 Leading IT: The Toughest Job in the WorldAre you ready for a leadership book that makes no attempt to inspire you? A book that gives
you practical techniques you can use every day instead of lecturing you about the importance of being a good person? That leaves the empty platitudes behind and
replaces them with specific actions you can take to become a more effective leader? If so, you’re ready for Leading IT: The
Toughest Job in the World. Here’s what “practical” means: Leading IT defines leadership as getting others to follow
you … practical. It focuses on the specific tasks required for that to happen … practical again. And for each of those tasks, it delivers proven, tested
techniques that work. What could be more practical than that? Leading IT covers the eight tasks required to get others to follow
– to set direction and build an organization that gets the job done:
- Envisioning the future: How to define vision and mission so they matter.
- Delegation: The fundamental building block of leadership, where you define what “follow” means.
- Staffing: Choosing the right people, so you can lead, rather than drag.
- Making decisions: Knowing when to build consensus, to assert authority, to consult, and to delegate decisions, and how to
strike the right balance among these different styles of decision-making.
- Motivating employees: Building an organization that has energy instead of apathy, by using the five primary motivators and
avoiding the three primary de-motivators.
- Building teams: How to create an environment that fosters teamwork, and not internal rivalries.
- Defining culture: Achieving the right results with the wrong culture is like pushing with a rope. By defining culture …
shaping how employees respond to business situations and each other … employees make the right results happen naturally.
- Communication: How to listen, inform and persuade effectively – the essential techniques through which you accomplish the
other seven tasks.
Leading IT: The Toughest Job in the World is fine-tuned for CIOs, CTOs, and others in IT leadership roles, but the techniques it
provides will prove just as useful for anyone responsible for business leadership. As one reader explained, “I usually find this
sort of book annoying, but I wasn’t annoyed by this one at all.” Order your copy today, so you can not be annoyed, too.
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