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NOVEMBER 7, 2010

As I reported here previously , there is very credible evidence that a narcissistic leader will take a company on a wild ride that won’t result in any better or worse performance. high technology). Bret blogs about leadership, followership, and social media at his website Positive Organizational Behavior. Simmons, Ph.D.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2011

With each new technology, there are always a great many mistakes made, at least until we get the hang of it. Even Nixon learned quickly and cleaned up for the remaining debates against Kennedy and eventually won a Presidency (of course another technology — the telephone recorder — ultimately brought him down again).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2017

With the announcement, some in the media concluded that the Google moonshot was essentially dead. ” The notion of moonshots is a hugely appealing idea, whether you are an enterprise working on a market innovation, a nonprofit organization tackling societal problems, or a government trying to govern better. .

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Cultivate the local media. Media momentum is much like a wild fire—the power of one well-placed match can ignite dramatic pyrotechnics! Then, use the press release to stay in touch with media contacts, from local newspapers to alumni associations to membership publications. He got a lot of media attention!

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? To get everyone to agree on a realistic goal, we suggest picking a year far enough in the future that people feel safe discussing what needs to happen by that time but not so far away that uncertainty about technological or market developments would render a discussion meaningless.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

There’s little argument that Tesla is a wildly innovative company. Tesla clearly doesn’t qualify under the traditional definition of a disruptive innovation. For one thing, it’s not clear what disruptive technology the company is offering. car manufacturer and all but three worldwide.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Then came the cloud, which only heightened frustration with IT's lack of velocity in delivery, and managers flocked to outside vendors to automate various business processes, from customer relationship management to supply chain reporting to social media analytics. Finally, changing central IT's role can generate widespread support.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

The announcement late last week of Comcast’s $45 billion merger with Time Warner Cable set off a predictable frenzy of hyperventilating by much of the technology media and self-appointed consumer advocacy groups. Cable is just a technology, increasingly one of many, for transmitting information, whether video, voice or data.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

By helping business leaders to improve their businesses, the CIO becomes an obvious candidate to fill any open role that involves technology, process, or strong governance. Others gain new responsibilities in strategy, M&A integration, or innovation. Some CIOs become CIO-Plus-COO or CIO-Plus-Head of Shared Services.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2015

A lot of companies use an ever-more-sophisticated array of online social tools in an attempt to connect their people, get a flow of ideas going, and spur innovation. Why is the goal of a more collaborative and innovative organization so elusive? Social and collaborative tools alone do not create a flow of ideas and innovations.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2014

Winning Friends and Influencing People How Advanced Socialbots Have Infiltrated Twitter MIT Technology Review Ah yes, those pesky Twitter bots. In this piece from Greentech Media, Jeff St. Research Social media' The Comfort of Crowds Are Smartphone Users the Missing Link in Building Efficiency?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

When I decided to leave Wall Street, I was the Senior Media and Telecom analyst for Latin America at Merrill Lynch, and the top-ranked analyst in my field. Or as thought leader Jennifer Sertl writes, "innovation ultimately begins on the inside.". The term "disruptive innovation" has become an industry buzzword.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2012

For some it is a wild place on the edge of discovery and the frontier of personality. And it is not that these grandees do the same thing in other media outlets — only on Facebook. And, for Western-based technology and social media giants, a possible lesson. Therein lies the charm and titillation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

It''s a sight to behold, with 11,000 agency folk, clients and technology companies from every corner of the earth coming together in one place. But, while the industry is partying, all on the client''s dime, the world around us is radically changing as digital technology evolves the way we all communicate. What''s the future of Cannes?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

As I''ve written in my previous two blog posts, our first inclination is usually to play down the potential impact of a new technology. Let''s say the Apple innovation merely takes $50 billion out of the industry. Perhaps not as an Apple TV, or perhaps not as the innovation that Cook was hinting at for Q3 this year.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

Were it not for the intense media and consumer interest in high technology, the industry would be in big trouble. You must innovate and execute your marketing relentlessly just to maintain the advantageous position you've attained. The products at retail are generally good, but the marketing ranges from atrocious to bad.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

And third, his belief that technology is an equalizing force. Here four things I think he should focus on as he takes the helm: Signal his commitment to serving at technology’s cutting edge. He has a chance to hit the reboot button on a wildly successful technology company. Personally attract and recruit talent.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

When it comes to discovering unmet customer needs and innovation opportunities, there’s no substitute for in-the-moment, in-context observation for making meaning out of the complex weave of emotion and rationality that drives consumer behavior. Why use them? And you don’t need a Ph.D.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

From relentless demand for resources to bamboo-like 9% growth to vicious competition for the technologies and industries of the future, China will be the big story for a long time. It certainly has become a media darling for clean tech skeptics. China, China, and China. The greening of the supply chain.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

The web did not invent community-driven brands – just think of Harley Davidson — but technology has surely made the strategy more popular. While its social media KPI’s soared, its business suffered. Its founder, Saul Kaplan , is a self-professed innovation junkie. It is now a cult favorite in the innovation world.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2011

Random Acts of Shaqness has been wildly popular and helped change the nature of O'Neal's endorsement deals to include social media. It can be the technology that scales good deeds to the global level. The rate of committing acts of good is only bound by the speed of technology. It has already started. And it's not that close.

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Technology Media Open-book Globalization 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Innovation and its discontents are nothing new, of course, going back at least to the 18 th century, when Luddites physically attacked industrial looms. Of course, nobody thinks technology companies should be left unregulated. But perhaps what tech critics really want are more innovative rules.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

In a recent HBR article, Paul Nunes and I introduced the term Big Bang Disruption to signify innovations that, thanks to rapidly advancing technology, come out of the box both better and cheaper than alternative solutions already in the marketplace. economy by removing excessive restrictions on investment in innovative start-ups.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2011

Pretty soon they're deep into sharing their points of view of social media, the Tunisian revolution, the democratization of the world, the essential frailties of China, the essential strengths of (most of) the West, and the wisdom (in their view) of reducing fiscal deficits immediately rather than later.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

The second group, the New Communalists, believed in doing away with all of those things and turning instead to small-scale technologies, LSD, Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic domes, etc. as technologies with which to kind of change our minds. You see both the innovation and the ethos of cool. That’s what you see in Google.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Deep in the golden corn fields of Iowa, technology is transforming life on the farm. But FarmLogs is not your typical technology start-up, and its founders, Jesse Vollmar and Brad Koch, are not your typical Silicon Valley-style entrepreneurs. Jorg Greuel/Getty Images.

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