managing the people side of technology. Research is provided by Korn/Ferry International (KFI), a provider of executive talent management solutions and Gartner, Inc. a global leader in information technology research and advice.
High performing CIOs (and other business leaders) distinguish themselves by mastering seven skills:
~ Committing to being a leader first.
~ Leading differently than they think.
~ Embracing their softer side.
~ Forging the right relationships to drive the right results.
~ Practicing communication mastery.
~ Inspiring others.
~ Building people, not systems.
Among the subtitles discussed are distinctions between the following:
~ providing influence and persuasion vs. giving orders.
~ receiving commitment vs. getting compliance.
~ guiding people's passions vs. doing things my way.
If you would like to move beyond the solitary quest of mastering technology and into a role of providing collaborative, participatory leadership, then consider reading The CIO Edge: Seven Leadership Skills You Need to Drive Results. Then, practice its principles to develop the people skills needed to drive business growth in the 21st century technology-driven economy.
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This is the simple take-home message from The CIO Edge.
"No amount of technology can replace the power of motivated and energized people."
Three authors offer a well-documented approach to managing the people side of technology. Research is provided by Korn/Ferry International (KFI), a provider of executive talent management solutions and Gartner, Inc. a global leader in information technology research and advice.
High performing CIOs (and other business leaders) distinguish themselves by mastering seven skills:
~ Committing to being a leader first.
~ Leading differently than they think.
~ Embracing their softer side.
~ Forging the right relationships to drive the right results.
~ Practicing communication mastery.
~ Inspiring others.
~ Building people, not systems.
Among the subtitles discussed are distinctions between the following:
~ providing influence and persuasion vs. giving orders.
~ receiving commitment vs. getting compliance.
~ guiding people's passions vs. doing things my way.
If you would like to move beyond the solitary quest of mastering technology and into a role of providing collaborative, participatory leadership, then consider reading The CIO Edge: Seven Leadership Skills You Need to Drive Results. Then, practice its principles to develop the people skills needed to drive business growth in the 21st century technology-driven economy.
Access Gene Babon's reviews of books on Business Leadership and Business Strategy at Pinterest.
June 17, 2012
If you are a CIO or looking forward to be then I suggest you to read this book.
The book explains the skills that are need be acquired with successful CIO.
The book made a research that cover over 300 CIO and tries to cover the common pattern of those successful CIOs.
As a result, the book stress on the leadership skills that are needed to be a successful CIO.
For instance: putting people first, embracing the humor factors, socializing with others, and achieving results through people and with people.
The book draws a clear line between management skills and leaderships skills that is most needed by CIOs.
I like the book and I think it already made an impact on me.
Enjoy the reading
The book explains the skills that are need be acquired with successful CIO.
The book made a research that cover over 300 CIO and tries to cover the common pattern of those successful CIOs.
As a result, the book stress on the leadership skills that are needed to be a successful CIO.
For instance: putting people first, embracing the humor factors, socializing with others, and achieving results through people and with people.
The book draws a clear line between management skills and leaderships skills that is most needed by CIOs.
I like the book and I think it already made an impact on me.
Enjoy the reading
December 31, 2013
Excelência em Liderança para TI. Como entregar resultados através das pessoas.
August 12, 2013
If you are a CIO or aspire to be one, I highly reccomend this book.
November 6, 2013
Great overview of what it takes to be a CIO
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