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Seven Critical Needs for Sustained and Successful Organizational Change

Great Results Team Building

According to Gartner , 46% of CIOs feel that culture is the most significant barrier to the success of their change plans… and it is the gap in understanding between C-suite and entry-level employees that contributes to lack of their commitment to changed behaviors. That willingness is seldom inspired by command-and-control management.

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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”? Task Prioritization and Time Management – John Maxwell Style. 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

Cultural resistance can also become a bigger obstacle than anticipated. According to KPMG’s 2016 CIO Survey , data analytics is the most in-demand technology skill for the second year running, but nearly 40% of IT leaders say they suffer from shortfalls in skills in this critical area.

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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

A more general poll across product categories is even starker: 80% of managers said they believed their companies had strongly differentiated products, but fewer than 10% of those firms’ customers agreed. C-Suite changes exacerbate the Seller’s Dilemma. Disconnected Go-to-Market efforts.