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The Disconnected Leader | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

If your CFO handles all communications with your banking relationships, and your Chief Investment Officer handles all of your investor relations, you’re flat out missing the boat. Private conversations are accommodated by small conference rooms or a walk about the parking lot. Job requirement determines the size. I Think Not.

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The Real Power of Enterprise Social Media Platforms

Harvard Business Review

An unusual — and unusually rich — funding opportunity inspired researchers at MIT and several other top-tier research institutions to improvise a comprehensive multi-media proposal on a tight deadline. That''s largely accurate. But those pretty verbs obscure where the real action is taking place.

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In Praise of Face Time

Harvard Business Review

To keep everyone up-to-date, particularly across departments and functions, employees use electronic tools (e-mail, voice mail, conference calls, instant messaging, and social media). It includes all the administrative VPs, the CFO, chief medical officer, and the chief nursing officer. Each executive visits two patients.

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Today's CIO Needs to Be the Chief Innovation Officer

Harvard Business Review

A few weeks ago, I was a keynote speaker at a large international technology conference and one of the demonstrations to illustrate game-changing technology involved using an iPad and a high-speed connection to fully control three of the most powerful workstations engineers have access to. The Real Power of Enterprise Social Media Platforms.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business Review

He sold off slower-growth, low-tech, and nonindustrial businesses — financial services, media, entertainment, plastics, and appliances. So is John Rice, the head of global operations, along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. Everything is on the table,” Flannery said on a conference call to discuss quarterly earnings.

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