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Leading Thoughts for October 22, 2020

Leading Blog

Entrepreneur and investor Sam Altman on the importance of value: “All companies that grow really big do so in only one way: people recommend the product or service to other people. No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long term if you don't have a sufficiently good product.”.

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Sleepless in Silicon Valley: What Keeps CEOs Up At Night

HR Digest

L-R): Anthony Horton, Chris McCarthy, Stephanie Neal In a recent interview, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed a startling confession: the architect of ChatGPT, a revolutionary language model capable of holding nuanced conversations and generating creative text formats, often struggles to sleep.

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Ditch ‘Change Fatigue’ and Embrace Continual Evolution

Center for Creative Leadership

David Altman, our COO, argues for giving leaders and employees a short, sharp shock: In effect, “If you think change is constant now, then you ain’t seen nothing yet.”. What leaders must do is to help employees and managers to recalibrate their expectations,” Altman argues. Becoming Resilient in the Face of Change.

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Deep Factors Shaping the Global Economy

Leading Blog

Instead of focusing on moment–by-moment market predictions, author Daniel Altman, looks at deeper, underlying economic factors that we frequently overlook in the short-term view. And it is the deep factors matter the most says Altman. As this is the long view, Altman says that means that there is room to maneuver.

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Doomsday Predictions Around ChatGPT Are Counter-Productive

The Horizons Tracker

Goldman Sachs predicted 300 million jobs would be lost, while the likes of Steve Wozniak and Elon Musk asked for AI development to be paused (although pointedly not the development of autonomous driving). job market. It is difficult to underestimate the importance of self-efficacy in personal development.

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How an Ownership Mentality Supports Cultural Transformation

Center for Creative Leadership

In an effort to better understand when and how corporate cultures change, CCL and corporate leaders surveyed a group of global VPs and directors in HR, Learning & Development, Leadership, and Talent Management. Maintaining a market position under intense pressure. The results were telling. Technology trends.

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The Best Way for Netflix to Keep Growing

Harvard Business Review

The company lost more than 15% of its stock market valuation over the past month after its growth numbers disappointed investors. In this context, it seems obvious that Netflix can and should become a platform, using one of the models described in my 2017 HBR article with Liz Altman. How would Netflix become a platform?

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