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How to Ensure Your Organization’s Digital Transformation Succeeds

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This force is called creative destruction, which is the process where innovation and technology advancements are reshaping industries and business models. These transformations typically involve a profound change in how a business operates, encompassing people, process, and technology.

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9 Tips for Navigating the Inevitable Unexpected

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Assemble diverse teams with complementary skills and a shared vision. Some of the same technologies he had helped bring to the clinic became critical to his own survival. Develop living plans that are regularly updated. Respect the unknown and expect unanticipated events. His firm, Rose Ventures, Inc.,

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Lessons in Leadership to Last a Lifetime

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But in 1999, at the height of the Internet boom, I took a two-year leave of absence to serve as director of system architecture at Akamai Technologies, an MIT start-up located here in Cambridge. Mental diversity strengthens teams. Remarkably, after only two off-site workshops, our teams started to function better.

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Intentional Leadership: The Big 8 Capabilities for Leading Well

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Innovative models, digitalization, technologies—these are all important. Adaptability requires accepting diverse views and the willingness to be uncomfortable. A leader who doesn’t allow diverse opinions and ideas for improvement will perform suboptimally.” But what matters more is how leaders lead other people.”

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First Look: Leadership Books for October 2021

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From Michael Dell, renowned founder and chief executive of one of America’s largest technology companies, the inside story of the battles that defined him as a leader. Play Nice But Win is a riveting account of the three battles waged for Dell Technologies: one to launch it, one to keep it, and one to transform it.

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Full-Spectrum Thinking

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Johansen spends a good deal of the book applying FST to the future of business, technology, our lifestyle, and our sense of meaning. Diversity will become more important even as it becomes more difficult to categorize.”. And we see that happening all around us. Creating or finding meaning will become a growth industry.

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How to Win in Africa

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And technology? High volumes—low margins—cost-effective—technology driven. Develop programs to grow talent from within and make gender diversity a priority. They say business leaders tend to “underestimate Africa’s size and potential as a market, and overestimate the challenges of doing business there.”. Turnover is high.

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