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APRIL 24, 2019

In the same way, digital disruption is not about the technology as much as it is about how companies can make their way through the new competitive environment they find themselves in. Digital disruption is more about the people than it is the technology. The authors introduce the concept of digital maturity.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2019

Of course, people have always worried that technology would take over their job. Gutenberg’s press probably created more social upheaval than any technological advancement has yet to do today. Third, massive automation will not take place based on our experience from previous generations of technology. So always be learning.

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2021

Creating and sustaining trust does not, Sandra Sucher and Shalene Gupta show, come from "reputation-building" and PR but by being the "real deal," creating products, services, and technologies that work, having good intentions, treating people fairly, and taking responsibility for all the impacts an organization creates, whether intended or not.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2020

Rocket science is often celebrated as the ultimate triumph of technology. The definitive book on leadership in the digital era: why digital technologies call for leadership that emphasizes creativity, collaboration, and inclusivity. But it's not. often including a square jaw, a deep voice, and extroversion?are are said to be universal.

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Leading Blog

JULY 30, 2021

Culatta, who is the CEO of the International Society for Technology in Education and the former Director of the Office of Educational Technology for the U.S. Technology has no conscience—that’s our job. The same technologies that can solve our toughest human problems can also divide and destroy us with remarkable efficiency.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

I share a couple of perspectives below on technology—what it can do and what we shouldn’t expect it to do. Technology doesn’t solve humanity’s problems. Technology is an enabler, but humanity has to deal with humanity’s problems. Also, a view on what entrepreneurship is and some good business advice.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

As a business, the challenge is how to best use this technology to promote ideas and products. As a consumer, the challenge is to understand how this technology is influencing us. A better understanding of what is actually behind the technology will help us to ask better questions and respond in a measured and responsible manner.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

The Innovation Ultimatum : Six strategic technologies that will reshape every business in the 2020s by Steve Brown. Most businesses identify six key digital technologies?artificial These new disruptive technologies present significant opportunity for businesses in every industry. In B2B and B2C?

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Leading Blog

JULY 10, 2019

Many business leaders are perplexed by the task of leading in an ever-increasing technological world. Yes, we are leaders of people, and yet it feels as if technology and other digital demands keep us from investing in our most valuable resource, our people. Prioritize the Person, as Well as the Technology. “I Listen deeply.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 2, 2023

Fortune 50 technology and business leader Daphne Jones explaining why purpose is the combination of passion and capability: “Purpose is the combination of one’s passion and capability. Source: Good Power: Leading Positive Change in Our Lives, Work, and World II. Purpose is basically the reason you exist.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2023

Into the Metaverse is the essential business guide to understanding the ground-breaking technologies that enable this monumental shift and the opportunities it presents from a business and societal perspective. The Power of Potential : How a Nontraditional Workforce Can Lead You to Run Your Business Better by Tom D'Eri.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

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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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Source: Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology. Neil Postman on information overload: “Information is dangerous when it has no place to go, when there is no theory to which it applies, no pattern in which it fits, when there is no higher purpose that it serves.”.

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2020

Before Silicon Valley disrupted the world with new technologies and business models, America’s industrial giants paved the way. Companies like General Electric, United Technologies, and Caterpillar were the Google and Amazon of their day, setting gold standards in innovation, growth, and profitability.

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Leading Blog

MAY 24, 2021

The Bomber Mafia was born from new technology—airpower. Gladwell asks, “ How is it that, sometimes, for any number of unexpected and random reasons, technology slips away from its intended path? ” It was their belief that “ We don’t have to slaughter the innocent, burn them beyond recognition, in pursuit of our military goals.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 12, 2024

Some of the same technologies he had helped bring to the clinic became critical to his own survival. . * * * Stan Rose , PhD is an MIT biologist turned life sciences executive and entrepreneur who has created and led multiple businesses in the emerging fields of DNA analysis and genomics. His firm, Rose Ventures, Inc.,

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Leading Blog

JULY 6, 2021

Not only do managers need to grow more comfortable leveraging the technology, but they also need to learn how to present themselves and engage others while using it. Using features in the technology to increase engagement. Even though Zoom fatigue is still real, virtual meetings aren’t going away.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Smart new technologies. One thing is clear: advances in technology have not been matched by the necessary innovation to our social structures. Don't miss out on other great new and future releases not listed here. The New Long Life : A Framework for Flourishing in a Changing World by Andrew J. Scott and Lynda Gratton.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 8, 2021

Great things happen at the intersection of people and technology. Prioritize people over your technology. Here are a few pragmatic solutions to get you started: Be visible, get in the game, and go “heads up.” Lift your nose from your device. Develop a people rhythm.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 20, 2019

Perhaps what if different today is our ability to so quickly and persuasively disseminate it through technology. Just as we have technology glitches so too do we have human glitches in the way we process information.” Again, it’s not the technologies, it the people who use them. They are us. We need to discern the difference.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 11, 2020

Johansen spends a good deal of the book applying FST to the future of business, technology, our lifestyle, and our sense of meaning. He points out that, “Kids are born with full-spectrum thinking, but adults, schools, and society often force it out of them with education, testing, technology, and culture.”

