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Whose Job Is It to Manage Freelancers?

Harvard Business Review

Organizations do better when managers have access to advice and best practice in leading mixed teams. One approach that 10X has recommended is creating a roving CTO or project managers. In this sense it is similar to the roving CTO but focused more on the depth and effectiveness of the agile talent network. This is a big miss.

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Grieving for a Colleague: Deep, Silent, and Solitary

Harvard Business Review

The news had just hit that Danny Lewin — the co-founder of Akamai Technologies, its charismatic CTO, a former commando in the Israeli Special Forces, and MIT mathematics genius who led the company from a math class to an IPO and a market cap of $30 billion — had suddenly died. For all of us, Danny was our CTO and visionary.

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Leading in a World of Resource Constraints and Extreme Weather

Harvard Business Review

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.” Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

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How to Manage People Who Are Smarter than You

Harvard Business Review

“There’s nothing wrong with asking for reassurance,” and the answers “will give you insight into your strengths and the development needs of your reports.” ” Schwarz adds: “You don’t need to be the person’s mentor, but you need to help the person develop.” Don’t.

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Why CIOs Make Great Board Directors

Harvard Business Review

” “On the FactSet board, I’ve been encouraged to meet with the management team and to give advice to the CEO and the CIO,” says Jordan. ” “On the FactSet board, I’ve been encouraged to meet with the management team and to give advice to the CEO and the CIO,” says Jordan.

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The One Unbreakable Rule in Business Writing

Harvard Business Review

So we developed a simple process to help people clarify their intentions and their positioning. For example, if you want clients for your CTO coaching business, then chief technology officers (and the people who know them) are your audience. It’s a small audience, but one who will be very interested in the advice.

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How Sephora Reorganized to Become a More Digital Brand

Harvard Business Review

The original creation of Sephora.com was largely outsourced, and we didn’t have an internal digital development team when I joined. So, one of the first things I did — and something I’d recommend to anyone who’s serious about building a digital brand — was to bring web development in-house. What haven’t you solved?

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