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Pushing Past Your Comfort Zone

Lead Change Blog

In December 2011, I was selected as CTO ? In the past, some of my own preconceived opinions had limited me from seeking challenging assignments. This time, with a strong show of courage, I raised my hand for a job that looked challenging. Technology Integration Program for an LPO that had been acquired by my company.

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11 Ideas for Economic Recovery

Strategy Driven

One retail CTO summed it up well at a recent SAS event when he said, “We don’t want to just struggle through and be hanging by our fingertips when the economy recovers. People and businesses are looking for opportunities. What kinds of opportunities? Subscribe now to get your subscription to this award-winning quarterly magazine.

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To Drive Digital Transformation, Focus on People

Strategy Driven

He’s worked at the US Commerce Department, First Bank System, and Norwest Banks; was CTO of a real estate software firm; and led Wells Fargo servicing technology through the default crisis. Levine is an expert on lean and agile software development and information technology.

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Leading in a World of Resource Constraints and Extreme Weather

Harvard Business Review

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.”

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How IT Professionals Can Embrace the Serendipity Economy

Harvard Business Review

It languished for months until 7/11/2011, during the company''s birthday celebration, when franchise managers started sharing merchandizing practices. The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. Technology investments work the same way. The managers haven''t stopped talking to each other. Reinventing Corporate IT An HBR Insight Center.

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