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Are CEOs Really Necessary Anymore?

Strategy Driven

As futurist Ray Kurzweil observed in 2005, in the near future, machine intelligence is going to exceed human intelligence. To find out, it may be worthwhile to make some sharp distinctions between what Big Data driving AI can do, and what it cannot. CEO’s Role- Wisdom and Innovation. The second is to lead innovation.

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What Peter Drucker Knew About 2020

Harvard Business Review

Every few hundred years throughout Western history, a sharp transformation has occurred,” Peter Drucker observed in a 1992 e ssay for Harvard Business Review. “In Virtually every executive is eager to see his or her organization innovate. Every organization will have to learn to innovate” on a constant basis, Drucker wrote.

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HPU: A Case Study in the Extraordinary

Mark Sanborn

The longer version is that an intentional leader revolutionized the academic institution of High Point University with powerful and practical business principles, which often received sharp criticism but ultimately proved to be wildly successful. Examples include: Steve Wozniak : Apple Co-founder and HPU Innovator-in-Residence.

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Average Is Over. What's Your Extra?

Harvard Business Review

Yet I still have a sense of anticipation because in every one of Friedman's books there are a handful of insights that are so clear, so sharp, so flat-out right that they frame how you look at the world going forward. But when Robert Wennett bought the homely space back in 2005, he decided to turn something adequate into something amazing.

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To See the Future of Competition, Look at Netflix

Harvard Business Review

I’ve been following Netflix since 2005, when I first visited its headquarters in Silicon Valley and interviewed Reed Hastings, its founder and CEO. Netflix is a technology juggernaut whose analytics, algorithms, and digital-streaming innovations have changed how customers watch movies and TV shows. ” Wealth creation?

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New Report Highlights The Growing Discontent With Democracy

The Horizons Tracker

A sharp fall. The data suggests the sharpest fall has been since 2005, during which 38.7% “We find that dissatisfaction with democracy has risen over time, and is reaching an all-time global high, in particular in developed countries.”. of people were unhappy with democracy, but this has since risen to a shocking 57.5%.

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The Missing Political Debate Over the Digital Economy

Harvard Business Review

Hillary Clinton has a tech and innovation agenda. A 2011 McKinsey study estimated that the internet accounted for 21% of GDP growth over the previous five years among the developed countries studied, a sharp increase over the 10% contribution over the 15 years prior. since 2005 are due to this phenomenon. digital industries.