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Lead Change Blog
FEBRUARY 28, 2020
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. There was no room for any missteps.
Leading Blog
MARCH 8, 2019
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. That position humbled me and taught me lessons about leadership that I still use today, some 20 years later. To keep leading, keep learning.
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Harvard Business Review
APRIL 14, 2016
Many people are stunned to learn that I didn’t meet my chief technology officer in person until 2014 — three years after he started working for me. As the CEO and founder of a remote-based software development company, I’ve learned that remote work creates better employees.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 23, 2016
The internet positively erupted with derision. While technology can certainly improve operational performance, the idea that it can replace a sound strategy is a dangerous delusion. As a marketing ploy the move clearly failed. Yet what I find even more disturbing than the style is the substance.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 10, 2016
How should you establish a positive, productive working relationship with your new manager? “Recognize that people do draw some impressions about you pretty quickly,” says Karen Dillon, coauthor of Competing Against Luck and the HBR Guide to Office Politics. . How do you get to know them without seeming like a kiss-up?
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