Top 3 Things New CTOs have to do to be successful

Top 3 things a first time CTO has to do to be successful in the role:
1. Shift your thinking from IC (individual contributor) to SC (strategic contributor). Strategy is not tactics.
2. Realise that people are watching your every move and you're creating the engineering culture with your behaviour.
3. Speak more than ever to other non technical departments: product, sales, marketing.
Talk about:
✓ deliverables,
✓ impact,
✓ risk
NOT about:
❌code
❌ blockages and
❌bugs.
What top 3 things did you see first time CTOs struggling with the most?
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