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Trusting Technology
Mastering Technology for Non-Tech Leaders. Foreword by Alan Weiss.
Trusting Technology is about adapting to new ways of life and work. Technology merely provides the platform. When we talk about the challenges of technology, we’re really talking about the challenges of improvement: the ways we change and the lessons we learn on our path to making things better.
It is a handbook to help business leaders become centred in their focus, approach and resilience when adopting and adapting technology. Among other things, you will learn how to:
- Generate, curate, and make ideas happen.
- Better understand how to improve your customer’s journey.
- Build a machine that connects your community of customers and colleagues.
- Nurture confidence in the face of change.
- Convert information to insights for your colleagues and customers.
- Describe your security strategy in five minutes.
- Capture your business’s special sauce to create new assets.
10-Minute Reflections, Volume 1
One month of daily exercises that will spark growth in your business.
A tool to help you step out of a busy routine and consider your business: where you are succeeding, and how you could do better. Thirty topics, each with a five-minute read followed by a five-minute exercise. Topics include:
- Knowing when your team needs help
- Revealing value, one step at a time
- Production lines and the bottleneck effect
- Letting information flow
- Outside-in design for your business
- When better beats best
10-Minute Reflections, Volume 2
Another month of daily exercises that will spark growth in your business.
Another thirty wide-ranging topics for reflection. Combine with Volume 1 and you have sixty potential game changers. Topics include:
- How your business restricts innovation
- Your best approach to get lean
- Are you really solving, or simply moving, the problem
- Risk, confidence and your dream job
- Creating experts
- Using minimalist deadlines
The Technology Leader’s Handbook
The pace at which new tools reach business leaders can seem bewildering. The typical CEO, or product, sales and finance executive, has neither the time nor the inclination to sort the useful from the marketing hype. There is a need for Business Technologists to step forward, understand where the business value lies, and translate it into terms that excite the busy non-technical leader.
This handbook covers the people skills that make that possible, along with learning, planning and other topics, in 17,000 words. I coached hundreds of technologists over the years, and this is a synopsis of the lessons I learned.