The Chief Data Officer Management Handbook: Set Up and Run an Organization’s Data Supply Chain

© Martin Treder 2020

M. TrederThe Chief Data Officer Management Handbookhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6115-6_13

13. How (Not) to Behave As a CDO

Martin Treder¹ 

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Königswinter, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

 

Figure 13-1

The four secrets of a leader?

Don’t rely on formal authority

Of course, you should insist on starting with sufficient formal authority – but don’t rely on it: Yes, everybody should know that the Board supports you. This, however, is a “necessary condition,” not a “sufficient condition.”

That is why, in many cases, you will have to work with informal power.

To say it with the words of Monty Halls,¹ you are facing “the moment in life ...