Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

I began my sales career in the late 1970s when there were no personal computers or mobile telephones. The evaluation team usually consisted of 2 to 4 people, led by either an Information Technology (IT) or a user contact who was most familiar with the current system and needs. My History in Enterprise Sales.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 25, 2013

What I mean by personal business maturity is one’s ability to manage adversity and change with poise and professionalism regardless of circumstances. Managing yourself and others when turmoil is present is difficult enough. It’s more than just “making lemonade out of lemons.”

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 11, 2021

Leadership Tip: Sharing personal challenges demonstrates vulnerability. When I first became a manager, I didn’t consider sharing personal stories. During the course of my career, I learned that sharing the personal is often important. Leadership Tip: Transparent and open communication limits the rumor mill and increases trust.

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ReImagine Work

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

I started out as an information technology professional. About 7 years into my IT career I realized I didn’t love the technology enough to excel over the long haul. These realizations settled in, and having recently survived my first downsizing in IT, I chose to pursue a career in human resources.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 28, 2017

I had studied relentlessly and asked to be put on complex projects that drilled deep into the analytical side of my brain so I would be ready to work with Information Technology teams. A few weeks later, still ecstatic about my new career path, I felt divided … unsettled … incapable … like an imposter. You are not alone.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 9, 2016

We explored those questions while researching for our recent book, Navigating an Organizational Crisis : When Leadership Matters Most , (available on Amazon) and came away with some insight about how leaders might ready themselves. How can leaders prepare, knowing disasters are becoming commonplace? We call it “pre-resilience.”

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

Thanks again for the comment Mark.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Let us give you our definition of what it means to be a founder: Playing a central role in starting and managing an initiative that will have impact (preferably visible and large) on an organization or the broader world. What better way to signal that you have leadership capabilities? ” Management Science 56.2

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Reaching the apex of the career ladder by gradually getting promoted to the top is a thing of the past. From my experience as a career coach, career ladders in most organizations have not existed for at least fifteen years. As companies thinned out, those leadership positions disappeared — and most haven't come back since.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Information technology (tech) is at the epicenter of the world’s economy. The pool consists of the women from among whom boards and executives will choose senior managers — not now, not next year, but 10 years, 12 years, or 15 years in the future. Apple, Microsoft, and Google are the foremost companies in the world.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Successfully identifying, developing, and retaining leadership talent is critical for any organization’s long-term success. That’s why many of them, particularly the largest ones, rely on full-time “talent management” professionals, who work in coordination with other parts of HR. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

The One Thing About Your Spouse’s Personality That Really Affects Your Career. How Google Manages Talent. Leadership & Managing people Information & technology' So, here’s this year’s list: questions answered, helpful advice, and five themes that came up again and again. Mysteries, Solved.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

In the global economy, can analytic practitioners be hugely successful in their careers while going unnoticed? Researchers at the IT Leadership Academy are doing just that in Global 2000 enterprises. Subscribe now to get your subscription to this award-winning quarterly magazine.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2017

When we talk about “learning to love your job” or “managing yourself,” it’s often in the context of junior or midlevel roles. Jim Fowler and Jeff Smith talked about peripheral vision in relation to the chief information officer role (Fowler is currently CIO at General Electric, and Smith was formerly CIO at IBM).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

There are new types of insurance companies such as Oscar ; novel provider organizations such as OneMedical , IoraHealth , and ChenMed ; and new health information technology companies such as Castlight , Vital , and WellFrame that aim to use technology to improve care and value. People leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

That's what we found when we studied the top management teams of companies in Europe over the past three years. In several industries, such as consumer goods, financial services, industrial products, and logistics, COOs usually had backgrounds in either managing operations or information technology departments.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

In other articles, we’ll move beyond specific cases to get at the broader question of how managers can learn to pick the most important kernels of knowledge from the rush of data. Nate Silver on Finding a Mentor, Teaching Yourself Statistics, and Not Settling in Your Career. Decision making Information & technology'

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2013

Well-connected people have enormous power to drive change, as this recent article from Julie Battilana of Harvard Business School and Tiziana Casciaro of the University of Toronto''s Rotman School of Management, makes clear. Management responded by launching a number of connectivity-improving initiatives. The lesson?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

