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Servant Leadership Observer ? November 2010

Modern Servant Leader

The Modern Servant Leader Servant Leadership & Technology. Technology. Technology. 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”?

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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

For a brief period, as they were being built into the infrastructure of commerce, all these technologies opened opportunities for forward-looking companies to gain real advantages. Nor do they understand the CIO''s role or, typically, the technologies that the company deploys. In fact, CEOs avoid IT like the plague.

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

Harvard Business Review

Many conversations about data and analytics (D&A) start by focusing on technology. A robust, successful D&A function encompasses more than a stack of technologies, or a few people isolated on one floor of the building. Cultural resistance can also become a bigger obstacle than anticipated.

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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.

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

Harvard Business Review

The sheer magnitude of Apple’s new headquarters sets it apart from any other technology workspace on the West Coast. Software, like information technology in general, is optimized for speed and upgrades — constant, sometimes radical change. million square feet) called the Ring, designed to house 12,000 employees.

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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. While technology has seen huge advances in the past decades, sales models have not. Disconnected Go-to-Market efforts.