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Lessons in Leadership to Last a Lifetime

Leading Blog

Fortunately, Akamai’s VP of Human Resources, Steve Heinrich, recognized what was happening and brought in Chuck McVinney, a management consultant with expertise in teamwork and leadership training. Of course, as a team leader, you will need to be equipped with strategies to manage such a variety of styles and temperaments.

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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. Today, the authors answered these questions: How has the coronavirus pandemic challenged businesses’ operating principles?

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3 Major Challenges Financial Institutions Face When Implementing Business Insight Technology

Strategy Driven

But you must also remember that any new technology you onboard will bring change to your bank’s operations—some of which isn’t welcome just yet. It’s usually the job of a bank’s chief financial officer (CFO), chief risk officer (CRO), or chief technology officer (CTO) to oversee tech implementation.

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How to Create More Efficient Workflows Within Your Organization

CEO Insider

These three strategies can help keep your operations on time and budget. Avoiding the snowball effect that comes with logjams means creating more efficient workflows that keep the organization moving in the right direction. In any corporate workplace, efficiency is the key […].

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The Professional: Seven New Rules

Strategy Driven

The journey of the four decades, of growing from an entry-level professional to a leader among fellow professionals invariably calls for mastery over four things: the ability to efficiently manage resources, volume, complexity and finally, rainmaking. Sustainability is part of every professional’s job. We live in a complex world.

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To Be Number One, Get the Right Number Two

Harvard Business Review

political system, the business world has no rules requiring that every leader have a backup, or that every corporate chief executive has a chief operating officer. Sheryl Sandberg, who became COO, brought management savvy and government relations experience, both essential to an expanding high-profile company.

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A Hands-Off Approach to Open Innovation Doesn’t Work

Harvard Business Review

They didn’t exert heavy control in the negotiation stage, and afterward, when strategic, operational, or cultural mismatches between big and small arose, they left it to the innovation teams to solve them — a fix-it-as-you-go mentality. Only 14% of the companies we studied were in the active management category.