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How to deal with cyber-attacks: publicly or privately?

Strategy Driven

Cyber attacks spiked 164% in the first half of 2017, compared to the same period in 2016, entailing 918 disclosed breaches-according reports on broadcaster CNBC. Middle-market businesses often assume they’ll be overlooked by attackers, whether due to a large number of similar companies, or a lack of enticing assets. About the Author.

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Why Leaders Need To Show Humility

Tanveer Naseer

The hubris displayed by Skilling, along with founder Kenneth Lay and CFO Andrew Fastow, didn’t just destroy Enron. These disasters have affected popular attitudes toward our entire system of free market capitalism. Their fatal lack of humility damaged the public’s trust in business leaders in general. All rights reserved.

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How AI Helped One Retailer Reach New Customers

Harvard Business Review

With a $25,000 personal investment and a small office in her home, she began aggregating sales leads and aggressively acquiring customers through very traditional marketing means — like yellow page advertisements. Data-Driven Marketing. It was 2001, and online advertising was at its nascent stage. The situation was untenable.

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How to Transform a Traditional Giant into a Digital One

Harvard Business Review

The result is the reconstitution or destruction of industries, creation of new market spaces, and reshaping of old industry ecosystems. Three years later, GE hired veteran software engineer Ganesh Bell to be chief digital officer of GE Power and Water. Many such leaders are relatively young and highly sought after.

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Uber Is Finally Realizing HR Isn’t Just for Recruiting

Harvard Business Review

Susan Fowler, a former site reliability engineer at Uber, recently wrote about her “very, very strange year at Uber,” characterized by a pervasive culture of alleged sexual harassment. By early 2016 there were 20 HR business partners, covering almost 6,000 employees. Are these acceptable growing pains? In one word: No.