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How to Lead in High Turbulence – 5 Lessons from the Tunisian revolution

Strategy Driven

After a rocky start for the country after Ben Ali’s fall, the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize went to the Tunisian Quartet, composed of four civil society associations, which facilitated the country’s national dialogue. I was asked to be Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research, and Information & Communication Technologies.

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Steps in a Buying Decision

Strategy Driven

These terms define a specific set of sequenced actions buyers take to enable internal consensus and change – change management issues, if you will – rather than define steps that address needs or vendor/solution choice which come later and are the focus of sales. Long meeting to get consensus. She opposes hiring external vendors.

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What I Learned from Leading a Tunisian Ministry During the Arab Spring

Harvard Business Review

A “Tunisian Quartet,” composed of four civil society associations, initiated and facilitated the country’s national dialogue (for which they were warded the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize). I was asked to be Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research, and Information & Communication Technologies.

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Solving the Looming Talent Shortage in the Energy Industry

Harvard Business Review

By 2030, the BPC predicts , utilities in the United States will need to hire 150,000 additional workers in information-technology intensive roles. A digitally-skilled workforce is vital to help deploy advanced digital technologies that can streamline and automate grid operations.

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8 Tech Trends to Watch in 2016

Harvard Business Review

More than once you’ve probably looked at some new digital or technological development and asked yourself, “How did we miss that?” But a lot of times, glitches have to do with newer technologies, which we are learning break in unexpected ways. Expect to hear more about “glitches” in 2016. Blockchain.

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How We Reorganized Instagram’s Engineering Team While Quadrupling Its Size

Harvard Business Review

When I joined Instagram in 2015 as head of engineering, the company had been part of Facebook for three years. This prevented design by committee while we were building consensus. Andy Crawford/Getty Images. It had 115 engineers, but we would soon scale to 300, and later grow to over 400 in 2017.

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Patient-Reported Data Can Help People Make Better Health Care Choices

Harvard Business Review

A 2015 Institute of Medicine report, “Core Metrics for Health and Health Care Progress,” demonstrates broad consensus that measuring the quality of people’s health and the care they receive is critical to improving performance of the health care system and patients’ health outcomes.