Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

CIOs who do great things in leading IT soon gain extra responsibilities. By helping business leaders to improve their businesses, the CIO becomes an obvious candidate to fill any open role that involves technology, process, or strong governance. Some CIOs become CIO-Plus-COO or CIO-Plus-Head of Shared Services.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 11, 2010

For some positions (CFO, CIO), all their hard work to make it to the table is now useless when they need to use skills other than IQ: Communication – Communicate clearly and concisely. recent posts 3 Tips To Take More Powerful Notes During Meetings. What got them to this position (IQ) is now failing them. Smile or Die!

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

By any category analysis or analytical standard blogging has obviously developed into a powerful communication medium. Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Stuart Oliver: Entrepreneur, Interim CIO, Technology COO, Strategist, » Blog Archive » To blog or not to blog [.] link] Swiecki’s Blog » Tech-blog Carnival Edition 2 [.]

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Roundtable Talk

MARCH 17, 2010

← Seymour Schulich delivers the goods on decision-making WestJet’s CEO step down: The first sign of the leadership apocalypse? Haim is certainly a tragic figure and there’s something to be said for what happens when success and power come before you know how to handle it. RoundtableTalk Where ambitious leaders meet.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2013

Yet, here we are in 2013 with organizational leadership models that continue to deny the social nature of organizations and wallow in inertia. Our leadership practices remain authoritative. And, a paltry 38% reported that their organizations had effective leadership running the show.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2017

Leaders like Ellyn Shook, the chief leadership and human resources officer at Accenture, actually carry around “dumb phones,” which don’t have any apps and can’t send or receive email. Leadership as service. They’re much less likely to get blindsided by the changes around them.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2012

With an equally powerful advocacy value proposition. This can be a powerful win-win that provides customers with verification, a learning tool, and a basis for building best practices, while providing a case study or success story for you. A C-level buyer can be highly lucrative — but a C-level advocate can be many times more so.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

The best ones are permeable membranes that transfer knowledge from the outside in: Steve Jobs recruited the Dean of Yale’s Business School to run Apple University, while Jeff Weiner recruited business coach and thought leader Fred Kofman to lead leadership development for LinkedIn. Ritz Carlton and Zappos follow a similar model.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

It was beset by destabilizing changes to leadership, a lack of appropriate capability, poor coordination, over-complexity, underdeveloped plans in continual flux, and poor budgeting. We continually find that most major transformation initiatives end up being managed as IT projects, with responsibility abdicated to the CIO.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Clearly, business managers and CIOs are lagging. We call this view “the power to know, share, and act,” and it has three interrelated dimensions. The second dimension is the power to discover, manage, and use information for individual and group problem solving, innovation, and decision making. Insight Center.

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Roundtable Talk

AUGUST 4, 2011

In addition to the CEO, the COO, CIO and several members of the Board have been wooed. He believes Bob has the power to manipulate any situation. Anonymously send their resume out to other places… I heard that strategy at a recent Art of Leadership event. ranks above his EVP. Could be worth a try. Let’s face it.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

Most CIOs will benefit from this trend through increased competition, better prices, and quicker provisioning. At the same time, the trend also heightens the expectations of CIOs'' internal customers to deliver better solutions at greater speed. In short, strategic IT leadership in a high-speed world is about mixing fast and slow.

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Modern Servant Leader

APRIL 10, 2012

Welcome to the Spring 2012 edition of the Servant Leadership Observer – your most comprehensive source of servant leadership news, events and blog posts. Want to receive monthly servant leadership updates and regular posts from ModernServantLeader.com? Yoder is also asked to speak regularly on servant leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Have you ever met a sales executive or a CIO who said: "Sales is too important to be left to Sales" or "IT is too important to be left to IT"? While leaders in most corporate functions naturally try to absorb and demonstrate power, HR diffuses responsibility toward its internal customers because of some major misunderstandings.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

But I would suggest that there is something more fundamental happening behind the numbers; something lurking in the very nature of digital marketing and what it asks of leadership and what it means for accountability. Yesterday''s Linux hackers are now the chief architects and CIOs of the largest enterprises. That is leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Organizations invest billions annually on a success curriculum known as "leadership development," which ends up leaving so much on the table. In other words, what if cultivating a successful inner life was front and center on the leadership agenda? These are skills and qualities you have to cultivate and practice.".

