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Succession Planning: Not Just for Older Leaders

N2Growth Blog

It is essentially impossible not to and this is particularly true in the ever-changing and evolving technology industry. No matter whom the talent, anyone in the same position for several decades is bound to become temperate, or perhaps even myopic. According to The Conference Board, CEO tenure has decreased to an average of 8.4

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business Review

And academic research has found that rising industry concentration correlates with the patent-intensity of an industry, suggesting “that the industries becoming more concentrated are those with faster technological progress.” ” Carr distinguished between proprietary technologies and “infrastructural” ones.