Promotion

Leadership skills drive promotion to the CTO role. Communication, prioritization, team-building, and strategic thinking contribute to CTO success. The article says ordinary promotion tracks do not by themselves define the route to CTO. Without receipts, effort is difficult to convert into authority. GitHub contributions indicate individual technical output. Execution work alone may not provide tangible evidence for influence or promotion discussions. A common career frustration is doing execution work while other people make the decisions.