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How CEOs Can Keep Their Analytics Programs from Being a Waste of Time

Harvard Business Review

High-achieving executives have been shaped by the pivotal experiences of their careers, yet analytics requires executives to think beyond these mental models. Ironically, this allows them to actually gain stature as the “innovators” are discredited and C-suite power shifts back to how it was.

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You Can Be a Great Leader and Also Have a Life

Harvard Business Review

Indeed, surveys show that managers and executives describe the “ideal worker” as someone with no personal life or caregiving responsibilities. In 2004, Hickox was a certified public accountant in Texas and at a crossroads in her career. They both wanted important, but not overwhelming careers.

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