Why should top managers learn to code?
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2 min readSep 23, 2017
Leaders ascend to their positions by mastering today’s (or even yesterday’s) business. Almost by definition, they don’t have first-hand experience with a disruptive shift in their market when they encounter it. A lack of intuition around the new and different can at best slow progress and at worst lead to serious strategic missteps.
What should a leader do? Learn to code, like Dave Gledhill, Group Executive and Head of Group Technology & Operations at DBS Bank did :
Leaders confronting a disruptive shift in their industry should follow Gledhill’s lead. It is hard to make decisions about technologies or business models with which you have no first-hand experience.
Quote: Harvard Business Review
