http://akf-consulting.com/techblog/2007/12/07/seed-feed-and-weed-to-succeed/ Technical and Leadership Thoughts Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:41:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 http://akf-consulting.com/techblog/2007/12/07/seed-feed-and-weed-to-succeed/#comment-505 Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:26:29 +0000 http://akf-consulting.com/techblog/2007/12/07/seed-feed-and-weed-to-succeed/#comment-505 [...] 5. Failure to Build World Class Team As important as any other aspect of your job is the need to cultivate the best team possible given the limitations of your budget, mission and headcount. Rather than spending time on improving the capabilities of their teams, we find that many chief tech execs spend a great deal of time attempting to compensate for deficiencies within their teams. A very typical example of this is a CTO personally taking responsibility for every technology decision within a company. While this is a necessary practice when the team is very small, it does not scale into organizations of hundreds or thousands of engineers. All managers must be able to delegate to succeed. [...] […] 5. Failure to Build World Class Team As important as any other aspect of your job is the need to cultivate the best team possible given the limitations of your budget, mission and headcount. Rather than spending time on improving the capabilities of their teams, we find that many chief tech execs spend a great deal of time attempting to compensate for deficiencies within their teams. A very typical example of this is a CTO personally taking responsibility for every technology decision within a company. While this is a necessary practice when the team is very small, it does not scale into organizations of hundreds or thousands of engineers. All managers must be able to delegate to succeed. […]

]]> http://akf-consulting.com/techblog/2007/12/07/seed-feed-and-weed-to-succeed/#comment-10 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:38:14 +0000 http://akf-consulting.com/techblog/2007/12/07/seed-feed-and-weed-to-succeed/#comment-10 [...] Caring about people does NOT mean creating a sense of entitlement or lifetime employment within your organization. We argue just the opposite within our article entitled “Seed, Feed and Weed to Succeed”. Caring also does NOT mean setting easy goals – once again per our previous articles the effective leader sets aggressive but realistic goals for an organization – see our article entitled “Be A Leader!” [...] […] Caring about people does NOT mean creating a sense of entitlement or lifetime employment within your organization. We argue just the opposite within our article entitled “Seed, Feed and Weed to Succeed”. Caring also does NOT mean setting easy goals – once again per our previous articles the effective leader sets aggressive but realistic goals for an organization – see our article entitled “Be A Leader!” […]

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