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Who is the 21st Century CEO?

In the CEO Afterlife

Proactivity is the secret to long-term success. Steve Jobs and Larry Page took note of the environment in which their companies would operate but fretted little about it. That’s because success for Page and Jobs hinged on the strategic choices they made – primarily which products and applications to bet on.

CEO 242
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Culture Doesn’t Trump Strategy

In the CEO Afterlife

As a critical success factor, strategy turned into a lucrative industry for a host of consulting firms such as McKinsey & Company , and the Boston Consulting Group. In the new economy, culture is the poster child of corporate success. The truth is that one success factor needs other success factors to be effective.

Strategy 100
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Marissa Mayer Is No Fool

Harvard Business Review

Most successful technical leaders I know avoid getting in the way of their best people's productivity. Then again, Mayer's Google background (and impact) suggested that she was predisposed to consider physical (co)presence as essential to digital innovation success as computational/design brilliance. It's possible.