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CPOs And CTOs: 20 Key Ingredients Of A Strong Partnership

“ “These two roles are completely intertwined in a business that is customer-focused. The CPO and CTO should be focused on sharing similar business values and supporting each other, whether it be in terms of internal systems, external product feature sets or tools for personnel. Having cohesion across business and product offerings differentiates a customer-focused company from one that isn’t.

~ Tom Roberto

 

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20 Common Pieces Of Tech Leadership Advice It May Be Time To Retire

“ I’ve found that consensus leads to a stifling of innovation and forward momentum within a business. Instead, I find that a small group of leaders should meet and then move the organization forward, leading by example. Management by committee never works, and waiting for everyone to agree is never the sign of a healthy management team or business. It takes gumption to grow.

~ Tom Roberto

 

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11 Smart And Essential Tech-Related Investments During A Recession

“ Outsourcing and automation can only do so much before they start diluting your business. When you have an intelligent partnership that can grow and change along with your business, it is far more potent and effective. Ensure you’re focusing all efforts on your company’s “why.” Things that don’t directly impact that “why” can be entrusted to others. A partnership means flexibility.

~ Tom Roberto

 

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16 Ways To Ensure Prospective Employees Really See Your Tech Team’s Positive Culture

“ Our message is less about work-life balance and more about work-life harmony. I strive to ensure each individual is able to achieve both their professional and personal goals. When you trust employees and set measurable goals and achievements, everyone is on the same page. Just as in life, there have to be positive and negative experiences from the outcomes of their decisions. Harmony means happiness.

~ Tom Roberto

 

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15 Pro Tips To Help Your Team Embrace A New Company Tech Tool

“ The most successful migrations I’ve seen occurred when new projects and work were fed only to the new tool. This method encourages employees to adopt the new tool and explore it while working on something real that impacts their daily lives. Demos, training sessions and fiction are fun, but nothing drives adoption like the need to continue working.

~ Tom Roberto

 

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15 Tech Leaders Share Their Favorite Apps And How They Impact Their Daily Lives

“ There’s no better pleasure than flipping through an endless magazine of personalized news, articles and information. I find myself gaining new interests and more information by using Flipboard during downtime than I ever could with social media apps. For my money, Flipboard is king when it comes to news aggregation, user experience and a pleasurable interface.

~ Tom Roberto

 

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15 Onboarding Strategies To Get Your New Tech Team Member Up And Running

“ Creating a company culture that supports helping each other and identifying ways of improving allows new people to rapidly learn from their mistakes. It also allows new personnel to have face time with different departments and different individuals as well as involvement in the processes and workflows of different co-workers. Culture is everything. It allows questions to lead directly to solutions.

~ Tom Roberto

 

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Should Everyone Learn To Code? 15 Tech Pros Weigh In On Why Or Why Not.

“ Learning to code is like learning a language. It’s necessary in some situations, and handy from time to time. Learning logic is more like learning to communicate. It’s not the same as coding. Far too many technologists fail to understand how computers and code work, which is far more fundamental than the language itself. Understanding logic is not coding, but not addressed by far too many folks.

~ Tom Roberto

 

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13 Bad Practices That Create IT Bottlenecks

“ Far too often, the workflow is overlooked in an organization. Following the flow of information from the beginning to the end leads to understanding where complexities are hiding and where bottlenecks in process and access live. IT folks either create bottlenecks in this workflow because of ignorance or reduce bottlenecks because they focus on workflow and how to simplify it for each business unit.

~ Tom Roberto

 

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The Charismatic Leader isn’t the most Sympathetic

Charisma is a powerful thing. It’s been described as someone who possesses a virtue that sets them apart; someone who is treated as endowed with specifically exceptional powers or qualities. Today charismatic leadership is sought after to challenge the traditional bureaucracy within an organization. Transformative moments in business will typically come from the charismatic, and not from those appointed to positions of leadership.

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