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🩍 Alignment, Influence, Non-Harmful Leadership, Hiring Bias, Easy Metrics, DevEx, Leadership Battery, Self-Promotion: TMW #433

How does your compensation stack up? Report just released...
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Thank you to everyone who contributed data points to our most recent Compensation Report for technology leaders - find out more below!

Hello there! Welcome to the week

It's here! Our annual Compensation Report is finally ready to share with you all, built in partnership with our friends at Albany Partners. We surveyed hundreds of tech leaders globally – UK, Europe, North America, Asia – to unearth the hard facts on pay, equity, and retention in the current climate. With layoffs, leaner teams, AI advancements, and flexible work, the demands on tech leaders are relentless.

This year's report cuts through the noise, showing how these pressures are directly influencing compensation throughout the industry and offering clear takeaways on what these trends truly signify.

How does your compensation package stack up? We'd love to know your thoughts - drop us a line, or join the chat in the community.

Compensation Survey Report 2025 | CTO Craft
Welcome to the 2025 CTO Compensation Report, presented by CTO Craft and Albany.
CTO CraftMatt Hunt

That's it, on with the links! See you next Monday

Andy @ CTO Craft

CTO Craft Events

Here are all the upcoming CTO Craft Con events, along with your exclusive access code for discounted subscriber tickets - see you soon

CTO Craft Mixer: Women in Tech Leadership
Join CTO Craft’s monthly online Mixer, exclusively for women in tech leadership. Connect virtually with peers, share experiences, and expand your network in a relaxed, supportive environment.
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CTO Craft | Deep Dives
Deep Dives are purpose-built online events created to help senior technology leaders tackle the most critical, nuanced challenges in their roles. Each Deep Dive is a focused half-day session that blends high-impact talks with practical, workshop-style elements – giving you tools you can apply immediately.
CTO Craft: Deep Dives

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Reads of the Week

The Role of Alignment - Pawel Brodzinski on Leadership in Technology
High autonomy, high alignment environment is optimal organizational model. Aligning individual efforts must happen before sharing autonomy.
Pawel Brodzinski on Leadership in TechnologyPawel Brodzinski
10 Management Principles to Copy from Top 10% Teams - Lars Lofgren
I’ve had plenty of business failures. But no matter how crazy things got, my teams and departments have always had a top-tier reputation to execute. We ship. And we keep shipping. All of it high quality work, day in and day out. I’ve had to turn around teams, work across a range of disciplines (marketing, engineering, design, HR, finance, sales, [
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Lars LofgrenLars Lofgren

Coming Soon! Deep Dives

Join us for the first of our Deep Dives series - free for Campus members!

You spoke, and we listened - Campus and community members have been asking for an event with a more singular focus, and so we've put together a series of quarterly online mini-conferences. The first will focus on working with the C-suite and stakeholders - your First Team. With an exceptional set of speakers and talks, you won't want to miss this.

Gain practical strategies and insights into key leadership challenges such as stakeholder management, cross-functional influence, and executive communication.

Access to the event is free if you're already a Campus member, but if not you can grab a non-member ticket below. See you there!

Secure your spot here

Leadership, Strategy & Business

The Quiet Power of Influence: How to Lead Without Authority
May 2025 | Code and Capital
Substack
Aim Small, Miss Small
Attention to details
Fish Food for ThoughtMike Fisher
That time it was obvious that I didn’t know what I was doing and my CTO had to give me The Talk
What my crummy first system design project taught me about decision making, insecurity, and assuming best intent.
Nuts and BoltsNatasha Jaffe
Cultivating non-harm and kindness in Open Source leadership
In my last post, I explored the Four Samgrahavastus – ancient Buddhist principles for unifying a community that I’ve found to be super relevant to leading open source projects like Mautic. The positive response

Ruth CheesleyRuth Cheesley

Culture, People & Teams

How to combat bias in the hiring process
Don’t let bias dictate your next hire and make hiring decisions based on skills, not gut feelings
Incremental forgettingMaxim Schepelin
When a team is too big
What signs to look for and how to increase productivity with all-round skillset
Alex Ewerlöf NotesAlex Ewerlöf
Five mental shifts that turn juniors into seniors
One engineer. Five near-misses. One quiet transformation.
The Conscious LeaderTaha Hussain
How to build trust in your team
A collection of practical tools
MediumRichard McLean

Technology, Operations & Delivery

Metrics Are Easy—Impact Is Hard
Metrics are the corporate world’s comfort blanket: soft, familiar, and dangerously good at lulling us to sleep. We count clicks, tally hours, track KPIs, and build dashboards that glow green. But in our obsession with numbers, we often lose sight of the real question: What are we truly trying to
Christina WodtkeChristina
You are one use case away to start developing your internal platform
Become proactive in a constant ticket inflow by starting small
Engineering StrategyAleix Morgadas
Level up your developer experience: Five practical strategies for engineering teams
Developer experience is a critical consideration when it comes to engineering productivity. Find out the key approaches needed.
ThoughtworksSunit Parekh
Why Your AI Coding Assistant Keeps Doing It Wrong, and How To Fix It
AI coding assistants excel at specific types of tasks, but fail impressively elsewhere. Use the Constraint-Context framework to identify which tasks are best for AI, and learn how to re-frame your problems so that AI can accelerate more of your work.
Pete Hodgson

Stress, Wellbeing & Growth

3 Signs It’s Time to Recharge Your Leadership Battery – Scott Cochrane
Scott Cochrane
The Self-Promotion Horror Show
Tactical tips for promoting your work in a way that doesn’t feel slimy
the night crazies newsletterHilary Gridley
How Confidence Is Self-Fulfilling in High-stakes Conversations
When you lead with confidence, others are more confident in your leadership. Here are 5 tactical things you can do to increase your confidence in your next high-stakes executive meeting.
The Uncommon ExecutiveYue Zhao
The case for connection: reclaiming the human side of work
As artificial intelligence redefines the workplace, we risk losing touch with the very interactions that underpin effective teams and resilient organisations.
Management-Issues.comSonya Alexander

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Andy Skipper