His career has always been demanding- long hours, lots of travel, ultra-high performance standards (which he always has met or exceeded). The timing of the request also helped my friend; there had recently been conspicuous turnover among mid-career professionals at this firm. This is particularly true of knowledge work.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

While organizational culture issues took center-stage, the agency’s antiquated systems for personnel management, appointment booking, and medical histories probably made things worse. Give us a sense of the challenge of keeping up with technology as a military CIO. It’s convincing leadership of the necessity to do that.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2014

million managers and analysts who understand big data and how to apply it to business operations. Technical and Data Specialists: These positions range from data quality managers who ensure the collected data are clean and accurate to business solution architects who assemble the data and organize it so it is ready for analysis.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

But not every manager is jumping on board with data. From that work, I''ve distilled six bad habits that stymie managers and companies from taking full advantage of their data. We''ve all met managers who say things like, "I''ve been working in this industry twenty-five years and I''ve seen it all. I call them "anti-datas.".

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Career Advancement

APRIL 1, 2019

These time traps can make you look like you have major anger management issues, and they’re rarely productive. You want social media to help your career, not harm it. If perception management (and your social media image) is important to you, hire leadership coach Joel Garfinkle. Don’t post during work hours.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

I think our principal observation was that what was happening was that disruptive innovations driven by largely information technology but lots of other technologies on the fringe here that are getting ready to exhibit the same kind of characteristics were entering the market in kind of this better and cheaper way.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Our research, conducted in partnership with Harvard Business Review, The Economist, CEB (formerly the Corporate Executive Board), Intel, and TNS Global, finds that corporate leadership has lost confidence in the CIO as a strategic partner and views IT as a commodity rather than a difference-maker. Victorio M.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2016

According to our research at the SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management , it’s the beliefs of leaders that drive organizational investments, board selection, and management team development and selection, and these beliefs do not change quickly. Outdated beliefs about the world can linger for decades in a leadership team.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

But companies will only be able to realize productivity gains from these new operating models if they skillfully manage the soft side of their automation transformation—the people in what will be a vastly different organization. To that end, managers should develop a list of 10 to 15 processes that bots can quickly improve.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Recognizing that the company's command-and-control culture wouldn't work in the 21st century, he defined leadership as leading by values and created a unique collaborative organizational structure. Never confuse charisma with leadership. They listen as well as they speak. The key to that is to build a sustainable culture.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

A few years ago Dave Ulrich, a management thought leader from the University of Michigan, made a comment I found both insightful and profound: “ Every leader needs to have a model of organization design.” An effective organization design model guides a manager in answering five fundamental questions in a thoughtful and well-integrated way.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The Ministry of Commerce was showing how some companies "have made use of technology to.promote a low-carbon economy and environmental protection." The Ministry of Industry and Information Technologys pavilion will demonstrate "industrial energy savings and the comprehensive use of resources." And on and on. And on and on.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

One of the responders to my last post asked, "Why are managers so tolerant of poor quality data?" One important reason, it seems to me, is that most managers simply don't know that they can expect better! Managers, at all levels, should develop similar expectations for their data. High-quality data are indeed possible.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

As Tom Davenport, Larry Prusak, and I talk to people about our current research, we hear broad support for its central thesis: that good judgment is not only something required of individuals in leadership positions; it is something that must be embedded in organizations as a whole. Well need to enable cross-boundary judgment.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

They often arrive with a reputation for being able to turn around a school quickly, as they’ve done this many times before in their career. By background they are normally Information Technology or Chemistry teachers (95% in our study), who have often moved out of the classroom to manage support staff early in their career.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

For example, I remember one information technology decision-maker telling me, "There''s no such thing as picking the wrong solution so long as it helps you land your next job.". Senior executives are worried about what investors, the board of directors, and members of the leadership team think about them.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2013

But too many organizations are stretching their Chief Information Officers (CIO) too thin. CIOs are being tasked with managing internal business systems, cloud-based services, big data innovation, data security, and the 24x7 needs of global customers who access company data on personal devices. focus and vision.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

health system, change management is an essential skill for public and private leaders alike. For these leaders — and young people aspiring to careers as health care managers — one very practical question emerges: What are the critical skills for leading major change in our health system?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

In virtually every advanced field, whether it’s information technology, biotechnology, agriculture, or renewable energy, America holds a leading position. Those factors do play important roles, but the most important thing driving America’s success has been its unparalleled scientific leadership.

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