Digital Trailblazer: Essential Lessons to Jumpstart Transformation and Accelerate Your Technology Leadership
- Length: 288 pages
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- Publisher: Wiley
- Publication Date: 2022-07-06
- ISBN-10: 1119894530
- ISBN-13: 9781119894537
- Sales Rank: #84717 (See Top 100 Books)
Several years into their careers, technologists, product managers, and data scientists begin thinking about leadership roles. They may ask, “What’s it like to be a CIO, CTO, or Chief Digital or Data Officer? What should I learn, and what types of roles should I seek to gain the most relevant experience? To get started, what leadership skills do I need to be a Director or a VP? If I get a more senior role, then how should I develop relationships with colleagues, executives, and board members?” Many of these high potentials seek greater responsibilities in established organizations. They must drive transformation into digital businesses where developing customer experiences, analytics, and digital workflows enable competitive differentiation. Others might consider joining startups, but they also recognize a need to broaden their transformation skills and shift from getting things done to driving business outcomes. More importantly, emerging leaders want to know how to broaden their leadership skills and better understand how to succeed in driving transformative changes.
The author believes that the best way to learn aspects of leadership and transformation is from stories. He has seen it every time he keynotes a conference and goes into storytelling mode. The audience’s eyes lift off their cellphones and listen. People understand and remember the lessons through relevant stories.
In this book, the author shares some of his best stories that helped him learn and understand transformative leadership. Each chapter has intertwining stories from across my career crafted in a stream of thought writing style. Each chapter concludes with five lessons learned, and with some chapters, lessons learned by other leaders who contribute to the book.
Cover
Table of Contents
Praise for Digital Trailblazer: Essential Lessons to Jumpstart Transformation and Accelerate Your Technology Leadership
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Transitioning to Leadership: What's a Cookie?
Transformative Leadership Requires Working In and Out of the Weeds
Notes
Chapter 2: Dev: Technical Debt Is Now Your Problem
My Recipe: Creating the Perfect Bowl of Spaghetti Code
Dramatize the Mess: Getting Leadership's Buy‐In to Address Technical Debt
Bad Code in Modern Platforms: Still a Problem
Note
Chapter 3: Ops: Wearing the CEO's Diet Coke
Building an Ops Team: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
When a Strategic Transformation Collides with a Global Catastrophe
Chaotic World, Chaotic Leadership, and Its Organizational Impact
Notes
Chapter 4: Product Management and Architecture: Trials and Triumphs
What to Do When Asked for a Roadmap
When the Product Roadmap and Architecture Require a Hard Pivot
When You Pivot a Major Initiative, Step In and Help the Teams to Transition
How to Create a Blow‐Up Moment
Awkward Blow‐Up Moments Often Lead to Innovative Solutions
Note
Chapter 5: “That's Not Agile”: Defining Your Organization's Agile Way of Working
Bringing Agile Startup Cultures to a Large Enterprise
Not One Agile: Adapting an Agile Way of Working
Prioritizing Technical Debt—Because They Are Business Issues
Why Agile? It Connects Transformation Strategy to Execution
Notes
Chapter 6: Transforming Experiences with a Global Perspective
Why Visit India
Chapter 7: Buried in Bad Data
Avoid Bulldozing Institutional Hills as Your First Transformation
How to Find Early Data‐Driven Partners in the Marketing Department
Democratizing Data Exposes Data Quality Issues and Backbones Transformation
Notes
Chapter 8: Transformative Culture, Empathetic Teams, Diverse Leaders
Learning Team Building and Culture Without a Playbook
Fostering Empathy on Agile Teams
Developing a Digital Trailblazing Leadership Team
Notes
Chapter 9: Selling Innovation to the C‐Suite—and Reducing the Stress
Selling Innovation and Product Management Practices to the C‐Suite
Great Leaders Rally Everyone on the Vision and Acknowledge Challenges Ahead
Chapter 10: Transforming Beyond Crisis and Becoming a Digital Trailblazer
Learn Your Decision‐Making Style from Personal Transformations
Reflect on the Externally Driven Transformations That Impact Your Business
Top‐Down Business Decisions Spark Strategic Transformations
Digital Transformations Are Very Different from Strategic Transformations
Four Types of People to Influence on Your Digital Transformation Journey
Building Blocks of Digital Transformations Require One‐Page Guidelines
Successful Digital Transformations Slowly Bring More People Aboard the Journey
Notes
Epilogue
Appendix Digital Trailblazer Lessons
About the Author
Index
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