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Sleepless in Silicon Valley: What Keeps CEOs Up At Night

HR Digest

L-R): Anthony Horton, Chris McCarthy, Stephanie Neal In a recent interview, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed a startling confession: the architect of ChatGPT, a revolutionary language model capable of holding nuanced conversations and generating creative text formats, often struggles to sleep.

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The Rebirth of the CMO

Harvard Business Review

This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond. That in turn relies on not only having excellent marketing capabilities, but also connecting marketing with the entire organization.

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How IBM's Sam Palmisano Redefined the Global Corporation

Harvard Business Review

This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative. The first job of a leader is to enable an organization to survive without him or her. His first act was to abolish IBM's corporate executive committee.

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The $2,000 Car

Harvard Business Review

Poor countries will become R&D labs for breakthrough innovations in such diverse fields as housing, transportation, energy, health care, entertainment, telecommunications, financial services, clean water, and many others. Local Growth Teams (LGTs) must have P&L responsibility (this is a key hurdle for American multinationals).

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The Big Picture of Business – The Book of Acronyms

Strategy Driven

Organizations are accustomed to looking at concepts and practices one way at a time. By viewing from others’ viewpoints on life, we find real nuggets of gold with which to redefine organizations. The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving by Hank Moore Any company or organization is like a tree.

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What Big Companies Get Wrong About Innovation Metrics

Harvard Business Review

Companies as diverse as AIG, Disney, and Intuit have been building innovation teams, launching “accelerator” programs to attract promising startups, and giving employees seed funding to test out new ideas with real customers. P&L impact or other financial impact. Kenneth Andersson. stage to the next.

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Headhunters Reveal What Candidates Want

Harvard Business Review

Another elaborated: “If the company is not currently performing, [candidates] will look at ownership structure, board capability, the CEO (if not going for that appointment), the leadership team and its competency, and whether the organization is able to articulate a clear strategic intent.”. People and culture.