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How to Stop Selling Your Ideas and Start Enrolling People in Them

Next Level Blog

That idea comes from Donagh Herlihy who, when I interviewed him for the first edition of The Next Level back in 2005, was the CIO for Avon. Here are five simple steps you can take to act on Herlihy’s advice about why you should quit selling and start enrolling: Involve Others Early – True enrollment requires trust.

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A WUP Upside the Head 1.8

Steve Farber

You’re going to pay him a thousand bucks to take your advice?” That would be a whole company of CIOs. I jotted down the words Carry, Scan, Eavesdrop, Ponder, Talk, and Try Something New , and then wrote, everyone a CIO? I turned to Cam, a vision of millions of CIOs swimming in my head, and asked what he thought of all this.

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The CIO in Crisis: What You Told Us

Harvard Business Review

Our research, conducted in partnership with Harvard Business Review, The Economist, CEB (formerly the Corporate Executive Board), Intel, and TNS Global, finds that corporate leadership has lost confidence in the CIO as a strategic partner and views IT as a commodity rather than a difference-maker.

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To Blog or Not to Blog?

N2Growth Blog

Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Stuart Oliver: Entrepreneur, Interim CIO, Technology COO, Strategist, » Blog Archive » To blog or not to blog [.] Your advice is helpful. Mike Myatt from N2Growth has this interesting blog entitled “To blog or not to blog“ [.] link] Swiecki’s Blog » Tech-blog Carnival Edition 2 [.]

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What If You Could Learn Design from Apple?

Harvard Business Review

The best ones are permeable membranes that transfer knowledge from the outside in: Steve Jobs recruited the Dean of Yale’s Business School to run Apple University, while Jeff Weiner recruited business coach and thought leader Fred Kofman to lead leadership development for LinkedIn. Ritz Carlton and Zappos follow a similar model.

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More Training Won’t Reduce Your Cyber Risk

Harvard Business Review

Most importantly, the training can help leaders be much more effective in overseeing chief information officers (CIOs), and chief information-security officers (CISOs). It may be the most common cybersecurity advice out there (even White House cyber coordinator and former NSA chief hacker Rob Joyce says so !), Inconvenient?

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All Boards Need a Technology Expert

Harvard Business Review

Executive directors are usually selected for their leadership qualities; they often have experience with generalized management or leadership experience rather than narrow expertise or technical acumen. Too often the corporate advice these advisers offer is generic. Why should knowledge of IT be an exception?