In The CIO Edge, a team of experts from executive recruiting firm Korn/Ferry International relies on extensive leadership competency data to pinpoint the qualities and behaviors shared by effective leaders in today’s technologically driven workplace.

Hardcover, 256pp

Harvard Business Press, November 2010

ISBN-13: ISBN-13: 9781422166376

Barnes & Noble online price: $20.04

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SYNOPSIS

Great CIOs consistently exceed key stakeholders’ expectations and maximize the business value delivered through their company’s technology. What’s their secret?

Sure, IT professionals need technological smarts, plus an understanding of their company’s goals and the competitive landscape. But the best of them possess a far more potent ability: they forge good working relationships with everyone involved in an IT-enabled project, whether it’s introducing new hardware or implementing a major business transformation.

In The CIO Edge, the authors draw on Korn/Ferry International’s extensive empirical data on leadership competencies as well as Gartner’s research on IT trends and the CIO role. They prove that, for IT leaders, mastering seven essential skills yields big results.

This new book lays out the people-to-people leadership competencies that the highest-performing CIOs have in common, including the ability to inspire others, connect with a diverse array of stakeholders, value others’ ideas and manifest caring in their relationships. The authors then explain how to cultivate each defining competency.

Learn these skills, and you’ll get more work done through others’ enabling you to successfully execute more IT projects, generate better results for your company and concentrate your efforts where they’ll exert the most impact. The payoff? As the authors show, you’ll work smarter, not harder — and get promoted far faster than your peers.

FROM THE PUBLISHER
Sure, IT leaders need technological savvy and business acumen to understand and contribute to their company’s goals. But the best of them possess a far more potent ability: They forge superior working relationships companywide to collaboratively deliver business results.

Using interviews and stories from CIOs at FedEx, P&G, American University, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Aflac, AXA and many other companies, the authors illustrate each of these ideas in action. Within each chapter, they also provide a wealth of practical strategies for enhancing these crucial abilities.

When you have the CIO edge, you’ll get more of the right work done through others. You’ll foster winning relationships. You’ll concentrate your efforts where they’ll exert the most impact. You’ll generate better results for your company. And you’ll gain greater fulfillment inside and outside work.