CTO Excellence in 100 Days

While this book provided a lot of information that may be useful to some, the core target market of this book seems to be existing CTOs likely those who inherited that role in a startup space.

The core topics cover things around finding your next role as an existing CTO, how to work though your first 100 days and then covers topics on basic leadership which anyone who went from dev to CTO by working through a career progression would already know as they'd have spent many years in roles like team/technical lead and even head of engineering.

As someone on that path having been a developer for over a decade, a team lead working towards HOE and then CTO, this book provided almost no value, nothing for the first 100 days would be useful as when the time comes I'd have been with the company for 3+ years, everything on he short chapter on leadership skills really are just the basics and at best the bare minimum a normal leader should be doing, and far too little and simple for someone in such an important position.

Maybe I was mislead by the title, but “Becoming the leader your company deserves” does not really scream job hunting.

If your someone like me looking to better understand the role as a hole, get a better understanding of what to look towards/forward to should you have your eyes set on moving up the ranks, then this book if not for you. You'd be better off reading “Think like a CTO” by Alan Williamson.