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Only Learning Leaders Can Transform the Extreme Rate of Transformation Failures

The Practical Leader

They hired an expensive consulting firm to design and install millions of dollars’ worth of new technologies. State of the Stagnation Address from a Learning-Impaired Leader Now, here I was five years later, watching the CEO deliver a presentation to his company’s managers and head office support people. .”

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The Optimist’s Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age

Leading Blog

At a Stanford Director’s College in 2016, Roger Dunbar, chair of the Silicon Valley Bank, told Venkataraman that “when he hears company executives or board members responding to short-term noise with outsize reactions, he likes to pretend he is lost. He’ll ask CEOs at board meetings, ‘ What was our long-term strategy again? ’

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Assessing Ballmer’s Leadership

Michael Lee Stallard

Check out technology critic David Pogue’s “ How Ballmer Missed the Tidal Shifts in Tech ” which appeared on the New York Times’ website on August 24. ” (These are the three types of psychosocial cultures in organizations.)

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The Flawed “Customer First” Focus (and Other Management Practices to Question)

Michael Lee Stallard

“It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.” – Will Rogers. Vaneet Nayar, CEO of HCL Technologies (HCLT), jettisoned the “customer first” mindset and replaced it with “employees first, customers second.” Under New Management is well worth reading. Management Focus on Employees First.

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Inside the Big Tech’s Brutal Layoffs

HR Digest

The month ushered in an utterly haunting whiplash in the form of ‘layoffs,’ and shattered the stability of thousands of technology workers across the States. Silicon Valley has cycles,” says Russell Hancock, CEO of Joint Venture Silicon Valley. “We leading some to describe these tech layoffs as a sign of probable recession.

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Leadership and Opportunity | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Anyone paying attention to current events has recently witnessed that it doesn’t really matter whether you’re a politician, investment banker, CEO, or just an average citizen, when it comes to making a simple decision, managing a crisis, or attempting to exploit an opportunity, timing is everything.

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Leadership Self Examination | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

If you believe you possess a fully developed competency in a section give yourself 10 points. They understand the need for talent and are effective at recruiting, deployment, development and retention of tier-one talent. If you possess no competency whatsoever give yourself 0 points. Section IX: Team Building.

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