In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Competitive advantage, not information, is power. Now, I don’t want anyone to think that I don’t value information technology. That meant making the call without all of the information, and not fretting about it, but being glad of it. Entrepreneurial Mindset Power. But, I’m a disciple of point #4.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2013

They approved photos for posting, provided advice on improving images that weren’t accepted and generally mentored contributors new to the stock photo business. But over time both will need to better to balance policies aimed at retention with those aimed at recruitment and mentoring. Information & technology Internet'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

In the workplace, a similar transition is taking place with the widespread adoption of information technology. Managers are increasingly taking a back seat as information providers. Instead of a knowledge bank, they wanted me to be a mentor and a friend who would help them succeed.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2014

Mentoring and Development. This arrangement also means that, at times, the protégé can step in if needed, reducing the need for the mentor to be constantly present or on-call. Coordination Technology. One can generate similar benefits by pairing senior and junior employees on projects or client accounts.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Nate Silver on Finding a Mentor, Teaching Yourself Statistics, and Not Settling in Your Career. Decision making Information & technology' Are You Ready for a Chief Data Officer? Does Your Company Actually Need Data Visualization? Stop Assuming Your Data Will Bring You Riches.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Nate Silver on Finding a Mentor, Teaching Yourself Statistics, and Not Settling in Your Career. Decision making Information & technology Strategy' Predictive Analytics in Practice. An HBR Insight Center. Beware Big Data’s Easy Answers. Who’s Afraid of Data-Driven Management? When to Act on a Correlation, and When Not To.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Experts have even suggested “reverse mentoring” so that younger workers can inculcate their “tech-savvy” habits in older generations. Generational issues Information & technology' Millennials have a reputation for being the most plugged-in generation in the workplace.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Nate Silver on Finding a Mentor, Teaching Yourself Statistics, and Not Settling in Your Career. Decision making Failure Information & technology' Predictive Analytics in Practice. An HBR Insight Center. A Predictive Analytics Primer. Beware Big Data’s Easy Answers. Who’s Afraid of Data-Driven Management?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Nate Silver on Finding a Mentor, Teaching Yourself Statistics, and Not Settling in Your Career. Decision making Information & technology Knowledge management' Predictive Analytics in Practice. An HBR Insight Center. Beware Big Data’s Easy Answers. Who’s Afraid of Data-Driven Management?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2017

Jim Fowler and Jeff Smith talked about peripheral vision in relation to the chief information officer role (Fowler is currently CIO at General Electric, and Smith was formerly CIO at IBM). This is about believing that your job as a leader is to help employees do their best work.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Nate Silver on Finding a Mentor, Teaching Yourself Statistics, and Not Settling in Your Career. Human resources Information & technology Managing people' Predictive Analytics in Practice. An HBR Insight Center. Beware Big Data’s Easy Answers. Who’s Afraid of Data-Driven Management? When to Act on a Correlation, and When Not To.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2015

But with the rapid implementation of electronic health records (EHRs), CNOs are now expected to master new trends in health care information technologies to engage hospital leaders in strategic discussions about major technology investments. The primary driver for new learning is increasingly complex and essential technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

If we had 10 of the very best teach physics online and employed the other 9,390 as mentors, would most students get a better quality of education? Education Information & technology' Are all of these great teachers? Wouldn''t that lead to lower per unit cost per class? And what will this mean for the education industry?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2013

A revolution in information technology has transformed businesses around the globe over the past two decades. More recently, companies have discovered that technology-enabled data is an underappreciated but highly valuable asset. A parallel transformation is now taking hold in the nonprofit sector.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Speaking from experience, I know that I would not have ended up a Yale PhD if my department head at the University of Miami, Dr. Robert Tallerico, hadn’t personally encouraged and mentored me from day one. Hiring Information & technology Talent management' Early evidence from MOOCs suggests huge falloff rates.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

India has numerous small retailers and service providers who are shining examples of scrappy entrepreneurship at its best, but the information technology startups that are my primary interest typically require outside funding. They lack the experience or skills to mentor entrepreneurs and teach them what needs to be taught.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

The CIO must step up and mentor the C-suite on the potentials, possibilities, threats and opportunities of information technology, but likewise, the HR lead needs to discuss the impact of a free-agent workforce, the head of legal needs to discuss the impacts of open innovation and IP sharing, and so on.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

However, after decades these patterns reversed; large numbers of ordinary workers eventually saw robust wage growth thanks to new technology. Information technology automates the work of white-collar jobs and the pace of change is faster. Of course, circumstances are different today.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

As an alternative, CIOs can indulge in some low-risk reverse mentoring. One easy way to do this is to join the advisory board of a technology-focused department at a local university. By hosting brown-bag lunches with faculty and student groups, CIOs can acquire insights from users ranging from Baby Boomers through to Gen Y.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2017

Get them to introduce you to others, and ask a couple of them to serve as informal mentors. Build and utilize an extensive network with special focus on people outside the field of data science. Seek out veterans and managers who will make time to explain the business. Third, integrate these efforts into your day-in, day-out work.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

They may include an external director education program, if the person is a novice board member, and mentoring by a senior director. Moreover, there are ways of compensating for experience gaps, if all else looks favorable, in the onboarding process.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Lawrence Lessig , a Harvard Law professor and longtime friend and mentor of Swartz, says the law "would limit the scope of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and exclude 'crimes' that are nothing more than a breach of contract. The draft is short: just one page. Violations of a website's 'terms of service' would be a breach, not a crime."

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

By background they are normally Information Technology or Chemistry teachers (95% in our study), who have often moved out of the classroom to manage support staff early in their career. Soldiers like efficiency and order. They hate waste and believe schools get into trouble because they’re fat, lazy, and wasting public money.

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