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The Cleantech Revolution is Finally Here

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No One Cares About Purpose: Move Beyond ‘Why’ to Create Impact

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Technical know-how is no longer enough

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Human skills, often referred to as soft skills, define how we engage with others and often include leadership, communication, critical thinking, and problem-solving, to name a few.

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Why it’s time to become a more inclusive leader

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How to Create More Efficient Workflows Within Your Organization

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Workflow bottlenecks can negatively impact everything from employee satisfaction to the bottom line. Avoiding the snowball effect that comes with logjams means creating more efficient workflows that keep the organization moving in the right direction.

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Developing Morning and Evening Routines Can Help You Thrive In Both Good Times And Bad

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Adapt and grow: the game-changing role of flexibility in a new era of remote work

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“The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic” – so said management guru Peter Drucker, in a truism that speaks volumes in a post-Covid age.

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A New Model Might Help Us Understand Societal Change, Conflict, and How We Can Shape Our Future

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How Running A Supply Chain Is Like Running A Marathon – 4 Proven Strategies

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How to Navigate the Minefield of Interpersonal Dynamics at Work

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Whether you’re back in an office setting, following a hybrid schedule, or still logging into work from home, you’re likely familiar with one of the more thorny aspects of what it means to be a working person: how to navigate interpersonal dynamics with co-workers.

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Change the word, “CHANGE.”

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How CEOs can ensure their success of their new CMO

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6 Ways to Avoid Joining the Great Resignation

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The severity of the news varies by industry and role (mid-career technology and healthcare workers are reported to be leaving most). The conversation around the Great Resignation is not letting up and for good reason.

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The Deadly Threat of COVID-19 Misinformation in Mainstream Media for CEOs

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Rising Private Sector Debt Leads to Rising Inequality – Here’s Why, and How to Fix It

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Here Are 5 Kinds of People Who Can Help You Get Past the Toxic People in Your Life

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Five Steps to Refine Staffing and Recruiting Departments

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7 steps to unlocking the power of clients to generate referrals – Just Ask!

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Asking for Referrals is often a completely underutilized strategy as part of business development for an organization. If the referral strategy is incorporated, it is often done well by only a few individuals but never across the whole business.

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Day One is ending for Amazon. Now what?

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GAMES: The Quest for Zero Percent Management

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Responding to Disruption: The Right Attitude is Key

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Negotiating Favorable Executive Equity Terms in an LLC – Capital vs. Profit Interests

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Despite the pandemic, executive recruiters face one of the strongest candidate markets in the past twenty years. You have more negotiating power than ever for executive compensation.

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Leading Thoughts for May 28, 2020

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Chief Technology Officer at Better.com, Erik Bernhardsson on ruthless prioritization: “What I have come to believe is that: prioritization is the most value creating activity in any company. I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives.

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Beware the Leader’s Curse

Lead Change Blog

Identify a role within your company that you might assume at the right time in the future, that plays to your strengths, like chief evangelist or chief technology officer. As an entrepreneur or founder, the bond you have with the company you created can be as strong as that of a parent with her child. CEOs who take command of a company also forge intense bonds, even if they are not the actual founder.

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Lessons in Leadership to Last a Lifetime

Leading Blog

But in 1999, at the height of the Internet boom, I took a two-year leave of absence to serve as director of system architecture at Akamai Technologies, an MIT start-up located here in Cambridge. He was formerly Director of Research and Director of System Architecture for Akamai Technologies and was the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Cilk Arts, Inc., A FTER 18 YEARS on the MIT faculty, I thought I knew a thing or two about leadership.

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How to Evaluate Whether You Made an Effective Career Decision

Lead Change Blog

Tom made a major career decision 3 months ago: he decided to leave his position as chief information officer at a large manufacturing firm to become an entrepreneur and start a company to provide software that helps manufacturers improve the quality of their manufacturing process. He made his choice after talking to his friend Dave, who left his chief technology officer position in a high-profile manufacturing company to become an entrepreneur six months ago.

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What BirchBox Founders Learned at Harvard Business School That Helped Ignite Their Company

Women on Business

They hired an experienced Chief Technology Officer, Liz Crawford. NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: When Hayley Barna and Katia Beauchamp graduated from Harvard Business School and launched their company, BirchBox, they put many of the theories and lessons learned at Harvard into practice. Fast-forward less than three years later, and BirchBox is thriving and has become the benchmark for e-commerce online subscription services.

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The ‘Old Economy’ Needs a Rocket Man

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Right away, he replaced the chief operating officer, chief marketing officer, chief technology officer and chief talent officer. So much has been written about business innovation this past year. Those walking the talk are on Fast Company’s list of the World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies. These are the businesses whose products and services are having an impact across their industries and our culture.

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How to Stop Selling Your Ideas and Start Enrolling People in Them

Next Level Blog

These days, Donagh is the chief technology officer for the restaurant company, Bloomin’ Brands. Think about the last time you made a big purchase like a car, a major appliance or a mattress. With the possible exception of the car, there’s a pretty good chance you bought the product online after reading a lot of customer reviews. Why was that the case? Of course, one reason is that Amazon and other online retailers make it really easy to buy things online.

