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Servant Leadership Observer ? November 2010

Modern Servant Leader

Holocaust and the 2008 Financial Crisis – Leadership Lessons in Resistance. Why Technology Managers Make Great Leaders. How to Handle a Seagull Manager. Do You Have a “Seagull Manager”? Book Says Servant Leadership Critical for Marketing Leaders. Management. Project Management.

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Exploit IT for Strategic Benefit

Harvard Business Review

However, when we ask CIOs how their "enabling" is going, they consistently respond that sometimes it goes well; sometimes not so much. At a recent CIO roundtable, one CIO said that the demand for IT in his company is infinite. And other CIOs nodded in agreement. These are finite resources. Think speed not functionality.

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IT Doesn't Matter (to CEOs)

Harvard Business Review

They resist getting their hands dirty alongside the CIO, even though many of them will readily get down into the mud of a balance sheet with the CFO or strategize the details of global brand issues with the CMO. Nor do they understand the CIO''s role or, typically, the technologies that the company deploys. IT management'

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How to Integrate Data and Analytics into Every Part of Your Organization

Harvard Business Review

D&A should be the pulse of the organization, incorporated into all key decisions across sales, marketing, supply chain, customer experience, and other core functions. Increase market share? Cultural resistance can also become a bigger obstacle than anticipated. Jumpstart process and cost efficiency? All of the above?

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Why Apple’s New HQ Is Nothing Like the Rest of Silicon Valley

Harvard Business Review

The four-story glass building designed by Norman Foster seamlessly integrates a long and diverse list of technical achievements — from the enormous solar panel array on the roof to hidden cable management mechanisms at the workstations — all according to Jobs’s uncompromising design standards.

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Reinvent Your Sales Process While Still Hitting Your Numbers

Harvard Business Review

This becomes more critical as market life cycles shorten and the time in which companies can maintain product differentiation shrinks. Buying behavior has changed in many markets. Compressed differentiation characterizes competition in more markets. Disconnected Go-to-Market efforts. Innovate through experimentation.

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Improve Decision-Making With Help From the Crowd

Harvard Business Review

Most decisions in organizations are made by escalating them up the management hierarchy — and it’s usually the highest paid person in the room’s opinion (“HIPPO”) that prevails. Consider these three examples from the frontiers of management: Funding decisions at most organizations are made by senior management or maybe an independent panel.