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Target’s Fall Guy: Is Your Board Prepared?

N2Growth Blog

The primary reason stated was because of the continued fall-out from the 2013 massive data breach. What if the board does not have technology expertise? Or if their technology expertise is antiquated? Technology expertise in this case, by the way, does not refer to the CEO or former CEO of a technology company.

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Succession Planning: Not Just for Older Leaders

N2Growth Blog

billion as of March 2013 (per Forbes Magazine.) It is essentially impossible not to and this is particularly true in the ever-changing and evolving technology industry. Throughout all this I cannot help but ask what seems to be a fundamental underlying question about this company, and that is, who should lead Dell going forward?

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Develop Strategic Thinkers Throughout Your Organization

Harvard Business Review

In 2013, Management Research Group (MRG) completed a large scale global study addressing this question. We evaluated the leadership practices and effectiveness of 60,000 managers and executives in 140+ countries and 26 industries. In contrast, a true strategic leader thinks and acts strategically every day.

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What Really Led to Last Summer’s Most Notorious Firing

Harvard Business Review

—Andy O''Connell BONUS BITS Some Companies You May Have Heard Of Dell Officially Goes Private: Inside the Nastiest Tech Buyout Ever (Forbes) The Hidden Technology That Makes Twitter Huge (Businessweek) Blockbuster Video: 1985-2013 (Grantland). Crisis management'

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The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 2 of 4

Strategy Driven

economy spent one trillion dollars fixing and treating the so-called Y2K Bug, which we now know was a manufactured “crisis” by technology consulting companies. As was discussed in Chapter 8, technology constitutes one tenth of 1% of any organization’s overall Big Picture. In 1999, the U.S. Intervention.

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Why and How to Build an In-House Consulting Team

Harvard Business Review

In our case, the value proposition is unparalleled top-management exposure, real impact on strategy, a focus on professional development, the opportunity to transition into a management role in the technology industry after a minimum of two years with the group, and a fun team.

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The Big Picture of Business – Doing Your Best Work on Deadlines: Mobilizing the Energy for Best Business Success

Strategy Driven

Though I wrote all my books on computers, I wrote the modern technology chapters on the typewriter, to make points to myself that the readers could never have grasped. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. There were years where I kept the typewriter on the work station next to the computer. All rights reserved.

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