In management meetings, people are often backed into a corner to talk about (or defend) their specialised area. One of the tips in this article is to talk more about business. It needs some practice, doesn't always come naturally, but here's a way to get started: Get your head of marketing and your head of IT together and insist that they only talk about the other's area of expertise for the next 10 minutes. Then gradually start mixing agendas. Have fun and profit from the results.
Full article at: http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/06/how_cios_can_change_the_game.html
Full article at: http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/06/how_cios_can_change_the_game.html
Don't talk IT. Talk business. As Leni Kaufman noted: "I think often people come into a conference room, they come into a meeting, and then they talk IT. Well, don't talk IT. Talk business. Talk about the goals of the company, the growth plan, the projection it's on, how you're going to improve profitability, talk about what the government is funding, what's happening with sequestration. Be part of that conversation, and then you become part of what is on the CEO's mind. You have to do the job that you're there to do, but really make it much bigger, much broader than that."
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