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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. Morale sunk, and our productivity did, too. You see, despite their immense talent, our teams were completely dysfunctional.

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Beware the Leader’s Curse

Lead Change Blog

This devotion can also be a curse, blinding you to potential flaws in your product or the holes in your strategy. 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.

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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. I Embraced Failure.

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CMI Highlights – 26 July 2023

Chartered Management Institute

CMI’s chief technology officer Tavier Taylor presented the Champions category. Over the next few months we'll be focusing on the themes of Making Decisions and Developing People in particular. A time audit might be the way to find it [Article] [Productivity] CMI Highlights What’s going on at CMI this week?

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

Mike Cardus

Additional content will be shared on Team Development and Management. We will use this co-creation to develop future programs and facilitated work sessions. o Processing into developing goals, sharing goals, and placing goal in context to IT teams. What’s the company’s goal? How does your department fit into that? 12:00-1:00.

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How Technology Is Transforming Retail - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM Ocado

Harvard Business Review

By Paul Clarke, Chief Technology Officer, Ocado. Across the retail landscape, a war is going on, and the battles are being fought on multiple fronts: business models, channels, brands, customers, technologies, and more. The big retailers are getting squeezed and disintermediated at both ends.

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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.