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Because as a CTO you usually answer to outcomes not defensibility. If you frequently make defensible decisions and they keep not panning out, your CEO will fire
by scarejunba 7y ago
Because as a CTO you usually answer to outcomes not defensibility. If you frequently make defensible decisions and they keep not panning out, your CEO will fire you.
- lostcolony 7y agoYes, but as a newly hired CTO, you want a win...and failing that, a loss you can defend to a non-technical CEO. "Industry leader" or "we already are in bed with them" is a reason the non-technical CEO can understand.
- scarejunba 7y agoDespite the downvotes I'm confident this is not a significant source of variation in market share.
- scarface74 7y agoThe saying that “no one ever got fired for buying IBM” didn’t come out of thin air back in the day. Few people get to be CTO without knowing the politics and perceptions involved with dealing with corporate America.
- notyourday 7y ago> If you frequently make defensible decisions and they keep not panning out, your CEO will fire you. That could be a case for startups but it is certainly not the case for established companies. The job of a CTO of an established company is not piloting a formula 1 car. Rather, it is to prevent reckless technical decisions from taking an ocean liner and smashing it into an iceberg.