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Leading Blog

MARCH 8, 2019

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. After all, I was tenured and had supervised dozens of students seeking undergraduate and postgraduate degrees.

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MAY 28, 2020

Chief Technology Officer at Better.com, Erik Bernhardsson on ruthless prioritization: “What I have come to believe is that: prioritization is the most value creating activity in any company. I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

I N HIS BOOK Thank You for Being Late , author and award-winning journalist Tom Friedman argues that to understand the twenty-first century, you must realize that “the planet’s three largest forces”—technology, globalization, and climate change—are accelerating all at once. As a business leader, you already get that.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Rachel Botsman discussing trust issues that revolve not just around trust and technology, but trust issues around size: “I think so much of what we need in our lives are smaller systems, where you can really serve people’s best interests. I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives.

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Leading Blog

MAY 19, 2020

Using Technology to Help. Technology can be part of the answer. When teams work remotely, however, those spontaneous conversations can no longer happen organically. Yet that social interaction is still critical to team development. How do we replace that when we are working remotely? What is required is awareness and permission.

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MARCH 4, 2024

Of course, part of that entailed reestablishing the company’s reputation for cutting-edge technology. His goal was not to make Microsoft the most innovative company but the most successful in its field. But there was much more than that. To him, Microsoft’s efforts lacked a strong mission.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 9, 2019

And technology? High volumes—low margins—cost-effective—technology driven. They say business leaders tend to “underestimate Africa’s size and potential as a market, and overestimate the challenges of doing business there.”. There are one-hundred companies with annual revenues of a billion dollars or more.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Crafters —understand and experiment with social, physical, and technological processes. They are: Challengers —preferred by those of us who are skilled in constructively disrupting the status quo around us. Social activist Rosa Parks. Inventor Thomas Edison. Combiners —those who fuse ideas from disparate fields and endeavors.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

More often it's an implicit contract, a buildup of organizational and cultural norms and the adoption of new technologies that make it easy to tether people to work. Sometimes that endorsement is explicit, as when Elon Musk told X/Twitter employees to work "long hours at high intensity" or get fired. It's time to fight back.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

It’s Not Technology via @HarvardHBS. Snell via @PublicDiscourse. 6 Steps to Help Your Employees Understand Your Strategy by David Grossman @ThoughtPartner. Startups, VCs Plan to Pivot as Coronavirus Takes Its Toll via @rhody_inno. What’s Really Disrupting Business? Loss, grief, and fear can describe 2020.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Set up microboundaries to make technology work for you. We don’t know how to use the technology we have. Avoid weekend e-mails and work. Cal Newport says, “The modern work environment is actively hostile to Deep Work.

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DECEMBER 22, 2023

Also, start-up companies in the Fujitsu technology accelerator program work in the satellite locations as well, creating a company-startup mashup. Autonomy: They are working to devolve critical decision-making to the individual and team level to cultivate an atmosphere of autonomy and self-directed work.

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DECEMBER 15, 2021

Emerging technologies, changing demographics, the data economy, automation, and other trends-the undercurrents of radical, systemic change-are crashing into each other. Almost 30 years later, at the pinnacle of his success as founder and leader of Dell Technologies, he found himself embroiled in a battle for his company’s survival.

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Leading Blog

JULY 19, 2019

2: Create new technology enabled business models: GE’s Jeff Immelt and Dartmouth Professor Govindarajan are back, with lessons on digital transformation. Now, more than ever, you can grow your business in the new and adjacent areas enabled by technology. Sesame Street did not disrupt a prior market for childhood education.

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JANUARY 1, 2022

We live in a constantly changing world with new technologies introduced daily, perpetual connectivity, and relentless pressures to do more, faster, better. We the Leader : Build a Team of Equals Who All Lead AND Follow to Drive Creativity and Innovation by Jeffrey Spahn.

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MARCH 3, 2017

The three largest forces on the planet—technology, globalization, and climate change—are all accelerating at once. The more technological we get, the more we need people who have a much broader framework. As a result, so many aspects of our societies, workplaces, and geopolitics are being reshaped and need to be remained.” .

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