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Lessons in Leadership to Last a Lifetime

Leading Blog

A FTER 18 YEARS on the MIT faculty, I thought I knew a thing or two about leadership. 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. To keep leading, keep learning.

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The ‘Old Economy’ Needs a Rocket Man

In the CEO Afterlife

Most problems in business begin with leadership. Old school CEOs either don’t know how to innovate, fear innovation or simply fail to comprehend the true definition of the word. 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

Authors Jeff Kavanaugh’s and Rafee Tarafdar’s new book, The Live Enterprise , is all about how to create a continuously evolving and learning organization. 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.

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How to Bring in a New CEO for Your Startup

Harvard Business Review

They have an even harder time admitting that the answer might be new leadership. As a venture begins achieving a solid foothold in the marketplace, it needs different leadership capabilities to create maximum shareholder value. Resistance to change must be overcome. Knowledge capture and transfer will assist in a smooth transition.

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The Professional: Seven New Rules

Strategy Driven

Today, the very nature of collaboration is dispersed in a flat world and the central issue is not politeness, but how to raise issues, negotiate energetically, work with teams that have little in common except one project. Last year, Aravind Hospitals operated upon 300,000 people, and 70% of them did not have to pay anything.