Have you had an "innovation celebration" with your teams this year?

Time blocks are powerful techniques throughout the year. Thanks for sharing this approach!

To listen: whether it is a friend, enemy, employee, customer, or just yourself.

December: The special month where you celebrate wins, reflect on losses, ramp up for the new year, and take some time to rest and relax.

What's your technique for juggling all the pieces?

Leader pro tip: Sending a "Happy Thanksgiving" note on Thanksgiving may seem like a nice gesture.

But does your team need to think about you and work today? Or just spend it with their friends and family?

Share it yesterday or tomorrow - gratitude for your team is important. But give them today.

Mentors are great. Should they be one or two steps ahead of you or all the way at the finish line?

On your way up, remember to bring others with you!

It's an interesting concern - having better ways of measuring productivity is a good thing for businesses - but pushing outdated styles of management via technology will ultimately be bad for business.

Even if you have dedicated IT leadership, they can still benefit from a fractional CTO. Join this free lean coffee (next Thursday Jan 11 - 12pm EST) to learn why.

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Episode 4 - DevSecOps - The CISO Perspective Listen now | I shared my thoughts on the importance of DevSecOps and how a modern CISO should ensure the business uses it well (edited version of previous live event)

The CISO is working with the CIO/CTO and other C-Suite leaders to make sure DevSecOps is effective at delivering secure software quickly.

Listen to Episode 4 of E. B. Spoke - The Podcast for a perspective on this:
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A Letter from the CISO to the Chief Compliance Officer Cybersecurity and Compliance: joined at the hip

The CISO's letter to the Chief Compliance Officer:

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Join this live event to see the CISO perspective on DevSecOps!

Great points, and building a strategy to cover all (and more) is the real challenge of the modern C-Suite.

The executive team as a whole needs a level of understanding cyber risk. Good call out for the value to marketing.

A leader adds to the organization, not just stands at the top. As a leader, what are you bringing?

August Cybersecurity Update happening live, Friday, September 1st, 8:00am EDT.

Register here:
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Wise words: We only rent our job titles.

Leaders lead, managers manage. Which are you today?

BlueSky seems to give a bump to a first post. What you do with it matters. Even leaders need to make a good first impression.

What is the role of the leader?

The cockpit, deciding?
The rudder steering?
The engines pushing?

None of these make a plane fly or an organization thrive.

The leader is the wings.
The wings give the lift into the sky.
Lift makes an organization thrive above its competitors.

Lead by lifting.

Diversity within the C-Suite needs to be on every company's strategic goal list.