April 2023
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
11h 9m
English
Overview
An effective Chief Technology Officer shapes almost every aspect of a modern business. This book shares the experience and advice of veteran CTOs and industry experts for handling IT crises, leading tech teams, and creating an inspiring vision for your company.
In Think Like a CTO you will learn:
Becoming a CTO is an incredible accomplishment. It’s also one of the hardest transitions a technologist can make. This high-power and high-pressure role demands skills that are rarely developed as a software engineer. Think Like a CTO shines a light on all the areas an aspiring CTO needs to master to succeed. You’ll learn how to build incredible working relationships with the rest of the C-suite, transform a company with private equity, and recruit and manage your development team. With this book as your guide, you’ll quickly become a trusted leader figure with an inspiring vision for your company.
About the Technology
The Chief Technology Officer balances business needs with the constantly evolving world of technology. Think Like a CTO helps you develop the skills and mindset you need to take on this critical role and emerge as a successful leader. Packed with insights from industry experts and veteran CTOs, this book shares practical strategies for navigating the high-stakes world of technology leadership.
About the Book
Think Like a CTO shares hard-won lessons on how to thrive in the fast-paced role of Chief Technology Officer. Inside, you’ll learn to establish successful technology platforms and teams, with practical frameworks for software selection and implementation, bias-free interviews and performance reviews, and earning your place at the table with other senior leaders. You’ll appreciate the no-nonsense advice, insights, and war stories from CTO mentor Alan Williamson.
What's Inside
About the Reader
For technology leaders working in or aspiring towards a CTO role.
About the Author
Alan Williamson has advised numerous CTOs who were catapulted into the big leagues by private equity investment, acquisition, and rapid growth.
Quotes
Comprehensive and insightful views on becoming, and thriving as, a technology executive. Alan provides remarkable solutions to challenges every tech leader faces.
- From the Foreword by Ankit Mathur, Co-Founder, Roundtrip Health and Founder, Press Play Technologies
Interesting and very useful. I could have used this as I moved into CTO roles early in my career.
- Jothy Rosenberg, Dover Microsystems
An awesome collection of strategies and real-life stories! Every paragraph describes a situation many of us have experienced or an actionable step to deal with it.
- Matt Ferderer, Mighty Gnomes
In Think Like a CTO you will learn:
- Effective interaction and relationship-building with other C-level executives
- Creating long term visions and executing on short term goals
- Interviewing, hiring, and terminating team members
- Negotiating salaries and managing promotions
- Architecting future-proofed systems
- Handling security breaches and ransomware attacks
- Putting together budgets and working with your CFO
- Identifying and managing outsourced vendor opportunities
- Managing and communicating bad news by leading with data, not passion
- Being the kind of leader that employees want to follow and emulate
Becoming a CTO is an incredible accomplishment. It’s also one of the hardest transitions a technologist can make. This high-power and high-pressure role demands skills that are rarely developed as a software engineer. Think Like a CTO shines a light on all the areas an aspiring CTO needs to master to succeed. You’ll learn how to build incredible working relationships with the rest of the C-suite, transform a company with private equity, and recruit and manage your development team. With this book as your guide, you’ll quickly become a trusted leader figure with an inspiring vision for your company.
About the Technology
The Chief Technology Officer balances business needs with the constantly evolving world of technology. Think Like a CTO helps you develop the skills and mindset you need to take on this critical role and emerge as a successful leader. Packed with insights from industry experts and veteran CTOs, this book shares practical strategies for navigating the high-stakes world of technology leadership.
About the Book
Think Like a CTO shares hard-won lessons on how to thrive in the fast-paced role of Chief Technology Officer. Inside, you’ll learn to establish successful technology platforms and teams, with practical frameworks for software selection and implementation, bias-free interviews and performance reviews, and earning your place at the table with other senior leaders. You’ll appreciate the no-nonsense advice, insights, and war stories from CTO mentor Alan Williamson.
What's Inside
- Building productive relationships with other C-level executives
- Negotiating salaries and managing promotions
- Architecting future-proof systems
- Handling security breaches and ransomware attacks
About the Reader
For technology leaders working in or aspiring towards a CTO role.
About the Author
Alan Williamson has advised numerous CTOs who were catapulted into the big leagues by private equity investment, acquisition, and rapid growth.
Quotes
Comprehensive and insightful views on becoming, and thriving as, a technology executive. Alan provides remarkable solutions to challenges every tech leader faces.
- From the Foreword by Ankit Mathur, Co-Founder, Roundtrip Health and Founder, Press Play Technologies
Interesting and very useful. I could have used this as I moved into CTO roles early in my career.
- Jothy Rosenberg, Dover Microsystems
An awesome collection of strategies and real-life stories! Every paragraph describes a situation many of us have experienced or an actionable step to deal with it.
- Matt Ferderer, Mighty Gnomes
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.