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A Futurist’s Advice on Navigating through the Technology “Valley of Death”

CEO Insider

When I co-founded Tethers Unlimited in 1994 with the late sci-fi author and space physicist Dr. Robert L. License and Republishing: The views expressed in this article A Futurist’s Advice on Navigating through the Technology “Valley of Death” are those of the author Robert P.

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What we need in incubators

Women on Business

Technology dominates incubators and while the focus on tech has a great roll off effect on business, not everyone is a tech company and we still need advice. More specific advice. We need incubators that give us advice beyond the start-up phase and this service varies from center to center. We don’t need generic advice.

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For the L of It: Living and Leading Above the Line

The Practical Leader

He’s peddling dangerous advice, leading to high stress, reduced effectiveness, and exhaustion. Mastering or Mastered by Your Technology? Technology can become vampires sucking our vital time and energy. Wallowers accentuate the negative and P themselves by making the setback permanent, pervasive, and personal.

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Be an Advocate for Yourself :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Mentoring is defined as career advice and guidance and sponsorship is advocacy. o Make sure your position has P&L responsibility. Usually sponsors have more senior positions than mentors, and it is their responsibility to advocate for an individual and pull them up the ranks to a top level position in the company.

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Why CIOs Make Great Board Directors

Harvard Business Review

Only 31% of Fortune 100 boards currently have a director who is a CIO, even though technology is at the core of every business today. As Sheila Jordan, CIO at Symantec and director at FactSet, put it, “All companies are technology companies today. Technology is a lever to run the business, but also to change and grow.”

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Bring Back the General Manager

Harvard Business Review

Two decades ago, organizations were designed around stand-alone business units, so all managers had to understand finance, technology, manufacturing, sales, marketing, strategy, human resources, and more. At one time general managers were at the center of the action.

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You Can’t Do Strategy Without Input from Sales

Harvard Business Review

But the disconnect between sales and strategy (in this case, a lack of strategy to deal with a technology that is redefining the market and customer behavior) is the hidden subtext of the book. In fact, sales advice, if it’s even discussed, usually revolves around a combination of “reorganizing” and “incentives.”