Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 15, 2015

Simon Masrani – The key to a happy life is to accept you are never in control. He didn’t succeed even though he had what was considered to be the best technology. She failed to heed his advice and people paid the price. Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. We can learn much from the past.

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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 15, 2015

Love hugs from hubby, 3 kids and grandoggies 28 39,800 1,409 Norman Reiss Leadership, Nonprofits Blogs at Nonprofit Bridge on intersection of technology, communications & fundraising. Good Leadership Advice : There must be something in their message that aligns with servant leadership. Project Manager at @courtinnovation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

“I don’t quite know what to do next,” said Simon, a media CEO. Simon had been a chief executive for 15 years, and CFO before he was 30. But, with his company recently sold, Simon was considering retirement. Most CEOs we spoke to, like Simon, had no time to plan their retirement while running their companies.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

At least, that’s what Neil Roseman was looking for when he was Technology VP for Amazon and Zynga. Her browser extension, Vortex, is designed to misinform and confuse ad-targeting technologies by collecting cookies that have no ties to actual user behavior, says AdAge. The executor of your will (you had a will, right?)

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

They vary by area of expertise, presentation technologies, design thinking, and, frankly, quality, yet there is one thing that the vast majority share – an obsession with what I would term “formal presentations.” Interactive Presenting – Technology Friend or Foe? Technology is your friend. So in Summary.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Most people who give advice for a living either offer too much or too little. Technology, for example, has gotten way out ahead of our ability to manage it skillfully. As the polymath Herbert Simon put it so presciently way back in 1978, "A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.".

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

And yet one of the better pieces of advice I received when we started the company was from a successful small business owner who said that nobody else would be as concerned with solving my company’s problems as I would be. The average CEO reported working close to 12 hours a day, including work done at home.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

While much of the advice on becoming more creative is known, what’s harder to figure out is how busy executives actually find time to put it into practice. To find out, I spoke to some of the most innovative leaders across key industries, from technology to consulting to manufacturing. Here’s what they said.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

If that's the case, "seek out a trusted and knowledgeable person you can get advice from," says Peterson. And then take action on their advice. Nick Simon* switched careers in his late 20s and entered a two-year management rotation program at a telecom company. Nick then went to a few senior colleagues to ask for their advice.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2018

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and computer technology are causing us to think again about some really basic questions: what is a firm? And as computer technology simplifies and reduces transaction costs further, it is these other things that firms do uniquely well that will come more to the forefront.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The more we use technology and outsourced thinking, we diminish our ability to think for ourselves. With nowhere else to turn, Shay receives some hard-to-swallow advice from the most unlikely and unwanted source—Liam Alcott, CEO of a more successful security company and his most hated opponent. Complexity is in. Blog Post ).

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