http://akf-consulting.com/techblog/2008/03/03/be-a-leader/ Technical and Leadership Thoughts Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:56:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 http://akf-consulting.com/techblog/2008/03/03/be-a-leader/#comment-104 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:56:37 +0000 http://akf-consulting.com/techblog/2008/03/03/be-a-leader/#comment-104 [...] As we’ve discussed before in articles like Be A Leader!, the primary job of a CTO is to help the executive team maximize shareholder value.  Notice our choice of verb in the last sentence, “maximize”.  It is a much stronger word than what an average performing company would select – that word typically being “create”.  Maximizing shareholder value is the goal of a high performing team – a team which desires to say that “no other team in our position could provide the type of shareholder return that we do”. [...] […] As we’ve discussed before in articles like Be A Leader!, the primary job of a CTO is to help the executive team maximize shareholder value.  Notice our choice of verb in the last sentence, “maximize”.  It is a much stronger word than what an average performing company would select – that word typically being “create”.  Maximizing shareholder value is the goal of a high performing team – a team which desires to say that “no other team in our position could provide the type of shareholder return that we do”. […]

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