Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

I've written about the rising significance of soft skills, including in the March 2011 issue of HBR (coauthored with Kevin L. The CIO has to know what's going on in finance and marketing, for instance, and P&L experience is important even for support functions like human resources. And for many people they're harder to learn.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field. So you must demonstrate very strong leadership. Overall transparency requires that leadership models it. 15 Iss: 4, pp.675

Team 52

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over. Bill Ruh was selected in 2011.

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