Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The other one of us cofounded 10x Management , a well-respected talent agency representing top-tier freelance programmers, designers, and other technology professionals. Others are new to managing or stronger technically than as a supervisor. One approach that 10X has recommended is creating a roving CTO or project managers.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

The best managers hire smart people to work for them. How do you manage people who have more experience or more knowledge? It’s natural to feel worried or insecure about your ability to manage someone who has superior experience or knowhow. But what if your direct reports are smarter than you? What the Experts Say.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2011

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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

.” This engagement between directors and management starts with the permission and knowledge of the CEO. ” “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. ” Look for hybrids and cast a wide net.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

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. It’s new, but shouldn’t be.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

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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