Leading the Digital Workforce: Future IT leaders won't be technology leaders, they'll be business leaders who understand technology. Leading the Digital Workforce takes a fresh look at technology leadership, exploring how to lead and manage in today’s digital workplace where the pace of change is exponential. This book walks you through building personal resiliency and avoiding stress and burnout to creating a strategy, building a high-performance team, and examining how technology will change the workforce of the future. Technology leadership requires a unique set of skills, which is why traditional leadership approaches don't always work. This book provides actionable advice on how to create a culture of innovation while driving successful change initiatives. Leading the Digital Workforce provides strategies for empowering people, optimizing processes, and inspiring innovation. This book offers insights into managing change, leveraging technology, and building strong relationships within your organization, including how to understand and work with company culture. Finally, it shares strategies for using technology and innovation to create a competitive edge to unlock new opportunities. Leading the Digital Workforce is essential reading for IT leaders who want to develop their skills, stay ahead of the digital curve, and lead their organizations into the future. No matter if you’re a new IT leader, an aspiring one, or a seasoned leader who’s been at it for years, there’s something in this book that will help you level up your game. --------------------------------- The Security Leader’s Communication Playbook This book is for cybersecurity leaders across all industries and organizations. It is intended to bridge the gap between the data center and the board room. This book examines the multitude of communication challenges that CISOs are faced with every day and provides practical tools to identify your audience, tailor your message and master the art of communicating. Poor communication is one of the top reasons that CISOs fail in their roles. By taking the step to work on your communication and soft skills (the two go hand-in-hand), you will hopefully never join their ranks. This is not a “communication theory” book. It provides just enough practical skills and techniques for security leaders to get the job done. Learn fundamental communication skills and how to apply them to day-to-day challenges like communicating with your peers, your team, business leaders and the board of directors. Learn how to produce meaningful metrics and communicate before, during and after an incident. Regardless of your role in Tech, you will find something of value somewhere along the way in this book.

Table of Contents:
Leading the Digital Workforce Preface Acknowledgements About the Author Part 1: Foundations Chapter 1 Playing the long game of leadership Chapter 2: The average IT leader is…average Chapter 3 Master your mindset Chapter 4 IT leadership peak performance Part 2: Leadership in action Chapter 5 Starting a new job: How to thrive Chapter 6 A crash course in strategic planning Chapter 7 Building a high-performance team Chapter 8 Execution and getting things done Chapter 9 Leading from anywhere: A guide to the hybrid office Chapter 10 Giving back: Industry leadership and the next generation of leaders Chapter 11 Leading from the edge: The future of work Conclusion Appendix ------------------------------------------------ The Security Leader’s Communication Playbook Contents Preface xvii Acknowledgments xix Author xxi Introduction 1 Part 1 Communication Foundational Skills 13 1 Foundational Communication Skills 15 2 People Skills 43 3 The Language of Business Risk 59 4 Company Culture 79 5 Better Business Writing 93 6 Say What? Verbal Communication Skills 119 7 Communication Superpowers 157 Part 2 Communication in the Real World 183 8 Policies, Standards, Guidelines and Procedures 185 9 T raining and Awareness 203 10 Driving Change through Metrics 217 11 The High Stakes of Incident Response Communication 235 12 Communicating with Your Team and Colleagues 249 13 Managing Up: Finding Your Boss’s Communication Style 269 14 The Board of Directors 279 15 Working with Auditors 295 16 Your Next Job 305 17 Consultants and Sales: Building and Maintaining Client Relationships 325 Appendix 341 Index 361