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How to Evaluate Whether You Made an Effective Career Decision

Lead Change Blog

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. Put Numbers On Your Expectations.

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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. For little old me, teaming up with someone who had the experience and insight I lacked helped me come to terms with leadership and put my best foot forward. Plus, sometimes, it’s just nice to have a shoulder to cry on.

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

Strategy Driven

Sure, a disclosure is immensely beneficial in terms of buttressing industrial safeguards, national and global security, and customer protection – not to mention mitigating the longer-term repercussions of an attack – but so too can disclosure exact lasting damage on a bottom line. Fighting back. About the Author.

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The Professional: Seven New Rules

Strategy Driven

The term ‘professional’ comes from the Latin word ‘professio,’ which literally means to take an oath or a vow. Over the last few centuries, the term professional has come to mean different things to different people, but that central idea has not changed. That one thing changed a long time back.

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How to Bring in a New CEO for Your Startup

Harvard Business Review

Most startup founders are deeply committed to the companies they have launched and heavily invested in the dream of leading the company to long-term business success. Entrepreneurship for the Long Term. Insight Center. Sponsored by Northern Trust. Set your company up for success. Resistance to change must be overcome.

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Oracle: The Worst-Governed, Best-Run Company Around

Harvard Business Review

The 70-year-old will stay on as the software giant’s executive chairman and also its chief technology officer — the latter title a formalization of a role he was already playing. But Ellison is of course chairman of that board (long-time chairman Jeff Henley will stay on as vice chairman).

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Whose Job Is It to Manage Freelancers?

Harvard Business Review

Organizations in every industry and geography are increasingly indebted to external talent, whom we term agile talent , to augment their resources in strategic areas. We suggest a number of possible approaches for organization leaders to consider: Assign a roving chief technology officer or project manager.

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