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John Donovan (AT&T) in “The Corner Office”

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Adam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times. Here are a few insights provided during an interview of John Donovan, the chief technology officer at AT&T since 2008, who learned a lot about the subtleties of team-building earlier [.].

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#WBF11 Gary Burnison - Korn Ferry and Angela Ahrendts - Burberry

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She hired a Chief Creative Officer to vision where the company should go. The Chief Technology Officer has mission to get the word out. The next speaker was Gary Burnison from Korn Ferry. I did not recognize the name although I certainly knew the company. Burnison was a great speaker. I guess that should not surprise me - most CEOs are.

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How I Became A Leader Without Any Formal Training

Lead Change Blog

I’ve got a bit of a soft spot for Apple’s Chief Technology Officer, Kevin Lynch. He is a guy who is clearly more of a techie than he is a public speaker, yet whenever he takes to the stage during the Cupertino company’s huge product launches, Kevin never fails to impress. It took Lynch twenty-four years to reach the position of CTO for the world’s largest company.

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3 Major Challenges Financial Institutions Face When Implementing Business Insight Technology

Strategy Driven

If you’ve been in the market for new business insight technology, such as a financial services analytics solution, the benefits of these are obvious. But you must also remember that any new technology you onboard will bring change to your bank’s operations—some of which isn’t welcome just yet.

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The Live Enterprise Model

Eric Jacobson

In their book, the authors use eight themes to offer guidance on how to change perspective and view the enterprise as a living organization, enabled by technology. Tarafdar is Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of the Strategic Technology Group at Infosys.

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Career vs Passion: What should you run after?

HR Digest

Richard Harbridge, chief technology officer at 2toLead says, “At its best, passion is rewarding and can make us more important and enthusiastic about our work.” Follow your passion and earn or build a career just for earning?

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How to deal with cyber-attacks: publicly or privately?

Strategy Driven

Andrew Douthwaite has over 17 years of technology experience joining VirtualArmour in 2007 as a senior engineer. Now as Chief Technology Officer, Andrew focuses on leading growth in the managed security services business and ensuring VirtualArmour is a thought leader in the security industry. Cyber attacks spiked 164% in the first half of 2017, compared to the same period in 2016, entailing 918 disclosed breaches-according reports on broadcaster CNBC.

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Team Building Agenda: Kick-off Program for IT Leadership Team

Mike Cardus

Chief-Technology-Officer CTO, and Human Resources Business Partners within the IT Team and Mike will serve as the Accountability-Team to check-in and coach the directors for completion of the 100 day action plans. Occasionally I create a Team-Building program agenda that is good enough to share. Below is the Day-1 ‘Kick-off’ program to 4 months of work I will be doing with an IT Leadership Team.

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Where to Win In Emerging Markets

Harvard Business Review

HBR recently spoke with three experts — Bruce Brown, Chief Technology Officer of P&G, and HBR authors Scott Anthony and Erich Joachimsthaler — about the opportunities that are out there, and how understanding consumer context can help companies develop products at the right price points for every market. As corporations witness the huge economic growth and burgeoning purchasing power in emerging markets, a huge debate is focused on where to find the most profit.

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My New Book, Double the Love - Now Available on Amazon!

Management Craft

David Loewe, Chief Executive Officer, Seattle Humane Society. Dwayne Melancon, Chief Technology Officer, Tripwire, Inc. I am very pleased to let you all know that my new book, Double the Love: 11 Secrets for Cultivating Highly Accountable and Engaged Teams , is available on Amazon.com. Right now, the paperback version is available. The e-book format will be on amazon within a week. I hope you will check it out and can''t wait to hear your feedback.

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My New Book, Double the Love - Now Available on Amazon!

Management Craft

David Loewe, Chief Executive Officer, Seattle Humane Society. Dwayne Melancon, Chief Technology Officer, Tripwire, Inc. I am very pleased to let you all know that my new book, Double the Love: 11 Secrets for Cultivating Highly Accountable and Engaged Teams , is available on Amazon.com. Right now, the paperback version is available. The e-book format will be on amazon within a week. I hope you will check it out and can't wait to hear your feedback.

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Have a Question for Procter & Gamble CTO Bruce Brown?

Harvard Business Review

After sharing some observations that which will draw on my blog about " The Asian Innovation Century ") I'll facilitate the discussion between the six participants: P&G Chief Technology Officer Bruce Brown, P&G's R&D VP Asia Maurizio Marchesini, P&G's Asian President Deb Henretta, the regional head of Medtronic's Cardiac Rhythm Management business unit Shamik Dasgupta, National University of Singapore Professor CC Hang and A*STAR Managing Director Professor Low Teck Seng.

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Is Outsourcing R&D Hurting U.S. Manufacturing?

Harvard Business Review

is integrally tied to maintaining our historical lead in high technology. Adding to the concerns is a perception that American firms are outsourcing so much R&D that it will only add to the erosion of high technology industries. While speaking a few months ago to the Chief Technology Officer of a highly diversified Fortune 500 manufacturer, I asked if he was able to fill all the science and engineering jobs required at his growing company.

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The Professional: Seven New Rules

Strategy Driven

Consider the chief technology officer of a company who is able to influence standards by being on an industry body – the revenue impact of such a thing can be immense. The term ‘professional’ comes from the Latin word ‘professio,’ which literally means to take an oath or a vow.