Graham Waller m.fl.: The CIO Edge – Seven Leadership Skills You Need to Drive Results

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.