[matthewmacleod]

Based on some of your comments, you’re kind of gunning for the CTO role and trying to manage upwards.

The best approach is to stop doing this, and quickly! Deal with the problems that are facing you and your team, and leave the leadership to deal with the CTO. “Not my monkey, not my circus” - as I understand they say in Poland.

If you need more resources, work with your leadership to get that help in-place. If you need a specific bit of assistance from the CTO, then make a clear request for it and follow it up if you don’t get it. You’ve mentioned that you feel there are areas where he could be helping, and you haven’t communicated that. At your level, you have the responsibility for seeking out the support you need from management. Focus on getting the things that you need, and avoid a fuzzy and unmeasurable metric of “my boss seems too checked-out”.

[headscientist]

This is great feedback. Thank you.