Technology Presentation

Who is this Jason character?

Management Consultant (10 yrs)

Manage and develop Gen X and Gen Y talent.

Author, How to Self-Destruct: Making the Least of What’s Left of Your Career (2008)

Speaker, Facilitator

Teacher

Repeat guest on The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch on CNBC

CNN, local Chicago TV

Radio from coast to coast

Kellogg MBA, Wharton BS Econ

A Note About Implementing Next Generation, Carbon-Based, Technology Leadership Platforms by Jason Seiden

A.K.A. 5 Critical Paradoxes of Leadership that Technology Experts, Due to Years of Technical Training, Are Ill-Equipped to Handle

A.K.A. 5 Surprises that Can Make the Transition from Project Manager to Executive Arguably More Stressful than Puberty

Why should I care about this topic?

Typical Career Progression BFFs!

Trouble spots! BFFs!

Let’s be clear:

It’s not about what happens here,

but rather what happens here,

with these people, CEO PRESIDENT CFO VP HR CMO COO

and making sure it’s not this. CEO PRESIDENT CFO VP HR CMO COO CIO

Surprise #1

You must create clarity for others…

… while your world is maddeningly ambiguous.

Surprise #2

Lighting a fire under their (ahem)…

… doesn’t light the fires in their bellies.

Surprise #3

Making yourself indispensable…

… now makes you dispensable…

… and vice versa.

Surprise #4

The ethics of your decisions…

… will be judged in hindsight only.

Surprise #5

You will do your best work…

… when you feel least secure.

So what?

You can’t be a and a (or a) at the same time. Bffs!

Even if you want to be a great skills to navigate work. , you’ll need Bffs! &

Cultivate a leaders’ perspective.

As a leader, asking for clarity signals that you cannot provide it.

Wetware doesn’t crash when kicked, it runs: // 4 The Kick-Down-Kiss-Up Manager Boss var emotion=IntenseDislike function Spitefulness { emotion.communication=[slow + incomplete] emotion.trust=joke emotion.turnover=high emotion.sabotage=I’m thinking about it emotion.success=0 }

Make yourself dispensable: hire people more technically competent than yourself.

Get to love gray (jersey, heather, charcoal) because Emotions. Cloud. Everything.

Incompetence is temporary. Play through.

Most of what holds people back is the perspective they hold.

If you want the next job up, you first need to understand it!

Questions?

Contact

This presentation prepared by:

Jason Seiden Jason Philip Seiden & Associates LLC

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