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A Survey of 3,000 Executives Reveals How Businesses Succeed with AI

Harvard Business Review

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. Successful AI adopters have strong executive leadership support for the new technology.

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Failure, the Other “F” Word | You're Not the Boss of Me

You're Not the Boss of Me

Shifting to experiment/learn perspective would most certainly take the ‘hammer’ out of the equation. Or our strategy might be implemented yet fail in execution; that is another. Our strategy might not be approved; that is one kind of failure.

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Leaders and the Learning Organization | You're Not the Boss of Me

You're Not the Boss of Me

So far, in my experience anyway, we have not been great students of his philosophies…or we have been great students but just, well, crappy at the execution part, proof perhaps that naïveté also lives in our belief that any of this stuff is easy. There was a time when everyone was jumping onto The Learning Organization bandwagon.

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How to Write a Resume That Stands Out

Harvard Business Review

Don’t think you’re going to sit down and hammer it out in an hour. Here are two examples: Healthcare executive with over 25 years of experience leading providers of superior patient care. ” Here’s a sample senior executive resume that does this well (source: Jane Heifetz, Right Resumes).

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The 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company

Harvard Business Review

Every day, senior executives get bombarded with ideas—and most of them are either woefully underdeveloped or downright batty. Executives read the same trade magazines, go to the same conferences, and talk to the same consultants. We understand how a CEO might come to such a conclusion. After a while, they all think alike.