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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

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Those of us that are willing to admit that we fawked things up in the first dot-com explosion and learned from our mistakes have the battle wounds to make more pragmatic decisions in 2011. I had my sales teams telling me we needed certain features to be competitive. I was management. I certainly did in my first company.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

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Not only do they need to have a high level of diversified technical prowess and proficiency, but they also need to possess strong leadership and project management capabilities. However, it’s more important that the CTO have exceptional interpersonal skills and be able to manage a team effectively.

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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Investors use a consulting CTO for technical due diligence. 9 Responses to Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO Startup Advice: Developer Stockholm Syndrome « Web Startup Help says: November 10, 2008 at 5:10 pm [.] third party to vet or manage&# your development team.

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Daddy, What Does a Chief Technology Officer Do?

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I’ve seen openings for a “CTO” whose responsibilities include maintaining servers and managing the help desk. One firm had a CTO that was chartered to run a group of developers. The CTO should not manage developers. A CTO should not manage a hardware team or an infrastructure group.

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HOW TO: Build an App for Your Small Business

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Also make sure that you’re communicating well with any web developers or designers you hire. Have appropriate expectations, listen to the professionals in your employ and don’t micro-manage a design or development project. One of the biggest keys to getting great work is being a great client.

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Transcript of Developing Important Entrepreneurial and Leadership Qualities

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He is a co-founder and managing partner of Relationship Impact , a consulting firm focused on helping great leaders build great leadership teams. And I really wanted to get into management consulting field. We rode the re-engineering process, re-engineering craze in the 1990s, but we did it from a change management perspective.

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[Interview] Omar L. Harris, Author Of “Leader Board”

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Harris is passionate about leading teams, high- performance coaching, and inspiring more people to adopt the servant leader mindset. A 20-year veteran of the global pharmaceutical industry, he now resides in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where he is General Manager of Allergan PLC. What was the impetus for your book, “Leader Board”?