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Google Layoffs of 200 Core Employees Signal a Worrying Trend

HR Digest

The individuals manage the critical functioning of a majority of Google’s services, which makes it all the more unexpected to see the company choose to let them go. Earlier this year, CFO Ruth Porat announced layoffs at Google’s finance department and restructuring efforts there as they moved to keep up with the shifting tech world.

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The Disconnected Leader | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I think you’ll find that your view of the world will change dramatically when you rely upon your own observations, as opposed to what you read in a management report, or what you hear third or fourth hand in a meeting. The arrogant CEO doesn’t value the input of line and staff management.

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Today's CIO Needs to Be the Chief Innovation Officer

Harvard Business Review

Therefore, the CIO''s role must shift from protecting and defending the status quo to embracing and extending new innovative capabilities. The old way was information management; the new way is information intelligence. The old way was cost management; the new way is driving business transformation and accelerating growth.

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In Praise of Face Time

Harvard Business Review

To keep everyone up-to-date, particularly across departments and functions, employees use electronic tools (e-mail, voice mail, conference calls, instant messaging, and social media). Constellation has developed an Innovation Center , an unconventional permanent facility within its headquarters. It sends a message.

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You Can Be a Great Leader and Also Have a Life

Harvard Business Review

Indeed, surveys show that managers and executives describe the “ideal worker” as someone with no personal life or caregiving responsibilities. He had to sell the idea to both his family and the other managers at work. “We all wanted to do work and life differently,” DeGroot told me. “We kept trying.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business Review

Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the lean startup methodology, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. Innovation at GE was on a roll. Are lean innovation and the startup way a failure in large companies?

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Build Your Team Like an Executive

Harvard Business Review

Virtually all leaders espouse the benefits of a strong management team. These differences in philosophy and approach frequently differentiate those who advance to and succeed at the executive level — and those who stay in the ranks of middle management. However, they use starkly different levers to build one. Don't get me wrong.