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CEO Spotlight: Interview with Cyril Samovskiy, CEO and Founder of Mobilunity

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Even back to 2010, Ukraine was already known for the Development talent it has. With its very much engineering-like traditional educational system, with dozens of thousands of highly educated and very sharp-minded people getting to the “wild” market of the 90s, it was obvious such a talent capital […].

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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

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In 2014, when the company’s market capitalization was $380 billion, this Microsoft veteran took over as CEO. You do that by setting up structures that notice, encourage, and develop innovative ideas and practices. Here’s an innovation story that’s closer to reality: It’s a story of loss, grit, and renewal. You know this company.

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

Whether leading an emerging growth company or a large multi-national corporation, aside from the CEO , there is arguably no position that has impact and contribution like the CHRO. Take stock of the progressive development plans and programs they’ve made available to the workforce. “What makes a great CHRO, great?

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The Best Leadership Books of 2021

Leading Blog

Former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi wrote, “the fundamental role of a leader is to look for ways to shape the decades ahead, not just react to the present, and to help others accept the discomfort of disruptions to the status quo.”. The political environment in the United States as elsewhere is driven by fear-based narratives. Blog Post ).

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Made From Scratch

Leading Blog

It is a well-written story that takes us from his days as a student-athlete through his formative years working his way up in bars and restaurants from busboy to manager, to the wild ride founding and growing Texas Roadhouse into the international success it is today. In 1997 he was awarded an Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year.

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119: Goals Gone Wild: The New Performance Management | with Kris Duggan of BetterWorks

Engaging Leader

Kris Duggan is CEO of BetterWorks. Highlights from the Guide to Performance Management Software 2015, published by Bersin by Deloitte experts: Goal-setting and revising, managing and coaching, development planning, and rewarding and recognizing are the ongoing activities that comprise effective performance management.

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Looking for Ways to Improve Innovation? Improvisational Comedy Can Show You How

Leading Blog

Coming up with amazingly novel ideas isn’t an innate ability but can be a learned skill that leaders and their teams can develop. The techniques of improvisational comedy can provide important lessons for developing a innovation mindset. Perfect the practice of “heightening.”. Working as a comedian has helped me build up my resiliency.