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Have you ever met a sales executive or a CIO who said: "Sales is too important to be left to Sales" or "IT is too important to be left to IT"? While leaders in most corporate functions naturally try to absorb and demonstrate power, HR diffuses responsibility toward its internal customers because of some major misunderstandings.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

Sure, there are exceptions who are both visionary CEOs and innovators — Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos, for example — but there are very few companies that can stomach that sort of leadership. The Chief Entrepreneur is an executive as powerful as the CEO, with clear leadership over radical innovation within the company.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

I recall attending a conference for our European partners where we invited the CIO of a large industrial giant to give a keynote speech. At a dinner during the conference, this CIO leaned over to me and said, almost in amazement, “I have never seen a company of this size where the people are so passionate. These tactics work.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Yet, although the power of analytics is common currency, it’s spoken of far more often than it’s practiced. Every CIO I meet tells me that they are excited at the potential of analytics for their business. Behind the glamor of powerful analytical insights is a backlog of tedious data preparation. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

Being accessible and approachable is critical to effective leadership. For example, recently I was involved in a roundtable of CIOs from many of our customer companies where I was talking about leadership lessons (like this one) from my book, The Open Organization.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

The rules for smoothing the turbulence of day-to-day operations are few but powerful: Do less. At Sloan Valve , CIO Tom Coleman told us that they only launch a few major programs each year because that allows them to staff and integrate these initiatives with much higher quality. Initiate fewer projects. Track fewer measures.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

The company’s stock price has languished for years, and CEO Jeff Immelt—a powerful advocate of the company’s digital ambitions—recently departed the company under pressure from activist investors. A charismatic CIO or Chief Digital Officer may make it even harder to be level-headed in those heady times.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Bogsnes and his team focused on two powerful levers: abolishing the traditional budget in favor of a more dynamic and distributed process, and scrapping the annual calendar for a more continuous and variable approach to setting time-horizons for a particular business or project.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

Dr. Dieter Haban, CIO of Daimler Trucks North America, offers Daimler Trucks’s Detroit Virtual Technician as a good example. Beyond individual products, companies have been harnessing the power of platforms to connect buyers and sellers (e.g., Organizational leadership. Insight Center. The Global Digital Economy.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2012

When you don't have alternatives — either other offers or a current job — you have a lot less power, McGinn acknowledges. "So Information is power in negotiation so the more you know about these data points the better. Then she sought the advice of the company's CIO, Ted*. "I Do some sleuthing.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 1, 2011

He staged several unions and six million workers to strike from AFL-CIO in 2005. Henry is even organizing a political action committee to help elect moderates to power. Henry helped stage strikes on her way to the top at Kaiser Permanente hospitals and R.N.s in Seattle. Henry became assistant to the then leader of the S.E.I.U.,

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

The good news is that you can harness the power of platforms and network effects without turning yourself completely inside out. Everyone on the leadership team has a role to play in making this pivot. So what’s a legacy company to do?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2018

In 2017, CIO magazine reported that around one-third of all customer relationship management (CRM) projects fail. The CIO was unhappy about data integrity issues that arose from the integration of more than 20 discreet databases. Broadcast this message loud and clear from the CEO and sales leadership. PM Images/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

But how should you organize your leadership team to best prepare for this coming disruption? You had to choose between AC and DC power, different voltages, different levels of reliability, pricing, and so on. Recently, with the evolution of IT and the internet, we saw the rise of CIOs to help companies organize their information.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

million businesses and individuals worldwide, I believe the law weakens the economic power of encryption and subsequently the nation’s ability to create jobs. It would be like building a home with state-of-the-art alarm systems, but then cutting off the power to them. As the CEO of Carbonite, a publicly-traded U.S.-based

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2012

A true coach will represent and promote a salesperson's solution to his colleagues and, even better, to senior executive leadership. For example, let's assume the CIO who is making the $350,000 purchase of storage technology is your coach and he is a guide. A frenemy is someone who befriends you so that you think he is a supporter.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

I recently spoke with the leadership team of a top Silicon Valley technology firm that had installed an internal enterprise collaboration platform for its employee engagement and collaboration efforts. Our research shows that leadership participation is crucial for collaboration. Insight Center. The Future of Collaboration.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2011

With not a little pride, Procter & Gamble CEO Bob McDonald and Filippo Passerini, his CIO, told Fortune Brainstorm conference attendees that digital investment had successfully transformed their company's transparency and agility. In agile enterprises, he suggested, increased transparency delayers top management.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

This means that many emerging market risks get cut from the senior leadership agenda. Unfortunately, the business outlook could change if ex-president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva returns to office and fulfills his pledges to cancel pension reform and budget constraints. Navy for the better part of a century.

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