Book Insights: Adventures of an IT Leader
Masterful Storytelling of a Complicated Topic
This is Day 06 of my Daily Writing Challenge.
Book Name — “Adventures of an IT Leader”
Authors — Robert D. Austin, Shannon O’Donnell and Richard L. Nolan.
What I Loved About the Book:
Loved the creative non-fiction format (non-fiction as a story). The book is presented as a fictional story at a firm with an aggressive CEO, a newly minted CTO with a strong business background but minimal IT know-how, a mysterious young IT whiz, and various other supporting characters. The conversations/reflections surrounding the CTO are used to present key IT-related concepts that the authors want to emphasize and teach. In that sense, the book is so much more riveting than a dry college coursebook.
The book beautifully highlights the complexities, challenges, and pressures faced by senior IT/tech leaders. For example, a CFO/CMO can probably do everything a junior person on the team can do, but a CTO cannot say the same thing. There are simply too many niches and sub-categories like networking, CyberSec, coding, hardware/infrastructure, cloud architecture, vendorOps and many more.
