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The ‘Old Economy’ Needs a Rocket Man

In the CEO Afterlife

Leaders who have thrived within innovative environments hold the key. Right away, he replaced the chief operating officer, chief marketing officer, chief technology officer and chief talent officer. Ironically, innovation is the catalyst of organic growth. Last year, J.C.

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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.” In most cases, if you are happy in your work, you tend to enjoy your work environment too. Your dream job may not be compatible with the market.

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

Strategy Driven

Middle-market businesses often assume they’ll be overlooked by attackers, whether due to a large number of similar companies, or a lack of enticing assets. Regulatory environment. Andrew Douthwaite has over 17 years of technology experience joining VirtualArmour in 2007 as a senior engineer. About the Author.

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The Professional: Seven New Rules

Strategy Driven

You cannot presume that packaging is simply a matter of clever design that helps your products fly off the shelves of a super market. Each one must know how we may impact the environment and, more critically, how we may be able to help. #3. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article.

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How to Harness the Customer Awakening

Harvard Business Review

While business markets are obviously different from societies in many ways, they share more things in common, especially in today's networked world. C-suites and boards are often puzzled, even frozen, over how to communicate with customers in this chaotic and potentially dangerous new environment. Imagine you're a major bank.

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Tronc’s Data Delusion

Harvard Business Review

As a marketing ploy the move clearly failed. Instead of debuting a new, tech-savvy firm that would, in the words of chief digital officer Anne Vasquez, be like “having a tech startup culture meet a legacy corporate culture,” it came off as buzzword-laden and naive.

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How to Manage People Who Are Smarter than You

Harvard Business Review

As the leader, one of your most important responsibilities is to “create an environment for talent to be expressed,” says Hill. 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.