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How to Lead in High Turbulence – 5 Lessons from the Tunisian revolution

Strategy Driven

I was Dean of a leading business school in Paris and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the top mobile telecom operator in Tunisia when the Arab Spring broke out, turning the already troubled Middle East and North Africa upside down. I ended up with that job and found out what it really means to lead in a high turbulence environment.

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Your Biggest Cybersecurity Weakness Is Your Phone

Harvard Business Review

In our Tech Pro Research survey of chief information officers, technology executives, and IT employees, 45% of respondents saw mobile devices as the weak spot in their company’s defenses. Android is a fragmented mobile operating system. Securing mobile devices is tricky.

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What I Learned from Leading a Tunisian Ministry During the Arab Spring

Harvard Business Review

I was Dean of a leading business school in Paris and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the top mobile telecom operator in Tunisia when the Arab Spring broke out, turning the already troubled Middle East and North Africa upside down. It was a hopeful moment across the region and particularly in Tunisia. How could I refuse?

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Empowering Digital Societies - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM MICROSOFT

Harvard Business Review

Inclusive design helps inform the concept of the urban digital nervous system (UDNS), which is a metaphor (first used by Bill Gates in 1999) for the systems that regulate a city’s operations and automate its core functions.