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Invaluable stories and lessons that will help you tackle one of the most challenging jobs in technology and business – leading transformation

In Digital Trailblazer: Essential Lessons to Jumpstart Transformation and Accelerate Your Technology Leadership, Isaac Sacolick, a technology leadership expert and a former CIO and CTO, delivers a hands-on guide to help technology and business professionals at all stages of their careers acquire the skills necessary to drive transformative change. With an eye-opening collection of stories and more than 50 lessons, Sacolick gives readers a view into what goes on behind-the-scenes in leading digital transformations. From tense IT Ops conference calls to make-or-break executive meetings, Sacolick presents the challenging scenarios faced by product, technology, and data leaders and helps readers learn to lead transformations and become Digital Trailblazers.

In the book you will:

  • Step out of your comfort zone and develop the management and leadership skills required to influence executives and win over detractors in driving technology changes
  • Learn how to transform experiences, lead data driven organizations, and foster high performance teams
  • Discover how to deliver innovation, empower agile self-organization, and evolve standard digital practices that drive culture changes in your organization

A can’t-miss resource for product, technology, and data leaders – from those aspiring to leadership roles through vice presidents, CIOs, CTOs, and CDOs, Digital Trailblazer delivers real-word stories and need-to-know lessons that will accelerate your technology leadership journey.

Table of Contents

  1. Cover
  2. Praise for Digital Trailblazer: Essential Lessons to Jumpstart Transformation and Accelerate Your Technology Leadership
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Chapter 1: Transitioning to Leadership: What's a Cookie?
  9. Chapter 2: Dev: Technical Debt Is Now Your Problem
  10. Chapter 3: Ops: Wearing the CEO's Diet Coke
  11. Chapter 4: Product Management and Architecture: Trials and Triumphs
  12. Chapter 5: “That's Not Agile”: Defining Your Organization's Agile Way of Working
  13. Chapter 6: Transforming Experiences with a Global Perspective
  14. Chapter 7: Buried in Bad Data
  15. Chapter 8: Transformative Culture, Empathetic Teams, Diverse Leaders
  16. Chapter 9: Selling Innovation to the C‐Suite—and Reducing the Stress
  17. Chapter 10: Transforming Beyond Crisis and Becoming a Digital Trailblazer
  18. Epilogue
  19. Appendix Digital Trailblazer Lessons
  20. About the Author
  21. Index
  22. End User License Agreement
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