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Big Tech’s Nuclear Play
The Real Story Nobody’s Telling You About AI’s Dirty Little Secret
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The Leadership Bench: Why Your Second-Tier Leadership Ratio Matters More Than You Think
Engineering Managers, Directors, and VPs should make up at least 15% of your engineering organization. But the implications? They're anything but…
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The CTO's Question Trap
How Seeking Buy-In Gets Misread as Being Indecisive
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May 2025

Engineering Resilience: The Key to Sustainable Speed at Scale
MTTR: The One-Hour Recovery Metric That Makes or Breaks Your Engineering Org
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The CTO's Relationship Calculus
A Formula to Calculate Which Relationships Are Killing Your Effectiveness (and Which to Invest In)
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Beyond Buzzwords: Why Psychological Safety Is Your Most Crucial Tech Metric
The Hard Data Linking Team Trust to Technical Excellence: How Psychological Safety Drives Innovation, Reduces Defects, and Cuts Turnover by Double…
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The CTO's Ephemeral Approach
Why treating AI-generated code as disposable will rewire your brain for innovation
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The CTO's Ouroboros
The Uncomfortable Truth About Tech Innovation Most CTOs Won't Admit
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Etienne de Bruin
The CTO's Evolution Mirror
From Secret Labs to Global Stage: Equipping CTOs with the Historical Context to Navigate AI Anxiety
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Etienne de Bruin

April 2025

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