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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. This is the best way to pressure test and improve ideas.

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Contemplative Leadership: Finding Time to Think

CEO Insider

Maxwell In the Harvard Business Review article How CEOs Manage Time, the authors report CEOs spend a quarter of their work on people and relationships, another quarter on functional and business unit reviews, 16% on organization and culture, and 21% on strategy.

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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. That’s a colossal amount of time, but what impresses me the most is the way in which he appears to have developed strong leadership skills from virtually nothing. I Embraced Failure. I Learned From Video Marketing. I Teamed Up With a Mentor.

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CMI Highlights – 26 July 2023

Chartered Management Institute

Check back every week for new listings 26 July View all 2023 CMI Highlights Dear CMI, Exciting news: the shortlists for CMI’s prestigious Volunteer of the Year and Chartered Manager of the Year awards have just been released, as have our four Partner Awards : Student, Apprentice, Training Provider and HE Partner of the Year.

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CMI Highlight – 26 July 2023

Chartered Management Institute

Check back every week for new listings 26 July View all 2023 CMI Highlights Dear CMI, Exciting news: the shortlists for CMI’s prestigious Volunteer of the Year and Chartered Manager of the Year awards have just been released, as have our four Partner Awards : Student, Apprentice, Training Provider and HE Partner of the Year.

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The Live Enterprise Model

Eric Jacobson

And even change management is changing as well. 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. Tarafdar is Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of the Strategic Technology Group at Infosys.

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

Strategy Driven

The ongoing federal investigation of three Equifax C-suite managers for insider trading arose due to alleged stock dumping prior to the revelation of the company’s catastrophic cyber-attack. Andrew Douthwaite has over 17 years of technology experience joining VirtualArmour in 2007 as a senior engineer. About the Author.