- The rise of the human-centric CEO
At a micro level, the misplaced application of peacetime CEO/wartime CEO can fundamentally change a company for the worse. A wartime CEO, as Horowitz notes, is “completely intolerant, rarely speaks in a normal tone, sometimes uses profanity purposefully, heightens contradictions, and neither indulges consensus building nor tolerates disagreements.” In the strictest application, we are seeing this align with a common false trope that has plagued the tech industry: “To change the world like Steve Jobs, I need to emulate all aspects of Steve Jobs’ personality.” A classic logical fallacy many founders/CEOs have learned the hard way — if you emulate all aspects of Steve Jobs’ personality, it doesn’t mean you will change the world like he did.
At a macro level, peacetime CEO/wartime CEO conjures outdated themes that are at best inaccurate, and at worst, counterproductive. War implies “destruction, ruthlessness, blood, death;” there is an innate sense of machismo and bravado in this language reinforcing a homogeneous tech community. This type of vernacular and attitude increases barriers to a more inclusive community excluding women and underrepresented minority participation.
https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/05/the-rise-of-the-human-centric-ceo/
- CIOs Set Aside Rivalry for Collegiality to Tackle Coronavirus IT Problems
Enterprise tech leaders are finding a lot of value in real-time knowledge-sharing as they seek solutions to IT problems brought on by the health crisis and its fallout in the economy, said Sunny Gupta, a board member of the Technology Business Management Council, a nonprofit trade group that seeks to establish standards and best practices for enterprise IT managers.
Among other issues, Mr. Gupta said CIOs are being called upon to rapidly support a distributed workforce, replan IT spending and redo budget forecasts, cancel noncritical projects and refocus IT team efforts into capacity upgrades, public cloud and operational resilience—often all at once.
As a result, the IT industry is seeing an “unprecedented level of peer-to-peer support,” said Mr. Gupta, who is also chief executive of software maker Apptio.
- Some employers use software to monitor employees working from home
- How My Boss Monitors Me While I Work From Home
With millions of us working from home in the coronavirus pandemic, companies are hunting for ways to ensure that we are doing what we are supposed to. Demand has surged for software that can monitor employees, with programs tracking the words we type, snapping pictures with our computer cameras and giving our managers rankings of who is spending too much time on Facebook and not enough on Excel.
The technology raises thorny privacy questions about where employers draw the line between maintaining productivity from a homebound work force and creepy surveillance. To try to answer them, I turned the spylike software on myself.
Last month, I downloaded employee-monitoring software made by Hubstaff, an Indianapolis company. Every few minutes, it snapped a screenshot of the websites I browsed, the documents I was writing and the social media sites I visited. From my phone, it mapped where I went, including a two-hour bike ride that I took around Battersea Park with my kids in the middle of one workday. (Whoops.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/technology/employee-monitoring-work-from-home-virus.html