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The CIO Paradox: A book review by Bob Morris

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Bob''s blog entries Accountability versus Ownership “Be yourself [period] Everyone else is taken” Bibliomotion CIO Career Path Corporate Board Cost versus Innovation David C.

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The Executive Checklist: A book review by Bob Morris

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Kerr Pagrave/Macmillan (2014) How to replace vague ideas about your career with strategies that will help you achieve your objectives at work and everywhere else Up front, I wish to acknowledge my gratitude to Atul Gwande for the excellent material he provides […]. Bob''s blog entries Atul Gwande David Robertson Dean R.

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What does a healthy company look like?

First Friday Book Synopsis

Bob''s blog entries and Outmarketing Your Competition Beyond Performance Management: Why Brian M. Spitzer Enterprise Architecture As Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution Jeanne Ross First-Person Plural Pronouns freedom Guy Kawasaki Inc.: Carney David Robertson Dean R.

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Harvard Business Review on Aligning Technology with Strategy: A book review by Bob Morris

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Harvard Business Review on Aligning Technology with Strategy Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How and why technology should support your organization’s strategy…not the other way around This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in Harvard Business Review.

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Change the Culture, Change the Game: A book review by Bob Morris

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Change the Culture, Change the Game: The Breakthrough Strategy for Energizing Your Organization and Creating Accountability for Results Roger Connors and Tom Smith Portfolio/The Penguin Group (2011) A comprehensive, cohesive, and cost-effective methodology to achieve breakthrough results In Leading Change, James O’Toole suggests that much (most?)

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Share Your Own Job-Search Story

Harvard Business Review

This blog post comes to us from one of our Facebook fans , Unnikrishnan Alungal. My strategy worked well, and I eventually found a position at Tata Consultancy Services , a leading multinational information technology firm. We contacted him after reading his insightful contribution to our jobs-related group discussion.

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“Which business books should every executive keep near at hand?”

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Soon most of us will be exchanging holiday gifts and perhaps you’ll be asked what you would like to receive. Why not suggest some business books? In my opinion, whether as a gift from someone else or one you give yourself, these ten are among the essentials, listed in title alpha order: Beyond Performance: How [.].

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