Ref: Marianne Broadbent and Ellen Kitzis - "The New CIO Leader", HBS Press, 2004
Here are a few qualities for Executive Leadership within IT and by no means are these exhaustive.
Credibility - You may get it by delivering results that enterprise leadership care about and delivering them everytime, on-time and on quality. However, delivering on time and budget alone, cannot guarantee credibility. There is no finite list of to gain credibility.
Adaptive Change - Leaders foster "adaptive change" in any group of people. Adaptive change, says Heifetz, is the kind of deep change that requires people to alter their habits and comfortable ways of acting, even the way they think and feel. Leadership is about change and influencing others to change. It’s focused on doing things differently. Because it’s about change, leadership requires vision, strategy and inspiration.
Vision - What is your vision for your organization and the role information and IT can play in it?
Communication - Communicate the vision and always have a "whats in it for me " for the audience...!!
Emotional Intelligence and Primal Leadership - emotional intelligence accounts for 90 percent of what distinguishes truly skilled leaders from those less able.
Four basic dimensions of Emotional Intelligence -
(a) Self-awareness: the ability to recognize our own feelings. Many of us are raised to pay little attention to what’s going on inside.
(b) Self-management: the ability to manage our feelings and emotional life. All of us have ups and downs, but the emotionally mature person can recognize feelings and avoid being captured and controlled by them.
(c) Social awareness: the ability to recognize the feelings of others. The key skill here is empathy, the ability to see the world through someone else’s eyes, to feel what he or she is feeling, to put ourselves in the other person’s shoes. As someone described it, sympathy is feeling for someone else, while empathy is feeling with someone else. Empathy is virtually the foundation of everything else in human relations.
(d) Social skill: the ability to act on and accommodate effectively the feelings of others.
Four basic dimensions of Emotional Intelligence -
(a) Self-awareness: the ability to recognize our own feelings. Many of us are raised to pay little attention to what’s going on inside.
(b) Self-management: the ability to manage our feelings and emotional life. All of us have ups and downs, but the emotionally mature person can recognize feelings and avoid being captured and controlled by them.
(c) Social awareness: the ability to recognize the feelings of others. The key skill here is empathy, the ability to see the world through someone else’s eyes, to feel what he or she is feeling, to put ourselves in the other person’s shoes. As someone described it, sympathy is feeling for someone else, while empathy is feeling with someone else. Empathy is virtually the foundation of everything else in human relations.
(d) Social skill: the ability to act on and accommodate effectively the feelings of others.
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Further References:
http://danielgoleman.info/
http://www.amazon.co.uk/New-CIO-Leader-Setting-Delivering/dp/B003IT6HES/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=digital-text&qid=1291500569&sr=8-2
http://www.gartner.com/5_about/news/gartner_press/NewCIO3.jsp
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