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This is What Keeps Most CEO’s Up at Night

Lead from Within

Talent management. Once the province of the human resources department, talent management—establishing corporate structures for recruiting, hiring, and retaining the very best people in their field—has grown in importance and can take as much as 20 percent of a CEO’s time. Building a strong management team.

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4 Models for Using AI to Make Decisions

Harvard Business Review

At some of the world’s most successful enterprises — Google, Netflix, Amazon, Alibaba, Facebook — autonomous algorithms, not talented managers, increasingly get the last word. Elite MBAs (Management by Algorithm) are the new normal. Top management would have to trust its computationally brilliant bidding software.

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London Succeeds in Its Olympic Trials

Harvard Business Review

Games leaders have worked hard to award contracts to smaller suppliers across the country and tracked this as far down the supply chain as possible. While this has meant fewer economies of scale from the big players, it has also ensured that no one supplier over-stresses its balance sheet, under-delivers, and causes cost over-runs.