Book description
This book offers insights into managing change, leveraging technology and building strong relationships within your organization including how to understand and work with company culture. It is an essential reading for IT leaders who want to develop their skills, stay ahead of the digital curve and lead their organizations into the future.
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the author
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Part I Foundations
- 1 Playing the long game of leadership
- 2 The average IT leader is … average
- 3 Master your mindset
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4 IT leadership peak performance
- What is peak performance IT leadership?
- Systems: the algorithm of success
- Managing emotions
- Stress, burnout and the myth of work-life balance
- Imposter syndrome: taming the inner critic
- Distractions will make you mediocre
- Cognitive load and decision fatigue
- The path to peak performance doesn’t end
- Summary
- References and further reading
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Part II Leadership in action
- Living in a VUCA world
- The OODA loop: The Rosetta Stone for leadership agilit
- Summary
- References and further reading
- 5 Starting a new job: How to thrive
- 6 A crash course in strategic planning
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7 Building a high-performance team
- Attracting great people: with or without a big budget
- What is a high-performance team?
- Creating psychological safety
- The leader as coach
- Managing conflict
- Five secrets of high-performing teams
- Quiet quitting and other headwinds
- Leading through crisis
- Succession planning: how and why to obsolete yourself as quickly as possible
- Summary
- References and further reading
- 8 Execution and getting things done
- 9 Leading from anywhere: A guide to the hybrid office
- 10 Giving back: Industry leadership and the next generation of leaders
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11 Leading from the edge: The future of work
- IT leadership and the future of work
- Web 3.0: power to the people
- Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) replaces some jobs but creates others
- Middle managers go extinct
- 5G and 6G brings high-speed internet everywhere
- The skills-based economy eliminates the need for a college degree
- The metaverse makes work even weirder
- Creativity becomes the new differentiator
- Become a technology futurist
- Summary
- References and further reading
- Conclusion: Time is the ultimate disruptor
- Appendix
- Index
Product information
- Title: Leading the Digital Workforce
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2023
- Publisher(s): CRC Press
- ISBN: 9781000895131
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