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The ‘Old Economy’ Needs a Rocket Man

In the CEO Afterlife

Ninety percent of these organizations have yet to experience a mid-life crisis; they are still under the age of 40. Right away, he replaced the chief operating officer, chief marketing officer, chief technology officer and chief talent officer.

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The Live Enterprise Model

Eric Jacobson

Businesses should be able to make those bold decisions, even in the absence of a crisis. Tarafdar is Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of the Strategic Technology Group at Infosys. First, that resilience is important, not just efficiency.

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

CEO Insider

Recent debates surrounding President Biden’s plan for government spending on infrastructure has refocused attention on public debt, but the sleeping and dangerous debt giant is really private debt. American households were drowning in debt before the COVID-19 crisis, and now they’re deluged by it. Household debt today totals $17.5

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Why Can't a CIO Be More Like a CFO?

Harvard Business Review

It''s time for CIOs to move beyond their roles as chief technology officers, and embrace the name with all of its implications: Chief Information Officer. But, when the crisis is over, we go back to the status quo. Information governance is not IT''s job. But it should be the CIO''s job.

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How to Manage People Who Are Smarter than You

Harvard Business Review

Earlier this year, Emily Burns, founder and CEO of Learnivore, the Boston-based start-up that helps people find local instructors, coaches, and classes, set out to hire a chief technology officer. Meredith suffered a crisis of confidence: “I thought: how could I lead these people? What value did I provide?”

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Ocado Is Transforming Online Grocery Shopping with AI, But A Skills Challenge Lies Ahead - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM OCADO 

Harvard Business Review

By Paul Clarke, Chief Technology Officer, Ocado. We need to teach “self-reinvention” as a meta skill and reframe the “midlife crisis” into an art form. Microprocessor (CPU) with human brain. Now is the time for political thinking and leadership that is truly holistic, agile, bold, and disruptive.

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