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5 Leadership Lessons: The Velocity Manifesto

Leading Blog

[As a leader], you—not the IT department, nor the VP of IT, nor the chief information officer (CIO)—must understand, drive and be accountable for how technology is structured in order to reach the strategic goals of the operation….Technology The thing you want to be these days is a “fast follower.”

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Five Questions Every Leader Should Ask About Organizational Design

Harvard Business Review

Rather it’s an on-going nipping and tucking of organizational resources to achieve both growth and efficiency at multiple levels: the company overall, the operating group level, and even within functional groups like human resources and information technology. Are you competing on the basis of on-going product or technological innovation?

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How Much Do Companies Really Worry About Climate Change?

Harvard Business Review

What Nike and Coca-Cola leadership get is that the climate issue is a systemic problem, not easily defined in one single way, and it directly and profoundly affects their business. When risk officers and smart business leaders look at climate this way, they can have productive conversations about how to build more resilient enterprises.