How to grow a CIO from yourself?

Question

Career in IT

The headline may sound too loud, but there is such a task - to stop looking at the world exclusively through the eyes of a techie, stop snapping at user requests, and look towards personnel and resource management - start developing towards the “IT Director”.
Where to go to study, what to start reading, what courses / conferences to start attending?
How to change your way of thinking "Give more - it will be better"?

Answer 1

Read Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. The very thing for a change in thinking.

Answer 2

How to change your way of thinking "Give more - it will be better"?
Always do your best, no matter how much you get. Develops.

Answer 3

Go to sales managers, there you will quickly understand that snapping = losing money. Now the stress resistance acquired in the sales process for 6 years helps me a lot)

Answer 4

According to my ideas, before becoming an IT director, you first need to become an unofficial team leader, then a senior programmer, well, we'll see. Read books about project management, competent development (unit tests, pair programming, bug and time tracking, documentation, TDD), interaction with staff and clients. Start with "How to Herd Cats" for example. Just beware of Methodologies. The main thing is to understand the principle, and not stupidly follow something written in a thick book with the aim of obtaining a doctoral degree by its author.

Answer 5

in St. Petersburg there is such a thing as www.cio-junior.ru/

Answer 6

... as I think - stop studying the technical literature on the subject of IT, i.e. stop deepening your knowledge of technology and switch to the study of related areas, i.e. those whose actual tasks are solved by IT - management (organization management, accounting, office work, personnel management, sales / customer management, supply / inventory management, production management, etc.) ...
... in general, expand the focus with IT and start thinking like "they" :)

Answer 7

1. Become the best in any field;
2. Take on more responsibility;
3. Study and understand modern methodologies and libraries (but do not get carried away and do not become a crazy adept);
4. Filling the vacuum;
5. Read books on psychology and management.